Non-traditional Thanksgiving

Food, food, everywhere is food, blockin' out the senses, stressin' my mind ~ cook this, don't cook that ~ can't you cook that food 😊

Why does just the thought of cooking Thanksgiving dinner stress us out? Possibly because as Americans we will purchase around 365 million pounds of turkey, 250 million pounds of potatoes, 40.5 million rolls and the list of 'millions' goes on and we stress about cooking it. 🥔🍞🍗

Too formal?  Traditions from yester-year have been instilled in us, we feel compelled to break out the 'good' china and place way too many forks ~ that we don't even know what to do with on the table. 🍴 Then let's skip the 'good' china and simple it down ~ how about a Thanksgiving barbecue. For unknown reasons, gathering outdoors seems more relaxing. 

Plus, all that aforementioned 'Thanksgiving' food ~ well, it's not a requirement to cook it. We could cook whatever we want, with that said let's cook something fun ~ how about trying our hand at a beer can turkey.  Think of all the other things you could throw on the grill, corn, potatoes, rolls ~ all we have to do is think outside the kitchen. 😊

After all it's a holiday, shouldn't we be having fun ~ not all stressed out. So, if we continue thinking outside the traditions... stressed is merely desserts spelled backwards. In an effort to de-stress ~ let's eat our desserts first 😋

  Peace and Love