Happy Thanksgivukkah!
A result of a rare coincidence between the Lunar calendar (whose dates reflect both the moon phase and the time of the solar year, and which can have between 353 and 385 days per year) and the Gregorian calendar. Since the calendars are not calculated the same way, Chanukah appears at a different time each year on the Gregorian calendar.
The first night of Chanukah was celebrated over dinner with our friends Sarah, Luke and their sweet daughter Lydia.
Before our guests arrived we lit Sarah’s Menorah.
Shortly after we had her open her first gift.
In the past we’ve bought her one gift as her birthday is a short three months later. However this year we decided it would be a fun tradition to buy her 8 small gifts. After her 2nd birthday, she really got the hang of opening gifts. It was cute to see her excitement as she would “ooh and aw” after each gift (it was a two-fer that night).
After playing for a bit with her new gifts, our guests arrived. We lit the candles and played dreidel. Finally we sat down for another Pinterest Chanukah dinner.
My menu consisted of
Cauliflower, Leek and Potato Soup 
Waldorf Salad w/homemade dressing
Caprese Latkes
Shin Newtons
and homemade Sufganiyot (or jelly doughnuts). 
Everything was really tasty, except for the doughnuts. Using whole wheat flour might seemed like a good idea at the time, but in reality it wasn’t good.
We had so much fun talking that I didn’t get to take as many pictures as I would have liked, including one of my fabulous guests. Thanks for the wine and the great conversations!
Thanksgivukkah was held at my sister-in-law’s. Thanks to my mother-in-law for the delicious home cooked meal!
Before dinner Sarah lit the candles with Aunt Rhonda.
Then, Sarah opened some of her gifts.
My K family (missing a few)!
and my gubby, David.
We completed the meal with apple pie, pumpkin pie and these fresh baked sufganiyot (jelly doughnuts)!
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Between the wine and knowing I needed to be up at 5:30 am the next morning to meet up with Liza for a little Black Friday shopping I came home and passed out.
#thankful
I am happy that you had a happy holidays. The pictures are beautiful and we miss you here a lot.
Love you always and forever Ema.
Hi! I see you tried to make my jelly doughnuts, but they didn’t turn out well :( I am sorry about that. I wonder if maybe it would have been better to try with white whole wheat flour or whole wheat pastry flour. Where I live I used something called 70% whole wheat flour (i think). Or next time you can even try half while flour and half whole wheat. Again, sorry they didn’t turn out well for you. We really loved them at our house. I hope you try my other recipes and enjoy them! Rena
It had great potential, so thank you for creating it! Unfortunately the whole wheat flour killed it. Hope to try it again soon :)
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