Wait, what?? Yes, I know it is January and Thanksgiving was technically two months ago. We were visiting family over the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays so I did not get to cook a turkey this year and had some recipes I wanted to try out. So that is what I did for our Sunday meal this week.

So onto what I made and how it turned out:

For the turkey I took this recipe for a basic turkey and basting sauce for the oven and changed it up some.  I did not want to do a whole turkey for our small family of 4 (2 adults, preschooler and infant) so I purchased a turkey breast and two drumsticks instead.  I had about 5 lbs of meat total and it only cost me about $3.00!  What a steal!

So instead of cooking the turkey in the oven, since I did not want the pieces to dry out I decided to use my slow cooker.  I poured the water and cooking sherry from the recipe and poured it into the bottom of the cooker.  Tossed the meat in and spread the basting sauce over the top.  Then let it cook for about 7 hours on low.  It turned out super moist and really yummy!

I then decided to cook my mom’s dressing on the side as well as some mashed potatoes and a veggie from the freezer.

I had planned on making this Refrigerator Pumpkin Pie, but did not get to it this time.  And besides we still have some of the Chocolate Delight Pie in the freezer that we made last week, so we made due with that

All in all a great Thanksgiving meal in our house!  Now I have the broth for Turkey Soup going in the crockpot for dinner tonight!  More on that later…..