Don’t bother with appetizers, don’t expect any help, and more sage advice from the Barefoot Contessa.
with something more unconventional. Does thinking about all of that at the beginning of November stress you out? Maybe you should have prepared like Ina Garten and started planning inWhen we were hanging Garten earlier this summer, she was already well underway with her Thanksgiving menu plan. “I’m never stressed!” Hard pause. “No, of course I am,” she joked. “But a plan makes me much less stressed than I would be.
For those of us just getting around to thinking about it now, there’s still something to learn from Garten’s process. Here, the Barefoot Contessa culled her decades-worth of hosting experience for eight pro tips for a stress-free Thanksgiving.Even if Thanksgiving in July is not for you, you can still get a head start by filling your table with make-ahead dishes.
. With her method, you make the gravy ahead too, pour it on a platter, and arrange slices of cooked turkey on top of the gravy about 30 minutes before dinner. “Then you can just put the whole platter in the oven so you're not all dressed up for Thanksgiving and slicing a turkey while everybody’s watching you. I don’t want to do that, and I’m a professional cook!” She adds that the gravy keeps everything moister and hotter longer, so it’s “not cold by the time the last person eats.
or a dip that I can do in advance,” she says. “I’d rather spend my time making the meal and the desserts.”“I like to do something classic and something new,” she says. One year, that meant swapping in that she had been developing. This year, she’s thinking about debuting her triple chocolate loaf cake with a scoop of pumpkin ice cream for an autumnal twist.One of Garten’s worst Thanksgiving memories is the time she invited a bunch of friends to make all the dishes together at her home. “The next thing I knew, they were all in the library watching football, and I was in the kitchen making the entire Thanksgiving meal—right before dinner!” she recalled. “Never did it again. That was that.
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