Thanksgiving Meals Are In! Get ‘em While They’re Hot!

Well, they actually arrive at your door after being flash frozen and packed in dry ice, so the whole “get ‘em while they’re hot” thing is a bit of a misnomer, but you get the idea.  Anyway, the most important section of the above title is the first part…Our Thanksgiving meals are in and it’s time to make your orders to ensure they arrive prior to the 22^nd of November.

Think of it, you dread the thought of planning, shopping for, preparing and cooking the big meal right?  So, avoid the following traditional, outdated process prior to serving up the turkey with all the fixins’:

1. Drive to a crowded grocery store with too few cashiers and too many out-of-service self-check-out aisles, then schlep all those over-priced groceries back home.
2. The pre-dawn alarm wakes you on Thanksgiving morning (after a Thanksgiving eve of over-indulgence perhaps?) to baste the bird and stuff it in the oven.
3. Chop, dice, slice, mince, mash, julienne, brunoise and chiffonade (those last two were new to me…Google ‘em for more info) the potatoes, sweet potatoes, salad ingredients, side dishes and fruits for those pies.
4. Spend the entire morning and early afternoon in the kitchen boiling, broiling, baking, frying, sautéing, and steaming all that food while your friends and family enjoy the company of one another.
5. Serve your dinner.
6. Pass out on the couch from exhaustion while your friends and family continue the festivities.
7. Wake up the next morning and wonder why you just put yourself through all that when MagicKitchen.com could have done it all for you.

Here’s how the process could/should have gone:

1. Browse through MagicKitchen.com’s Thanksgiving menu here: https://www.magickitchen.com/menu/thanksgiving.html while sipping coffee from your favorite mug, snuggled on the couch in your favorite pajamas.
2. Select from our wide selection that includes a sliced turkey dinner with Apple Sage Stuffing, Mashed Potatoes, Mashed Sweet Potatoes, French Green Beans in Mushroom Cream Sauce, extra Gravy and Cranberry-Orange Sauce with rolls and Pumpkin Pie. Or go with our deluxe holiday dinner with ham that serves 1-4 and includes scalloped potatoes, Brussel sprouts with bacon, green beans in mushroom cream sauce and Dutch apple pie.  Yeah, I’m suddenly hungry too!
3. Place your order secure in the fact that our trained chefs have prepared and cooked your meal to perfection.
4. Rush to the door with a self-satisfied smile after your meal is delivered well ahead of turkey day because you heeded my warning about ordering early.
5. Unpack your meal and place it in your freezer until Thanksgiving chuckling to yourself because you know you get to skip the trip to the grocery store, the pre-dawn wake-up call, and all that prep work and cooking.
6. Sleep off that hangover on Thanksgiving morning and still have plenty of time to heat and serve your fully cooked, delicious meal.
7. Spend quality time with friends and family before and after the big meal rather than being isolated in the kitchen for half the day.

When looking at the two above lists, why would anyone choose the first options?  Give yourself a much deserved break and hang out with your friends and family this Thanksgiving…for perhaps the first time.  Happy Thanksgiving and bon appetit!