Carne Asada Tacos

Breakfast
Egg and Potato Breakfast Burritos- made with leftover mashed potatoes from last nights dinner

Lunch
Pastrami and Provolone on Rye

Dinner
I had a lot of errands to run the day that I decided to cook a 26 pound turkey from the freezer. It has a cook time of about 5 hours so I went and did my errands only to come home to a raw turkey. My roaster decided to die while we were out. I have another roaster so I transferred the bird to that to finish cooking and my sweet husband stayed up to take it out and put it away when it was done. It was an easy dinner the next night and we we able to pack up 4 (2 C) bags of cooked chopped turkey for future dinners. I also made a turkey frame soup to use up everything. I cooked the turkey the same way I cook my Thanksgiving turkey.

Simple Turkey

1 14-15 pound turkey

1 stick margarine, softened

Bay leaves

Adobo, to taste

1 carrot, chunked

1 stalk celery, chunked

1 onion, quartered

1 green apple, quartered

½ C. water

Heat oven to 500 degrees. Wash the turkey and pat dry (save the bags of parts for your gravy). In the turkey cavity place all your vegetables. Separate the skin carefully from the turkey and place bay leaves and slices of half of the margarine under the skin. Rub the outside of the turkey with the rest of the margarine. Season to taste with adobo. Place turkey breast side up in a roasting pan. Put water in pan around the bird not over, you don’t want to wash away the margarine or seasoning. Cover turkey tightly with foil, removing the foil about 1 hour before turkey is done to brown the skin. Cook turkey at 500 degrees for 30 minutes, turn oven down to 325 and cook for 3-4 hours or until done, a meat thermometer inserted into the thigh without touching the bone should read 180 degrees when bird is fully cooked. Let turkey rest for 30 minutes before serving.

So what did we have for dinner? My husband had been asking for carne asada and since I didn't have any defrosted meat we went to the carniceria and bought some premarinated meat and made street style tacos.