Friendsgiving 🦃🍗🦃

Thanksgiving Day, is an annual national holiday in the United States (4th Thursday of November) and Canada (the 2nd Monday in October) celebrating the harvest and other blessings of the past year. Americans generally believe that their Thanksgiving is modeled on a 1621 harvest feast shared by the English colonists (Pilgrims) of Plymouth and the Wampanoag people.

What is the meaning of Thanksgiving?
Thanksgiving is celebrated as a means of giving thanks for family, friends, food, health and other positivity. Some families incorporate religion by giving thanks in prayer, but Thanksgiving is a federal holiday and celebrated nationwide.

The word Friendsgiving is, of course, a blend of friend and Thanksgiving, and it refers to a large meal eaten with friends either on or near Thanksgiving.  When Friendsgiving first came into use, it was used to describe something much more informal than the traditional Thanksgiving meal. dievca is using the word to convey a celebration on Thanksgiving with friends, plus people who might be holiday orphans, traveling far from home, coworkers, etc.  No immediate Family Members, this year.

But just because you can’t go home for the holidays doesn’t mean you have to be alone and leftover-less. Friends, coworkers, neighbors and “holiday orphans” can celebrate a fantastic “Friendsgiving” instead.
—Rebecca Ross, The Pensacola (Florida) News Journal, 27 Nov. 2008

Master and dievca may not be able to share their Friendsgiving meal with you – but they do wish you a Happy Holiday and are grateful for your being a part of their lives. 

And for the foodies in dievca’s Life…

The Simple Menu:

• Herb Roasted Turkey (cooked in a Reynold’s Wrap bag) holds the juices and is easy
• Pepperidge Farm Stuffing/Dressing (doctored up with corn, Andouille sausage and walnuts) Can you tell that dievca isn’t a huge fan of stuffing?
• Fresh Green Beans – steamed (butter and salt)  A strange note, dievca has never eaten a green bean casserole
• Fresh Mashed Potatoes (herbs, milk and butter) something dievca does like to make
• Turkey Gravy – Heinz jar (adding fresh roasted garlic, drippings and a splash of wine) dievca did not grow up eating gravy, she doesn’t trust her skills 
• Fresh Cranberry Sauce dievca is probably the only person who really likes this and she cannot stand the canned option
• Homemade Biscuits  dievca does trust her baking skills
• Homemade Granny Smith Apple Pie (with ice cream) dievca does trust her baking skills

Note: Master has a child who has trained as a gourmet cook -dievca cannot compete, so she doesn’t try.  she just goes for simple and clean ingredients for items she knows.  she gets help (stuffing and gravy) for things she doesn’t know.  Its more about the company around the table than the food. Right? Join us. XO