It keeps flirting with above-freezing temperatures and we had some bright sun today, but tomorrow night the expected low is 1.
This time I went with both a bottom and top crust, sometimes I just do the top crust. I used a hot water pie dough (Susan Purdy's recipe except using Crisco instead of margarine), sometimes I've made laminated dough and used that, makes for a really flaky top.
Either way, they're usually very good, light on the turkey, heavy on the potatoes, celery, carrots and peas and lots of gravy.
I'm making 8 4-inch turkey pot pies, just went into the oven. A bit messier than I had hoped but I think they'll taste fine.
Mini pies or hand pies always seem to have a higher crust-to-filling ratio. But I like pie crust, so it usually isn't an issue for me either. I'm thinking about doing some 4" turkey pot pies with leftovers vs a 9 or 10 inch pot pie.
We had hot ham and cheese sandwiches again, I also had a small bowl of soup, Diane had some potato salad.
We got a couple inches of snow over the weekend and another inch so far today. My brother (near Dubuque) says he got around 8 inches and 4 more expected.
The snow has chased some mice indoors, Jack proudly brought us a mousetrap with a mouse in it last night and another one this morning.
I've had at least 3 meyer lemon trees, each of them produced a dozen or so fruit at first but less in subsequent years, and at this point I've given up on trying to raise them. Probably not enough light and inadequate pollination indoors.
We had a variation on a theme for supper, tomato soup and fried cheese, but on lahvosh instead of bread. Quite good.
Yeah, we had Thanksgiving leftovers, too.
Fun fact: The guy who came up with that rain gauge idea has made over a million dollars from his patent.
You might check with Mr. Mixer in Kansas.
We went with fried ham and cheese sandwiches tonight, a break from Thursday leftovers.
we went with a 5 pound turkey breast
We had artichokes for supper tonight.
I have my sweet potato pie in the oven, and will be doing an apple pie later on.
