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Rather than join the travel madness of the season, we opted for a mellow Thanksgiving meal at home. We also didn’t feel particularly up to the challenge of cooking a traditional holiday feast, so we opted to just “facilitate” one instead - we got a bunch of stuff that was pre-cooked:

• Boneless turkey breast from Costco. Just heat in a 325-degree oven for a couple hours and slice. We didn’t get the whole turkey carving experience, but it was idiot-proof and the meat was quite tasty!
• A bunch of sides from Whole Foods that we could eat directly or after a quick spin in the microwave: garlic mashed potatoes, turkey gravy, cranberry dressing, candied pears with saffron sauce, a salad, some soft warm fresh bread, a small pumpkin pie, and some little mini pecan pies.

OK, we did cook one dish - Daph made a wonderful smoky pumpkin soup to accompany the rest of the stuff. But prep was minimized here too thanks to pre-cut pumpkin from Whole Foods. Yum!

We got up early and did our Whole Foods run in the hopes of beating the crowds. Success! Came home, ate breakfast, and played with Leo for a while. Turned out to be a beautiful day, so we went for a long mid-day walk before starting the food prep at around 1 in the afternoon. Everything was ready by 3:30, unfortunately right about when Leo woke up from his nap and demanded his own dinner. So we were a bit delayed in fixing our dinner plates - another lukewarm meal. (Daph used to tease me for being a stickler about hot food, but in the last four months I’ve had to get somewhat used to room-temperature meals…) But it was yummy, and we have plenty of leftovers - a sure sign of a good Thanksgiving feast!

Happy Thanksgiving! Gobble gobble…