It's Gong To Be A Great Week - We Get An Oven Tomorrow, So We Shopped

DH and I actually had a rather nice Sunday, even though we had to work-. It was our final Sunday open, and we needed to do a lot of other things too, so we were shopping for a turkey and groceries at Target and then at CUB grocery at 8:00 am. Why a turkey? Because our oven will finally be delivered and installed tomorrow, and we want a turkey for Christmas Eve. We didn't get our own turkey for Thanksgiving, went to the buffet instead for that lovely meal. I'll have to look back at my posts, but I believe it was August when the oven broke, three days after the refrigerator. I know it was before Sharon came to visit us and attend the State Fair. 

If I'm correct, our new oven should look quite 
similar to this. It's a GE oven, in stainless steel 
and black to match the rest of the kitchen 
appliances. At this point I don't care what it 
looks like, I just want a functional oven again. 

I'll check dates and talk about this in a bit more detail tomorrow, but we bought a turkey, and stuffing, and assorted other things. I'll still need to do a Wednesday shop, and maybe even an early Friday one - even though that will be Christmas Eve and shopping should be vile. But our neighborhood grocery store is closed on Christmas Day as well as the day after to give their employees a well-needed break, so if I need something over the weekend, I'm out of luck. 

I might have to use actual butter. I'm looking through 
butter substitutes for my turkey and I'm not really happy 
with any of them. I use a butter substitute for my 
grain-free toast in the mornings, but it just doesn't 
have the same properties and I want this turkey to be 
perfect for DH. 

I'm trying to think of a reasonable butter alternative for the turkey. I try to stay away from dairy as much as possible (sometimes it sneaks into something, but generally, I've been pretty successful with this goal). But the turkeys that I made in the past, used quite a bit of butter under the skin, as well as for basting the turkey. It gives a great flavor as well as that perfect brown look. This year I'll be using my remote temperature sensing thermometer, as well as the new oven which actually has a window in the door. I just hope I don't get that residual metallic odor that can sometimes happen with a new oven. Sometimes it takes several days to burn that out, and turkeys are pretty sensitive to that. 

We picked up a nice, small turkey, about 8 pounds or so. 
It should be the perfect size for DH to pick at for a few 
days, and it will give me a nice drumstick and some 
breast meat. He eats most of the turkey. I don't mind 
turkey, but I get bored with it fairly soon. Of course, the oven 
needs to be installed first ... one step at a time. 

If the gym is open on Friday, I'm still planning to be there to swim before diving in to food preparation and three days away from the shop (hallelujah!). I have a lot to do before then, however, so I'm just going to get started right now. Have an excellent start to your week and I'll be back tomorrow.