Thanksgiving Host Tips and a Timeline Checklist
Author: Olga's Flavor Factory
Recipe type: Miscellaneous
- Invite your guests and get a rough estimate of who will be attending
- Make a menu plan
- Finalize menu
- Clean out your pantry, refrigerator, and freezer
- Buy all nonperishable groceries and everything else you might need, such as aluminum foil, plastic wrap, digital thermometer, a roasting pan, etc.
- Plan your seating
- Make/prep food that can be frozen
- Deep clean the house
- Buy/thaw the turkey
- Make a quick trip to the store for perishables and anything else you forgot
- Make dessert
- Meal prep ingredients
- Prep dinnerware and serving dishes
- Tidy up the house and vacuum, dust, wash floors
- Set the table, decorate
- Prep clothing for the family
- Brine or salt the turkey
- Finish dessert
- Prep drinks
- Prep your side dishes/take out food from freezer to thaw overnight
- Take the turkey out of the refrigerator
- If you have children, give them something clean and time-consuming to do
- Get yourself ready
- Check your decor and table setting one last time, if needed
- Put the turkey in the oven
- Drinks
- Start reheating things that you made in advance
- Give something to do to the guests who are early
- Make the mashed potatoes or rice
- When the turkey comes out of the oven, set it aside to rest, make the gravy and put the stuffing into the oven
- Make salads and wash/cut fruit and vegetables.
- Warm up rolls or biscuits, if you are serving them.
- Finish with all the little touches, put all the food on the table
Recipe by Olga's Flavor Factory at https://www.olgasflavorfactory.com/olgastips/hospitality/thanksgiving-host-tips-and-checklist/
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