Thankgiving-Part II-The Belgian Edition

This is a picture of my bestest thanksgiving ever. =)

I had such a great time tonight, I have never laughed SO HARD in a LONG time. All I can say, is that I'm grateful for such friends as these. I have SO MUCH leftover food in my fridge it's not even funny. LOL. Which is great, since that's what thanksgiving is all about, right? Luckily, Mareka (on the left) brought the dessert, (I still have leftovers. Mega goods.) Sarah in the middle brought the bread, and Maria brought OJ, which I was super happy about, because I realized I didn't really have anything to serve as drinks. (If any of you have been to any sort of food party I have hosted, it was a typical 'Brenan is running around with his head cut off' sort of moment.)

I made perogies on my own! They were sooooo good. The best part was that I wasn't entirely sure what I was doing, because I was using a different recipe than my family uses, and I had to use my baking soda container covered with plastic wrap as a rolling pin, which was amazing because a)Mareka suggested the rolling pin method, which worked perfectly, and b) I finally have baking soda, so now I can make welsh cakes! Wohoo! (They're one of the BEST recipes my friend Liz sent along with me. Best present EVER. Well, that and my laptop. Thanks, Dad.) It was fun because I was trying to show everyone how to make perogies, and my perfect triangle perogie starting getting a little too sticky, and I ended up making little pergoie balls instead of actual perogies. But no one there had made perogies before, so we all pitched in, and Mareka was our 'Belgian Dignitary made honourary Canadian citizen' for the night, and she had a lot of fun making this classy Ukranian dish. They turned out really good, even if they weren't all that aesthetically pleasing, although we made a few of them that were pretty triangular/rounded. I then had WAY too much filling left over, so we just heated that up and made that a side dish. Very tasty. I'm totally stuffed, and everything turned out well, even if the planned meal time ran a little later than I expected. Yes, once again, typical food party of Brennan's. Everyone is waiting for Brennan to finish cooking because he mixed up several crucial ingredients and ended up with a partial kitchen explosion and began to panic by running around in circles. Yes, very typical. *Sigh* LOL. I'm sure Honey (Grandma) would be proud of me. Perhaps a little embarassed at my attempt to make perogies, but I'm totally working on it. LOL. I'll work on it, I swear!

It feels nice to finally hang out with people who just like to hang out and laugh and have a good time. Hopefully I can do this sometime with philosophy people. I would like to be good friends with these people that I work with. Anyways, it was great, and I'm glad I did it. I love food parties! LOL. And...uh...dishes. Dang. Mega dang. Well, there's not that many. But only one sink. Mega dang, yo.

Happy Thanksgiving.