Posts Tagged ‘turkey’

Work lunch – turkey and salad rolls

We had leftover turkey roast and vegetables to use up. Jac bought a bag of fresh bread rolls and I made us turkey and salad rolls for lunch. I made us each two rolls: – one “plain”: turkey, lettuce and mayonnaise – one “roast turkey special”: turkey, roasted sweet potato, cranberry sauce, lettuce and mayonnaise […

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Work lunch – turkey and salad rolls

Jac bought a bag of fresh multigrain bread rolls, so I used last of the turkey thigh roast to make us turkey and salad rolls for lunch. In roll number one: turkey, autumn fruit chutney, Kewpie mayonnaise, lettuce and tomato. Jac bought a jar of homemade autumn fruit chutney from a weekend market when she […]

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Bento – leftover roast pork and turkey with vegetables

I love bento lunches featuring leftover roast meat and vegetables (see previous post Sunday lunch of two roast meats)! I packed us both the same lunch: roast pork with apple sauce, turkey thigh roast with cranberry sauce, roasted vegetables, crackling, steamed green beans and broccoli, and a little container of gravy. This was Jac’s lunch, [&…

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Sunday lunch of two roast meats

A few weeks ago, we had my friend Chad and her boyfriend J over for a Sunday roast lunch. Jac loves cooking for guests, and she cooked up a feast featuring two roasts and lots of vegetables. This was the roast leg of pork, complete with salty, crunchy crackling. Jac peeled the crackling off the […]

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Turkey minchee puffs!*

We’ve cooked minchee using turkey mince previously (I have a category devoted to minchee), and I remarked on how “wormy” the turkey mince looked. It tasted fine, but I think pork mince remains the ideal meat to use for minchee. We cooked up another batch of turkey mince minchee recently though, because 1) we needed […]

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Bento – Turkey SPAM fried rice, orange and prunes

I’ve really been eating a lot of SPAM fried rice lately, haven’t I? I made this batch of fried rice with green beans, corn kernels, garlic, egg and turkey SPAM. I packed us each fried rice, orange slices and prunes. Another possibly cryptic cartoon on Jac’s bento note – can anyone tell me why the […]

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Dinner and bento – turkey roast and vegetables

The dinnerJac bought a turkey rolled roast with apple stuffing from the supermarket. She served it with gravy and vegetables done three ways: cauliflower cheese, steamed (green vegetables – snowpeas and cabbage), and roasted (root vegetables – potatoes, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, whole onions and carrots, all roasted in the oven at the s…

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Dinner and bento – turkey steaks and roasted vegetables

DinnerThis was a delicious dinner of turkey steaks with mushroom gravy, steamed vegetables (broccoli and green beans) and roasted vegetables (butternut pumpkin, potato, sweet potato, onions and carrots). We cheated on the gravy and used a packet one – I believe this was a Gravox mushroom gravy. I’ve tasted some surprisingly tasty packet…

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Late dinner: honey-roasted turkey breast with salad

Jac made this simple dinner for me on one of the nights I was busy working on [a secret at the moment – to be revealed soon :-D]. Sliced cold honey-roasted turkey breast (bought from Woolworths supermarket), hard-boiled egg, mixed salad greens, lebanese cucumber, roma tomatoes and marinated mushrooms, with freshly cracked black pepper on [&he…

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