Keep Your Butt At Home!
ICYMI\nKeep your butt at home for Thanksgiving! We can almost see that light at the end of the tunnel so hang in there, folks! And, we are here to help you navigate this uncommon and un-traditional holiday time.\nWe've got suggestions from virtual dinners to "porch-lucks". It's also an opportunity to start new traditions that you might like even better than what you've done year after year. If you want to keep cooking, great! If you don't want to cook anything, GREAT! If you want to grab a bottle of wine and sit in a hot tub in the woods, STILL great!\nThe important thing to remember is: you really CAN'T do it wrong this year, How freeing is that? That's my personal favorite for all this craziness...you can't do it wrong. You may not have that Norman Rockwell Thanksgiving but you may have one that is more satisfying than ever because to borrow from Frank Sinatra, you do it your way.\nAnd, finally! We talked to folks at a holiday hotline. Butterball comes through once more and what a lovely call it was. We talked with Barb who is one of their supervisors and she had some great suggestions along with a super, heart-warming story about some US engineers stationed in Dubai wanting to celebrate the holiday. So, THANK YOU, BARB! You have no idea how hard it's been to reach someone to talk to us.\nIf you'd like to skip through the episode to the REALLY good parts, here are some highlights and where you can find them throughout the episode.\n04:00 - CDC guidelines and how to make Thanksgiving your own\n05:56 - It doesn't have to be traditional\n06:32 - "Porchlucks" and virtual dinners\n10:33 - Cranberry Jell-O shots...what?\n13:42 - Donate to a non-profit food provider and shout out to the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma, Chefs Jeff Marlow and Jeremy Johnson\n16:52 - Natalia is having pizza\n17:45 - How about deviled eggs?\n23:37 - Natalia has a few things to say about COVID fat\n31:41 - We actually talk to Butterball (Barb is delightful, btw)\n37:08 - You can TEXT Butterball while you're grocery shopping\n38:55 - Hang in there, we're almost through this thing\nThere's lots more to listen to so we hope you play (and download) the entire episode. This was another fun one for us...but then we always have fun!\nAlso, we hope you like our new podcast website home. It really is www.notasinglefork.com. We're still on Apple Podcasts and all your other favorite listening places.\nNow I've got turkey stock and pumpkin pies to make...we're cooking for lots of people who are choosing to not cook so much for Thanksgiving.\nPlease have a safe and joyful Thanksgiving! Do your own thing and enjoy every second of it. This will be one to remember for years to come!\nAs always, thanks for listening! We love you guys!!