This was a very eventful Thanksgiving. We got started early on Wednesday making a lot of desserts for the two destinations on Thursday. Bryony made some snickerdoodle cookies, and I helped peel some apples for two apple tarts and an apple cake.
Our first stop as is usual on Thanksgiving is at my Nanay’s house in Woodbridge. She had rolled a lot of lumpia while we were making desserts, so that would be our “light lunch”. But our main mission was to make siopao – a great Filipino meat-pie with a very sweet dough and stuffed with pork and boiled egg. Tio Boy had already made the insides, but we were there to make the dough with Bryony’s Kitchen Aid mixer. The process was messy, but the results looked almost professional prior to cooking.
After steaming, the dough started to rise up, but we didn’t have any “poppers” this time.
We took a break after two batches (25 siopao) to have some of the lumpia that Tio Boy fried for us fresh!
While eating, we talked about how a friend saw a baked siopao, so we decided to experiment with some of the leftover complete ones. It turned out much better than the steamed!
We still steamed some of the traditionalists that may be eating some later:
Bryony added a bit of glistening goodness by brushing the top of the baked ones with some melted butter. Yum!
We brought some Thanksgiving cheer to one of her neighbors by bringing her some of each of our foods with some dipping sauce.
After eating there, we headed off to Nokesville for our second meal of the day! Chicken, pork were the main meats for the meal, and we stuffed ourselves for a second time.
Topped off all the day’s eating with a good piece of pumpkin pie.
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