Thanksgiving Cooking Schedule
Thanksgiving Cooking Schedule. We are hosting the Thanksgiving meal at our home this year and for me it is always imperative that I have a cooking schedule. It helps with planning what will cook when, as to not overload the stove top and the single oven that I have. Thankfully, the Hubs had started cleaning and prepping the house over the past few weeks and finished up mostly this past weekend (weekend before). He’s been so awesome since I haven’t had the energy to do too much at 31 weeks preggo! Checkout my hosting tips here.
Monday
- Making Caramel Pies and Cheesecake. Both of these can be placed in the freezer until the big day and be yummy fresh when taken out for serving on Thanksgiving.
- Continue defrosting Turkey in the fridge, this process began on Saturday night due to the size of the turkey.
Tuesday
- Make Sweet Potato Pies
- Marinate Chicken Wings
- Make Brine for Turkey (recipe)
- Begin defrosting ribs in fridge
- Prep Apple Pie (freezing to bake tomorrow)
Wednesday
AM
- Make Mashed Potatoes (stove top)
- Collards (stove top)
- Chocolate and Strawberry Cakes (oven)
- Baked Mac n Cheese (oven)
PM
- Apple Pie (oven)
- Punch Bowl Cake (oven)
- Potato Salad (stove top)
- Prep Ribs
- Brine Turkey
Thursday
- Put Turkey on (oven – 6am)
- Put Ham on – Warming only from Honey Baked Hams (oven – 10am)
- Ribs (smoker – Courtesy of Hubs)
- Fry Chicken Wings (deep fryer)
- Prep Gravy (stove top)
- Cook Stuffing (Stove Top) – Easy Peezy and takes only take a few minutes
- Warm pre-made and pre-purchased foods
Meal served at Noon!
Are you hosting or traveling? Do you put together a schedule for the big day?