26 November 2009

The Schedule

12:00 midnight
  • Pour brine, with one gallon of iced water, into 5-gallon (CLEAN) paint bucket. Remove turkey's neck and giblets and dunk turkey into bucket, breat-first.
  • Cut bread cubes for stuffing


7:00 a.m.
  • Flip turkey in brine.


Morning
  • Prepare Citrus Green Bean Salad (45 minutes total)
  • Prep lettuce for Salad of Pears and Mixed Greens with Chevre
  • Toast walnuts for Salad of Pears and Mixed Greens with Chevre
  • Cut goat cheese into rounds for Salad of Pears and Mixed Greens with Chevre and re-refrigerate.
  • Toast baguette slices


12:40 p.m.
  • Preheat oven to 500 deg. F. and set one rack on lowest shelf.
  • Turkey out of brine, rinsed and patted dry
  • Fit foil breastplate.
  • Set up on rack and rub all over with canola oil.


1:00
  • Turkey in oven.


1:30
  • Breastplate on.
  • Oven down to 350.


2:00
  • Prep/bake Pear Crostini w/ goat Cheese (Bo & Jen's oven)


3:00
  • Serve pear crostini w/ goat cheese & shrimp w/ cocktail sauce
  • Chop onions and apples for stuffing


3:30
  • Prep Sweet Potato Casserole
  • Assemble stuffing


4:00
  • Assemble Sweet Potato Casserole


4:15
  • Sweet Potato Casserole goes in Bo & Jen's oven
  • 1st pan of stuffing goes in Bo & Jen's oven
  • Begin cooking potatoes for Buttermilk Mashed Potatoes


4:30
  • Take Citrus Green Bean Salad out of fridge

4:45
  • Turkey out of our oven (depending on when temp hits 160˚)
  • Add second pan of stuffing


5:00
  • Remove foil from Sweet Potato Casserole
  • Remove foil from 1st pan of stuffing


5:10
  • Prep pears for Salad of Pears and Mixed Greens with Chevre


5:15
  • Sweet Potato Casserole out of Bo & Jen's oven
  • Plate Salad of Pears and Mixed Greens with Chevre
  • Carve turkey


5:20
  • Mash potatoes and finish Buttermilk Mashed Potatoes preparation
  • Open cans of Jellied Cranberry Sauce and Whole Berry Cranberry Sauce


5:25
  • Rasperry/Cranberry jello salad from Bo & Jen's fridge
  • Pumpkin pie from Bo & Jen's fridge
  • Pumpkin cheesecake from Bo & Jen's fridge
  • Set pies up on buffet


5:30
  • Change clothes
  • Mangeons!

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