comfort foods

I buy large quantities of ground turkey at Costco so I'm always looking for different ways to cook it besides the usual spaghetti with meat sauce (which I personally wouldn't mind eating every day, but the rest of the family not so much). Yesterday we had shepherd's pie with sweet potatoes:

3 carrots, chopped

3 celery ribs, chopped

1 onion, chopped

1.5-2 lbs ground turkey

flour

milk

poultry seasoning

2 lbs sweet potatoes

nutmeg

cayenne

salt

Cook the sweet potatoes in salted boiling water for about 15 min. Mash and season w/ the nutmeg, cayenne, and salt (would probably be better with butter and some kind of sweetener but trying to be healthy here).

Heat up some olive oil and brown the turkey. Add the carrots, celery, and onion and cook until veggies are softened. Stir in the poultry seasoning, then some flour. Pour in enough milk to make the sauce and cook until the sauce is thickened.

Pour the turkey mixture into the baking pan, top with the mashed sweet potatoes and bake at 350 for a while.

We also had some gingerbread that I had made earlier in the day. Of course I healthified that too by replacing some oil with applesauce and reducing the amount of sugar in it, but it was still good! The original is amazing though, if you like that sort of thing.

This morning I ran without the stroller and did 9 miles w/ 2 x 2 miles tempo intervals. I was trying to do the second 2 mile interval faster than the first and it felt pretty hard! Overall it was a good workout though and my legs were nice and tired by the end. I tend to dread doing speed workouts because of the discomfort involved, but if I don't do any I just feel lazy and slow, so it's kind of a no-win situation. If I do one I try to do it in the earlier part of the week to get it out of the way, which doesn't actually make any sense if you think about it (get it out of the way for what exactly?) but whatever.