Thanksgiving countdown

Here’s how two cooks can pull off this big meal—with one cook working indoors, using a single oven, and one working outdoors at a single grill. If you don’t have ample fridge space, you may need to store some food at a neighbor’s.

1 week ahead

• Make cranberry relish.
• Make cinnamon ice cream.

• Shop.
• Start thawing turkey in fridge, if frozen.

• Make pies.
• Bake chocolate cakes.
• Toast seeds and nuts for relish and salad.
• Make pumpkin spread and slaw for tacos.
• Brine turkey.
• Make stuffing through step 2.
• Grill sweet potatoes.
• Bake cornbread.
• Make salad dressing.
• Roast broccolini.

• Heat grill and start turkey (allow 31/2 hrs. for cooking, resting, and carving).
• Spread topping on lime pies.
• Top cakes with powdered sugar.

• Start gravy.

• Add almonds to cranberry relish.
• Finish tacos: Toast chiles, warm pumpkin spread and tortillas, then set out compo-nents. (Or do this as guests arrive.)

• Bake stuffing.
• Assemble elements of salad; toss at serving time.

• Reheat sweet potatoes.
• Finish gravy.
• Reheat broccolini and cornbread.
• Let turkey rest, then carve.

• Set out desserts.
• Make canela tea.