Guy Fawkes Night

Just in case you didn't know {and Google suddenly stopped working}, Guy Fawkes is an English holiday. Kind of similar to an Independence Day, it is typically celebrated with fireworks as well as some other traditions such as lighting bonfires.

We celebrated the holiday with shepherd's pie for dinner and a spice cake called parkin that I found the recipe for online. These are supposedly some of the traditional foods associated with the holiday in England. 

But, luckily for my sweet tooth, one of the things M's family used to do to celebrate was to go out for donuts and hot cocoa. So, of course, we did that too! Yum!