Thanksgiving Countdown

Can you believe it's only a week until Thanksgiving?! I essentially have a month left to plan my wedding, and I feel like I have a lot of stuff left to nail down! Oh well, no time for that now, a meal has to be planned! We have a few close families with whom we celebrate most holidays, so a big food holiday like Thanksgiving is a big deal indeed. This year we are looking at:

• A Chinese style turkey from Sam Woo.
• An American style roast turkey, brined per Alton Brown's instructions.
• A slow roasted prime rib
• some kind of seafood (mussels, clams, crabs, or lobsters)
• Matzoh ball soup
• Cranberry sauce
• Turkey gravy
• Mashed potatoes
• Ham hock and garlic braised collard greens
• Glazed sweet potatoes
• Grilled asparagus (or some other green)
• Chocolate mousse
• Some kind of purchased cake
• A magnum of bubbly, hard cider, red wine, and assorted sodas