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<\/a>Sorry for the big gap in posts everyone.\u00a0 I just woke up from a food-induced coma.\u00a0 Keith and I visited our family down in Illinois for Thanksgiving.\u00a0 Everyone contributed to the meal.\u00a0 I made a couple of desserts, a traditional pumpkin pie and some coconut milk keylime bars.\u00a0 Grandma made some concoction of sticky rice, coconut, and sugar\u00a0wrapped in banana leaves then grilled (Keith says that describes every\u00a0Filipino dessert).\u00a0 It’s actually called tupig<\/em>.\u00a0 They are a very common street\/outdoor market food in the Philippines.\u00a0 Mom roasted a turkey\u00a0and my cousin H almost burned down his parents house frying a turkey.\u00a0 As if two turkeys weren’t enough, my Aunt G deep fried some pork belly.\u00a0\u00a0It’s considered bad\u00a0luck to run out of food when you’re having a party in\u00a0the Filipino culture.\u00a0 We had the traditional side dishes: garlic mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes with marshmallows, brussells sprouts, green bean casserole,\u00a0and stuffing.\u00a0 The dinner was splendid and the night went on\u00a0with some\u00a0 more drinking, dancing, and cheesy karaoke.\u00a0 Well, everyone drank and everyone but Keith danced,\u00a0but the karaoke was all me <\/em>!<\/p>\n Sorry for the big gap in posts everyone.\u00a0 I just woke up from a food-induced coma.\u00a0 Keith and I visited our family down in Illinois for Thanksgiving.\u00a0 Everyone contributed to the meal.\u00a0 I made a couple of desserts, a traditional pumpkin pie and some coconut milk keylime bars.\u00a0 Grandma made some concoction of sticky rice, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[712,69],"class_list":["post-1099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-cooking","tag-holidays","tag-thanksgiving","no-featured-image"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1111,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions\/1111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"thanksgivingplate\"](\"http:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/thanksgivingplate.jpeg\" "\\"thanksgivingplate\\"")
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