A few weeks ago, we purchased 20 pounds of organic Gala apples from Azure Standard. We ate half of them fresh, and stored the rest down in the basement pantry along with a dozen extra pumpkins from our garden (our best pumpkin crop ever)! This morning my husband brought the apples upstairs because he noticed that a couple of them were getting soft, so in order to use them all up before they spoiled, I spent the morning making applesauce, and an apple crisp for dessert tonight.
My free garage sale food mill works great!
For supper, I have a seasoned turkey roast (also known as turkey London broil) in the slow cooker, along with some sweet potatoes.
The meat counter at my favorite grocery store sells these pre-seasoned, and they were on sale when I was there last weekend. This is a great time to serve more turkey meals, because turkey is inexpensive this time of year. On Saturday, I bought 4 frozen, Honeysuckle White whole turkey breasts, on sale for $1.69/pound, plus I earned around $6 back because the store was having a special promotion. They gave each customer a paper bag, and any frozen items you could fit into it were an additional 10% off – even if they were already on sale.
I’ll serve the turkey and sweet potatoes with a side of harvest rice, which is a combination of wild and brown rice, cooked in chicken broth and a little butter, with toasted almonds and dried cranberries. I also have some fragrant herb bread dough in the bread machine.
Now I just have to do all the clean-up (urgh). I’ve always enjoyed cooking, but I’ve never, ever enjoyed doing dishes. And I have a dishwasher even! I’m so spoiled.
What’s happening in your kitchen today?
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I have Gala apples in my fridge right now. Apple crisp is calling my name!
By the way, when I first read your sentence on buying turkeys I thought you wrote that you bought 4 dozen turkeys (not 4 frozen turkeys). All I could think was “Where does she keep all of those turkeys?”
I made a roast today w/ garlic chive mashed potatoes and rolls. I was in the backyard doing a “Fall scavenger hunt” with my daughter and noticed the “Spring garlic” was coming up again, so I snipped the greens to use in my potatoes and they made all the difference.
We aren’t making anything that sounds nearly as good! Apple sauce sounds wonderful though. I might just head to the store and get some more apples!
My local grocer had collard greens on sale for 79c a bundle and eggplants 79c a piece. I am smothering greens to eat with some leftover grilled meat in my fridge, and roasting eggplant for the freezer. I will be making cornbread later! Love me some gala apples! Love this website, and you and your beautiful family. Tricia
I had to stay home from work today for some unexpected house maintenance. While waiting for the technician, I roasted chicken, potatoes and carrots, And I used up the last of our Italian plums into a plum crisp.