Heather says:
Tick. Tock. Your time is running out. However, you’ve been following along with this year’s Countdown to Turkey Day and aren’t stressing, right?
- Grab your Thanksgiving Shopping List and buy your produce and other perishables.
- If you went the fresh route, pick up your turkey.
- If your turkey is thawing, take a moment to get rid of the condensation that may be pooling under your thawing turkey.
You don’t want to have your turkey resting in a bacterial swimming pool. - If your turkey is still in the deep freeze, pull it out and put it in the refrigerator. Give it as much of a head start on a water bath thaw as possible. Â If you need tips, check out: How to Quickly Thaw a Turkey in a Water Bath.
- Take some time today and get the house as close to company ready as possible.
- Find your meat thermometer, roasting pan, the blades for the food processor, and any other kitchen gadgets that don’t often see the light of day.
Don’t worry, it looks like more than it is. Finally take a moment and confirm that you have enough servingware, silverware, plates, etc for your guests.
Are you ready?
Your table looks amazing, Heather! Thanks for all the advice and organization. I am def. weaving your "stuff" into so much of what I am doing this year!
Kristin
Yes! Or at least…somewhat! 😉 I second Kristin – what a gorgeous table!
The table is just gorgeous! I shampooed the carpet throughout the whole house over the weekend. Moving furniture, cleaning baseboards, made out the shopping list, done the shopping, did the yardwork today, Putting the feet up tonight to relax a bit. Pie baking comes tomorrow and cleaning the bathrooms, mopping, then I guess putting on the final touches before the big day. Lots of work, but it's all worth it. I wish you, and everyone else a wonderful Thanksgiving!!
There's no green bean casserole in that picture! Or rice!! How wrong that is. 😉
My sister is always in charge of the green bean casserole and she wasn't there that day. Rice? I will never understand you and your interesting ways. We have rice all the time, why waste precious plate room on that?
Because we are Southerners. More specifically from Charleston where rice was one of the cash crops for hundreds of years. It is tradition!
I've lived here my entire life, ok all but 5 years of it, and I've never had rice on Thanksgiving.
Now if you say something about, cats, kittens, ovens, and biscuits I may be forced to retract all the nice things I was saying about you yesterday.
I love cats, kittens, ovens and biscuits. But, face it. You are still a yankee at heart, and you live way out there in the wilderness. Not Charleston. 😉 Why do you think the most given wedding gift in Charleston is the Charleston Rice Spoon? Don't believe me? Go ask Belks or any Charleston type shop. Seriously!
*snort* No.
If I was a yankee at heart, I don't think I'd been half as homesick when we were in MN.
Nope, my heart is here, even if I don't have the blue blood to pass the Charleston litmus test.
You know I love you! I don't pass the blue blood test either. Wish I did…
The extra cha-ching would be nice, huh?