I thank you for this article.

Stress is mostly in one’s mind and depends on many aspects.
I encourage everyone to learn a bit about the reasons and background of stress, so you can understand how to avoid it.

This article for example will give you an idea how it is possible to avoid stress: http://fr.ee/article/5-things-you-can-do-for-free-to-get-rid-of-stress

All the best

Martin White

Since we are off season here, the ingredients for a true Thanksgiving is a real chore so we really do defer until the fall if at all. In all honesty, it’s easy to forget – there are no reminders around and the seasonal cues are all wrong. Same goes for Christmas. When it’s finally warm enough to go swimming, who wants to think about Christmas? Lights and trees make no sense when it stays light until 10pm and too hot and nice to stay inside. Yup, Christmas is more like July 4th with a bbq, but again, truth be told, most years we are on the road, hiking or camping and spend Christmas in a hut or tent and pack in a ‘Christmas dinner’, if we even remember what day it is!

My mom found a recipe for pumpkin pie cheesecake with a gingersnap crust last year and brought it (and ginger snaps) with her from America. I thought the cheesecake was fantastic. Tasted just like a creamier version of pumpkin pie. Hope your turns out awesome and don’t forget to leave the oven door closed during the entire cool down process, no matter how much you want to just smell that sucker

An American friend of mine and I are cooking up a Thanksgiving feast for some of our non-American friends (they’re South African and Irish), plus our German husbands on Saturday. It should be quite interesting…for dessert though, I combine your two desserts and I make a pumpkin cheesecake (I’ve got the recipe on my blog)…it is pretty darn good I must say Have a good Turkey Day!

What do you normally cook for Christmas there? Fire up the grill and go July 4th style (minus the fireworks of course)? We lived in Miami for a while and Christmas was also warm there…but not usually like a summer day

Thursday is a work day, so I’ll be at work and turkeys are verrry hard to find here. We did find out that you can actually buy a turkey (frozen) in NZ at Raeward Fresh produced by Crozier’s free range farm in Ashburton. $60 for a 5.5kg turkey! We might get one for Christmas, but do we really want to cook on a hot day?