Turkey In January

This past week has been one of those weeks when I've had more energy, I think maybe because of all the bright sunshine we've been having. Wednesday morning, I woke up early at 5:00 AM and thought, that sure was a short night! My next thought then shifted to what I felt like cooking for our weekly Wednesday Supper. We've been having Wednesday Supper gatherings pretty much every week for the last several years.

I remembered that I had a large turkey in the basement freezer, just waiting to be cooked up and eaten, and decided that I was going to roast that 18.5 pound turkey from its frozen state. It can be done. I've done it before. I've even heard that a turkey cooked this way can taste better!

There's often drama when you try to get the giblets out halfway through cooking a frozen turkey, though, and this time, I never really found anything to pull out besides the neck. However, Bruce did find the giblets later on as he was carving ... 

green bean casserole in the crockpot

Our Wednesday Supper turned out to be a Thanksgiving dinner in January, and there ended up being nine people here eating! It was a party, and the little boys were so excited, running round and round through the kitchen, living room, and hallway, squealing and laughing. It was wild, and fun, and it felt so familiar to me from past years when our own three kids were little. 

Of course, then, we had lots of turkey to eat on for the rest of the week. Turkey sandwiches, turkey cranberry omelettes, turkey vegetable soup, turkey hash and eggs, and even several mason jars full of turkey bone broth that I put in the freezer for later. 

Katie gifted us banana bread with chocolate chips

super yummy sandwich

Tonight, I wanted to make something different besides turkey. I had picked up a couple of bacon wrapped chuck tender filets from my most recent trip to Aldi. And, they cost only $6.29 for the pair of them! I'm not the least bit embarrassed to say that I love shopping at Aldi. I feel like I can save 40-50 percent of what I might pay at other grocery stores in our area. Food is expensive these days! But since I do most of our cooking at home from scratch, I find the basic foods they have there work just fine for us. I broiled those bacon wrapped beef filets, and they were delicious!

I will be making these again ...