Yes, we did celebrate Thanksgiving in Australia.

And, yes, I am almost three weeks late in telling you about it.

Although Thanksgiving is purely an American tradition, we did have a "Mark and Julie" Thanksgiving, complete with turkey, cornbread stuffing, and pecan pie on Thanksgiving Thursday (even though it was really still Wednesday back in the U.S.).

Cash eyeing the turkey.

We were also fortunate enough to have some Australian friends with a high level of interest in the holiday. They were so interested that they invited us, and a few of their other friends, over for a Thanksgiving dinner on that Saturday night. The stipulation was that I bring some common Thanksgiving side dishes and pumpkin pie.

The thing you have to understand about Australians is that they will eat pumpkin in just about every savory dish..... pumpkin foccacia, pumpkin with pasta, pumpkin lasagna.....and the list goes on. So, the idea that we eat pumpkin as a dessert is very welcomed. Needless to say, there was no canned pumpkin here, so I made the entire thing from scratch. Looking back it may have not been the best pumpkin pie I have had, but how would they know the difference?