Thanksgiving Plans!
Historically, me and the holidays really enjoy one another’s company, but we fuss an awful lot getting to the day. It never fails that I’m frantically wrapping Christmas presents on Christmas Eve – or packing like a nut job while DH grumbles about “needing to get on the road” for Thanksgiving – and it never fails that I forget something we need.
But this year – I’m going to change all that. I’m going to do at least 1 thing every day to get ready for the holidays and I’m starting with Thanksgiving.
For the past 5 years we have rented a cabin with DH’s parents for Thanksgiving. We have a wonderful time – go on hikes – sit in the hot tub – make wonderful meals, and relax. This year my birthday is Thanksgiving so DH and I are going a day early so we can have the cabins to ourselves for a night before the in-laws show up so we need to be ready to go Tuesday morning.
My PLAN is to get everything packed in the truck on Monday night so Tuesday we get up, shower - hit the grocery store on the way out to pick up the items we want to be the most fresh and hit the cabin.
DH and I will have dinner by ourselves and the next afternoon the in-laws will come and spend the next 2 nights in the cabin with us. I need ideas for lunch with the in-laws in the cabin… HELP!!!
The cabin has a full kitchen with pots and pans etc - but we've never stayed at this specific cabin before and because we've stayed in some cabins that have "questionable" utensils (i.e. knives that are so dull they won’t cut anything, cutting boards that are older than I am) we've learned over the years to bring some of our own stuff, like good knives and cutting boards, a couple of nice pans. I also decided to bring our nice silver cutlery. We almost never use it – so why not use it for Thanksgiving!
I have already started some of the packing.
Item
status
Silver Cutlery
Polished and Packed
Paring Knife
Packed
Decorations – Small wreath – autumn swag
Table Cloth
Cloth Napkins
2 sets White and Maroon
White is pressed and packed
Roll of paper towels
Packed
2 kitchen towels
Packed
Apron
Large Cutting board
Large kitchen Knife
Kitchen Scissors
Wii /Cords/Remotes /Games
Remotes are charged /
Monopoly
Game of Thrones books 4 and 5
Packed
Water 4 cases
1 is packed
Candles
Champagne Flutes – 4
Plastic Wine glasses for Hot tub
Plastic regular glass for hot tub
Beer Cozies
Packed total of 4
Pie pan
Thanksgiving Crackers for the table
Crochet
Set of Plastic Mixing Bowls
Sauce Pan
Large Sauté Pan
Kitchen Sponge
Packed
Plastic Serving platter and interlocking clear dishes
Packed – the platter can be used for any number of things – and the dishes that fit inside can be used for raclette.
Menu:
Day 1
DH and Me - My private birthday dinner – 1st night in Cabin
Item
Status
Raw Oysters
Purchase on way out of town
Steak
Purchase on way out of town
Potato
-
Need ideas for side dish-
Grilled Veggie
Champagne
Packed
Birthday Cupcakes
Ordered – pick up on way out of town
Strawberries
Charcoal
Long Lighter
Lighter Fluid
Day 2
Breakfast - Fruit / Cereal / maybe pancakes?
Lunch - No idea – Could use lunch ideas for 4 people – maybe something on the grill?
Dinner – raclette – 4 people – basically a mash-up of fresh and frozen veggies
Item
Status
Steak / Bison
Purchase on way out of town
Shrimp
Purchase on way out of town
Cheese 3 kinds
Corn
Frozen Lima Beans
Frozen Peas
Potatoes
Green Goddess dip
Seasonings
Olive Oil
Red Pepper
Zucchini
Random Fresh veggie
Fois Gras
Must get from Market
Birthday Cupcakes
Ordered Pick up on way out of town
Day 3 – Thanksgiving!
Breakfast 4 people –
Fruit / toast / yogurt –
Breakfast
Status
Fresh Orange Juice
Oranges are purchased need to be packed
Cheap Champagne for Mimosas
Purchased and Packed
Orange Juicer
Main Meal
Item
Status
Leftover Cheese from dinner
Leftover Green Goddess from dinner
Leftover fresh veggies from dinner
Celery
Baby Carrots
Fruit from breakfast
Turkey
In Laws are doing it!
Mashed Potatoes
In laws are doing it!
Cranberry Sauce
In Laws are doing it!
Stuffing
In Laws are doing it!
Crock Pot for stuffing
Green Beans and roasted Shallots
Ciabatta bread
Pumpkin Pie
I need to check recipe and make list
Leftover Birthday Cupcakes
Champagne
Crackers
Festivus!
After Thanksgiving is tackled we have our annual Festivus party which is also going to be a birthday party for me.
I’ve started cleaning already here is what has been done.
Living Room Completed
- Moved all furniture and vacuumed under everything (found lots of cat toys under the couch)
- Cleaned the windows, window casings and window ledges inside and out.
- Cleaned the fish tank
- Dusted everything
Living Room / To Do
- Put away pictures to make room for Christmas decorations
- Put away mantle fall display to make room for Christmas decorations
So Give me your Lunch ideas for the day before Thanksgiving - we'll be having a pretty good sized dinner so something light is in order.
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