{"id":16465,"date":"2013-12-02T10:31:03","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T17:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=16465"},"modified":"2013-12-02T10:31:06","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T17:31:06","slug":"thanksgiving-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2013\/12\/thanksgiving-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2013\/12\/thanksgiving-2013\/thanksgiving_meal2013\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16466\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-16466\" alt=\"Thanksgiving Plate 2013\" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Thanksgiving_Meal2013-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Thanksgiving_Meal2013-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Thanksgiving_Meal2013.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Our Thanksgiving was very low key this year.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t have a lot of time to do prep work because of other commitments during the week.\u00a0 Wednesday I did as much as I could and then on Thanksgiving Day I had to finish up the rest.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully that wasn&#8217;t too much!<\/p>\n<p>I made the mistake of going to the grocery store on Tuesday for some last minute items.\u00a0 Yikes! I won&#8217;t be doing that again.<\/p>\n<p>We had a huge turkey this year.\u00a0 It was a half turkey that weighted in at 15lbs.\u00a0 It looked enormous in the fridge and the roaster!<\/p>\n<p>When all was said and done though, we didn&#8217;t have nearly as much leftover meat as I had feared.<\/p>\n<p>I tried a new little twist with sweet potato pie that I think turned out pretty well.\u00a0 I added in some eggnog and bourbon to the mix.<\/p>\n<p>Bourbon always goes over well in this house.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2013\/12\/thanksgiving-2013\/thanksgiving_table2_2013\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16467\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16467\" alt=\"Thanksgiving Table 2013\" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Thanksgiving_Table2_2013-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Thanksgiving_Table2_2013-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Thanksgiving_Table2_2013-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Thanksgiving_Table2_2013.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>We had the basics for sides: stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, and then some green beans.\u00a0 No green bean casserole, just plain beans.<\/p>\n<p>We ate dinner in our jammies and had the kitchen cleaned up by 4pm.\u00a0 A very relaxing day which I&#8217;m calling a success!<\/p>\n<p>Even though we didn&#8217;t go all out this year, dinner tasted perfect and the company as always, was the best.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How was your Thanksgiving?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Thanksgiving was very low key this year.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t have a lot of time to do prep work because of other commitments during the week.\u00a0 Wednesday I did as much as I could and then on Thanksgiving Day I had to finish up the rest. Thankfully that wasn&#8217;t too much! I made the mistake [&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-4hz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16465"}],"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=16465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}