{"id":249,"date":"2019-12-09T20:59:12","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T01:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/?p=249"},"modified":"2019-12-09T21:07:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T02:07:30","slug":"happy-cheapturkeysgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/09\/happy-cheapturkeysgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Cheapturkeysgiving!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It was a weekend of making and eating food for some reason, and on Sunday we did the annual; &#8220;at $0.79\/lb you can&#8217;t afford NOT to buy a turkey&#8221; meal, a small subset of a Thanksgiving meal but with an abundance of pies because my recipe backlog at this point is in the thousands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_0949-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"It's called an Orion.  You should have one.\" class=\"wp-image-252\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_0949-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_0949-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_0949-1080x1440.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>No, it&#8217;s not a rocket test in progress<br>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_0951-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Canned turkey\" class=\"wp-image-251\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_0951-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_0951-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_0951-1080x1440.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>It may not look pretty, but it&#8217;s slightly smoked and not the least bit dry.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_0955-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Pies of doom\" class=\"wp-image-253\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_0955-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_0955-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_0955-1080x1440.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>The nearest is the fairly-well-named &#8220;Impossible Pecan Pie&#8221; recipe that Bravetart refuses to publish.  The third time I make it I will probably get it right, but even slightly off it&#8217;s great.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_0960-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Sunday dinner\" class=\"wp-image-254\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_0960-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_0960-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/img_0960-1080x1440.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>The whole spread minus dessert. Note the ridiculous amount of gravy&#8230; it may get frozen for our next roast chicken.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a weekend of making and eating food for some reason, and on Sunday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,18],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal","tag-food","tag-orion","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257,"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stevegigl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}