Thanksgiving 2012

We hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving holiday. Here in Munich, most people who do celebrate Thanksgiving either have a dinner after work or postpone the celebration until the weekend. We opted to celebrate it on Thanksgiving Day, but to go out for an American dinner. 

A couple of places here offer Thanksgiving menus, and we decided to go to Hard Rock, where they were showing the NFL games. 

We started off with some beer and wings.

 

Since they offered both a Thanksgiving set menu and a selection off the normal menu, we decided to have the best of both American food worlds:

Turkey, gravy, stuffing, mashed potatoes, corn, cornbread, and cranberry jelly. The turkey was surprisingly moist and perfectly cooked, the gravy tasty like a pot roast or zwiebelrostbraten gravy, and the stuffing was pretty good too.  The cornbread was a little dry, but tasted good enough that it reminded us how much we love cornbread. We'll be making some soon!


And for the other meal, we ordered a cheeseburger and fries. Maybe not traditional Thanksgiving dinner, but classic American and so good.


And the Thanksgiving menu included "pumpkin pie," which really was more of a pumpkin cheesecake. Very nicely done. The funny thing is that crust on the bottom seemed to be uncooked storebought pie dough. Not that it tasted bad or that I expect Hard Rock to have experience baking pies, but it was kind of funny that they seem to have forgotten to cook the crust. Of course, the pumpkin cheesecake part was so good that we ate the raw dough anyway. 



Happy Thanksgiving and safe travels from Schnitzelbahn!