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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 8090361" data-attributes="member: 19675">We’re planning our holiday meals...with social distancing in mind.  Usually, our house is the center for the big gatherings.  We’re centrally located, and, at the risk of sounding like a braggart, I’m a damn good cook.  Big gatherings, I get to show off.  This year’s uninvited guest has changed all that.  We’re still planning on me doing some serious cooking, but there will be NO gathering.  Instead, starting tomorrow, I will begin cooking some of the side dishes we’d usually serve for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and to a lesser extent, New Years, and packaging them up in the freezer in moderately sized bundles.*  And some of those frozen sides will be delivered to the houses of our usual invitees.On the day of the actual holidays, we’ll take some out, thaw, and eat, along with a moderate sized bird or some such.Hopefully, those that can do so will reciprocate.* No full menu plan as yet, but tomorrow’s dish is turnip greens.  Other likely suspects include maque choux, mirliton, and oyster dressing</blockquote>