Thanksgiving menu

I like cooking for other people.  I don't know that I'd like it if it were my full-time job, but if cleaning the house wasn't a corollary to most events involving feeding people, I'd probably be doing it more.

Anyway, here's the menu for Thanksgiving this year:

Turkey: I cut out the spine for faster cooking - recipe from the NY Times

Mashed potatoes: 3 lbs. of Yukon gold, using the 1970s Betty Crocker cookbook mashed potatoes recipe

Squash soup: I wanted something squash besides pumpkin pie, and soup fit into the menu - recipe from the NY Times

Rolls: I do them crescent-style (since my gramma does), but the dough recipe is the one my mom uses, from Food from the Heartland

Cranberries - 3 ways: a can of Ocean Spray jelly, cranberry jalapeno jam, and sugar-free cranberry sauce (basically from the back of the bag of cranberries, substituting sucralose)

Dressing: I haven't found the perfect stand-in for Gramma's dressing yet, so I'm trying yet another recipe this year - recipe from the NY Times

Carrots: I started fumbling around for "something orange" recipes since I wasn't sure if I'd find a squash recipe I'd want, and finally settled on carrots as an acceptable vegetable side - recipe from the NY Times

Brussels sprouts: I don't know how I'm cooking the Brussels sprouts yet, but I cut down three stalks to finish off the garden on Saturday, and we have... a lot of them
Broccoli salad: I picked this for a vegetable side (and something not-warm) before I realized how many Brussels sprouts I had; the recipe is from the library cookbook

Gravy: hopefully with turkey fat, but if not I have some schmaltz in the freezer for a poultry-flavored gravy

Pies: 2 pumpkin (one with sugar, one with sucralose, the Libby's recipe), 1 apple (Betty Crocker recipe), and a nutmeg-maple cream I haven't tried before (recipe from the NY Times)

I'm breaking the cooking out over three days by what refrigerates/reheats best so that Thursday isn't overwhelming.  Luckily the rolls make like 32, since I'm making them today and will probably eat ~5-8 when they come out of the oven.