Another earthquake (5.0) rattled us early Thanksgiving morning. When will the earth settle down?? E had his pumpkin pies in the oven when the electricity went out. Thank goodness they were close to done and the warmth in the oven was enough to finish cooking them. We worried that we might have to improvise, but the power was back on in an hour, meaning that we just ate our wonderful Thanksgiving meal a little later than planned, rather than not at all!

We decided - kind of at the last minute - that we’d try kalua turkey this year, so while the power was out, we went for a drive to find some ti leaves to wrap the turkey.  We don’t have a place in the yard to do an imu (traditional underground oven), but we found a recipe to do it in the oven. A nice compromise, really.

See how pretty my turkey looked before it went in the oven?