What to Eat January 4th

Today I came home from work and put an entire turkey in the oven. I had thawed it out a few days ago and so I had to use it. By the time I got home from work it was perfect!

To cook the turkey I rubbed it down with salt, put it in a pan and into the oven at 475 degrees for 20 minutes. Then I turned it down to 250 and cooked it for 20 minutes for each pound. It was moist and tender and delicious.

I made gravy with the drippings in the pan. I put the pan on the stove and just added salt and then flour a spoonful at a time until it was thick and bubbly.

I put greenbeans on and took some cranberry sauce out of the can.

Then last but not least I made a homemade apple pie, crust and all. The crust I made the dough a while ago and froze it in sections so I would have it ready to use at any time. For the filling I put apples (diced up) 1 tsp allspice, nutmeg and cinnamon, 1 1/2 cups brown sugar, 1tsp vanilla and the zest of one orange. I cooked it at 350 for 1 hour. DELICIOUS!!

What to Eat Jan 3rd...

I actually didn't cook anything today... I was very busy cleaning out parts of our house and I was in a bad mood so I didn't cook. I also has not decided I was going to do this cooking every day thing at this point, so the lack of cooking is fine in my mind :)

What to Eat January 2nd

Today I cooked mint chocolate chip cookies.. again nothing special and no recipe... they came from a package.

What to Eat January 1st

This is going to be my new series/challenge... I am going to try very hard to stick to it, I may not get them posted every day, but I am going to cook SOMETHING every day. It may be small or a whole meal. I just know that I love to cook. It is relaxing and I enjoy it. It is my simple challenge to myself.

I started off my new year on Jan. 1st by cooking burrito's (nothing fancy, just simple burrito's).

I cooked ground beef and added taco seasoning, we had flour tortilla's, lettuce, refried beans, sour cream and montery jack cheese. They were delicious and simple.