autumn holidays

This holiday time of year in HK showcases some uniquely American autumn produce on supermarket shelves like these Halloween-themed black grapes.

Sugar or baking pumpkins.

Great for making pumpkin pie of course.

Also soups and stews.

And nothing is wasted with the seeds being roasted with a little olive oil and coarse salt.

This year for Thanksgiving, we were very fortunate to try 2 new types of turkey. This one's from Framani and it comes pre-brined and seasoned:

It's oven ready so there's nothing to prepare. Just unwrap and roast.

 This is a Mary's Heritage Turkey:

 Brussel sprouts sauteed with Oscar Mayer bacon:

Corn bread and oyster stuffing:

 

Baked garnet yams. Recipe courtesy of nigella.com:

And another pumpkin pie to end the meal.