{"id":1431,"date":"2014-11-26T20:06:28","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T00:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/?p=1431"},"modified":"2017-11-17T20:07:10","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T00:07:10","slug":"preparing-for-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/preparing-for-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for Thanksgiving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/thanksgiving-dinner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-163\" src=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/thanksgiving-dinner-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"thanksgiving dinner\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m having turkey this Thanksgiving. I don&#8217;t always. I enjoy the ritual cooking of it but not the preparing of a whole bird. Turkey breast alone isn&#8217;t an option as I prefer dark meat. This year for the first time, I ordered a small turkey from Publix that I picked up this morning. I plan on making green beans, mashed potatoes, stuffing and gravy. I always keep it low fat. I&#8217;ll steam the green beans along with some red pepper strips and serve them simply with sea salt, coarse ground black pepper and a lemon squeeze, Earth Balance and <a href=\"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/?p=1001\">gomasio<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;ll mash the potatoes with salt and pepper, a little almond milk and coconut powder and some Earth Balance spread. The gravy I&#8217;ll make using mushrooms and an organic brown gravy mix. The stuffing will be bread crumbs, roasted mushrooms, onion, celery, apple, diced dried apricot with fresh rosemary, sage and thyme. I may add eggplant and I may stuff it into red peppers. Neither the man nor I are dessert eaters, so no pies, but the sweet\/sour element will be an cranberry orange and apricot chutney made with onion, bell pepper, allspice, cayenne, cinnamon, cloves, cardamon, apple cider vinegar and fresh shaved ginger.\u00a0 I usually spend holidays working but Thursday, I&#8217;m just going to relax and bask in how thankful I am for this life I&#8217;ve been blessed with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m having turkey this Thanksgiving. I don&#8217;t always. I enjoy the ritual cooking of it but not the preparing of a whole bird. Turkey breast alone isn&#8217;t an option as I prefer dark meat. This year for the first time, I ordered a small turkey from Publix that I picked up this morning. I plan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5vW9k-n5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1432,"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions\/1432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}