Filo? Filo!

I am fascinated by filo dough. I'm being completely serious. It's the dough used when making the Greek pastry Baklava (which I might add is delicious as eff). I'm obsessed. I was watching Bobby Flay's cooking show on Food Network a couple weeks ago, and they showed this one bakery in Hell's Kitchen; apparently this is the only bakery in the United States that still makes there filo dough by hand. The process of making this dough is insane! I can't even explain it. I've included this weird video with a Scottish narrator that shows the process of creating the dough. The amazing part begins at about 1 minute and 30 seconds into the video. This part is called 'opening the pastry'.

I'm ridiculous, I know, but these are the things I love.

A day late and a dollar short

More like 3 days late and 3 dollars short, but now I'm here to report on my Thanksgiving!

• The dinner table for 5 (My parents, my grandparents, and myself).

• The Turkey

• The jicama and mango salad that I made all by myself (recipe compliments of Sonny Anderson on Food Network).