K’s mom obviously won’t be here for Thanksgiving, but we still wanted to give her some idea of what it’s like. So my mom did the obvious: cooked a small Thanksgiving dinner.

Turkey, dressing, potatoes, green beans, giblet gravy, rolls and a nice chardonnay. And of course for dessert, sweet potato pie.

The dressing and the pie were the big hits. Made from cornbread (itself a novelty), the dressing is doubly unlike anything in Polish cuisine. As for the pie, the notion of doing anything with a tuber other than boiling it and serving it with salt and pepper is fairly foreign to the village Polish way of cooking.

After dinner, it was time to pull out the thread collection and discuss one of those things that crosses most all western cultural boundaries: crafts.