Hi Everyone in the States or People that live all over the world that celebrate Thanksgiving. Happy Turkey “GOBBLE” to all. We havw a lot to be thankful for to God. Well in our household we celebrate Thanksgiving on Saturday, since the kids has school on Thursday, the kids usually come home around 4:30 in the afternoon. It’s really late and short time for them to sit down and have dinner with us. We want them to really enjoy the Thanksgiving Day so we made it Saturday since we lived here in the Philippines.
We really prepare the American tradition of Thanksgiving. We will have turkey butterball of course. Bob will help me make the stuffing and gravy. I will prepare mashed potatoes, beans, the yams I will make it with our local sweet potato (Camote), we made that a lot and it turned out good. It is hard to find ready to cook yams in a can here that were imported from the States. So why not make our very own camote here. Also pumpkin pie, the other day I tried to use the local squash to substitute into pumpkin for my pie and it turned out good. Bob and the kids liked it. I think because its almost thanksgiving its hard to find imported pumpkin in a can here. So I decided to make pumpkin pie out from squash and Bob told me that he can’t tell the difference anyway. The thing is its cheaper too.
Our turkey we have arranged for it to be roasted (lechon style) in our local lechon house. It’s really good. Honestly its not even dry inside. I prepare the turkey in the morning of Saturday. I rub with butter and salt and pepper inside out. Then put some lemon grass (Tanglad) inside the turkey while its being roasted. The smell of the tanglad will remain. Gosh, while typing now my mouth is drooling.
I hope each and everyone of you have a good Thanksgiving Day. Travel safe you guys. Happy Eating Time!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING DAY!
Thanks Feyma! Happy Thanksgiving to you too!
I am thankful to have found this website because it makes me feel a direct (although virtual) connection to my homeland.
Thanks Bob for this online magazine and for sharing it to non-expats (Philippines) like myself, although in the true definition of expat, I am one because I don't live in my country of origin at the moment. 🙂
Have a good weekend to you all!!
Well, it should have been: …"it gives me a direct (although virtual) connection to my homeland." 😆
also "for sharing it "with" non-expats..""" 😆
I'm sure you get it.
Got the turkey in the oven now, made pensylvania dutch apple sausage stuffing (if you want the recipe e-mail me), pumpkin pie with scratch pie crust of course (intersting idea with the local squash. I have been curious about that), Apple pie all from scratch and whatever else everyone is bringing. Oh and of course gravy 🙂 Happy Thanksgiving
Hi Beth- Yes, you are absolutely an expat! I'm happy to be able to share my experiences through this site with anybody who cares to read it! The more the merrier!
Hi BrSpiritus- Enjoy! It sounds good. We celebrate on Saturday, since the kids have school today.
Feyma, Happy Thanksgiviing to you, Bob and family!!… My daughter, Trina, is coming over on Friday so I will prepare my Turkey dinner tomorrow… I am also attempting my 1st ever pumpkin pie… should be interesting to say the least.
Hi Feyma/Bob – Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. We are enjoying our time with my brother's family in the Everett/Seattle area. That's more or less our tradition.
thank you feyma. happy thanksgiving to you and family. as we have a lot to give thanks to almighty GOD for countless blessings. peace of EARTH.
Hi Beth – Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family too.
Hey, that's one thing we are thanking the Lord for the success of this site. We are happy to share it to the world about life the good and not so good about living here. Internet is really something.
Happy Thanksgiving and have a good weekend!
Hi BrSpiritus – I think here we have to make almost everything from scratch. I also made my pie crust from scratch. I made lots of squash for my pie. The left over, we made bread and cookies. It tastes really good.
Sure, I want some of your dutch apple stuffing recipe. I will give it a try. Thank you in advance for that.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family. Have a wonderful weekend.
Hi Honey – I agree the more the merrier.
Hi Dave – Happy Thanksgiving to you too and your family.
Good luck with your cooking. It will be okay though. Have fun eating.
Thanks for stopping by!
Hi Randy C – Happy Thanksgiving to you and Rechie. During the time that we lived there, we used to go to Bob's mom for Thanksgiving. She really cook good meal.
Thanks for stopping by and have a good weekend! Time to start shopping now. 😉
Take care!
Hi Emmanuel – Happy Thanksgiving to you and family too. Can't agree you more.
Take care and God bless!
Happy thanksgiving to you and the family.
I too counted my blessings today feyma and one of the things i am thankful for is to have met you and Bob happy thanksgiving to you and your family 🙂
Hi Tommy- We also enjoyed meeting you as well!
Good Day!
Although I'm not an American, but I do know Thanksgiving is such a very important and valuable day for all Americans the world over, and of such inspiring origin, too! The word says it all! What started as a humble gathering of Pilgrims and America's first immigrants, as a way of giving thanks to the Lord for their freedom from oppression and tyranny, is now that wonderful occassion to be with family (or friends) wherever they may be in the world! What a truly merry time for celebration!
Here in the Philippines, I think Noche Buena on Christmas Eve is the closest equivalent occassion, giving thanks that Christ was born. I think the only difference in the celebration is the Star of the feast-Turkey for Thanksgiving, and "Hamon" (Ham) for Noche Buena!
I hope everyday would be a "Thanks-Giving" Day! God Bless!
By the way, I love turkey, too!
Hello Feyma and Bod ,
Happy thanksgiving to you and your family,we already had our turkey yesterday
and still Have plenty in the frig,I am wondering Feyma if pumpkin seasoning is available in our supermarkets there in the philippines?Enjoy your day. and Have a good one..
Oh my goodness, I cant believe that its a year already, that we were all together for Thanksgiving. I have wonderful memories of that occasion and I wish you my dear friend Happy Thanksgiving and to all the family. Miss you all so much.
See you in the New Year !!!
Hi Ellen – Thank you so much.
Hi Tommy – Thank you so much for making the time to meet us. We really enjoyed meeting you and Riza.
Happy Holidays. Take care and God bless!
Hi JR Tingson – Yeah similar occasions the way we celebrate but just have different meaning. The family and friends being was the nice part of it too. When I had my first Thanksgiving in the States I really like it a lot. Bob's mom and dad prepared a fancy dinner for us and my brother-in-laws family. It was nice and Bob and I tried to carry that tradition for our kids now too.
Anyway, thank you for stopping by. I hope you and your family will have a good Noche Buena soon. Happy Eating. 😉
Hi Neng – Thank you so much. Keep busy cooking on that turkey leftover. Soup and sandwich sounds good.
Pumpkin seasoning I didn't look for that here. I will check next time I go to the grocery store.
Thank you so much for dropping by!
Hi Steve – Yes its been a year already since the time we have you for your first ever Thanksgiving. Hey we have the same food yesterday. I wished your here you could have lots of turkey for yourself. We roasted 2 turkey.
Anyway, hope to see you soon my dear friend. I really miss you. Cooking time for us again next time. Take care there and please come back soon here in Davao.
ummmm Love squash pie we have it every year just as good as pumpkin but easer to make ..
Hi Phil R. – I am not sure really if its easier to make than pumpkin. I think for me its just the same. We might make it differently though. The hard one to make was the crust. It's time consuming.
Thanks for the comment. Happy Holidays!