Thanksgiving is a great time, Families get together and rehash the ‘old days’, we eat and overeat, and shop. Its a great time, except for the one stuck in the kitchen. This year I’m planning ahead because I want to join in on the family fun. Here’s my menu and cooking schedule outline, maybe you can join me outside the kitchen.
The Recipes for this years feast:
Turkey: https://www.howtocookathanksgivingturkey.com/
Stuffing- in the crock pot
Mashed Potatoes- in the crock pot
Sour Cream Roll Fans
Green Bean Casserole
Sweet Potato Chips- in the microwave
Pickles: Just my home canned stuff from this summer, though the store bought ones would be yummy too.
Cranberry Sauce: I use the canned stuff, since we don’t really eat it. Its more for show on our table.
Pistachio Salad: We make ours minus the marshmallows
Grape Salad
Mac and Cheese, in the rice cooker: This is for the kids, I hate hearing “I don’t like that” on Thanksgiving day!
The pistachio salad and grape salad are the sweets we eat with dinner, we have pie as a before bed snack since everyone’s too full to eat it after dinner.
The shopping list for all the recipes above.
Produce:
1 Onion
Bunch Celery
1 Apple
Parsley- Fresh
Red Potatos- 5lbs
Green Beans 8C Cooked
3-4 large Sweet Potatoes
2-3lbs Grapes (you can use a mix of colors if desired, I like all red)
Lime
Dairy:
Butter- 2 1/2 sticks
Cream Cheese- 1 1/2block
Sour Cream- 3 cup
Eggs- 2
Milk- 1 cup
Whipped topping 8oz.- 1
Vanilla Yogurt- 1/2C
Heavy Cream- 1C
Mixed Cheeses -1 1/2C
Meat:
Turkey- 15lb
Spices:
Ground Sage
Ground Marjoram
Salt
Pepper
Savory
Thyme
Chicken Bullion Cube
Garlic Powder
Parsley- Dried
Soy Sauce- 2ts
Cayenne Pepper
Baking Goods:
All Purpose Flour- 7-8cups
Sugar- 3/4 cup
Dry active yeast- 2TB
Baking Powder
Olive Oil- 1/4C
Vanillla extract
Pecans- 1/2C
Grocery:
Lightly toasted bread (12c)
Chicken Stock 2 1/2C
Condensed Cream of — soup 10.75oz. -2cans
Frenchs French Fried Onions- 2 2/3 C
Pineapple, crushed 20oz can- 1can
Pistachio Pudding Mix, 3oz. -1
Macaroni Noodles
Schedule Breakdown.
Monday: Take Your Turkey out of the Freezer and let it start thawing in the fridge.
Iron your Table cloths.
Find and wash your serving platters, if you like me I haven’t used them since Christmas.
Tuesday: Take Frozen Pies, cheesecakes and crusts and start thawing in the refrigerator.
Wednesday: Clean House- Just the areas that the guests will be in; Front room, Kitchen, and bathroom.
Make your pies.
Make the mashed potatoes- I put them in the crock pot right into the fridge.
Make the Pistachio Salad- I cover it with plastic and a cloth, if my family sees it they eat it.
Make the grape salad.
Chop up everything that needs cut.
Thursday: I serve dinner at 5:00 and cook a 15lb turkey, so the schedule is set so everything is done at 5.
9:30am- Take the turkey out of the fridge and let it sit and get to room temperature.
10:15am- Start preparing turkey.
10:40- Preheat oven.
11:00am- Put turkey in the oven.
1:30pm- Start preparing the stuffing.
2:00pm- Start mashed potatoes and stuffing in the crock pots.
2:30pm- Start rolls
4:00- Start making the green bean casserole
Start mac and cheese in the rice cooker.
Form rolls so they can have 20min to rise before going in the oven.
4:30- Remove turkey from oven, place rolls and green bean casserole in oven.
Finish adding ingredients to mac and cheese.
Start making sweet potato chips.
5:00- Remove rolls and casserole from oven
Sit down and eat.
When we start cleaning up we put the pies in the oven. We like to eat our pies after our tummies have settled from over eating.
I hope my plan helps make your thanksgiving day more relaxing.
sparklesbkb
Thanks so much for the Thanksgiving Recipes, Menu and shopping list. It was Awesome!!