26

November
2008

Happy Thanksgiving

category: sharing
by Yun,

Time flies so rapidly. We just celebrated Halloween, and now Thanksgiving is almost here. This will be my fourth year celebrating Thanksgiving moments in Columbus. In those past years, I always very much enjoyed the  Thanksgiving moments since usually I was very excited knowing that I would visit my home country not long after the Thanksgiving break ended, to spend my Christmas holiday with my parents and families.

Sadly, this year I won’t be able to spend my Christmas holiday with my families. I just returned from my trip to Indonesia last month. I don’t think that it will be worth spending a large amount of money for another trip to Indonesia. I knew it was our decision for not going back to Indonesia this Christmas so I should not regret about it. Although, occasionally, I still wish that I would make that trip, to meet my parents and families,  to have delicacy food in my hometown, and much more… Nonetheless, I have to act wisely that I’d rather spend the money for traveling to somewhere else. ^-^

In my three previous Thanksgiving holidays, we always stayed at Columbus to have a potluck dinner together with friends. I remembered last year I spent more than half a day on Thursday, the day we had potluck dinner, cooking “ayam kodok”, also generally known as “stuffed chicken”. It is a deboned chicken, filled with seasoned ground chicken and ground pork. At that time, I prepared for the worst. Just in case that I couldn’t properly debone the chicken, I would make the supposed-to-be-deboned chicken as “galantine” or “meat loaf”. Yet, I almost couldn’t believe that I could successfully debone the chicken from the inside out all by myself. It was time consuming, exhausting, but exciting. Wow, what a day… Due to the lengthy time spent for preparing “ayam kodok“, I haven’t repeated cooking the same dish again since last year. Hmm… Perhaps, next year?

However, this year A and I decided to spend Thanksgiving holiday in Chicago, to have another gastronomic experience. What’s else if it’s not for a culinary trip? I’ve been craving for a wonderful Korean dinner in Cho Sun Ok and mango lychee tapioca smoothies at Joy Yee’s. Those two restaurants in Chicago are must-eat.

Happy Thanksgiving for everyone! I hope everyone will get enough turkey this year. I’ll see you again after my short trip to Chicago.

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  1. arman | 26 November 2008, 14:49

    wah gua juga suka tuh ayam kodok…
    btw lu asal dari maan sih yun kok tau ayam kodok dan galantin segala? rasanya kalo orang jakarta gak tau ya… :)

    happy thanksgiving!

    Gue dari solo man :) Happy thanksgiving juga ya

  2. Im3th | 26 November 2008, 21:20

    Happy thanksgiving Yun!
    walah pinter amat Yun bs bikin ayam kodok…
    ditunggu ya reviewnya buat kuliner di Chicago :)

    iseng aja met kebetulan kok jadi, tp blm bikin2 lagi setelah itu hehe

  3. veny | 27 November 2008, 09:06

    Waww ada ayam kodok , enak nya nyam nyam nyam … he22
    Happy Thanks Giving ya .
    Gw aja org JKT tau ayamkodok & galantine .. itu dua2 nya kesukaan ai . Emang sebenarnya menu itu dari mana Man ?

    Iya rasanya di jkt jg ada ayam kodok, tp galantine sih aku blm pernah nemu di jkt lho

  4. ariany | 02 December 2008, 11:38

    ayam kodok tuh populer banget di semarang YUn… berhubung sesama orang jateng yah hihihi.. :P Mamiku dulu sering bikin ayam kodok itu.. :P tapi skarang dah males masak2. Galantine juga tuh.. tapi gak pernah bikin sendiri, selalu beli.. :P
    happy Thanksgiving ya Yun.. :P waaa senengnya bisa jalan2… ditinggu culinary report dari Chicago yaa… :D

    ow di semarang jg banyak ya yg jual ayam kodok Ar? di Solo sih ga gitu banyak lho…, kalo galantine malah banyak banget.

  5. Rina | 02 December 2008, 22:20

    Yun, happy thanksgiving to you too ;-) as usual, masakan lo hebat banget sih Yun =) so sad, lo gak bisa pulang Indo ya ;-) tapi bener deh, lo kan baru balik, sayang juga ya Yun. So, I’ll see you next year, semoga kita bisa ketemuan ya ;-) biarpun agak susah juga sebenarnya :-)

    iya nih udah lama jg ya ga ketemuan… well gue si tiap kali plg benernya ke Jkt tp kadang cuman couple days and sometimes with parents too, jd lbh ga flexible jadwalnya. Plg enak ketemuan elo kalo pas elo ke solo hehe

  6. Pucca | 02 December 2008, 23:56

    ya Tuhan.. guede bangettt! :D
    gua gak doyan ayam kodok hehe.. kalo sembahyang ada ayam kodok gua gak berani makan :P

    size chicken disini hampir 3 kali sizenya ayam kampung di Indo nih hehe… knp kok ga berani mkn ayam kodok? enak lho!

  7. Paulo | 03 December 2008, 03:05

    Hehe, i didnt get any turkey this year..

    I probably also only eat turkey once a year :) so don’t feel bad!