make ahead
Thanksgiving should be enjoyable. Not just the meal—not just the dessert table!—but the whole dang day, from breakfast (or lack thereof) to meal prepping to eating. So even if you love a big, elaborate spread, you’ll be saving yourself a lot of frustration and stress on the day of Thanksgiving if you do as much prep work in advance as possible.
Do you ever get so busy cooking your holiday meals that you completely forget about appetizers? This happens in our house all the time and we end up with chips and salsa or a sad cheese plate as our pre-dinner snacking spread. One of my goals for the holidays this year is to come up with as many make-head dishes as possible so I can spend the day-of enjoying my family and friends rather than stressed out and stuck in the kitchen.