If you are hosting Thanksgiving tomorrow, it's most likely your oven is going to see a lot of action. To ensure that everything gets cooked, I suggest making an oven plan to keep you organized. Here's how:
- Start by listing every dish that needs oven time. Write the name of the dish, the temperature it cooks at, and how long it takes to bake/roast.
- Take note of which dishes can be made in advance and which can be cooked at the same time.
- Make an oven time frame. For example, bake the pie in the morning, the turkey in the afternoon, and while the turkey rests, cook any other side (sweet potatoes, cornbread, stuffing, etc.).
Cooking a bunch of dishes on the stove? Adapt this plan to include stovetop space. How have you gotten organized for Thanksgiving dinner?
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Yup. Ran into this problem last night. Two ovens. Two turkeys. Three platters of rolls, two pans of stuffing, and a green bean casserole. Whoops.
Two platters of rolls ended up being the lids for the pans of stuffing, the rolls were a little late, and the opening and closing of the oven door made the last 20 minutes of turkey cooking wonky. That said, 70% of the food on the table was gone by the time I got to carving the second turkey!