Vacation was nice

F and I went to visit my family during Thanksgiving break. It was nice, mostly because we didn't have to do anything but spend time with people. We played a lot of cards and Settlers. In fact, we played so much that my brothers invented a mid-Settlers minigame: Micro Jenga.


We also went bowling with my family, and everyone had food-related stage names because it was Thanksgiving. F was Captain Broccoli and I was Pumpkin Muffin. It was hard to think of 9 funny vegetable-related names, actually.


I don't have any pictures of food, but I did invent something delicious. I'd been thinking of making some kind of stew or shepherd's pie, and then I came across this recipe for mole sauce. I remembered that I really like mole sauce, so I used the recipe to invent a sweet potato mole chili. (It's easy, just make the sauce, and throw in the vegetables during the part where it tells you to let it simmer for a while.) After the stew part was cooked, we put some (uncooked) biscuits on top in order to accomplish the shepherd's pie part, sprinkled the whole thing with cheese, and baked it. I would definitely make it again. It might be good with corn bread biscuits.