Photo: Front entrance to Shelly’s Back Room in Washington, D.C.
The day before Thanksgiving. Sitting around with Amah (my grandmother). She’s doing the Post‘s crossword puzzle. I’m reading Martha Washington’s Booke of Cookery, which I bought at Mount Vernon on Monday.
We’re listening to NPR:
This is the Thanksgiving edition of All Things Considered. Tomorrow on Thanksgiving Day will be 12 continuous hours of world music.
Yikes.
Carlos is out doing work on the house. He requests documentation.
I help Amah with the crossword puzzle.
“Four letters, Japanese noodles.”
“Soba.”
We eat leftover butternut squash soup for lunch.
Off to the antique shop on Mount Vernon Avenue. Buy W. Somerset Maugham’s Introduction to Modern English and American Literature (1943). We get dressed to go out to dinner at Jackson 20.
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November 26, 2008 at 9:04 pm
L Whynman
Love the Indian.. Please give Carlos accolades from the Whynmans.
What a great house and what a great life in DC!! This will be a very special Thanksgiving. We toast to you all. Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday mainly because I love turkey skin and our family was together. Enjoy the warmth of CArlos’ family and Amah. Give her a kiss for me.
I need to make a blog for a fundraiser. Is it hard?
mom
November 27, 2008 at 9:37 am
Family Father
The day before Thanksgiving for FF, without Family Mother.
1. Improvise a Graham cracker crumb crust using some Argentine honey-flavored cookies and a half cup of pecans, all whirled in the food processor.
2. Improvise the filling for a pumpkin cheese cake, using two cups of pumpkin puree produced in OUR garden and a half kilo of a Bolivian “spreadable” cheese product that tastes and looks remarkably like Philadephia cream cheese.
3. Bake same for 90 minutes.
4. Make an apricot glaze using fresh apricots (not from the garden regrettably, the hail storm a month or so ago wiped out our crop).
5. Have my hair cut and beard trimmed by Angel, the barber who does house calls.
Thanksgiving Day for FF
1. Thicken apricot glaze and smear same on pumpkin cheese cake.
2. Get ready to go to my twice-weekly physical therapy feel-good massage, and then.
3. Change clothes and take cab to Rosario Tadic’s house.
November 27, 2008 at 11:30 am
Dustin
We want to wish you all a happy Thanksgiving. Eat good food and have fun with Amah. Love the Whynman’s