How to have Friendsgiving
Have the best Thanksgiving with your favorite people, without leaving North Philly
Thanksgiving can turn from heaven to hell real quick as a college student. There are great home cooked meals and time spent with family and friends from back home. However there’s also the onslaught of monotonous questions like “How’s school?” and “So, what are your plans for after graduation?” And let’s not forget the infamous, “Are you dating anyone?”
Luckily enough someone created Friendsgiving: the perfect mix of good food and great people without the ridiculous questions.
The table’s all set
This year I was lucky enough to experience my first Friendsgiving ever and am still recovering from a food coma. There’s no set time for when you can have a Friendsgiving, but no event can be properly pulled off without creating a Facebook event page first.
Do you think the oven is full?
For ours, nineteen invites were sent out and a date and time were set, while the place was left up in the air depending on how many people actually showed up. Once everyone decided if they could come, we decided to hold it at the biggest house. Everyone was required to contribute something and the decision on what to make was left up to the person who made it, keeping in mind those who were vegetarians.
Vegetarian Lasagna
I’m lucky enough to have some creative people as friends who created some amazing dishes including: beer macaroni and cheese, garlic mashed potatoes, corn bread stuffing, a lot of crescent rolls, vegetarian lasagna, loaded hash brown potato casserole, garlic brown sugar chicken, apple pie sangria, pumpkin pie, funfetti cake, brownies and orange glazed biscuits.
The mountain of crescent rolls
At our house everyone going to Friendsgiving cooked a few hours before the event so we weren’t too pressed for time. Dinner started around 7.30pm and everyone dug in in a surprisingly organized manner considering how many of us were crammed around the dining room table. We needed to have a visual confirmation of plate and fork as well.
Yum!
As a senior it was the perfect way to end a stressful week and begin my last fall break at Temple. If you’re thinking of having your own Friendsgivng go for it, even if it’s after Thanksgiving. There’s nothing like sitting back with good friends and good food and talking about the most random things ever like how gross whole milk is.
Happy Friendsgiving
Friendsgiving Highlights:
- We need a visual confirmation of forks and plates
- Pumpkin pie was used as a palette cleanser
- Deep conversations held about milk percentages – two percent is life and one percent is just white water.
Quote of the night: “I’ve never seen a guy get picked up by his testicles before” –Planes, Trains and Automobiles
The after effects
Food coma
He’s pooped out after all the cooking he didn’t do