Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Yesterday's Christmas meal for two, thus a replay of all tonight!


I made a 2.88 lbs. of turkey breast, bones in coated with extra virgin olive oil thyme, Rosemary, parsley, sage and garlic powder, cooked in our convection oven till reaching an internal temp of 165 degrees, sides of real mashed potatoes made from four golden potatoes, quartered and boiled for ten minutes then mashed with skim milk and butter added and then a dash of salt and pepper, California blend frozen veggies consisting of broccoli, cauliflower, and carrots, whole cranberry sauce, homemade dressing made from the heels and smaller pieces of rye, multi grain and white breads toasted and then cut into small squares next added in sautéed onions and garlic with sodium free chicken bouillon and a smidge of butter and parsley and water to moisten, lastly the homemade gravy cream of mushroom soup low fat with sautéed onions and garlic in extra virgin olive oil when turkey comes out add in those additional drippings, a slight fat splurge, also added sodium free chicken bouillon. The pumpkin pie was also made from scratch except the interestingly different Graham cracker crust, two were made the other one frozen for company, with different ingredients than many might not put into them, 1 cup of skim milk and four extra large beaten Egglands Best eggs, sugar, a full cup was called for...3/4 regular sugar was used with the remainder of stevia not a 1/4 cup instead about four packets, remember two pies... any-who, extra cinnamon, and ginger, and nutmeg as well as by mistake ALLSPICE, but Geez it tasted rather good! My crazy eyesight had me going over to a different recipe! Oh and that was with a twenty-nine plus ounce can of pumpkin mixed together then poured into the pie shells and cooked till done at 375 degrees for approximately 50 minutes, actually till a knife pulls out clean from the center, all ovens are slightly different as well as elevations!
Allow to cool and then refrigerate till ready to eat or freeze one as we did. Serve with your favorite topping or none as we did!

Way too much food for two! Fortunately, we have dinners for a few nights! Or turkey sandwiches and soup?

                                        Pumpkin pie below, just us, so not fancy, but delish!
Tonight we will repeat and eat the same meal, although Hubby just informed me that he finished last night's veggies while cleaning up*, which for him is AMAZING since he even ate the leftover broccolis that he doesn't consider food, he calls them weeds and usually avoids them like the plague!
So that was a very small Christmas miracle, ha!

Happy good night all!

Count those blessings and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

*Our retiree rule has been whomever makes the meal the other person cleans up... although, sorrowfully due to me feeling poorly so often Hubby has gotten stuck with both way too often and so when I have a good day I have been known to do both too! A little bit less lopsided that way?

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