Cheap & Cheerful Suppers using our last turkey from the freezer

Turkey-Vegetable and Biscuit Bake

Friday
roasted turkey
gravy
*bread and herb dressing
*oven-roasted baby carrots and potatoes
*fresh pears
*cranberry sauce
chocolate chip cookies

Saturday
leftover turkey and gravy
*bread and herb dressing
*tossed salad of lettuce, tomatoes, marinated waxed beans, black olive slices
*sauteed yellow crookneck squash

Sunday
turkey in gravy
frozen corn
frozen peas
*applesauce
chocolate chip cookies

Monday
*sliced turkey, thyme-cream cheese, spiced fig jam sandwiches on homemade whole wheat
*Asian pear slices
*tossed salad of lettuce, tomato, olive slices, sunflower seeds, dried cranberries dressed in rosemary-chive blossom vinaigrette
chocolate pudding

Tuesday
turkey, vegetable and biscuit bake (I was in a time-crunch so didn't use garden veggies, but used frozen green beans and peas)
*Asian pear slices
chocolate chip cookies

Wednesday
black beans and rice
green beans
*tomato wedges
*pear-applesauce
chocolate chip cookies

Thursday
black bean burgers topped with quickie marinara and mozzarella
*rosemary-garlic rice
*sauteed garden vegetable medley (green and waxed beans, summer squash, tomato and green pepper with garlic and herbs) no time to pick garden veggies tonight, busy day making applesauce and pies, so we'll just have:
*apple sauce
*apple pie



*indicates some of this meal item came from our garden or orchard (or from a friend's orchard :-)  )


When baking cookies, the logical thing to do is bake all of the dough, all at once, right? In our house, if I want cookies to last for desserts for more than two or three days, I have to keep the cookies from getting "snacked-up". Sometimes I bake all the cookies and freeze half. Other times, as with chocolate chunk cookies, where they're at their best freshly baked (with melty chocolate), I freeze half of the dough, to bake at a later date. That's what I did this past week, which really pleases the melty chocolate-lovers in my family.

I roasted a whole turkey, my last one from November 2014. We made 5 dinners and 1 lunch from the turkey, plus froze enough turkey for about 6 more family dinners/lunches. And now I think I can do without turkey for a couple of months! My favorite turkey meal this week was the sandwich supper.

You read Thursday's entry correctly. We did have applesauce and apple pie last night. Thursday, a friend brought over 2 large grocery sacks of apples, which we turned into pies and applesauce. She's coming back later this morning for us to process the other half of the apples. Another very busy day. And now to find more space in the freezer. Yikes!!!