If the title leads you to imagine poking holes in cellophane to get to a frozen dinner with turkey, mashed potatoes and shriveled peas, you are about to be disappointed.
This year, we followed our tummies to what we really wanted: fondue and chocolate cake. We took the easy way: Trader Joe’s little buckets of fondue that you zap for 5 minutes and voila, you are in heaven. They have two different kinds now. We got both. There is no clean-up. You throw away the paper bucket in the recycle bin.
For dessert we are making 5 minute chocolate cake in a mug. This simple recipe has you make batter from scratch in a mug and zap it for 5 minutes. It’s a miracle! Warm rich fresh chocolate cake! We put creme fraiche on top.
Lest you think our microwave dinner the pathetic height of laziness, let me mention that a few other things happened in our kitchen today just for fun.
- Liane has baked a beautiful pecan pie from scratch.
- Marian made lentils, sautéed eggplant and made a batch of humus from scratch.
- Marian harvested home-grown chard and kohlrabi from the garden to prep and bring to a dinner party on Saturday.
Happy Thanksgiving! Ignore convention!
May you enjoy whatever gastronomic delights are on your table.
You forgot to mention we walked a mile and back to the community garden.
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