Not just for Thanksgiving!

For the first day of our new meal plan (i.e. meals that we actually plan out ahead of time instead of staring at each other wondering what to eat) we had Target's Market Pantry frozen turkey breast, which was seasoned wonderfully and so easy to throw in the oven, along with homemade garlic mashed potatoes and green beans.

The potatoes were made with :

5lb golden yukon gold potatoes (I like my skins on!) boiled until fork tender
about 1 cup skim milk (called for cream, but we improvised)
2 heads of roasted garlic (we like more garlic and added powder)
7tblsp butter

all mashed up together!  It was all served up with green beans and our favorite dry apple cider.  It was delicious, and lasted us through 2 meals each, plus leftovers for the man tomorrow.

Our favorite cider is the Aspall on the left. It is probably the driest we have tried.  But a close second is the Woodchuck Hard Cider in the Crisp variety, which seems to be pretty hard to find!

The last bottle is some Strawberry beer that I tried, because I love strawberries! It was actually not that impressive, but I DO love the bottle with the pinup girl!