{"id":58621,"date":"2009-11-30T15:25:13","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T20:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451d48a69e2012875f32ac6970c"},"modified":"2009-11-30T15:38:38","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T20:38:38","slug":"holiday-fare-what-i-cooked-and-ate-for-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/58621","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Fare: What I Cooked and Ate For Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For my first Thanksgiving as a Phoenix resident, one of my closest friends @dianev<\/a> came to spend the long weekend with me. I dropped her off at the airport this morning at 5am so she could head back to SFO.<\/p>\n

Originally, the plan was to go to a restaurant for Thanksgiving dinner, but the morning of, I woke up and just didn’t feel like going to a restaurant. My stuff which was being shipped from the Bay Area arrived 3 days early, so I was able to get my new place all fixed up and homey. I was in the mood to just hang out at home with red wine, yummy nosh, and good convo with Diane.<\/p>\n

Yay! Whole Foods was open<\/strong><\/p>\n

And thank goodness, not only was Whole Foods open, but they had a bunch of pre-made Thanksgiving foods which I could just personalize or heat up and throw in a bowl.<\/p>\n

As for the food allergies, I tried to stick to my daily eating as possible, but some stuff just tastes better with butter, and I had to have cheese with wine as my cheese fix for the Quarter kinda thing. I did however manage to avoid eating any eggs.<\/p>\n

Here was the menu for Thanksgiving day<\/strong><\/p>\n

Diane’s flight arrived at 2pm, so we got to my place around 3pm and started off with some afternoon snackage of:<\/p>\n