My second Thanksgiving in Georgia. Thanksgiving for me is bringing family and friends together over a big meal to express gratitude and thanks. In Georgia they called a big meal with family and friends a supra. And a big meal it was—main course was salmon. Yum! For the second year in a row, I celebrated peace, gratitude, goodwill and thanks here in Georgia with Mike and a couple of his American friends.

Of course I forgot to take a picture of the table before we ate! It was great, salmon, mac and cheese (Evan’s signature dish), Georgian salad, khinkali and Medok for dessert—the Georgian version of the Russian honey cake medovik. It is a layered cake (usually eight layers) that intricately combines sponge cake with rich milk cream. And wine: Georgian pet-nat, and qvevri saperavi and rkatsiteli.

Above picture on the right is of the appetizers. Pkhali gobi, Mike’s famous deviled eggs, sulguni cheese plate and sweet peppers with walnut and garlic paste. They call this sweet pepper dish badrijani when made with eggplant, but we had a pepper version.