{"id":60380,"date":"2023-11-23T22:06:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-24T06:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/?p=60380"},"modified":"2024-12-02T14:50:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T22:50:17","slug":"feast-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/?p=60380","title":{"rendered":"Feast Mode."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/blog\/thanksgiving-feast-mode.jpg\" width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s leg day, y&#8217;all! \ud83c\udf57<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/blog\/thanksgiving-charcuterie-board.jpg\" width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>I had to get this <a href=\"https:\/\/factorydirectcraft.com\/catalog\/products\/1302_2113_1652-10936-mini_cornucopia_basket.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tiny cornucopia<\/a>, partly because it&#8217;s Thanksgiving, but mostly because it reminded me of <a href=\"https:\/\/thehungergames.fandom.com\/wiki\/Cornucopia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Hunger Games<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/blog\/thanksgiving-cornish-game-hens.jpg\" width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p>My mom\u2019s deep fryer decided to stop working after we already dry rubbed four cornish game hens, so my uncle just deep fried them on the stove in a big ass pot of peanut oil. They turned out great! They were so small, they looked like baby birds, but I was assured these weren\u2019t babies LOL. One time, I was watching an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/shows\/chopped\/videos\/chopped-all-stars-episode-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">episode<\/a> of <em>Chopped<\/em>, and one of the secret basket ingredients was a suckling goat and I burst into tears and changed the channel when I saw it. As a rule, I don\u2019t eat any baby animals. Only fully grown animals that have had a good life \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update 11\/24\/2023:<\/strong> Pammie told me that cornish game hens are slaughtered when they reach 4 WEEKS of age, so I won\u2019t be eating them anymore \ud83d\ude05<\/p>\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/blog\/kingcrab-steam.gif\" alt=\"king crab legs\"><\/p>\n\n\n<p>King crab legs were on sale for $199 for 10 pounds at Costco! I&#8217;ve seen it upwards of $400, so this was a steal. Plus, we were near the <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/suLagxQoXJF2whaf9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Costco Business Center<\/a>, so we went to that one and there were no lines on a Saturday!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/blog\/thanksgiving-pumpkiin-pies.jpg\" width=\"100%\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pumpkin pie hack:<\/strong> I bought a big ass pumpkin pie from Costco, used a biscuit cutter to cut out individual servings, and topped them with whipped cream and a sprinkle of pumpkin pie spice. Adorable!<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/suLagxQoXJF2whaf9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Costco Business Center<\/a> doesn&#8217;t have a bakery (or food court), so we went to the <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/9CsHQ6YsguTfpVJ1A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grossmont Costco<\/a> and it was CRAZY. There is a hell, and it&#8217;s the Costco in La Mesa the weekend before Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/blog\/thanksgiving-banana-bread.jpg\" alt=\"banana bread\"><\/p>\n\n\n<p>My banana bread fixes things in the universe.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayanrocks.com\/blog\/thanksgiving-mahjong.jpg\" alt=\"mahjong\"><\/p>\n\n\n<p>If your family doesn&#8217;t gamble at holiday parties, are you even Asian???<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s leg day, y&#8217;all! \ud83c\udf57 I had to get this tiny cornucopia, partly because it&#8217;s Thanksgiving, but mostly because it reminded me of The Hunger Games. My mom\u2019s deep fryer decided to stop working after we already dry rubbed four cornish game hens, so my uncle just deep fried them on the stove in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[293,200,211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charcuterie-board","category-food-and-drink","category-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60380"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64604,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60380\/revisions\/64604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayanrocks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}