Second batch of fritters is fried and cooling/draining on the counter. One cup of sort of whole berry cranberry sauce (I added the pulp back to the strained sauce that didn't go into the fritters because I couldn't bear to throw all that lovely pulp away), one cup of NPR cranberry relish and 20-ish fritters (there are 23 right now, I plan to have at least one for breakfast to see if they are okay cold or how they reheat, so probably two) will have to be enough of a contribution to the pot luck.

I am very impressed, -t!

I kind of am, too! This somehow didn't seem that complicated when I read the recipe, even though all the steps were clearly spelled out.

For the record - cold fritter is okay, but my tolerance for cold fried potatoes and cold stuffing is, I suspect, above the norm. One fritter zapped on "Reheat" for 1 minute seems adequately heated, although the cranberry sauce gets hotter than it ought to be. On the whole pretty tasty, though. My co-workers will have to make do, I don't think we have an oven in the lunchroom I can warm them up in and I'm not going to attempt to fry things at work.

It's a Thanksgivvikuh miracle - my office is finally upgrading from XP to Win7!!

I just noticed your new tag, Jessica. Heh.

Fritters with stuffing and cranberries sound really good.

They're pretty dang delicious! And would probably be a swell way to deal with leftovers.

I plan to have at least one for breakfast to see if they are okay cold or how they reheat, so probably two

Science!

I feel like I have the opposite story to cultural appropriation, perhaps cultural abandonment. Noah refuses to believe he is Chinese. He has said, on two occasions, "People keep saying I'm Chinese but they are wrong." Essentially. When I tell him he is wrong and ask him what he is, he says, "White" and then offers up his inner arm as proof.

In some ways, it's true that he is culturally midwestern more than anything else. But he doesn't go to Chinese school, I never cook Chinese food, we don't speak Chinese or read it. So, lots of markers of culture for him are missing.

I feel like I'm failing at parenthood. But I too am pretty much Chinese in name only.

It seems like the problem is conflating race and culture, and being a minority. I mean, I'm as German as you are Chinese, but no one on the street would insist that I am German, because I get to be "regular American."

mac would only draw himself as white for at least 3 years after the adoption. He did his 3rd grade multi-cultural day presentation on the US, NY state. He will never volunteer up that he is African, but I just plug away at pride and culture, hoping he gets it from osmosis from the items around our house and the restaurants we eat at. Also me making him watch marathons.