On Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 5:56:46 PM UTC-5, wrote:
> The other day I took some frozen turnkey out of the freezer to thaw in the fridge. It's some I sliced up from our Thanksgiving bird. Yesterday I picked up some frozen vegetables because we were running low and I got some peas and carrots because I had not had any lately. So today I was thinking about making dinner and thought I'd make some mashed potatoes to go with the turkey and peas and carrots. It finally dawned on me I was recreating a TV dinner . . . sigh.
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> I haven't made it yet, but I'm going to.
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> Bill Ranck
> Blacksburg, VA

I'm sure it was far better than any boughten tv dinner.

Did you manage to recreate that awful institutional white sauce too? What gives it that distinctive scent?