{"id":16072,"date":"2012-11-16T09:10:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T16:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=16072"},"modified":"2012-11-16T09:10:02","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T16:10:02","slug":"lessons-in-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2012\/11\/lessons-in-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons In Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Scott and I have been having Thanksgiving dinner together for over a decade by this point.<\/p>\n

2012 marks, what I believe, is our 13th (I think, I’m bad at keeping track) year of dining together on the big day.<\/p>\n

I’ve been making Thanksgiving dinner for us this entire time and over the years I’ve learned a lot.<\/p>\n

Not only about cooking for the big day but also what we like and prefer.<\/p>\n

One big thing I learned is to keep things simple.<\/em> \u00a0While Thanksgiving is a big day full of eats, there doesn’t need to be 16 courses for the meal. \u00a0I find that can get over whelming, not just for the cook, but also for those eating. \u00a0I fully want to get my grub on but not quite that much.<\/p>\n

We have a turkey, and a few staple side dishes. \u00a0Plenty of food to keep us satisfied and the fridge stocked with leftovers for the next few days.<\/p>\n

Comprise is also a large part of Thanksgiving. \u00a0Everyone has different traditions and different things they are used to eating on the big day. \u00a0Scott was used to having sweet potatoes with his dinner. \u00a0I didn’t care for sweet potatoes (that has changed and now I love them). \u00a0So instead of tossing another side dish on the table, I make sweet potato pie<\/a> for dessert instead of pumpkin. \u00a0Homemade crust and homemade whipped cream to go with it! \u00a0 He’s happy and I’m happy. \u00a0Comprise, it helps keep things simple.<\/em><\/p>\n

Over the years we’ve realized that we prefer to eat the big dinner as a late lunch, around 1 or 2pm. \u00a0This means that the kitchen is cleaned up shortly after and the rest of the day can be spent doing whatever we feel like. \u00a0Having an evening meal meant that we were doing dishes at 8 o’clock in the evening. \u00a0Yuck.<\/p>\n

I was worn out by then and grumpy at having to still be doing more work. \u00a0An afternoon meal gets rid of all of that! \u00a0And if we get hungry again, then it’s easy to pull out some leftovers and heat. \u00a0Simple!<\/em><\/p>\n

We like having a nice crisp pinot grigio with dinner. \u00a0It makes the dinner feel more fancy and goes perfectly with the turkey and sides. \u00a0No fussing with special cocktails and making sure things are mixed properly. \u00a0A simple wine, easy to take care of and no stress.<\/p>\n

While making dinner is a lot of work and I’m prepping for days before hand, it’s low stress. \u00a0Now we’re in a groove and every year Thanksgiving turns out awesome.<\/p>\n

What is your approach to Thanksgiving? \u00a0Is it a high maintenence affair or simple and casual?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scott and I have been having Thanksgiving dinner together for over a decade by this point. 2012 marks, what I believe, is our 13th (I think, I’m bad at keeping track) year of dining together on the big day. I’ve been making Thanksgiving dinner for us this entire time and over the years I’ve learned […]<\/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-4be","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16072"}],"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=16072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}