{"id":433,"date":"2008-12-28T00:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/christmas-dinner\/"},"modified":"2014-07-06T14:59:13","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T14:59:13","slug":"christmas-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/christmas-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hosted both sides of my huge family in my home for Christmas dinner this year.  Over 40 people arrived, laughed, ate, played games, and had a great time!  Over the past few years, I&#8217;ve pretty much stopped cooking.  A serious gourmand, I used to cook elaborate meals at least every 2 months for friends and family, but hadn&#8217;t cooked a major meal in just over 2 years.  I hadn&#8217;t made a holiday dinner in nearly a decade!<\/p>\n<p>This year, I volunteered to make the Christmas turkey, and despite my lack of practice, I broke out my trusty old &#8220;Maple Lemon Roast Turkey&#8221; recipe.  I was a bit nervous that I&#8217;d lost my culinary touch, but much to my glee, I hadn&#8217;t!  The turkeys (I cooked 2) turned out juicy, fragrant, and most of all DELICIOUS!   I did not have many leftovers.  Even the non-turkey-lovers thought it was tasty.  Phew!  Good to know that when my schedule allows me a bit more free time, I&#8217;ll be able to get back into making my gourmet meals and start entertaining friends again.  I really miss my dinner parties&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_CVEzz0Co-pg\/SVbM5haQDjI\/AAAAAAAAAi4\/zY-OzFPImQo\/s1600-h\/DSCN1119.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 130px; height: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_CVEzz0Co-pg\/SVbM5haQDjI\/AAAAAAAAAi4\/zY-OzFPImQo\/s200\/DSCN1119.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5284636501358939698\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Opening a gift: A cool Obama tee-shirt!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hosted both sides of my huge family in my home for Christmas dinner this year. Over 40 people arrived, laughed, ate, played games, and had a great time! Over the past few years, I&#8217;ve pretty much stopped cooking. A serious gourmand, I used to cook elaborate meals at least every 2 months for friends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039,"href":"https:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/1039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriatheodore.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}