Happy Belated Turkey Day!

I can't believe I'm saying this but the sheer sight of food sickens me (for now). I had way too much of them this past Thanksgiving weekend. It started out on the Thanksgiving Thursday when I went to Mario's house for his family dinner. It was definitely a food galore, complete with six (!) different types of dessert, which included the usual fare of sweet potato pie, the all-American apple pie, chocolate cheesecake, sponge cake, and the best one of all, the taffy apple salad. The taffy apple salad was just off the hinges, baby! I asked his mom for the recipe but I've already forgotten it. Note to self: Ask Mario after class tomorrow for the recipe. Anyway, thanks a lot, brother man, for inviting me to the dinner. Also, a special thanks to his mom for packing up all the desserts for me take home.

Then, on Saturday, there were two Malaysian gatherings--one in Chicago at Abang Isham's house and one, later in the evening, at Kak Elisha's apartment here in Milwaukee. At Abang Isham's house were the delectable nasi beriyani, ayam masak merah, kari kambing, soto ayam, bergedel and assorted kuih-muih. The one at Kak Elisha's apartment was a potluck gathering--Bobo made some rendang daging as our house's contribution to the potluck--and the sheer abundance of food there simply left me wild-eyed. There were laksa penang, satay ayam & daging, lemang, nasi impit, kuah kacang, pulut kuning, cous-cous, nasi tomato, nasi goreng ikan masin (!), some kind of Sabahan dish, another rendang daging dish (not as good as ours though) and whole bunch of other dishes I can't remember along with varieties of fruits, cakes and assorted kuih-muih.

Anyway, I'm so sick of these festival food that when I ate nasi putih with masak sardin, telur mata kerbau dgn kicap last night, the food tasted so unusually good, like it was laced with weed or something. Hmmm...weed!