I was in Paragon this evening, and there were two types of frozen turkeys, one "unadulterated" and the other Butterball. They were 220B/kilo and 230B/kilo respectively, and the average size was 5-6 kilos (roughly 11-14 lbs.) which really should be enough for a crowd. I think there were also some boneless roasts, but I wasn't really looking for those and didn't check the prices.

So a turkey will set you back about 1500B (which is a lot less than a lot of the Thanksgiving menus being quoted here). On the bright side, you could easily feed twenty or more hungry friends with just one turkey. For a pork chop dinner the other night, I made a super simple dressing of bread, celery, onions and mushrooms, pretty much what I stuff my turkey with, and my friends here were scraping the bottom of the pan to get every last crusty bit out. I think this Thanksgiving, my first in Thailand, is going to be a hit.

Barbecued turkey reminds me of one of the biggest Thanksgiving dinners I threw a few years ago in London. I needed two turkeys to feed the fifty some guests, but getting just one in the oven was enough of a challenge. The neighbors I hoped could lend their oven couldn't, and I was left with the option of sending my stuffed turkey across town in a cab to have it cooked somewhere else, or finding a creative solution myself.

Creativity won out. Off came the legs and wings of turkey number two, and in it went into my family-sized tagine, stuffing and all, and that went on the stove. The legs were wedged into the oven, leaving me a four-legged mutant beast to roast. Both were great. I am pretty sure turkey tagine isn't traditional in Morocco, but at least I'll know what to do if I am ever stuck in a riad for Thanksgiving!