Harvest Festival 2014

Today is the day of the harvest festival, also known as Thanksgiving. Aurora was quite excited about it.

Aurora: Today is our Harvest Festival! I've been waiting all month for this.Outside, Amelia was so busy eating that she would barely even speak to me.

Amelia: Oh! Excuse me. I don't want to talk with my mouth full.But the third bird I spoke with is the star of the show: Franklin the turkey.

Franklin: I'm the guy they call Franklin. Your secretary hired me to come and cook for everyone.He doesn’t want anyone eating turkey for the festival, for obvious reasons. So instead, he’s here to cook some other food for everyone to pig out on. For each dish, Franklin requires three ingredients. In my town, he started out with a fruit salad. So I had to find some vinegar, an orange, and an apple for him.

Some of the villagers will be doing some cooking of their own. Invariably, they’ll be in need of a certain ingredient (usually a fish). Track down what they need and they’ll exchange it for another ingredient that you may need.

Drago: Well, in return, I'll give you my butter. Enjoy it!They will also tell you a secret ingredient to use for a dish to make it outstanding. For the fruit salad, I learned that the secret ingredient is honey (which you can get from a beehive).

Sprinkle: Yay! You've made this penguin so happy. Here. You can have my beehive in return!Before long, I got all the ingredients I needed and Franklin was able to make the fruit salad.

Franklin: Let's get cooking!Franklin gave me a fruit basket as a reward. The next dish was mushroom bisque, which required milk, a flat mushroom, and a round mushroom. The secret ingredient was butter. After it was done, Franklin gave me a harvest chair.

The main course was seared barred knifejaw. It required butter, a round mushroom, and of course, a barred knifejaw. The secret ingredient when cooking fish can be either vinegar or a lemon. I already have a lemon tree, so that was the easier choice for me. It turned out great!

Franklin: Thanks to you, I came up with what might be the absolute greatest seared barred knifejaw of my life!Franklin rewarded me with a harvest rug this time. The last dish was the dessert: coconut tart. I had to collect sugar, a coconut, a lemon, and honey for the secret ingredient. It took me a few attempts to acquire the sugar, and I already had everything else. So we put it all together and voila! The feast is done, all ready to eat!

The meal is complete!For getting all four dishes perfect (including the secret ingredients), Franklin gave me a cornucopia.

Franklin: Therefore, go ahead and take this cornucopia off my hands as thanks! Gobble gob!Here’s a look at my cornucopia and fruit basket on my table:

The cornucopia and fruit basket.Since I didn’t clean up all my ingredients I left on the ground, I didn’t update my dream town tonight. But I still went up to the Dream Suite to check on my most recent dream visitor, and Luna told me it was Emma from Paradise.

I hope you all had a fun and successful harvest festival! And for those of you in the U.S., Happy Thanksgiving!