Thanksgiving in Colombia

Thanksgiving went well this year! Our friend Juan Carlos joined us for the meal, and it was his first ever thanksgiving dinner. We don't have an oven, so we had asked the woman who lives downstairs if we could use hers. She said it was fine, but then at the last minute (when clayt brought the turkey down) she told us the oven wouldn't work well and that she had a friend who would take the turkey to his house and cook it there, in a better oven. He would cook it for us in exchange for a piece of the finished product.

Clayt said it all happened so fast, and the turkey was whisked away to be cooked in some oven in some house nearby by some guy we didn't know. We were a little nervous! Did he know how to cook a turkey? The correct temperature? The correct length? What about covering it, and keeping it moist? Would it come back burnt, undercooked, or worse yet, would he just take off with the turkey into the night, never to be seen again?

...as you can see, we ended up with a pretty nice turkey!




Juan Carlos enjoyed the food, and even took a plate of leftovers home! They don't have gravy here, so he was pretty interested in watching Clayt prepare his plate - then he did the same with his, even making a little pool in his mashed potatos for the gravy.