{"id":12571,"date":"2010-11-24T07:57:35","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T11:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=12571"},"modified":"2010-11-24T07:57:35","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T11:57:35","slug":"time-to-eat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2010\/11\/time-to-eat\/","title":{"rendered":"Time to Eat"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Growing up my mom liked to serve Thanksgiving dinner during early afternoon, like around 1pm and it drove me bonkers.\u00a0 Who wants to eat a heavy meal that early in the day?<\/p>\n

Not me.<\/p>\n

On TV you always saw these big elegant Thanksgiving dinners.\u00a0 Huge sit-down affairs with wine bottles littering the table, decorations out in full force, and the good China sparkling away.\u00a0 This is what I wanted.\u00a0 An elegant candlelit dinner.<\/p>\n

When Scott and I started having our own Thanksgivings this is exactly what I planned out.\u00a0 Elegant evening meals with wine and candles and pretty plates.\u00a0 Do you know what I found out?<\/p>\n

Doing that is a pain in my butt.\u00a0 You spend all day cooking, you end up eating late, and then you still have to clean up!\u00a0 It’s 8pm before you’re sitting down to relax for the day.\u00a0 I had enough of that real quick!\u00a0 I thought back to childhood and realized maybe my mom knew what she was doing.<\/p>\n

I switched tactics and started providing us with an early dinner, around 2pm is what I shoot for.\u00a0 This means we can have a relaxed morning and nibble on some goodies for breakfast.\u00a0 Then I get started making the big dinner.\u00a0 By the time eating is over and the kitchen is cleaned up, I still have the entire rest of the day to do whatever I like.\u00a0 When we get hungry again, we just have to heat up leftovers and not worry about messing up the kitchen.<\/p>\n

Now that’s my kind of holiday!<\/p>\n

Of course I still get out the good China and light candles.\u00a0 We still have wine while having a very calm and fancypants dinner.\u00a0 We don’t feel rushed or feel like we’re eating way too late.\u00a0 It ends up being the perfect plan for us.<\/p>\n

How about you?\u00a0 Are you evening eaters or do you enjoy an earlier meal?\u00a0 Has it always been that way or did you create your own tradition?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Growing up my mom liked to serve Thanksgiving dinner during early afternoon, like around 1pm and it drove me bonkers.\u00a0 Who wants to eat a heavy meal that early in the day? Not me. On TV you always saw these big elegant Thanksgiving dinners.\u00a0 Huge sit-down affairs with wine bottles littering the table, decorations out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[48,87],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-3gL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}