Prepare dinner As soon as, Eat All Week • Easy Nourished Residing
On this episode of Easy Shifts: Conversations to Gasoline the Physique, Thoughts and Soul, Martha and Peter focus on the advantages of cooking as soon as and having fun with meals all through the week, specializing in turkey breast as a flexible ingredient. They share varied meal concepts and recipes that may be made utilizing turkey leftovers, emphasizing the benefit of meal prep and the significance of wholesome consuming.
Key Takeaways
- Cooking as soon as can simplify meal prep for the week.
- Utilizing a sluggish cooker helps hold turkey moist.
- Leftovers could be reworked into varied meals.
- Turkey can be utilized in sandwiches, soups, and casseroles.
- Meal planning could make wholesome consuming simpler.
- Cooking on Sundays can set you up for the week.
- Versatility in cooking permits for inventive meals.
- Utilizing turkey in numerous cuisines provides selection.
- Wholesome consuming doesn’t must be overwhelming.
- Just a little pre-cooking can save time in the course of the week.
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Video Transcript
Martha McKinnon (00:00)
Hello, welcome to Easy Shifts: Conversations to Gasoline the Physique, Thoughts and Soul. I’m Martha McKinnon from the weblog Easy Nourished Residing and with me is my brother and companion at Easy Nourished Residing, Peter Morrison.
Peter Morrison (00:13)
Good day, Martha McKinnon.
Martha McKinnon (00:15)
Good day, Peter Morrison, how are you?
Peter Morrison (00:18)
I’m doing properly right this moment, how are you right this moment?
Martha McKinnon (00:20)
I’m doing rather well. Thanks for coming again for one more dialog.
Peter Morrison (00:24)
Thanks for inviting me.
Martha McKinnon (00:27)
So right this moment I assumed it could be enjoyable to discover how you might prepare dinner as soon as after which eat all week by cooking off a turkey breast. Mother talked about that she had simply cooked a turkey breast and that she had shared a few of it with you. And it made me consider my favourite technique to prepare dinner, there’s numerous methods you’ll be able to prepare dinner a turkey breast, however my favourite in fact because the sluggish cooker lover is within the sluggish cooker.
As a result of I discover it, once more it’s a must to fear much less, it’s much less more likely to dry out. That moist, sluggish warmth retains it moist and you’ll taste it nevertheless you need with completely different seasonings and spices. I like the idea of cooking off a major quantity of an merchandise after which simply discovering other ways to play with it. And I feel in the course of the week, you’re type of arrange. You’ve acquired one thing to begin with simply to make consuming in the course of the week a lot a lot simpler to the purpose the place it virtually turns into like meeting.
So turkey breast once more and we’ll hyperlink to those recipes right here and I’ve additionally put collectively a meal plan that features this that can be out there. We will hyperlink out to that within the present notes right here as properly onto our web site.
So we begin with turkey breast and so once more you’ve made the turkey breast after which you’ll be able to serve no matter you need for that first meal to make a meal out of it. You would possibly make mashed potatoes, you would possibly bake potatoes, you would possibly prepare dinner some rice, you would possibly prepare dinner some stuffing, roast some greens, no matter you need to do for that first meal.
In order that’s one. After which you should use the turkey in numerous other ways. And that is the factor I feel that lot of girls used to do fairly frequently. Like they cooked an enormous meal on Sunday after which that they had leftovers to begin the week and to roll from. So that you’ve acquired this turkey and so what are another issues that you are able to do with the turkey?
I like turkey sandwiches. So you might clearly make all completely different sorts of turkey sandwiches. A chilly sandwich, a easy sandwich, a panini, a heat sandwich, you recognize, with gravy over it. So sandwiches wrap. You can make a wrap or a sandwich as one other meal on one other day.
What else would possibly you do with a few of that turkey? We’ve acquired numerous recipes on our website that we will hyperlink out to that use hen. And once more, you’ll be able to substitute turkey for any recipe the place you’d use hen.
Peter Morrison (02:57)
Soup.
Martha McKinnon (02:59)
So you might make a soup and we’ve acquired a number of soups that use cooked hen on our web site. So you might make once more a easy vegetable soup, you might make a noodle soup, and once more you might taste that noodle soup in another way. You’ll be able to take it in an Asian course, you’ll be able to take it in only a easy American course, you’ll be able to take it in an Italian course, so we might do soup.
One other factor that we at all times love is type of you might take blended greens, chopped up turkey, and a few gravy or another creamy. You can make a creamy white sauce if you would like it from scratch or you might use a can of soup and also you make a creamy veggie turkey concoction that you might then placed on rice. You can placed on toast. We find it irresistible on a baked potato for one more meal. Casseroles. We have now a casserole on our web site.
Once more, as I used to be working to place collectively our meal plan, we’ve acquired a extremely tasty recipe that requires hen and stuffing and apples. And in order that’s a very nice dish that you might make utilizing the turkey. You can add the turkey and make a salad. Once more, simply chunks of the turkey with chopped up apple and cranberries. We even have a salad that will use yogurt and mayonnaise. So extra like a tuna sort salad, however with hen or turkey.
You can make that to make use of on a prime of greens or in a wrap. So once more, these, simply goes on and on the truth that you could have this, turkey that you should use now on all of those methods. I like, it was traditional rising up the place we did hen or turkey with broccoli after which like cream of hen soup and perhaps a little bit cheese, a little bit bread crumbs on prime baked within the oven.
And that was one thing we have been at buddy’s home just lately for a birthday celebration, and that was served in an enormous amount. It’s one thing that’s certainly one of their household favorites by way of a few a long time. That’s one other favourite.
Some other issues that you just would possibly do with that? So we’ve acquired casseroles, we’ve acquired a topping for toast or rice or baked potatoes, we’ve acquired salads, you might do quesadilla, you might do turkey enchiladas, you might do enchilada casserole, you’ll be able to take it in a Mexican course or southwest course. A lot versatility.
Peter Morrison (05:13)
You can add it, chop it up and add it to scrambled eggs or an omelet.
Martha McKinnon (05:18)
Yep scrambled eggs or an omelet or frittata. Yep. Completely. Pizza or I notably like turkey with a little bit barbecue sauce (affiliate hyperlink) and a few perhaps inexperienced onion mushroom on like a flat bread or tortilla as a extremely easy pizza.
Peter Morrison (05:39)
Making me hungry.
Martha McKinnon (05:42)
That’s a whole lot of concepts and I’ve made you hungry. I imply, once more, that is the ability of simply, assume, simply interested by cooking off, you recognize, a major quantity of a dish. On this case, a turkey breast that’s going to weigh in most likely not less than 4 kilos. And once more, then setting your self up to have the ability to make every kind of fast and straightforward and different meals. It doesn’t really feel such as you’re consuming the identical factor each evening, which some folks don’t need.
So I hope that’s a you recognize I hope that individuals discover this beneficial the truth that there are many methods to simply make wholesome consuming straightforward and approachable and it doesn’t must be overwhelming if we simply perform a little give it a little bit considering and just a bit a little bit pre-cooking. I do know I discover a little bit cooking on Sunday like that may simply met once more set me up for a complete week of constructing it simpler at dinnertime.
Peter Morrison (06:31)
Nice concepts, thanks for sharing.
Martha McKinnon (06:34)
Completely. I’m completely satisfied to share.
Peter Morrison (06:42)
Properly, thanks for watching. If you happen to’ve acquired different concepts for both objects you wish to not likely batch prepare dinner, like prepare dinner like that, whether or not it’s an enormous roast or greens.
Martha McKinnon (06:55)
And we will do this in a future episode. Yeah.
Peter Morrison (06:58)
Yeah. Tell us under and please share this with anybody you would possibly assume may additionally discover it useful. We’ll be again once more quickly.
Martha McKinnon (07:08)
Thanks Peter, I recognize it.
Peter Morrison (07:10)
Okay, have an excellent day. Discuss to you quickly. Bye.
Martha McKinnon (07:13)
Bye bye. See you quickly.
