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We are hosting our dinner tonight; my family, inlaws and a couple friends so 12 total. Last night I baked the pies (2 pumpkin, 1 cream cheese), cookies and chopped up the veggies for stuffing. I plan to serve at 7:30 so the turkeys in, stuffing is cooking in crockpot, gravy is about to be made (it's a make ahead recipe with other stock), potatoes are peeled and sitting in water and will start those at 6:30 and green bean casserole is mixed in my dish but in the refrigerator. I bake that when the turkey is done. I'm ready to eat! I always try to work ahead as much as possible. It gets harder closer to serving time with people coming in etc.
@MissGreen: Sounds delish! You're house must smell AMAZING right now!!
We're going to DH's aunt's house, but we're doing it semi-potluck style. I've been baking since about 7AM today. So far I'm make 4 sweet potato pies, 2 apple pies, 2 crabnberry walnut bread loaves, I have 2 pans of rolls (half regular dinner rolls, half sweet potato dinner rolls) and one more pan that's still rising. My arms are sore from all the rolling and kneading, lol.
:) It does and I'm starving! I keep nibbling on the stuffing!!! I have got to stop....
I always do my mashed potatoes a day early. The next day, I just add in some more butter and cream, heat them up piping hot, give 'em stir, and they're perfect.
I made a double-layer chocolate cake to take to my grandma's house tomorrow. :) We live in an apartment, so having people over isn't really an option.
I am making Mac and cheese, corn casserole, sweet potatoes, stuffing, homemade rolls, and two desserts. Thanksgiving is at my house tomorrow at 2.... I have been sitting on the couch all day in my pajamas on my iPad. I have lots of cooking and cleaning to still do!
I'm going to my future in-laws for Thanksgiving. I've been chosen as one of the dessert bringers since the first year I went three years ago. I'm making chocolate pecan pie and pumpkin bars (kind of like cake) with cream cheese frosting. I'm going to a mini-Thanksgiving at a friend's house tonight, and I made a pumpkin cheesecake.
I always bake the day before :)
@MissGreen:I made stuffing in the crockpot last year and it was awesome! I cannot locate the recipe anywhere though, do you mind posting your recipe?
My parents are hosting Thanksgiving, but tonight I'm making green bean casserole, my husband is making sausage stuffing with gravy (southern style), and I'm baking a peach cobbler. I'm debating making my Ritz cracker mac and cheese, but that might be food overload.
I started Monday (we're having Thanksgiving today - I'm just waiting for people to get here...)
Made the creamed onions, the innards to the stuffing (ie, cooked the onion and celery and sausage, but didn't combine it with bread cubes) on Monday.
Yesterday I made the butternut squash with pecans, craisins and onions but didn't add the craisins. Also made the apple pie #1 (which didn't turn out well) and the pumpkin cheesecake (which did), and cut the bread into cubes to stale up for stuffing. And made the broccoli/velveeta innards and the ritz cracker crumbs for the broccoli ala ritz, but didn't put them together so the crumbs wouldn't sog.
And today I made the stuffing, the turkey, my mashed potatoes are going now and I'm warming everything else up. Oh, and I made a second apple pie this morning... it turned out much better than the first. :)
Phew! Pretty much, I figured everything except mashed potatoes could be done ahead... though made sure that things that would get soggy weren't combined til this afternoon. And no... haven't hit the wine yet... but it's looking reeeaaalll appealing along about now...
I started nothing early and just finished eating my Thanksgiving dinner. =)
I'm not actually cooking Thanksgiving but I'm visiting my parents right now and we're (they're) hosting 20 people tomorrow for dinner. So far, we've got the turkeys all prepared and ready to toss in the oven tomorrow morning. We've peeled 15 lbs of potatoes and have them sitting in water right now - we won't cook them until tomorrow so they're fresh, but getting them peeled a day early makes life easy! The pies are all made, as is the cranberry sauce, and jello molds. The rolls are ready to throw in the oven as well and the stuffing has been prepared and is ready to throw in the oven with the turkeys tomorrow.
So bottom line is that pretty much everything is ready to go - we just need to throw it all in the oven/on the stove tomorrow and everything should be ready to go for dinner at 4!
And to answer your question - no, neither DH nor his family will be here. DH is still back in Australia (couldn't get the two weeks off work to come home with me), and his family is in England - they don't celebrate Thanksgiving anyway.
And no, I haven't hit the bottle of wine yet although I would LOVE to have a glass of red in hand right now. Alas, being 10 weeks pregnant sort of puts a damper on that idea!
(1) Are FH/DH's family coming to dinner? No but we are hosting people without families who would otherwise be alone :)
(2) What have you prepared ahead of time? Yesterday I made 3 apple pies and 3 pumpkin pies. Today I made the squash, the stuffing, deviled eggs, and am currently working on a death by chocolate cake.
(3) What would you NOT make ahead of time? I would not make the turkey, gravy or crescent rolls ahead of time.
(4) Have you hit the bottle of wine yet? lol! I almost wish that was an option for me but I am allergic.
@Mrs Sarah McK: Yummmy!! One thing I don't have to do is bake!
@linguo42: I've always wondered if I could make my potatoes ahead of time, but worried they'd be pasty! Maybe I'll give it a shot tonight!
@Mrs Grape: Mmmmm...double layer chocolate cake!! What's better than that???
@Amy43026: Now that's some serious comfort food! Mac-N-Cheese-a-licious!!!
@Ms.GoodEarth: OMG pumpkin and cream cheese!! Is there a better combo?? I think not! ;-)
@KatyElle: Do it!!! Make the Mac-N-Cheese!!! Think of the leftovers!! :-)
@mak418: WOW!! You're gonna have to give up some of these recipes for next year! BTW, hi neighbor! I live in RI and work for the Mashantuckets!
@Ree723: Well, now YOU are my hero! I wish I were that far ahead!
Now, off to the airport to pick up family! :-)
(1) Are FH/DH's family coming to dinner? No, we're five hours away and no one decided to visit us. BUT we have found a few friends who are stuck in town without family as well, so we're thrilled to be hosting :).
(2) What have you prepared ahead of time? I've prepped the broccoli cheese casserole, a sauteed veggie dish (red cabbage, onion, apples, and potato, in red wine vinegar, sugar, cinnamon, etc. - a new dish I'm trying), and I'm currently waiting on the pumpkin pie to finish baking. It will be so nice to have nearly all the sides just needing a quick warm-up tomorrow!
(3) What would you NOT make ahead of time? The turkey (obviously!) and the mashed potatoes. I'm thrilled those are the only two things I've got to work on tomorrow - I swear my prep work tonight involved the use of nearly every appliance we own, in addition to all of my mixing bowls, all of my measuring cups, etc. One thing I'm definitely thankful for - Our Dishwasher!!
(4) Have you hit the bottle of wine yet? lol! No, but I have been feasting on special cookies my family has made for years. We call them "Turkey Tarts" (since we only ate them on Thanksgiving), but they're just cookies cut out of the excess pie dough and sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar. Normally I save them to be eaten during the Macy's parade, but I couldn't resist!
On Wed I smoked the turkey & ham, made the stuffing & deviled eggs. I'll do everything else the day of.
(1) Are FH/DH's family coming to dinner? No, we're going to his sisters house, but it's potluck.
(2) What have you prepared ahead of time? I made a pumpkin pie (with a ginger snap crust, yum! The cranberry/cherry sauce, and prepped the ingredients for the craisin salad, and the brussel sprouts
(3) What would you NOT make ahead of time? The brussels sprouts. I make them with bacon, garlic and onion on the stove top.
(4) Have you hit the bottle of wine yet? lol! I had a few glasses at a friends tonight after being in the kitchen all day and out shopping tonight!
(1) No, it's just going to be us and my parents and brother.
(2) Just the stuffing, lol.
(3) Definitely not the turkey, nothing else would taste right if it wasn't fresh.
(4) Have you hit the bottle of wine yet? lol! If I wasn't pregnant, I'd be guzzling a case of wine, right now.
I'm making Thanksgiving but just for the two of us. I've already made the cranberries and put the turkey in the brine (which has to be done the night before - so I'm not sure that counts). I was going to make the pumpkin pie, but realized I don't have ginger or cloves, and I didn't feel like going out to get them tonight. The kitchen is cleaned and ready to go.
It's just FI,me, and our girls, right now I am cooking the desserts, which is pumpkin bread pudding and spiced preach crumble. I prepped the turkey at 10pm, which needs to sit and soak for 12 hours and we are also doing the dough for rolls and pumpkin bread. Our oven kind of small so we like to do most of the baking before hand so we don't have to try and stuff everything around the turkey.
We're going to FI's grandpa's for lunch and I made pie crust last night and then today I made chocolate pecan pie and an apple butter pumpkin pie. I also made "crack"ers...chocolate and caramel covered saltines. Sounds like a weird combo but it's super simple and tastes just like a Skor bar. Then tomorrow evening we're going to my sister's for my family's dinner and I'm making a broccoli, cheese, and rice casserole, and mashed potatoes. But I figure I can just throw all that together tomorrow between the two dinners. I was going to make another pie but thankfully mom made a pecan pie so I wouldn't have to jack with it.
I love it in the crock and won't cook it any other way now. It's not soggy, unlike some critics think and I dont like mine crispy anyways. This is the recipe I based it off of but I start with 2 cups of chicken broth or stock and then add a little as needed over time. I also keep it on low only at all times and it's done in 3-4 hrs. It was a hit again last night!
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/slow-cooker-stuffing-2/detail.aspx
(1) Are FH/DH's family coming to dinner? Nope, :(
(2) What have you prepared ahead of time? Everything but the turkey! I'm such a cheat!!
(3) What would you NOT make ahead of time? The turkey, that's in teh over right now.
(4) Have you hit the bottle of wine yet? lol! Heck yeah! My gma stresses me out. Bless her heart :)
@Ocean: Hey neighbor! I'm definitely down with sharing recipes... everything turned out great! Neat to meet someone who lives so close! (PM me if you ever want to meet up for coffee or something - it'd be neat to meet a bee who's local!)
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Thankfully, our company let us leave at 1:00 (est) today and I have been able to get a head start on the Turkey Day preparation! Are you cooking/hosting and if so:
(1) Are FH/DH's family coming to dinner?
(2) What have you prepared ahead of time?
(3) What would you NOT make ahead of time?
(4) Have you hit the bottle of wine yet? lol!
I just peeled five pounds of carrots, two pounds of celery and about to start on the onions (can't you just feel the procrastination!). After that will be the green bean casserole and the stuffing. I don't think I want to do mashed potatoes early - I'm afraid they'll be too starchy.
Almost time for that wine! ;-)