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 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.
Also, can't being Chinese mean whatever it means to him, later on? Like Jesse said, I'm Irish the way you're Chinese, but it just means (to me) that I have ancestors who experienced a certain type of culture/historical events in Ireland.
Also, you're not failing at parenthood.
I guess, too, I think the most defining part of his life and Grace's life will be growing up as set of twins, one of which has pretty high intensity special needs, to two gay parents. Culture is just going to be lower on his list of identifiers, maybe.
