We're doing Thanksgiving, but postponed to next week, as our only other American friend who is near enough to come can't make it till then because of work commitments.

We will have turkey - probably a crown, unless I can find a really tiny one; green beans, which bore me, but Lawyer insists it's not Thanksgiving without them; roast potatoes because this is Britain and somehow it never seems like a festive meal without them; cider gravy; sweet potatoes baked with butter and cinnamon (adding chile is an interesting idea, but I won't try the gratin as cream inevitably makes me sick); some sausages, because one of the guests doesn't much like poultry; broccoli stir-fried with garlic and red chile.

Pudding - I think I will try my hand at shoo-fly pie, what with Lawyer having grown up relatively close to Lancaster County. Also, I can't abide canned pumpkin, and the fresh ones have vanished from the shops.