Hobbit Meal 2025
During last year’s Hobbit Meal (which, apparently, I didn’t post about,) I ended up serving way too much bread. Don’t get me wrong. I like bread. But by the third or fourth meal of the day, it was too much. This year I’ve cut it down just to the biscuits in the biscuits + gravy, plus the stuffing which is technically bread but I think mostly doesn’t count.
Without further ado, here’s the plan.
0700 Breakfast
- Egg Muffins w/ bell pepper: make ahead. In fact, I need to go start these after dinner tonight.
0900 Second Breakfast
- Butter-garlic-thyme mushrooms.
1100 Elevenses
- Biscuits + gravy. Real sausage gravy made the hard way.
1300 Luncheon
- Charcuterie. The meats come from the better local grocery store, and the cheeses from Trader Joe’s.
1500 Afternoon Tea
- Deviled eggs. Maybe. My plan was to outsource this, but I forgot to confirm the place is even open tomorrow, and I don’t know that I want to encourage businesses to be open on holidays. I might have enough eggs to take a crack at doing this myself, but good deviled eggs aren’t a recipe I’ve cracked yet.
1800 Dinner
- Sous vide turkey breast medallions.
- Cornbread stuffing.
- Crispy roasted potatoes.
- Salad or something probably. A leaf.
2100 Supper
- Dessert.
- Leftovers.
It’s a lot of food, but believe it or not, it’s less than last year. I learned real quick that I needed to scale back how much I made of everything because even though my eyes often outpace my stomach, seven “small” meals is still a lot of food.
Eventually I’d like to throw open the doors to Hobbit Meal as something of a “friendsgiving,” but none of my friends who live near me are looking for a place to go on Thanksgiving, which is probably for the best all things considered.