No issues for me. I eat out on Thanksgiving Day.
But I greatly appreciate the hard work and skill
of preparing and hosting a Thanksgiving meal for
their families.
Posting this with the appreciation of all those who struggle to put Thanksgiving Dinner on the table and do it well. "I feel your pain!"
Never understood why people think there’s any hard work or skill. There’s a reason for that old Rice Krispy’s Treat joke commerical with the mom coming out of the kitchen looking all exausted with flour all over her face.
For those who only have one oven, make the desserts and the cornbread for the dressing the day before. Put the bird in the oven at 7 am and get the dough going for the homemade rolls. Go sit down. About 10 am, prep the sides. Go sit down. At 11, take the bird out of the oven and put the sides in the oven. Go sit down as the kids set the table. At 11:40, take the sides out of the oven and put the rolls in. At noon, call everyone to the table.
One year, I was in bed sick, sick, sick so our 4th grader made the whole Turkey Day meal from scratch all on her own. The only things she needed help with was 1) to have dad take the cooked 20+ lb turkey out of the oven, 2) to ask me how much sage to put in the dressing and all I could manage to mumble out was double what she thinks is enough and 3) to use a recipe for the homemade rolls.
She put out the whole spread - turkey, dressing, giblet gravy, corn casserole, homemade rolls, cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes, roasted carrots, deviled eggs, salad, homemade pumpkin pie and pecan pie and who knows what else. And set the table with the good stuff.
From my answer to the pie dough question up thread, it was her who admitted years later she never rolls out the pie dough but mushes it out with her hands straight in the pie pan.