Last weekend we helped Maggie to celebrate her first ever Thanksgiving at Kopila Valley.  All of the volunteers pitched in and we managed to have a pretty good Thanksgiving meal, despite the lack of traditional ingredients at our disposal.  The uncles killed a turkey that day and because all we have is a small toaster oven we pan seared it instead.  It came out pretty well too.  Mashed potatoes and the canned cranberry sauce were easy enough, as was the steamed corn.  It was Matt's and my job to make the gravy.  We were going to make gravy using chicken bullion but then we found a few packets of instant country gravy laying around.  Even though it was a different kind of gravy we decided that it would be harder to screw up so we took the easier route.  As it turns out I am not very good at mixing.  We also made way to much gravy.  The stuffing came out pretty well also.  Then, to top everything off, we had some apple crisp, basically apple pie without the crust.  We pushed the tables together, lit a few candles and had a good old fashion American meal in Sukhet, Nepal.  We also celebrated with a girl who'se parents are Nepalese but has grown up in London.  It was her first Thanksgiving as well, and she thoroughly enjoyed out rag tag meal.  

Thanks for the pictures Ben.

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