with mashed red potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, green beans.

Tomorrow, I'll use the drippings to make a stuffing. (One of my ovens is down, and there's little room left in the one that works to fit everything in at the same time. Ugh!)

This is a whole leg (thigh and drumstick), and is HUGE, weighs 3.5 lbs. Looks like turkey noodle soup later this week!

I placed a package of chicken thighs in the crockpot overnight with the following:
1 pkg sliced porcini mushrooms
couple of dashes of Worcestershire sauce
1/2 stick of butter
3 cloves garlic
Thyme, salt, pepper

When it's time to serve, I remove the chicken and mushrooms onto a plate, then strain the juice into a saucepan. Add the remaining stick of butter, 2 tablespoons of flour and a splash of white wine. Let the sauce boil and slightly thicken, then pour over chicken. I roasted some potatoes for the side.

I'm in a new town and have taken the entire day off and plan to continue doing that, lol.

And those are the ingredients I have on hand.

I also have some bread I have been carting around that is stale, so I might bread and fry them.

At any rate, I will be eating (and drinking a margarita!)

Salad.

with peas. Does anyone find saffron (closer than India or Spain) that doesn't cost $5 a thread?

I better get started!

Brown ground beef, add dried or fresh mint leaves, dried or fresh greek oregano (or other oregano), lemon juice, salt and pepper. Add a bit of liquid (I use coffee), and simmer for half an hour or so. Then add greek yogurt and heat through.

For pilaf, toast the dry bulgar in some butter, then add diced onion and celery and some italian herbs. When onion/celery is softened, add chicken broth. Cover and simmer til wheat is chewy/soft.

Tonight I am stirring a bag of baby spinach in at the last minute, and crumbling a block of feta over top.

I needed to use my taters

And a new discovery. I put a loaf of frozen bread dough in the oven to keep it "a little bit warmer than room temp" to rise while cooking on the electric stove top. Well the stove top brought the oven temps up a bit higher than I anticipated.

The loaf looked like small Zeppelin (the bread pan being the passenger compartment)!

I should have taken a picture because it was really hilarious.

Anyway..... I shoved it back down to size and am baking it now. It's going to be quite wrinkly on top.

I love adventure!

Lunch was leftover Roundtable Ultimeat pizza. Yum!

It was another experiment for us from Jamie Oliver's 15 min meals book...it's this strange lentil stew that has a ton of veggies reduced in the food processor. It's onions, carrots and herbs processed into mash, then sauté the veggies, add lentils, tomatoes, spinach and cook for awhile. You'd never guess this small bit of stew I made had like 4-5 vegetable servings in it. We dipped the bread in it, and while my older girls didn't care for it, my 2 younger ones ate a ton. Finally got them to eat legumes! They ate the cayenne chicken too - although weirdly it wasn't hot at all...I think I got some crappy stuff, LOL.

Onion rings and breaded macaroni-cheese triangles.

Two Moosehead beers to go with.

Dessert? White chocolate.


Cher

p.s. cbayer, toast?

and I laughed at the thought of you "carting" around bread.

I knew I would find some good use for that bread and I did.