Thanksgiving. I Do Nothing And Yet I Am Somehow Fed.
I can’t believe it is Thanksgiving already. I’ve barely had enough time to breathe in the past few months let alone prepare for the upcoming holiday onslaught.
Wait a minute. Who am I kidding?
I prepare for nothing. I buy some flowers and some wine and head on over to someone else’s house. I’ve been getting away with it for years. We usually take turns visiting my parents in Maryland and my husband’s family in New Jersey. That, in a nutshell, is our tradition.
Dinner is usually prepared my mom (yay, stuffing!) or my sister-in-law (yay, cocktails!). I keep busy by messing around in the kitchen and pretending to be helpful while sipping on vino. It works for me, okay?
I do nothing and yet somehow I am fed.
The fact that I don’t possess the talent needed to cook ginormous holiday meals has occasionally backfired, though.
Like that time that I didn’t want to make my mother-in-law cook a huge dinner just to accommodate us and we ended up spending Thanksgiving in a DINER. In New Jersey. With two children under the age of five. FOR OVER TWO AND A HALF HOURS.
Yeah, it was THAT bad.
I no longer leave big meals to chance. Not that I have learned how to cook a bird, just that I bring enough alcohol to make the hostess very, very happy.
So who wants some company next year?
Hey whatever works right? I cook for days. Started today actually. *sigh* Somebody has to feed the rest of you I guess.
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Love it! Keep it up, seriously! I used to ALWAYS visit family for Turkey Day and not lift a finger; however, living over 1000 miles and having a toddler makes traveling much more difficult.
It is nice to have someone else cater to you, especially a large holiday meal (and cocktails). This year will be my first attempt at cooking a turkey, it should be interesting to say the least. I guarantee there will be lots of vino consumed as I prepare our feast because I am scared of the outcome.
I did purchase frozen rolls and pie though, I am just not that domestic (and won’t pretend to be)!
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Ooo…I should try that this year!
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It will be OUR LITTLE SECRET…hahaha!
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Jessica – good luck on the TURKEY! You are my hero. It just scares me to even think about it! Truth be told… I cooked Thanksgiving dinner twice (in my whole life) and I found it to be completely stressful, yet oddly satisfying. Perhaps I should try again?
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday because I love the cooking and entertaining! The truth is that cooking Thanksgiving dinner is one of the easiest meals to cook! To cook the turkey just right, make sure you have a thermometer. The secret to great potatoes is that you have to use redskin taters with the skins left on half of them. They must be whipped by hand to make them fluffy, and you have to used whole or 2% milk that has been heated in the microwave, and of course, REAL butter. When it comes to stuffing, there are a thousand different varieties out there, just get your mom’s recipe. The same rule goes for sweet potatoes.
Yes, there’s a lot to cook, but the beauty of it is that you can prepare most items in advance. That’s what makes it so easy!