{"id":2887,"date":"2012-12-01T23:04:42","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T05:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/?p=2887"},"modified":"2012-12-01T23:04:42","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T05:04:42","slug":"thanksgiving-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/archives\/2887","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving: Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it took me more than a week after Thanksgiving to write this post, but my excuse is that I was recovering from the awesome food that I ate. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>I spent the evening before Thanksgiving cooking at my condo. By cooking, I mean &#8220;going crazy and using every stove burner, the oven, and all available counter space&#8221; to make everything at once. Ok, so I&#8217;m ambitious. I concentrated on side dishes and dessert, since mom was taking care of the meat. The result:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Prep night for Thanksgiving by Sholeh, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sholeh\/8237169844\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8204\/8237169844_4c782cc884_n.jpg\" alt=\"Prep night for Thanksgiving\" width=\"320\" height=\"239\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There were: mashed potatoes, carrots, acorn squash, cranberry-apple sauce, gluten free stuffing &amp; gravy, gluten free pumpkin pie, regular pumpkin and blueberry pies. The blueberry pie was very pretty, and since it was the first time I had made pie crusts from scratch (in recent memory, anyway), it was quite the endeavor to pull it all off.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Blueberry pie made from scratch by Sholeh, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sholeh\/8237171618\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8063\/8237171618_319682b2f8_n.jpg\" alt=\"Blueberry pie made from scratch\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I then drove an hour out to my parents house on Thanksgiving morning and did the final prep work to get everything on the table by 1:00 pm. (Mom&#8217;s turkey was awesome, btw.) The final result of food was incredible, and the family had a lovely time eating for the rest of the weekend.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Thanksgiving at my parents house by Sholeh, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sholeh\/8237170880\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8062\/8237170880_262ddbde9d_n.jpg\" alt=\"Thanksgiving at my parents house\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I really loved helping take on so much more of the cooking. It helped me feel more ownership and enjoy the process a little more (as well as appreciate how exhausting it is). If you celebrate Thanksgiving, I hope you had a lovely holiday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it took me more than a week after Thanksgiving to write this post, but my excuse is that I was recovering from the awesome food that I ate. \ud83d\ude09 I spent the evening before Thanksgiving cooking at my condo&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2888,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887\/revisions\/2888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sholeh.calmstorm.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}