{"id":14700,"date":"2011-11-21T11:43:35","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T15:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=14700"},"modified":"2011-11-21T11:43:35","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T15:43:35","slug":"thanksgiving-countdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2011\/11\/thanksgiving-countdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving Countdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/OHC-11-26-09_table_food.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9578\" title=\"Thanksgiving dinner \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/OHC-11-26-09_table_food-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/OHC-11-26-09_table_food-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/OHC-11-26-09_table_food.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> It&#8217;s Thanksgiving week! We&#8217;re getting down to the wire and now is when all the big prep starts to take place. Today is my last &#8220;free&#8221; day, starting tomorrow I&#8217;ll be cooking each day all the way until Thanksgiving day.<\/p>\n<p>After that I&#8217;m not cooking again until at least Saturday!<\/p>\n<p>Maybe. We&#8217;ll cross that bridge when we get to it.<\/p>\n<p>This year I&#8217;m making my own stock. \u00a0I use a lot of chicken stock here at the HQ, however we do not eat enough meat for us to keep ourselves supplied with our own stock. \u00a0I&#8217;ve been saving up bones in my freezer so that I would eventually have enough to make stock.<\/p>\n<p>I finally have enough! Whoo!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a run down of how I&#8217;m spending the week:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Work<\/li>\n<li>School work<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Tuesday:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pick up turkey<\/li>\n<li>Make stock<\/li>\n<li>Chop veggies<\/li>\n<li>Get wine in fridge<\/li>\n<li>Prep dinner for today and Wednesday<\/li>\n<li>Make rolls<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Wednesday:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make cranberry sauce<\/li>\n<li>Make pie<\/li>\n<li>Make stuffing<\/li>\n<li>Peel and cube potatoes, get them soaking in salted water bath<\/li>\n<li>Make coffee cake for breakfast on Thursday<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Tuesday Tip Thanksgiving Edition: More tips on Brining\" href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2009\/11\/tuesday-tip-thanksgiving-edition-more-tips-on-brining\/\">Brine Turkey<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Thursday:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Run<\/li>\n<li>Cook turkey<\/li>\n<li>Make mashed potatoes<\/li>\n<li>Make Collards<\/li>\n<li>Heat up stuffing<\/li>\n<li>Make gravy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>By planning everything out, it makes things run so much smoother! And Thanksgiving becomes stress free and I can relax and enjoy the meal.<\/div>\n<div><strong>If you&#8217;re celebrating Thanksgiving this week, are you hosting or going someplace? What&#8217;s your strategy for staying stress free?<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><em>Be sure to tune in tomorrow, because we&#8217;ll be talking about what kinds of beers to have with the big dinner! It&#8217;s a very detailed piece that you are going to love!<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Thanksgiving week! We&#8217;re getting down to the wire and now is when all the big prep starts to take place. Today is my last &#8220;free&#8221; day, starting tomorrow I&#8217;ll be cooking each day all the way until Thanksgiving day. After that I&#8217;m not cooking again until at least Saturday! Maybe. We&#8217;ll cross that bridge [&hellip;]<\/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":[48,87,47],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-3P6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14700"}],"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=14700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}