With all of the snow and cold weather this year, we had a very small and relaxing Thanksgiving dinner. Our children could not get to our house due to the road conditions, so we had a very beautiful dinner at Preservation Kitchen, our current favorite dining establishment. Since we both had to work the next day, this choice to not cook a large dinner at home was a wonderful solution.
Preservation Kitchen is situated in a beautiful old Craftsman Bungalow dating from the early 20th century. It is furnished in lovely, dark wood, and the place surprises you with its vibrant and earthy artwork on the walls, depicting modern-day meal preparations in a restaurant and market scenes filled with colorful fruits, vegetables and wine.
The traditional Thanksgiving dinner was the best one I'd ever had (even better than my own cooking!), and we enjoyed our meal. We had pumpkin hummus and pita bread for an appetizer, and spinach salads and pumpkin squash soup, both decorated with toasted pumpkin seeds. We shared a pumpkin bread pudding with vanilla bean ice cream for a dessert before we went home and sampled a freshly-baked apple pie, featuring the last of our autumn crop of semi-dwarf Liberty apples.
It was a good day to recount our blessings, and to share with those around us what we were most thankful for this year.
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