Pre-Turkey

When I talk to people about the holidays, people are always interested about how I spend my Thanksgiving, for example.

I think they want me to say something exotic.

Well here is a little taste:

My mom is explaining to my ex-aunt how to cook a turkey in Vietnamese. To me it sounds kind of like this:
"blah blah blah blah turkey blah blah turkey, then blah blah blah blah blah turkey....blah blah blah blah blah....."

And then on Thanksgiving our extended family comes and we eat my mommy's delicious turkey, (sometimes baked, sometimes deep fried, once even both) and she usually makes another meat, some potatoes, rolls, a causal casserole, and a wildly unpopular salad or salad variation.

I think this is fairly standard protocol.

Sorry to disappoint.