How to Pair Marijuana With Your Thanksgiving Meal
Thanksgiving is stressful. Whether you are preparing a huge Friendship Day celebration for your team or going for a family celebration, this is an easy celebration that can be overwhelming. While your typical move may be to numb all that stress in Pinot Noir, with the increasing availability of recreational marijuana, marijuana may be showing up at some of the holiday celebrations this year.
So how to combine marijuana with Thanksgiving? We spoke with Shina Shiravi from Eaze about how to do this:
Best solution: Low dose drops and tinctures, vaporizers, or edible products.
“CBD drops and tinctures are becoming a growing category,” says Shiravi. She says adding drops of CBD (CBD is key here) to your drink along the way is likely to end up consuming less alcohol throughout the day and allowing you to enjoy a more enjoyable (and less hangover-filled) Black Friday. …
If you have a group of marijuana lovers for Thanksgiving, you can also pair individual meals with marijuana products. The easiest way to do this is to think about which wine to pair with a particular meal, and then choose the variety that will go with that wine.
For example, turkey usually goes well with Pinot Noir. This means it will also pair very well with OG Kush, White Widow, and Himalayan Gold.
Eaze created this diagram to illustrate all this:
Which strain suits which food has a lot to do with the terpenes in the strain. Think of them as essential oils in your weed that give it a unique scent.
“When you think of food and wine pairings, cannabis is that extra layer that gets caught in the same lattice,” Shiravi says. Basically, you look at the terpene profile in a strain and then pair it with food, just like you would pair it with wine.
The correct way to incorporate cannabis into your food depends a little on your audience. At a basic level, vaporizers are your friends in this situation, especially if you want to do multiple pairs. They’re easy to convey, they’re friendly to people who don’t usually smoke, and unlike the joint, you don’t struggle with what to do with the rest (or end up with a bunch of stinky semi-smoked ones). joints), if the group does not finish the game. You are also not dealing with a foggy dining room full of smoke.
“Passing the vaporizer is not that difficult,” says Shiravi.
However, pre-rolls can also come in handy if you are buying small rolls that you know the group can quickly finish by riding around the table. Pre-scrolling can also be a good way to start a meal and stimulate everyone’s appetite for a big meal.
If people start to sleep while eating, then a high CBD vaporizer can help people feel energized.
The goal here is to have a good time, relaxing, not getting stoned. For dinner, Shiravi recommends eating sativa to help people communicate. When it’s time for dessert, indica can slow the process down and end the evening.
If you’re not quite ready to pair marijuana with your entire meal, Shiravi says it can also come in handy when you’re preparing for a big meal.
“Personally, I like to receive guests, I like to cook,” says Shiravi. “Being on your feet all day and cooking is really exhausting. And when you drink wine throughout the day, things get a little quick and relaxed. For the host, a low dose edible food or a high CBD vaporizer is such a grip. “
This takes the edge off, so you don’t worry about your guests getting along, or worrying about forgetting a key food item. An edible product in small doses (something like 3 mg or less) may be enough to keep you working without making you clog so hard that you lose momentum or start forgetting important steps in the cooking process.
“CBD gives you a little pep, and small-dose edible foods relieve some of the pain you feel,” she says.