A Christmas dinner in Canada
I enjoyed myself at a Christmas dinner when I stayed at Bob and Val's in B.C., Canada on December 25, 2001. They and I usually have meals in the dining kitchen. On Christmas day, however, Bob moved and joined three tables into a large sitting room, and covered a large table cloth to make them one long table for 12 persons' Christmas dinner was set to large sitting room on that day.
You can find green things here and there in this house. Bob and Val seems to love green colur.
12 people joined us at the dinner. Val's family, some friends and two Japanese people including myself.
The pleasant dinner in the sitting room. The 2nd from the left is me.
Another scene from the other side. A person at center is a student from Japan who had stayed this lovely house for months several years ago.
Seemingly Canadian people have large stomachs and enjoy these many large dishes.
It is a turkey meat was served the main dish of the day. Unfortunately I had forgotten to take a photo of it. (It comes out as a part of a picture later.)
The turkey is several times bigger than a chicken and was enough for 12 people. It was sliced and served at the table.
Cranberry Sauce was for the turkey meat.
Baked ham was served on a big platter.
Two dishes of these ham were seved for 12 people.
Cabbage rolls cooked with tomatoes. I had become full already at this point. Canadian must have a big stomach.
Two dishes of cabbage rolls, too.
In Canada, mashed potatoes served very often. It seemd that they use more butter than in Japan. Some bread were also served, there is no boiled rice (Gohan).
Three dishes of mashed potatoes.
Small cabbages, or garnish, and carrots also served with the dishes.
These were brussell sprout served with the dishes. They were twice as big as Japanese one, but the taste was almost the same.
A bowl of small cabbages or Brussels sprout.
A dish with sliced roast turkey is shown at the upper left of the picture.
The garnish here was almost the same as in Japan, but the volume was great.
Red and white wine and beer were served for the drink. After the meal, Bob served sweet Ice Wine. Since it was expensive, he used small wine glass.
Of course, we had desserts. I felt I was full up to my throat-- far beyond my limit.
On the next day, I skipped my breakfast with my filled stomach!!
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