Thanksgiving 2010

Almost No Knead Bread
Bread Machine White Bread High-Heat Roasted Turkey Apple-Raisin Bread Stuffing Green Bean Casserole Cream Cheese and Chive Mashed Potatoes Sweet Potato Casserole Pumpkin Bread Vanilla Ice Cream Pecan Pie Brownies

Yet again I feel like Thanksgiving has blindsided me!  Thankfully I tend to do the same thing each year so it’s never too scary.  I have made a few changes to the menu this year.  Dinner bread will be No Knead Bread this time and Lance made a request for brownies so Art offered up his Pumpkin Cheesecake in trade so that Lance could have brownies.  How generous! 

On Tuesday I’ll be doing the white bread in the machine because that bread will be used for the stuffing.  I’ll also bake the pumpkin bread, pecan pie, and brownies.  I’ll start the ice cream too.  I think I need to get the dough working for the no knead bread too, but I need to look at the recipe and think about timing for that.  I believe I’ll need to bake it Wednesday night since I won’t be able to bake it on Thursday morning.  I’m not entirely sure, though!

On Wednesday I’ll do the casserole prep.  Both the green bean casserole and sweet potato casseroles will be assembled and go into the fridge so they’ll be ready to go into the oven on Thursday. 

On Thursday morning the turkey goes in the oven, Art will help me prepare stuffing and mashed potatoes, and I’ll bake the casseroles once the turkey comes out of the oven. 

We have so many things to be thankful for this year!