Standing in the kitchen whilst eating a cookie fresh from the oven (a fantastic chocolate chip one I might add) and waiting on some bread dough to rise, I contemplate the next two days. Two days of cooking pumpkin pie, apple pie, getting prep work done for and then cooking stuffing, potatoes, pomegranate chutney (cranberries don't seem to exist in Portugal, ok?), green bean casserole, macaroni salad, and of course turkey. All of this is for me (mostly) because I'm an American and this is what we do the week of the last Thursday of November.