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Stress Free Thanksgiving Dinner

What every cook should know about

Organize a Thanksgiving dinner.

By Stephanie its Maggio / Chef Personal Chef Service Maggio.

Hosting a dinner for Action Thanksgiving can be stressful. The holiday season is here and it seems they are busy, even before the day comes. First Thanksgiving, then Christmas, New Year's Day to follow. First, calm down. Here are some tips to relieve some stress for you to enjoy the day with their guests.

First, decide how you want your Thanksgiving dinner to be set up. Do you want buffet? With this setup you need a place large enough for food. His guest then serve themselves and sit where you have provided. This is a very casual dinner and works well with a large guest list. Another way to serve your meal from the party would be pot luck style. This makes it much less stressful for the host and each of your guests bring a dish and a dessert usually. The host usually provides the main dishes, like turkey, stuffing and gravy. So one way to work in this sample would be to let each guest know what items to carry like mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, green beans, bread and such. Make sure that your specific but until they end up having grains tons of vegetables! Yet another way of serving Thanksgiving dinner is a more formal dinner on the table. This is my favorite and is a more intimate environment. For have a formal setting would require a large table and smaller guest list. What we do in our home is the creation of two tables next to each other. One for adults and another for children. Children can chat with his ego and adults can visit each other without all separate. So decide now what kind of style the Thanksgiving dinner you want you can plan accordingly.

The second thing you should do is you start baking now. Most products freeze baked rather well. You can make and freeze pies, nut breads, cakes and cookies without cover. You can freeze uncooked fruit pies, wrapped in plastic wrap and cover with aluminum foil. To cook in the oven, place ice cream cake in the center of the oven at 375 degrees for about 1 1 / 2 hours or until bubbly and golden. To freeze bread nut, you have to bake as usual and let cool completely. Wrap cooled bread in the bread from the freezer according to size of pan. To defrost only to put in fighting for about an hour, then cut as usual. To freeze unfrosted cakes, the cake layers cool completely and wrap separately of parchment paper and then foil. Let thaw in combating completely before frosting. Cookies freeze very well. Just bake according to recipes and cool completely. Store cookies in freezer bags or containers to freeze and lock-n-locks. Just thaw in combat until you are ready to show and dinner. Doing this now will certainly help take a load off.

Organize your guest list. This may seem simple, but as you think about who want more from your home, your list can grow to numbers impossible! Do you have a large family? If so, it may not be able to have many more friends. Here is where you decide you want to spend the day with. The traditions also play a role in this. Maybe you have the same people year after year, as grandma and grandpa. If so, this will be easy because you already know. Ok, now you have your list guest list.

Start your grocery shopping early! Do not wait until the week of Thanksgiving to buy what you need. Not only are you risking empty shelves, but it's expensive to buy in the last minute. There sales base for the firing of some Halloween supplies and such. Securities now. If stuffing mix is available when in the market for milk, pick it up. You will need anyway. You can also get cranberry inexpensive way before the big day. Cranberries freeze well too. How to buy items you know you need, face cuts so that when you get the rest of what you need, no more than buy them. Turkeys are also on sale sometimes weeks before. You can get great deals like $ 5 bucks a limit. Seeing this, go back again and pick up another to freeze!

Plan your day to cook. It is very likely to be a day or two before. Decide what needs to happen and prepare everything you can. Mix stuffing for the bird and put into a container and store in refrigerator. Also, you can make your rolls ahead. Cook cranberries. Will be much better the next day anyway after setting. You can also make your salads shaped the previous day, and you'll need the installation. This is when it thaws all frozen baked goods a week before now. So if you need to frost the cake, now is time. You can also bake until the cakes are frozen. Do the best you can on this day will help you More time with friends and family.

Finally Thanksgiving Day! The turkey is in the oven. When your guests begin to arrive it is necessary assistance. You may want to do everything and get all the glory for the hard work they have put them in, but it's better to help others and enjoy your day. Delegate tasks such as setting the table, the organization serving dishes and the establishment of appetizers for guests to enjoy food while being prepared. Snack is an important part of a party. This is a necessity to entertainment. So are inboxes and mingle with guests, because you have planned for this day and now enjoy it too!

Happy Thanksgiving

Stephanie Maggio

928-503-4922

www.maggiospersonalchefservice.com

A sample of Thanksgiving food menu:

Roast Turkey with Herbs

Crusted Cider baked ham

Sweet Potato Casserole with Pecan Topping

Mashed potatoes and bread sauce

Blueberries with Grand Marnier sauce (YUM!)

Molded Raspberry / Cranberry Salad

Homemade Rolls with Honey Butter

Green Bean Casserole (kids love this)

Bread stuffed with italian sausage, pecans, raisins and apples

Pumpkin Pie

Apple pie

Pecan pie

About the Author

Stephanie Maggio is the owner and chef of Maggio’s Personal Chef Service. They are a full personal chef service offering in-home catering and specialty desserts.
www.maggiospersonalchefservice.com

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