Roast Turkey Breast

I completely forgot to take a picture of the turkey. Scrappy and LV said it was delicious. These are the empty containers from the leftovers...

Baked Ziti

We've been avoiding converting any of the leftover chicken, turkey, or steak into dinner. Last night we walked all the way to Wendy's rather than eat leftovers. But tonight I went for it. There was a box of ziti. There were jars of pasta sauce. I had just bought a bag of frozen chopped kale. We could do this. We could make something of this... What I came up with was a super-cheesy leftover poultry baked ziti dish. Kind of light on the sauce, but still good.

Turkey Tostadas

After thawing a container of leftover turkey, I didn't really know what to do with it. The baby and I headed to the grocery store, found a big stack of tostada shells, and decided that was the way to go. With some yellow rice, everyone was happy.

Spice Rubbed Turkey with Cranberry BBQ Sauce

Years ago, way back at the start of this blog, I flagged recipes in the Better Homes & Gardens cookbook that looked good. I never actually thought I'd make spice rubbed turkey breast, but I also never bothered to remove the flag. Then Key Foods put a 6.5 lb turkey breast on sale.

The cranberry bbq sauce was really good. I mean, the turkey turned out well, but... that cranberry sauce was super tasty. Scrappy wasn't a fan. Things like cider vinegar and hot sauce boiled with cranberry isn't really her thing. Oh well.

I seem to have forgotten something...

Thursday night we went shopping and I saw a bottle of dressing I wanted to try. We never have dressing in the house, but raspberry vinaigrette sounded good. At lunch I decided to try it with all the green peppers, mushrooms, and cucumbers I had on hand. I diced them up, but thought they looked kind of sad. So I added the little bit of pasta left from earlier in the week.

I seem to have forgotten an ingredient in these muffins... I was so excited to make muffins with big frozen blueberries, and then I forgot to add the baking powder. They look like bricks, but they taste okay. A little solid. Like a weird scone.

Luckily the rest of dinner was better. (And the muffins did get eaten.) I thought this might be an overload of fresh vegetables for one day, but it actually didn't taste that way. (There is a lot of turkey hidden in there.) Yay for me...

Spaghetti and Meatballs

"Do you need me to bring anything home?"

"No, just yourself."

About ten minutes later, I realized I should have checked around before saying I didn't need anything. We were out of pasta sauce and meatballs were on the menu. Oops.

I had can of crushed tomatoes in the cabinet. No paste. Not a lot of vegetables to choose from. Just the can of tomatoes. So I decided I would figure out how to make that one can taste like a good sauce. Garlic, olive oil, a beef cube, and a lot of time simmering led to what I decided was an all right sauce. LV seems to be allergic to oregano, so I used basil. If anything, it looked good--a chunky sauce instead of the usual Prego over steamed asparagus.

Wings & Rigatoni

Weeks ago I bought a package of wings and then stuck them in the freezer. All sorts of other goodies were also added to the freezer that haven't exactly been devoured. Thus, the wings for Football Sunday had some company--bagel bites and pigs in blankets. A plate like that will leave you not wanting to stay put the couch while you contemplate what you've done to yourself.

LV said he had seen a commercial for meatballs, and that sounded like a really good idea for dinner. I didn't want spaghetti. I made what was left of a box of rigatoni. Then I added all the frozen vegetable that would have been on the side to the pot of meatballs. That probably would have worked better with more delectable vegetables.

Trying to Offset All the Candy

LV and I had hit Target the night before and bought a bag of candy bars. In general, nothing we'd been eating all week was very healthy, so, when I went to the grocery store to look for something to make for dinner, I decided to buy a bunch of vegetables for salad. While we heard one trick-or-treater complain several times that he needed real food, we were okay and out for much longer than our first year in this neighborhood.

Green Squash and Spaghetti

I felt we needed some vegetables (a lot, really), but didn't feel like eating frozen green beans. All we had in the fridge was green squash. So, I cut it all up and threw it in with the sauce. It was... okay.

Yum Salad in a Bag

None of the salad at the store looked good, so I bought a bag of ready-to-serve "more creative" salad. "More creative" because it includes toasted almonds and dried cranberries and some vinaigrette. (LV has forgotten more things than most people will ever know, but he dug out the correct spelling of vinaigrette. That one "stood" in his brain.) I added the strawberries and turkey. Done.

I almost forgot! I made corn muffins to go with this. That made it see more filling.

Ground Turkey Helper

The best thing about Hamburger Helper is not that it's an easy thing to make when I'm too tired after a weekend of traveling and shooting, but that I can completely forget it's on the stove and it's still edible. This is the bacon cheeseburger flavor that burned to the bottom of the skillet.

LV says, "It was very tasty. I ate a lot of it."

Forgotten Salad

This is spring mix with turkey, tomatoes, red onions, walnuts, and maybe some other stuff I bought and at the last minute remembered I needed to turn into a salad. (It hasn't been a good couple weeks for produce in our kitchen. I keep forgetting to use it...)

Spaghetti and Meatballs

Heat-and-serve meatballs with a jar of pasta sauce and frozen vegetables. Mmm...

Kind of Yum Salad and Corn Cake

I changed the header on this blog to say that I serve dinner with no complaints: I don't complain, my family doesn't complain. Two days later, I get complaints.

"Daddy... I don't want to eat the raspberries."

Scrappy was waiting for her instant corn cake to rise in the oven. We hadn't even sat down to eat. And she was already protesting... the raspberries?

The salad had started to turn. I was meticulously picking out good pieces from bad pieces in the spring mix, and she's protesting... raspberries.

This had to be because I changed the header.

Breakfast for Dinner

Unsure of what to do for dinner and lacking the desire to go to the supermarket, we made breakfast for dinner. Pancakes, scrambled eggs, and turkey ham. I should have waited until we added syrup to take the photo--that always looks better.

Spaghetti and Meatballs

After a week away, I didn't feel like diving into anything too complicated. (Not that I've been diving into anything complicated lately...) Mushrooms were on sale, so the sauce includes fresh mushrooms and onions. Nothing spectacular.

Spaghetti and Meatballs

I always seem to focus more on the meatballs than the noodles when taking pictures of this. Mmm... Spaghetti.

Fun with Prepared Foods

I've had Oreos that were frosted on the wrong side, but I don't think I'd ever looked for the reversed stamp in the frosting before...

The options were meatballs or pork, and LV chose meatballs. I had to make the pork anyway so it didn't go bad. I just didn't take a picture of it yet. (Broiled, maple pepper, etc. You've seen it here before.)

Scones!

This recipe for cinnamon scones from an old issue of Food & Wine has been stuck to my refrigerator for months. I finally decided to make it this morning. It also gave me an excuse to finally get out the food processor.

I didn't read the directions carefully enough, so mine don't look like the three pictured in the issue, but they were pretty tasty for a first. (If a little bland and undercooked.)

This is leftover spaghetti from the night before. I thought it looked like an absurd amount of food, but was told that it is a small dish and "Don't treat me like a freak." The motion blur was approved, though. ;0)

Spaghetti (with new cookware)

We received a lovely 10-piece set of cookware in July that I didn't really put to use until September. So, even though this wasn't very difficult (store bought heat-and-serve meatballs), I had the pleasure of using matching and correctly sized pots. Yay.