Tonight's Dinner: November 24, 2012

After my baking spree, we went to see Skyfall, the new James Bond movie, with my family.  Because I always watched James Bond movies with my Dad, it didn't feel right going to see it without him.  So we got ourselves a family-sized popcorn and settled in for the afternoon into the comfy movie theater chairs.  I tried to ignore all the germs and possibilities of lice and bed bugs.  I much rather watch movies at home, but this seemed like one that we needed to see on the big screen.

The movie was much longer than we had anticipated so we had to rush back home to start our contribution to our second Thanksgiving dinner with the Chins.  To make things easy, we offered to bring roasted vegetables and garlic green beans.  I had parboiled the green beans the day before and the potatoes were precooked, but it still took quite a bit of time to roast. By the time we ended up getting in the car and out to the City, everyone was already starting dinner!  It's a good thing we didn't offer to bring appetizers.

There was a lot more food, but I didn't get pictures of them all.

One of my aunts made the best fried chicken.  This was a new dish to us, but
 I'm going to have to request this for Christmas too.

Lumpia is always a crowd pleaser.  I must have had at least eight and a couple
of egg rolls too.  

Spring rolls!

Because our family is so big, this is two turkeys.  

My Auntie May always brings ham, which I'm all over.

This was a pack and a half of green beans from Costco.  I
was surprised to see that it was all gone. 

Emmy was a good, patient girl to wait for us in the car two days in a row. She
of course got walks in between and some Thanksgiving turkey as a treat.  Once
we got home she was pooped from having to "guard" the car.