Sunday, November 25, 2012

 Last night's guests were served turkey pot pies with a garden salad and apple pie with ice cream for dessert!


This is a great way to use up leftovers from Thanksgiving dinner. Prep time 1 hour. Serves 6.

                                                  6 cups cooked diced turkey meat
                                                  2 cups of cooked diced carrots with peas
                                                  1 large yellow onion, diced
                                                  2 cups left over turkey gravy
                                                  1 cup white wine
                                                  2 cups turkey broth
                                                  2 tablespoons olive oil
                                                  1 package puff pastry sheets (17.3 ounces)

  1. Remove the puff pastry sheets and allow to defrost until they can be unfolded (15 to 20 minutes)
  2. In a large Dutch oven over medium heat, saute the diced onions in the olive oil until translucent.
  3. Add the turkey, carrots, peas, gravy, wine and broth and stir to mix.
  4. Continue cooking for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add more broth if mixture is too dry.
  5. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
  6. Spoon the turkey mixture evenly into the 6 individual oven proof baking dishes.
  7. Cut pieces of the pastry sheets to cover the tops of the baking dishes.
  8. Bake in preheated over for about 20 minutes or until the the tops are golden brown and the filling is bubbly.
  9. Remove for oven and serve.


Thursday, November 22, 2012

                                      Thanksgiving dinner is over but everyone enjoyed the meal.


The turkey with stuffing turned out moist and tasty.


The buffet consisted of from front clockwise, Turkey and stuffing, veggie plate, Waldorf salad, gelatin vegetable salad, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, gravy, peas and carrots, dinner rolls and sweet potatoes. Dessert was apple and pumpkin pies with whipped cream.
Thanksgiving is here and I have the 20 # turkey with stuffing in the roaster on the outdoor grill! I am on time for dinner served at 4:00PM!

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

The homemade dinner rolls are coming out of the oven ready for tomorrow's Thanksgiving dinner.

Today is prep day for the big Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow. This morning I made 4 pies, 2 pumpkin and 2 apple. See my November 6, 2012 post for how I prepared the pumpkin using pumpkin from my garden.

Sunday, November 18, 2012

                                  Last night's dinner was simple; a tossed green salad and pizza!


The salad was made with purchased lettuce but the red onion, red pepper and tomato were from my garden and I still have a few tomatoes and peppers that were not used!


Anyone for homemade pizza?

Friday, November 16, 2012

Time to start preparations for Thanksgiving dinner for 15. One of the first things to do is to collect the white and whole wheat french breads and the corn bread that are needed for the turkey dressing. I made the corn bread this morning and put it and the breads into the dehydrator to dry. I then cut the breads into small cubes ready for use on Thanksgiving morning. I can't wait.