Thanksgiving - THE PLAN

When the Thanksgiving planning began, I assessed my oven to determine the size of bird I could buy. I've got a 5 Kilo (11 pound) turkey on order from the local butcher. I didn't think about things like stuffing and green bean casserole all of which also need oven space.

Yeah. My oven's not going to cut it. I've decided to try the following: Have green bean casserole and stuffing ready to go into the oven immediately when the turkey comes out. For convenience and food safety, the stuffing won't go into the Turkey. Instead, I'll start it on the stove in a cast iron pot and then it's straight to the oven and straight to the table with no extra baking or serving dishes required.

Here's the timeline.

10:15 - First trip to town to pick up turkey.

11:15 - Second trip to town to pick up everything else I don't want to carry along with a 11 pound turkey

............Clean......................

2:00 - Trip to office to pay for dry cleaning that will be delivered. But I won't be there 'cause I'm taking ANOTHER day off. Woo-hoo!

2:30 - Get turkey out of the fridge and clean

3:30 - Turkey goes in oven

........... Chop stuff..............

............Cleaning continues.................

5:30 - Turn on water for potatos

6:00 - Start stuffing on stove

6:30 - Turkey out of oven and stuffing/green beans go in.

............Guests arrive!!.............

........... Whisk lumps out of gravy.....

7:00 - Eat.

...........Eat................

...........Eat..................

...........Eating continues..................

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