Holiday events can be stressful — from juggling food in the oven, to mingling with long-lost cousins you haven’t seen in years. But, of course, holidays are also an incredible time to connect with loved ones, reflect on the year and the things you’ve accomplished, and give back to those around you.
Thankfully, you can reduce some of that stress during Thanksgiving (or, if you prefer, Friendsgiving) to spend more time with friends and family and less time making a green bean casserole to feed 20. Because the year is 2018, and DoorDash is a thing.
To get into the spirit of things, we hosted our own Friendsgiving and Project DASH canned food drive on Nov. 8 in L.A. with chef Sam Talbot and Molly Yeh of Food Network’s Girl Meets Farm, and ordered in dishes from some of our L.A. partners available on DoorDash, including Mendocino Farms, Veggie Grill, Superba, and Pitfire.
While we plated everything up, our guests got busy learning how to make apple pie with Molly and vegan and gluten cookies with Sam — something you can share with your guests, too, if you want to spend some quality time with your sugar, literally and figuratively. Just follow these handy recipes, courtesy of the chefs.
To help support our Project DASH initiative to fight hunger, we asked Friendsgiving attendees to come armed with cans of food to donate (and we highly encourage you to do the same this year at your own Friends- or Thanksgiving). Small steps can make a huge difference to reduce hunger across the country!
We hope that this holiday season you’ll be able to reclaim some time with a little help from your friends at DoorDash. Mashed potatoes? Check. Farm-fresh vegetables. Check. Pies on pies on pies? Definitely. Roast turkey? You’ll probably want to do that one yourself, but if not…you know where to find us.
Happy Friendsgiving from our friend-family to yours!
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