Cornucopia

Jo-Eun Villa was host to a Grand Thanksgiving Potluck Feast this weekend. In total, 22 friends gathered round yonder floor to chow down, share some drinks and get holiday cozy. Among the delicious items on the dinner menu, Caitlin and I contributed pomegranate chmpagne, spinach-walnut pesto dip, honey-ginger carrots, deviled eggs, stuffed mushrooms, and a healthy mixed-greens salad. The food and company were both delicious, so much so that we turned on the heated floors and shared in a communcal after-dinner-nap.



This is my friend and co-worker, Simon Chin. He is very adamant about learning as many slang phrases and gang signs as he can. Currently, he has demonstrated his knowledge of the following lingo: whatchyamacallit, lemme take a stab at it, savage!, fresh. Although none of these have any practical function in our culture, he has picked them up quickly and doesn't falter to use them in casual conversation. He has even thrown out, on his own accord, the typical-American-nondescript phrase, "It's like..you know?!"

"Aw, man."

Stuart savors every bite.

Other menu items included:

warm wassle [with rum]
potato soup
candied yams
boiled cabbage
mashed potatos
stuffing
thai curry
boiled and pan-seared chicken
korean sweet chicken
[no oven big enough to cook turkeys]
korean potato pizzas
pizza
stickos
7 pumpkin pies
kahlua coffees

It was nice to get a taste of the holidays in Koreatown. Everyone contributed to a tasty feast and wore their Sunday-best. Overall the weekend was just like..so like..you know? Awesome.

The rest of the pictures from the weekend can be seen here.

Transcontinental Thanksgiving - Granparents First Skype

This is my Grandmom Skyping for the first time ever. She is so excited that she goes and gets the angel food cake she made for Thanksgiving. After having an epiphany that she could share her baking skills with thousands of people online, she decided to start her own online baking show, "Thursday Afternoons with Josie." Grandmom plans to rival 91 year-old Clara and her YouTube cooking sensation, "Meals from the Depression."

I got to catch up with the entire fam and talk to Jordan about his new kitten, Oliver Dunbar [will post pictures once he sends them to me]. Nana [below] thinks I am "so trendy" using "all of this cool technology..."


Pop, looking dapper as always, just got off the highway in his handsome, dual-exhaust Buick LaCrosse.


Even though Granpop and I are in completely opposite time zones, we still manage to wake up at the same time. Me, from a good night's sleep. Him, from an afternoon cat-nap.

Nice to see everyone for the Holiday. Still wish I could get my hands on some cranberry sauce, pecan pie, and a Guinness. The rest of the Skyping adventures with the Berrys and the Mraziks can be seen here.

Happy Thanksgiving.