Cook Thanksgiving dinner

Im still looking for a easy recipe I can cook without getting burned!

it’s my favorite holiday. We usually have our brothers and a couple of friends over. I cook a ridiculously large meal and we drink the newest micro-brews offerings and we watch movies, listen to music and play games and some years we even watch football.

I have already started planning the meal. I think we’re going to have Cornish game hens and pheasant. I already asked Fox and Shad they both said they’d be here :)I am So excited only 25 days until Thanksgiving!

I’m helping Shanna cook Thanksgiving dinner for her family this year.

I cooked a turkey breast in our crock pot, and we made the sides mainly from mixes, but everything came out great and we were so happy. :)

I did burn myself twice though!

I have the entry from two years ago about what I need to do, isn’t that so cool? I don’t have to think so hard about what needs to be on the list.

Here it is for this year:

Sunday (today):

• Clean out the fridge of anything unnecessary or old.
• Create shopping list.
• Shop – I won’t have time during the rest of the week
• Review state of housekeeping: front hall, kitchen, living room, dining room, guest bathroom
• Tidy these three public areas; sweep front walk.
• Bring in firewood
• Locate heirloom tablecloths, starch and press

• Set up living room for entertaining guests
• Do initial sweep and wipe down of surfaces
• Make: barley dressing

12:45 pre-heat oven, prep turkey
1:00 turkey in the oven
2:00 baste turkey, set table, set aside dessert dishes for later use
2:30 baste turkey, set up coffee maker; make sure table has butter, salt and pepper
3:00 baste turkey, prep mushrooms and set aside
3:30 baste turkey, prepare hors d’oeuvres and cover
4:00 baste turkey, prepare salad and refrigerate, make fire in fireplace, shower
4:30 baste turkey, light candles in living room
4:45 open red wine for breathing
5:00 guests arrive, serve hors d’oeuvres and white wine
5:30 turkey comes out of oven, make mushrooms, make gravy
5:50 turkey is carved
6:00 dinner is served!

and spending it with the family is always nice

Now that it’s just two of us, we do it simpler, but we used to put on the whole deal.

but enough food for an army. I love Thanksgiving food so I’m really excited about have a week’s worth of leftovers to eat. The food was great and the turkey was awesome.

VERY much worth doin! its so satisfying seeing everthing “dissapear” till everyones so stuffed they cant move from your couch. and as soon as they can they go straight back into the kitchen!

Wednesday (today):

Clean out the fridge of anything unnecessary or old. Review items identified on shopping list.

Shop (see shopping list)

Dig potatoes from garden

Make: barley stuffing, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie

Locate heirloom tablecloths, starch and press

Review state of housekeeping: front hall, kitchen, living room, dining room, guest bathroom

Tidy these three public areas; girls to clean bathroom. Dust living room. Vacuum. Sweep front walk.

Do guinea pig cage

Bring in additional firewood

Thursday
Morning: complete tidying, dusting, vacuuming; set up living room for entertaining guests; do initial sweep and wipe down of surfaces

1:00 set table, set aside dessert dishes for later use (E help)
2:00 pre-heat oven, prep turkey, stuff
2:30 turkey in the oven
3:00 baste turkey, set up coffee maker
3:30 baste turkey; prep mushrooms and set aside; make sure table has butter, cranberry sauce, salt and pepper
4:00 baste turkey, set up hors d’oeuvres, prepare potatoes, make fire in fireplace (D), shower
4:30 baste turkey, spinach soufflé in the oven, set water boiling for potatoes, light candles in living room (E/R)
4:45 potatoes into boiling water, open red wine for breathing (D)
5:00 guests arrive, serve hors d’oeuvres and white wine
5:15 mash potatoes, transfer to baking dish, set in oven
5:30 turkey comes out of oven, make mushrooms, make gravy
5:50 turkey is carved; spinach soufflé out of the oven

6:00 dinner is served!