The holidays are a time for good wine, great food and even better company. If you plan on hosting a get-together, a soiree or shindig of any sort for Thanksgiving, this recipe might help do the trick.
Ingredients:
- Comfort food galore! (Who cares what 'traditional' Thanksgiving food is? Grub is grub!)
- Wine (The key to a good party is a good buzz).
- Friends and loved ones (Drag over your friends, cousins, or someone who looks like they're in desperate need of holiday fun).
- Time (This is possibly the most important ingredient because without it, you will go mad. Trust me).
- A cozy little apartment to mix it all together! (The smaller the better!)
Instructions:
1. Wake up that morning and begin to clean the apartment and prepare the food.
Though given the fact that you're a human and in college, you will realistically sleep until 1:00 p.m. and scramble to prepare everything.
2. Awake now? Good.
Now it's time to actually prepare for the night and get cooking. But wait, you haven't bought the food yet, have you? Time to scramble to the grocery store and race your way through the aisles past stay-at-home moms and clueless dads.
3. With the time it took to actually wake up, get the food and procrastinate, you've got about two hours until the party starts.
This is where you'll carve out about 15 minutes for a small mental breakdown because you realize turkey takes four hours to cook. Chicken is a good enough substitute right?
4. Now that the breakdown is out of the way it's time to start cooking.
Tip: If you have a really good boyfriend/girlfriend or a true friend, they'll help you with this chaos.
5. You've finally finished preparing the food.
After running around your kitchen like an amateur Gordon Ramsey and breaking several kitchen appliances in the process, the food is done and cooked to perfection. Now it's time to wait for the guests to arrive.
6. Get some mood music going.
As people file in, play some mellow tunes as background noise for when conversation dulls.
7. Finally, relax.
Pour yourself, and your friends, some drinks and let the night take its course.
When all is said and done and your tiny living room is filled with the people you love, and your table is covered in delicious food you slaved over, take a mental picture. This is how the holidays should be. Your party will be nowhere near perfect because a 'perfect friendsgiving' doesn't exist, and wouldn't be nearly as much fun! As crazy and as hectic as the preparation and party become, you grow to realize that it's perfect the way it is. If there's one thing to remember, it's that the holidays are a time of beautiful chaos, and we wouldn't have it any other way.
