This is a busy week for me with Thanksgiving preparation going on all week. Our Thanksgiving table will be blessed with our daughter and her family - for a total of seven people. Every year I wish more of our family could be here with us, but that's the drawback to living so far from where you grew up and having family spread out all over the country.
WHAT'S THE PLAN: Of course there's a plan!! I don't know how people get everything done without lists!
My first list is our Thanksgiving Menu. We do a very traditional Thanksgiving meal - turkey and all the trimmings.
Thanksgiving
Menu
Roast
Turkey
Stuffing
(in bird and extra dish)
Mashed
potatoes
Gravy
Oven-Roasted
Brussel Sprouts
Fried
Corn
Pearl
Onions in Cream Sauce
Green
Bean Casserole
Cranberry
Sauce
Rolls,
butter
Dessert
Apple
Pie
Sweet
Potato Pie
Vanilla
Ice Cream
Drinks
Coffee,
Tea
Box
drinks or juice for kids
Diet
Coke, Iced Tea
Next list is what I need to prep the house and the food for Thanksgiving.
THANKSGIVING
WEEK TO DO LIST
Monday
- Create menu, print
- Grocery list
- Clean out fridge
- Wash dining table linens and napkins
- Wash holiday dishes, silverware, serving utensils
- Match serving dishes/utensils to food list
- Clean guest bathroom
- Insert dining room table extension
- Open up kitchen table
Tuesday
- Pick up turkey
- Grocery shopping
- Cook sweet potatoes
- From basement: Cranberry sauce, turkey broth
- From the basement: crock pots, turkey roaster, turkey platter
- From basement: High chair
- Remove pans from warming drawer, wipe
Wednesday
- Make pies – apple, sweet potato
- Make vanilla ice cream
- Peel, cook and mash potatoes
- Make rolls
- Make stuffing
- Cranberry sauce to serving dish, fridge
- Drinks into fridge
Thanksgiving
Day
- Prepare turkey, in oven around 10am
- Extra dish of stuffing into oven around 12:00Vac downstairs (Jeff)
- Make onions in cream sauce
- Potatoes into crock pot
- wrap rolls, put in warming drawer around 1pm
- Make fried corn, warming drawer
- Make pot of coffee
- Make gravy
1 comment:
That sounds a lot like my Thanksgiving to-do list! I cleaned house this weekend.. grocery shopped on Monday morning...making some of my dishes and desserts on Wednesday. The success is in the prep!!
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