Thanksgiving Countdown

Judi Ketteler has some detailed Thanksgiving instructions: Countdown to Thanksgiving.

This assumes you started with her "three weeks before" instructions. Now we're up to the Monday Before Thanksgiving (that's today!):

• Make your pies: pumpkin pie will easily keep (and maybe even taste better).
• Depending on its size, you may need to start defrosting a frozen turkey. Refer to the USDA guidelines again.
• Make a list of each dish, how far ahead it can be prepared, and set a schedule for the week. Remember that things like broth for stuffing and gravy can be made ahead (even frozen if necessary).

Tomorrow, you'll buy your perishables, get some fresh flowers, and finish up the names on the place cards.

Here are 25 Thanksgiving pies: