1 Week or More Before Feast
■ Buy any items you need on the Turkey Brining and Smoking Essentials and Outdoor Cooking Essentials lists.
■ Order turkey and duck fat.
3 Days Before Feast
■ Pick up turkey and thaw if necessary.
■ Order rib roast.
■ Begin drying out corncobs.
■ Make vanilla sauce.
2 Days Before Feast
■ Do your big grocery shop.
■ Make soup.
■ Make candied pecans for salad.
■ Make country sausage.
1 Day Before Feast
■ Make Yorkshire pudding batter.
■ Pick up roast.
■ Make cornbread for dressing.
■ Make garlic butter.
■ Make vinaigrette for salad.
■ Make bread pudding.
■ Make croutons for soup.
■ Make boozy sauce.
Night Before Feast
■ Make brine and put in turkey.
81/2 Hours Before Feast
■ Fire up grill for smoking.
8 Hours Before Feast
■ Put turkey on grill to smoke.
4 Hours Before Feast
■ Take roast out of refrigerator.
■ Blanch Brussels sprouts.
■ Blanch potatoes.
31/2 Hours Before Feast
■ Put roast in oven.
■ Make cornbread dressing.
■ Make peas.
11/2 Hours Before Feast
■ Put potatoes in oven.
30 Minutes Before Feast
■ Bake Yorkshire puddings.
■ Make salad.
■ Finish Brussels sprouts.
■ Put dressing in oven.
■ Heat soup.
■ Heat peas.
When You Sit Down to Feast
■ Put bread pudding in oven.