Martin and I decided to tackle Thanksgiving again this year. We ended up having a group of 11 friends over for Thanksgiving dinner - held on the Saturday after Thanksgiving since the Swiss do not celebrate Thanksgiving and therefore do not get Thursday off from work. Our guests were natives of Switzerland, Germany, the US, Slovenia, and Canada.
There are enough Americans in Switzerland that the grocery stores sell cranberries and turkeys for a few weeks in late November so we were able to find all the ingredients necessary for a proper Thanksgiving feast. Of course the turkeys weigh 12 pounds, max, so we had to buy two to feed everybody this year. So we made turkey, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, stuffing, brussels sprouts, corn, and cheesecake. Our guests brought an eclectic mix of foods like potato salad, nüssli salad (a lettuce specialty of Switzerland), caprese salad, macaroni salad (with pickles, which was awesome), Slovenian wine which has a strong cherry flavor and is quite good, an apple tort (another Swiss specialty) and of course delectable cakes from Sprüngli. Sprüngli makes a really boozy cake ... it has a cherry on top so you think it's a cherry cake but it's actually completely saturated with cherry schnapps (not American schnapps but European schnapps which have a much higher alcohol content). You can barely eat a bite of it it's so boozy and I can't believe they don't sell it with a warning but whatever.
Anyway, here are a few pics. All the guests this year were guys who work with Martin at the ETH (and some of their girlfriends).
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