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Title: Thanksgiving 2019 plans!
Post by: clean on November 18, 2019, 10:53:17 AM
Thanksgiving is 10 days away.  Have you made your menu?  Do you know where you will be and who will be there with you?  Will you travel far?

I no longer travel over Thanksgiving.  Long ago I decided that Thanksgiving, and particularly the Friday after, are too unsafe to be out of the house. 

Once again, I have been invited to spend Thanksgiving with my girlfriend's parents.  they are not native born US folks.  Though they are now citizens, they did not have the benefit of the Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving meal growing up, so they dont know what they are supposed to serve!  My favorite part of Thanksgiving is stuffing/dressing (another topic) and mashed potatoes.  The first year I was invited, they had NEITHER of these required sides! 

They do (over) cook a turkey, but they do not 'carve' the bird as much as they just sort of hack it up into sort of cubes or chunks.  The veggies that have been served have not reminded me of anything that were on any Thanksgiving table of my traditional Southern upbringing. 

I think that my girlfriend blabbed to her mom about my prior years' observations, as some of the menu is being adjusted.  However, I long ago stopped discussing the menu for any gathering Im invited to.  The initial  menu bears no resemblance to the meal served.  Worse, I am a planner.  (Make a plan.  Stick to the plan.  Use the plan.  Live the plan.  The plan will provide!!)  They are not exactly planners, but sort of dreamers.  They dream a meal.  Dream about enjoying the meal.  Dream the pluses and minuses of the meal. Then, as they have already enjoyed it in their mind, change the meal plan to something else as they have already dreamed the first meal, and they want some meal dreaming diversification, I suppose. The mom will make a reasonable menu suggestion, but then the children will start to complain that someone doesnt like this or that, or dreams about bringing something else, and from there, the combinations and permutations start going and what may start with a reasonably good meal ends up as a hodge podge of something completely different.  I have asked my GF to stop talking to me about the meal menus as the changes in the plans are irritating to my mental state.

And then there is the Drama!!  Mom wants to make something.  However, youngest daughter decides that SHE wants to make it instead, but do it differently.  I remember a year when the discussion turned to tamales.  (I dont care for them, by the way).  It ended with the youngest daughter (34 years old mind you) Forbidding! her mom from making them because she (YD)  wanted to make them, and if Both of them made them, there would be too many! 


Oh, and then there is the TIME. It is constantly in flux, not only because they are trying out new recipes that take more or less time than they expected, or too many cooks in the kitchen, but primarily because YD is married and her hubby's parents are also in town, SO they have to eat twice that day.  THAT means that they dont want to eat the same things at both houses, SO, once they find out What and WHEN the other meal will be, then the time for this house is adjusted.  Sometimes we have eaten at 11 (except it was really 1 because YD is a nurse and had to work the night before and wasnt able to wake up early enough to make it at 11!.... Sometimes it is at 4 (which could mean 6)  {The whole family has a sort of fluid relationship with the concept of time... Let's just say that it is not related to reference a clock} Sometimes it is Dad, though. Thinking he was to eat at 11, he took his medications which means he can not eat for another X time units, BUT MUST eat at Y time units, so he snacked  at time Y and isnt hungry NOW.  (or the meal is ready Now, but he JUST took his drugs so we must now wait to eat thus setting up another round or food reheating)

You know... after thinking over the last few Thanksgivings... I think I want to stay home.  I can cook as well as anyone I know, and best yet, I know what I like and how to make it and What Time it will be served!!

I guess that prompts a New Question:  ARE YOU looking Forward to Thanksgiving this year??   

Do YOU have any noteworthy rememberances to share with the forum
Title: Re: Thanksgiving 2019 plans!
Post by: fast_and_bulbous on November 18, 2019, 12:29:12 PM
I am a heretic; for the past few years my wife and I go to this amazing buffet that's a mile away from our house. I used to do the whole cook-all-day deal, but with two people it's kind of not worth it. Now I have more time to be a lazy bum.
Title: Re: Thanksgiving 2019 plans!
Post by: Juvenal on November 18, 2019, 03:09:22 PM
Very boring, very bland.  Same hosts for thirty years, although the "crowd" has grown from four to twenty-plus.  The "plus" has shrunk a bit as some tots have grown to adult size, though many are off with their own families, elsewhere.  Me, I bring creamed onions.  I open Joy of Cooking to review the notes I've jotted, and then make 'em the day before.  I go early to "help out," but my attention to the Macy's Parade has waned, 'tho someone will shout from the TV room, "The Rockettes are on!"  I have another glass of wine instead.
Title: Re: Thanksgiving 2019 plans!
Post by: nescafe on November 18, 2019, 03:13:40 PM
I'm headed to New England to spend the holiday with my grandmother. She's 82 now, and keeps forgetting that I'm coming. The plus side here is that I will get to pleasantly surprise her the morning-of. :)

We'll have the usual (bland) foods, but I'm looking forward to the apple pie. She always makes one from the apples harvested in her backyard, and it's the highlight of the holiday!
Title: Re: Thanksgiving 2019 plans!
Post by: ciao_yall on November 18, 2019, 04:46:23 PM
T-Day - Not sure what we are doing the day of.

But the day after is an annual event called "Leftover Surprise." Everyone brings leftovers and wine. It's a blast. I roast a turkey and slice it up for sandwiches, then make something with the dark meat in the slow cooker. And our famous "Granny Sartin's Could Lead to Dancin' Sweet Potato Puddin'" which includes bourbon-soaked raisins and wine.

Then I just potch up whatever I feel like making. Pies, salads, whatever.

Title: Re: Thanksgiving 2019 plans!
Post by: eigen on November 18, 2019, 06:17:44 PM
I sent out my usual invite to all our majors and students in my classes, offering a space for anyone that either couldn't go home, or didn't have a home to go to.

It will be the usual mix of faculty and staff who are new in town, a range of students from different majors, and friends.
Title: Re: Thanksgiving 2019 plans!
Post by: citrine on November 18, 2019, 08:17:31 PM
Nephew and I are going to visit my father. Two of my brothers and their spouses who are local to his city will come for dinner. I don't know if my stepsister will stay in the city she lives in or not; she doesn't get a lot of time off. My stepbrother might come. His children might come. I hope the children come as Nephew enjoys spending time with his cousins.

After every single child brought a dessert last year, leading to an embarrassment of riches and approximately seven desserts for eight people, we have now coordinated who is bringing what sweets to round out the feast. I am bringing apple and pumpkin pie, Youngest Brother and Spouse are bringing pecan pie, and Oldest Brother and Spouse are bringing tres leches cake. My stepmother will make her famous cheesy potatoes, which is the only thing she doesn't overcook to a cinder (alas for the many cuts of meat she has cooked nigh unto cinders over the years).

Usually we'd also see my mother, but she's going to be in Antarctica this year.
Title: Re: Thanksgiving 2019 plans!
Post by: Bede the Vulnerable on November 19, 2019, 02:22:29 AM
This is the first Thanksgiving since Bedette and I went vegan.  We'll be driving 10-11 hours to her parents' house, then cooking our own food--Tofurkey is actually pretty yummy these days.

I love the in-laws.  The only problem is that Bedette's family is rather fond of the current president.  (None of them ever left their small, dead industrial town.)  She and I are both big fans of one of the Dems running to unseat the Dear Leader.  This will probably come up . . .

Otherwise, I'm hoping for a good trip.  AND to get some grading done.  Yay.
Title: Re: Thanksgiving 2019 plans!
Post by: polly_mer on November 19, 2019, 04:33:01 AM
We visit our friends-we-made-in-college and play board games all weekend. 

I have no idea what the official menu is (although it will always have some form of potatoes) or times.  In many ways it doesn't matter because we eat all weekend as people arrive/leave/back on their own schedules with sometimes food being reheated on the stove for a bigger group and sometimes the food being reheated one plate at a time in the microwave.

We gather with an assortment of kids/grandkids/parents/other relatives/friends/colleagues/students/random strangers who looked lonely in the store/pets and enjoy our time together as we have for almost 30 years now.  I attended the first time as a student not-going-home friend of a friend of a friend.  I met my husband at the Christmas version of this gathering.  The cast has changed over the years with some of the original founders long gone and their grandchildren/great grandchildren with us instead, but it's home more than my parents' house from which I've been gone almost 30 years or whatever dwelling I/my husband/kid are currently occupying this year. 
Title: Re: Thanksgiving 2019 plans!
Post by: spork on November 19, 2019, 05:38:11 AM
I am fleeing the country with my wife. We are going to a warm beach.
Title: Re: Thanksgiving 2019 plans!
Post by: lillipat on November 19, 2019, 06:09:14 AM
Thanksgivings now are not what they were a decade or so back.  We used to go to Norman Rockwell land (figuratively, not literally), with parents, in-laws, siblings and their families from both sides of the family, turkey, mashed potatoes, homemade mac and cheese (a specialty), 2 kinds of dressing (only my father-in-law liked the oyster dressing, but it was there every year), 2 kinds of pie at least, and often a birthday cake as well, since my daughter was a Thanksgiving baby.

This year, my son and I will have dinner together on Thanksgiving, and we'll probably call daughter and her husband who live 6 hours away to wish her a happy birthday.  We'll eat something that we both like (yet undetermined) and look at the photos from the 1990s onwards.  It'll be low-key, and that's okay. 
Title: Re: Thanksgiving 2019 plans!
Post by: cathwen on November 19, 2019, 06:21:01 AM
Last year, it was just my husband and me.  I cooked a turkey breast en cocotte, which turned out extraordinarily well, and made all the usual things, with pumpkin pie for dessert.  It was lovely and low-key.

This year, the whole family (minus stepdaughter, who lives on the west coast and will be making a trip east for Christmas) will congregate at younger daughter's house.  We all get along extremely well; whenever we're together, there is a lot of animated talk and laughter.  It helps that we all share similar political opinions!  The dinner will be on the Norman Rockwell side.  We've all been assigned our dishes to bring, which are the same things we make almost every year.  I'm very much looking forward to it!  We'll Skype with stepdaughter and her boyfriend (whom we hope becomes our son-in-law someday).
Title: Re: Thanksgiving 2019 plans!
Post by: irhack on November 19, 2019, 06:34:29 AM
Our Thanksgivings are normally very small, we live far from family and are not terribly social. And we're vegetarian. For the past few years the four of us have just gone out to dinner, but I do make a pie. This is our first holiday with my mom living in our town, so we will not go out, but have her over instead. My expectations are very, very low as she is not "fun" and not remotely helpful either. But the day is followed by a three day weekend and I am much looking forward to that!
Title: Re: Thanksgiving 2019 plans!
Post by: mamselle on November 19, 2019, 07:54:16 AM
Anyone in the vicinity of Concord, MA on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, who wants to visit a couple of burying grounds, get lunch at a cool diner-like place and/or dinner at the most excellent Concord Inn, I'd be up for that.

Trains run on their usual schedules, I think, those days, and finding parking is much better than other large, nearby towns we might mention.

Just a thought.

On Thursday, I'll be making dinner with a friend: we were sort of thrown together one year, a couple decades ago, might have been after my divorce, in fact. We still do the same things: she makes the bird, I do the sides.

We also have this quirky banana-and-ice-cream dessert that we made up that year (each thought the other was getting a pumpkin pie...). She had the bananas and ice cream, and I put a brown-sugar/pie-like-spices/butter/etc. sauce together (cream of tartar is involved to bind it)...and it was so good we've made it every year since.

This year, I'm doing spinach-with-bacon-and-gorgonzola, and cubed root vegetables with rosemary, thyme, and herbes de provence. We'll probably do a basic mashed potatoes side as well. Oh, and stuffing with, let's see: cranberries, walnuts, chestnuts, celery, herbs, bacon, andouille sausage, and...oh, yeah, bread crumbs sauteed in butter with the spices.

Then we'll share recent artworks (hers) and jewelry (mine) we've made and jabber about books, and anything else that comes up.

She lives nearby so I'll walk home.

M.
Title: Re: Thanksgiving 2019 plans!
Post by: hmaria1609 on November 20, 2019, 12:48:46 PM
Thanksgiving is late this year.
Next Tuesday is my last day in the library and will be on the road to CT next day. On Thanksgiving Day, we'll gather at my aunt's house in southern MA. Buffet lunch in the kitchen and everyone eats throughout the house. Ham, kielbasa, and kugela are my 3 main items on my plate.
I'll be back at the library Dec. 2nd.
Title: Re: Thanksgiving 2019 plans!
Post by: clean on November 20, 2019, 03:45:42 PM
QuoteMe, I bring creamed onions.  I open Joy of Cooking to review the notes I've jotted, and then make 'em the day before

Can you post the recipe (or pm me if you prefer?)
Title: Re: Thanksgiving 2019 plans!
Post by: paddington_bear on November 20, 2019, 05:13:43 PM
I leave for CA on Saturday. Ordinarily, I go to CA for Xmas to visit family, but this year I decided to go for Thanksgiving. My mother wants to go out for Thanksgiving dinner, so no one has to cook and no one has to clean up. That will be nice!  I'm glad not to go to CA for Xmas because at the end of the semester I'm usually so frazzled that the last thing I want to do is travel prep and travel. But I just got back from a conference in Chicago on Sunday and two days after I come back from CA I have to take another work trip. So this is a crazy time and I'd much rather stay here for Thanksgiving as well. I'll be glad when traveling is over in two weeks.
Title: Re: Thanksgiving 2019 plans!
Post by: archaeo42 on November 21, 2019, 07:00:36 AM
I will be going to my parents. They host every year and our attending is much easier since we moved back to home state. We have a fairly Norman Rockwell New England Thanksgiving. Turkey, stuffing and dressing (whatever isn't in the bird gets baked), mashed potatoes, whipped sweet potatoes (none of that mini marshmallow stuff), squash, cranberries, and also creamed onions (a family tradition I do not enjoy). There is also soup, either butternut squash or potato leek.

There are usually 20+ people since my mom is one of 6 but as the cousins have grown up and started their own families we're not as many as we used to be. Her sisters all bring a side or dessert. I've taken over making Indian Pudding for dessert, following great-grandma's recipe.
Title: Re: Thanksgiving 2019 plans!
Post by: Volhiker78 on November 21, 2019, 07:18:07 AM
We are staying at home this Thanksgiving - a first for us since we moved to Florida eight years ago.  We invited family to join us but since no one took us up on the offer, we decided to have ourThanksgiving meal at a nice restaurant in town. 

My 16 year drama queen's boyfriend's family invited us to their Thanksgiving spread.  My first reaction was 'hell no - we don't know these people and they are only dating, right?"  But since drama queen was thrilled with the invitation,   she will go on her own.  Our family meal is early in the day (12:30) and their dinner is between 6-7 so it works out ok.  My wife needs to drive my daughter over so she says she will stay and chat with the hosts for awhile.  I get to stay at home and watch football.  For that,  I am thankful.   
Title: Re: Thanksgiving 2019 plans!
Post by: sinenomine on November 21, 2019, 07:56:05 AM
I'm taking advantage of a week with no classes and doing an overseas research trip to look at manuscripts in London. On Thanksgiving, I'm taking a break from work to see Hamilton and plan to dine at a restaurant with Dubai cuisine. Certainly my most unorthodox Thanksgiving thus far!
Title: Re: Thanksgiving 2019 plans!
Post by: mamselle on November 21, 2019, 01:23:03 PM
Let us know how the restaurant is! (And where...)

I'll miss you by a month, but am interested for later reference!

M.
Title: Re: Thanksgiving 2019 plans!
Post by: AmLitHist on November 24, 2019, 06:22:11 AM
It's just ALHS, Kid #2, and me for the holiday.  All on my side of the family have passed, save my sister and her kids (she's been in skilled nursing care nearly 2 years following a bout of septic shock and complete organ failure that nearly killed her in late 2017). ALHS's family zoo gathers at his sister's, which I learned early on to avoid like the plague; "just us" is far preferable.  Kid #1 works at Amazon so is already in the throes of peak/OT season, so I'm sure she'll stay home and sleep all day before another overnight shift. 

I'll be fixing a Butterball boneless turkey roast (cheating, I guess, but not all the mess and hassle of the big bird), sweet potatoes (MUST have the little marshmallows, or Kid won't eat them!), cranberries, yeast rolls, dressing, and pumpkin pie.  Then, Netflix for me--not sure what the others have planned.

I'm just happy to have a few days off, after a long and trying fall semester.  One week of class (student presentations) after the holiday, then finals, and we're done til January 21st.
Title: Re: Thanksgiving 2019 plans!
Post by: paultuttle on November 24, 2019, 02:40:36 PM
If my current sinus infection is sufficiently in remission, we'll go to my parents' house bringing probably things like ham, chicken, several side items, some salad greens, some potato salad, and a loaf of French bread.

(My mother's failing memory is useful in this particular situation: She doesn't remember now that she stood in her kitchen, three years ago, hands firmly on the handles of her walker, and said, "This is MY kitchen! No, you cannot cook a Thanksgiving meal in here.")
Title: Re: Thanksgiving 2019 plans!
Post by: ab_grp on November 25, 2019, 10:29:30 AM
Spouse and I have been doing our own thing the past few years, making meals like Cornish game hens and interesting sides and eating in our PJs.  Vegetarian daughter will be with us this year, so we are planning to make veggie pot pies and still eat in our PJs.  We may try to get the Christmas tree up so that we can enjoy it for more than one week this year.  I do miss my mother's Thanksgiving feast (which is the same as what she serves at Christmas, and I miss that, too).  It's pretty typical, turkey (I get the legs!), her stuffing, ambrosia, the usual other sides.  Those three are my favorite parts, though.  Such a neat mix of Thanksgiving plans in this thread! I hope it is an enjoyable one for all.
Title: Re: Thanksgiving 2019 plans!
Post by: AJ_Katz on November 26, 2019, 11:17:24 AM
I have two family members coming to our house and we'll make the traditional Thanksgiving day meal, with a good mix of homemade items and store bought items.  I know the favorite foods people like, so mainly those items are from scratch while the rest can be bought.  Later on, my partner's family will be coming over for dessert.  On Black Friday we've got tickets to the college football game, which is a line-up of my alma mater vs. my employer.  I am hoping it won't be freezing cold.
Title: Re: Thanksgiving 2019 plans!
Post by: mamselle on November 26, 2019, 02:02:04 PM
A couple posts are reminding me that several people will be gathering without significant members of their extended family due to death or other losses.

I just heard, too, for example, that the husband of one of my cousins has passed away, and am thinking of them now in particular.

I think people focus on that around the later winter holidays (Channukah, Diwali, Christmas, Kwanzaa) but perhaps less at this earlier time of the year.

All good thoughts to those aware of such losses around the table this year.

In some cases good memories may fill some of the void, but it's still got to be hard.

M.
Title: Re: Thanksgiving 2019 plans!
Post by: pepsi_alum on November 28, 2019, 10:01:08 AM
Thanksgiving will be just me this year. I haven't made any close friends in New City yet, and the trip to see my family isn't worth it at this point in the semester; I'll spend a full week with them at Christmas. But today will still be a good day -- I'll talk on the phone with a few people, go for a long walk in my neighborhood, have an early buffet dinner at one of the local hotels, and do a movie marathon at home tonight. I don't see being alone as a bad thing; I still have a lot to be thankful for in my life.

Oh, and check out this classic WKRP clip: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2t3g8q?fbclid=IwAR38yT5VN3Y4YpSqyFzM9gRSL5-BwwOKCvELv8SlDKNzKSBuFtAmM9sxeaw
Title: Re: Thanksgiving 2019 plans!
Post by: clean on November 28, 2019, 10:05:37 AM
Turkey Tragedy in the making, I fear!!

I just talked to my girlfriend. The official dinner time is 230.  The turkey (17 pounds) has been in the oven since 8 am! It was 1147 when I asked when it went in the oven.   It is in a baking back, so I think that decreases the cooking time, but im not sure.  So When I called, the turkey had already been in the oven nearly 4 hours!!  We dont eat for 2 1/2 more hours!

I turkey should rest for 30-45 minutes before carving.

When I talked to my GF, there was no indication that anyone there was even thinking about taking the temperature of the bird, even after 4 hours. 

Oh, hell, it just dawned on me that I didnt ask what the oven temperature is!  (I just imagined 400!)

Im sure that I am worrying about nothing, anyway!

Besides, I was recently diagnosed with an abscessed tooth and the dentist's office called Tuesday afternoon to see if I could come in tomorrow rather than next week.  So yesterday I had a root canal done and temporary crowns put in on 2 back teeth.  I m to chew on only one side of my mouth anyway, so this may be a good excuse to stay on my diet and not overdo it for Thanksgiving!!

Anyone else reporting any Thanksgiving cooking misses of are there any unexpected surprises to report?

On the home front, yesterday,  it seems that my sister in law traveled across the state to visit the folks and ended up in the clinic with suspected kidney stones!  I dont know what that will do for her ability to enjoy her family visit!
Title: Re: Thanksgiving 2019 plans!
Post by: clean on November 28, 2019, 02:45:23 PM
I went to my GF's parents' house with a meat thermometer shortly after my last post.  The turkey was still in the oven (4 1/4 hours at that point).  The pop up time was definately popped up!  The temperature was no less than 205 anywhere I tested, so it was well cooked!  It was already pulling away from the breast bone. 

As it was fully cooked, her mom suggested that we put back in the oven to stay warm, but turn off the oven! 

i suggested that it would be hot enough in the other (unused) oven until we were ready.

I was also informed that Youngest Daughter had just called and requested an earlier meal time as they were hungry now.  However, by the NEW  time that we were supposed to eat, YD had yet to arrive!! 

Anyway, I was permitted to 'carve' the bird  (but the dad had to take plenty of pictures of it first to text to the parts of the family still in 'the old country'!).  However, it was so well cooked that I wasnt able to lift it out of the pan to put on the cutting board.  As I would remove parts of the bird to slice, the brother and sister (both in their mid 30s) and Dad (in his early 70s) were picking apart the parts of the bird that I had not yet moved to the cutting board.

After everything was sliced, and the gravy ready, and the dinner rolls taken out of the oven, YD says "Im full from turkey now, I guess I should have waited to fill up on it!"

I guess that I have been living alone for too too long, and am pretty well set in my old, grumpy ways.

I did learn something today, though. It seems that when I complained about them just hacking up the bird with a fork, really didnt make much of a difference. As the bird was so overcooked, as I tried to slice the major parts (like the breast), it pretty much just shredded.  Maybe someday, if i can do so without them being insulted somehow, I will cook a bird for them and make sure it is not overcooked, but Im going to have to put yellow tape around the bird so that I can carve it without it being picked apart before I can put it on the serving platter! 

In all, it was a fun day.  I had plenty to eat and enjoyed the visit with all of the family!

I hope that everyone else had at least as much fun with their families as I did today with my girlfriend's family.
Title: Re: Thanksgiving 2019 plans!
Post by: San Joaquin on November 28, 2019, 09:38:58 PM
oooooohhhhh, the eating was good.

the participants are...sluggish.

loopy smile.
Title: Re: Thanksgiving 2019 plans!
Post by: mamselle on November 28, 2019, 10:53:37 PM
Things came out well but the smoke detector kept going on over bare bits of nothing--a spilled bit of sugar on the electric stove coils, or the handle of the pan we were heating water for tea in getting too hot.

Fans in the window--and directed, once, at the smoke detector itself--finally righted the issue, but my ears are still ringing.

Turkey was also done earlier than expected, but I'd finished making most of the sides (my job; my friend does the bird, I do the sides) and just popped them back in the over for a short while to re-heat completely (they'd been on the back of the stove so were still fairly warm, anyway.)

I tried being inventive with the gruyere gougeres, which didn't work--but when we realized how hard making giblet gravy is without either flour OR cornstarch (we'd both forgot to supply any), the limp little things, strained with milk, served admirably as the basis of a roux.

The spinach with gorgonzola and bacon came out decently, as did the stuffing and the roasted root vegetables.

The potatoes (done in individual ramekins lined with torn, buttered layers of croissant to form a pastry shell) were fine after I added more sharp cheddar to them--note for the future, while trying to avoid using milk, not all non-dairy substitutes work equally well in cooking--the one I tried this time had just a touch of sweetness to it that messed with the flavor of the cheese....we now know one more thing that won't work....

The bananas with ice cream and brown sugar/cloves/cinnamon/nutmeg sauce came out well again. We watched an episode of "Sherlock Holmes" and I fell asleep for two hours afterwards...walked home after that.

Bed....clunk.....

M.
Title: Re: Thanksgiving 2019 plans!
Post by: sinenomine on November 28, 2019, 11:49:01 PM
Quote from: mamselle on November 21, 2019, 01:23:03 PM
Let us know how the restaurant is! (And where...)

I'll miss you by a month, but am interested for later reference!

M.

Hamilton was excellent; I hadn't seen it before. I skipped the restaurant, but for those who asked, it's Al Fanar, in the arcade next to the Gloucester Road Tube station. Back to the library today....
Title: Re: Thanksgiving 2019 plans!
Post by: mamselle on November 29, 2019, 07:32:56 AM
Be sure to get tea in the tea room.

A bit pricey, but I always enjoy taking a moment there, sipping tea and looking at the great ebony-and-gold shelved, glassed-in royal library in the center of the building....the architect was a genius for creating such a breathtaking thing.

Happy looking and finding!

M.