While I still haven't nailed down that perfect dessert, I did accomplish a lot today. After completing a very thorough two-hour shopping spree around the grocery store, my refrigerator is stocked for Thanksgiving... almost. I'm a little terrified because the most essential & precious (need I say ridiculously tasty)Thanksgiving herb, sage, was sold out at our local Winco. They didn't even have flat leaf parsley. I'll be checking other stores and returning tomorrow to see if I can retrieve my precious herb or the stuffing just won't be the same!
Beyond our massive grocery store excursion, I have completed my "Thanksgiving Day Game Plan" list so that I am fully prepared for the efforts that are about to take place. I figured this was the best way to ensure that I didn't miss any details on the big day. I first wrote out all the different dishes and desserts that will be prepared in my kitchen, complete with oven temperatures and cooking times... a staggering 12 dishes! (Am I nuts?!) Then I proceeded to type out my detailed 3-day schedule... Observe the madness that will be commending in my household all beginning tomorrow:
Thanksgiving Day Game Plan
Two days before…
- · make cranberry sauce & refrigerate
- · print off all recipes, organize
- do any final shopping
The day before…
- · remove pomegranate seeds & make salad dressing
- · make seasoning salt for turkey
- · make pie crusts and chill
- · prepare stuffing: cook & combine dry ingredients, refrigerate
- · bake pies and pumpkin tart
- · Set table, clear counter top
- · Get out designated serving dishes
The Big Day…
- · Wash Turkey
- · Prepare Turkey stock
- · Roast turkey thighs for gravy
- · Make gravy, refrigerate
- · Get out ingredients for cider
- · Prepare cracker cheese platter for lunch/appetizers
- · Have mom make corn pudding
- · Set out and organize all ingredients for each dish
Three hours before dinner…
- · Preheat oven to 425 °
- · Make herb butter
- · Season and stuff turkey
- · Put turkey in the oven
- · Finish prepping stuffing
- · Make cider & apple water
- · Make “stuffing” mix for apples
1 hour before dinner…
- · Check turkey temp
- · Make seasoning for green beans
- · Begin peeling sweet potatoes
- · Put John on mashed potatoes
- · Start roasting sweet potatoes 15 min before bird comes out
- · Make sweet potato glaze
- · Have mom start green beans
- · Start heating gravy
- · Pull out bird, tent and let rest 20 min.
- · Turn down oven heat, bake stuffing and re-warm corn pudding
- · Prepare salad and baked apples go in oven
- · Serve feast!
...I'm already tired just thinking about it! However, at least I now have a plan all laid out, and I can go into the rest of the week confident that I know what I'm doing (or can at least act like I know what I'm doing!)
It all starts tomorrow! Say a little prayer for me and wish me luck, friends!
1 comment:
PHEW! That is a ton of work. I am not cooking this year but when I do, I make about the same amount of food. I hope it turns out great, I have a sneaky suspicion it will.
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