We LOVE Thanksgiving. We LOVE to cook Thanksgiving foods. James and I LOVE to spend all day in the kitchen cooking and cooking.
Some of our most fearful pre-Thanksgiving moments are when we get invited to share Thanksgiving with other families. After years of trying and perfecting our Thanksgiving recipes, we get territorial when it comes to turning the cooking over to anyone else.
Even when we invite people over for Thanksgiving and they say, "What can we bring?" I have a strong desire to say to them, "just drinks, please."
The best solution is to invite people over who don't want to cook the Thanksgiving foods, but just want to show up and eat it.
We've always divided up our meal as follows:
James: turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, pies
Megan: rolls, green bean casserole, sweet potatoes, cranberry relishes, fruit salad
How we've coped with our problem: Though we didn't plan it this way, it sure turned out great -- we invite Asians to share our Thanksgiving meal with us. This is our 4th year to have Koreans or Chinese over for Thanksgiving. They generally aren't interested in cooking the American foods, and are happy to let us do the cooking.
A few years ago, I put all of our favorite Thanksgiving recipes together in this binder, so they are all in one handy spot. No more looking through recipe boxes and various cookbooks to find our tried and true that we only make once a year!
James: turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, pies
Megan: rolls, green bean casserole, sweet potatoes, cranberry relishes, fruit salad
How we've coped with our problem: Though we didn't plan it this way, it sure turned out great -- we invite Asians to share our Thanksgiving meal with us. This is our 4th year to have Koreans or Chinese over for Thanksgiving. They generally aren't interested in cooking the American foods, and are happy to let us do the cooking.
A few years ago, I put all of our favorite Thanksgiving recipes together in this binder, so they are all in one handy spot. No more looking through recipe boxes and various cookbooks to find our tried and true that we only make once a year!
6 comments:
Although we are not asians - my kids are! And we would love not to cook and just eat!
That must be Travis and Ally up there before us. Hau'oli La Ho'omaika'i all. We had a great turky and ham done in an Imu. Wow, that is a treat, to be sure.
LOL. Too funny. I have to agree that sometimes it's just easier to do all the work yourself so you know all the food will be delicious! This year we went to some friends' home. I took way more than I was assigned because I just couldn't imagine Thanksgiving dinner without a few of those items.
You are hilarious! Thanks for coming clean with us all. You should publish your recipe book. I would totally buy it!
there is nothing wrong with food snobbery.
I share your love of fixing the Thanksgiving meal--and have all my favorite recipes too--but I don't love to eat it, and Dad hates the leftovers. This year we did add one item to the menu--barbecues ribs--they were delicious and a big hit! No leftovers there!
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