Willamette Geek: Free iPhone App of the Week: CHOW Thanksgiving Dinner Coach

CHOW Thanksgiving Dinner Coach by CBS Interactive. Cost: Free

Rather than participate in the annual "Who the heck was supposed to handle the cranberries this year!?" melee with your family, take charge of the whole endeavor with a fabulously focused app from CHOW.com.

Its Thanksgiving Dinner Coach App is a comprehensive guide to streamlining the Thanksgiving dinner, including planning the menu, compiling a shopping list based on that menu, and detailing multi-step recipes and a cooking planner for putting it all together.

Start with the interpretation of the traditional Thanksgiving spread and pick and choose what stays and goes:

Then use the generated shopping list to grab your items and follow the illustrated step-by-step recipes to put them together:

There's even have a planning guide on when to start what part of the process. Did you ever imagine you'd see an "Edit Turkey Weight" button on your phone? Well dream no more!