I had a surprise when I was ready to cook supper
By Marsha
@MarshaMusselman (38865)
Midland, Michigan
June 24, 2022 4:46pm CST
We went grocery shopping this afternoon as I needed a few things for the meal I was planning. I took meat out of the freezer upstairs to make a skillet dinner that I made about a month ago. It calls for hamburger, green peppers, riced cauliflower, diced tomatoes and cheese.
After coming home I took all the veggies I needed to prepare out of the fridge to chop up and decided to begin cooking the burger meat at the same time when I'd discovered it wasn't hamburger as I thought but stew meat.
So instead I fried up some ground turkey made into patties and cooked up some mixed veggies from Gordon food service that has zuchinni and summer squash, carrots and green beans in it.
I've never had ground turkey before and I was impressed as it was quite good. The pic is my meal.
Now I need to look in the downstairs freezer to see if I put the hamburger there. If not I'll need to buy some. In the mean time I might cut up my veggies and freeze them so they're ready when I make the skillet meal.
My husband will have to figure out what to do with the stew meat since I'm back to work tomorrow.
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@LadyDuck (502726)
• Italy
26 Jun 22
@MarshaMusselman We eat very little during summer, I sleep well if I eat almost nothing for dinner.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
26 Jun 22
We are the stew meat tonight but didn't use it for stew itself as that wasn't the plan. My husband had it with cauliflower and I had a salad.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
26 Jun 22
@LadyDuck sometimes I'll only have a salad. If I don't eat something then I'm looking for snacks to have later which isn't good.
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@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
1 Jul 22
That's good. Your hubby knows how to cook. Me I don't know. I rely so much from my chef, my wife.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
1 Jul 22
Huh. I thought all this time you were female.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
5 Jul 22
@Nakitakona I got that from your response.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
26 Jun 22
My husband been getting tired of making hamburgers with beef so the ground turkey is like adding something else to our diet.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
25 Jun 22
Yes, I know that and I've been doing it all week. I'll probably put the stew meat in the crock pot before work tomorrow and he'll just have to cut up and cook some cauliflower to go with it.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
25 Jun 22
@RubyHawk I've been using it a lot more this summer or maybe I should say this year since summer just started last week on the calendar.
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@RubyHawk (99367)
• Atlanta, Georgia
25 Jun 22
@MarshaMusselman I cook practically everything in the crockpot.
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@porwest (112877)
• United States
24 Jun 22
I have to say that ground turkey is not a favorite of mine, but I also have to say it's good. I hardly ever have it in the house, but I do remember for a while it was cheaper than ground beef and I used it in several dishes I might otherwise use ground beef for.
Glad it all worked out.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
24 Jun 22
We have plenty of food in the house especially since we just went shopping. It's a matter of figuring out what to have that's thawed already. I probably could have cooked up the stew meat and had that with the same veggies but I didn't think of that until after I'd already begin cooking the turkey.
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@porwest (112877)
• United States
25 Jun 22
@MarshaMusselman I am terrible about thawing stuff. I always have to do it in the microwave.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
24 Jun 22
@CarolDM I've just been cooking the meat in the crock pot so the veggies don't overcook. We can't have potatoes right now.
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@CarolDM (203396)
• Nashville, Tennessee
24 Jun 22
@MarshaMusselman I always add veggies and whatever potatoes I might have.
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@snowy22315 (209097)
• United States
24 Jun 22
They both sound pretty good honestly.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
24 Jun 22
Either would have been. The skillet meal would have provided several servings and that's one meal my husband doesn't seem to mind having more often.
@kaylachan (84834)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
25 Jun 22
Sounds like a decent meal all the same.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
25 Jun 22
It was better than I expected. I knew the veggies would be good because I've had them before.
@RasmaSandra (98072)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
24 Jun 22
Your meal looks very delicious, I hope you find the ground beef,
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
24 Jun 22
It could be we ate it already and I forgot but I won't know until I look some more.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
25 Jun 22
Probably because most of it is the same color and looks the same when frozen.
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@MarshaMusselman (38865)
• Midland, Michigan
24 Jun 22
I've never had ground turkey before. I'll have to buy it more.
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