First up....turkey
A simple turkey burger is always delish (ground turkey, salt, pepper) but the other day I had been sauteing some mushrooms (because I am addicted to 'shrooms, not in the druggie way, the foodie way....as if I had to explain) - I seriously sauteed a pound of mushrooms (in butter of course) and ate 3/4 of it on the spot like it was a handful of peanuts or something. Nobody else in this god forsaken, anti-yummy food house will eat them with me. I digress...I had some scallions leftover from another recipe so decided to toss those into my mushroom mixture towards the end of the saute time. The result was pure heaven. Mushroom heaven. Fast forward a bit as I was preparing the turkey mixture for dinner when I thought I should dice up the leftover 1/4 pound mushroom/scallion mixture and add it to MY portion of the turkey burgers. Seriously, it was the best turkey burger I ever had.
Ingredients:
1 lb ground turkey
salt and pepper
1/4 lb mixture of sauteed mushrooms/scallions (up the quantity if you live with awesome people who eat awesome food and you can use in the entire turkey mixture; use the 1/4 lb if you live with taste-bud challenged folk)
bread crumbs (about a 1/4 cup)
egg (I used the egg whites from one egg)
1/8 - 1/4 cup crumbled feta
Get your hands all messy and combine all that goodness (minus the feta) in one big bowl. Make your patties (mine made about 7 decent sized burgers). Make a thumb indent into the top of each patty and scatter a little feta into each whole. Grill. Add cheese (I love colby jack) just before done grilling. Garnish. Devour.
I seriously make a fresh batch every other day...again, lame house, lame eaters but it is one of the few green items the Reesers will eat with me. So guacamole is our 'thang'. Ryan and Grant don't touch it. Shame on them.
Cast of characters:
2 avocados
1/4 red onion diced
handful of cilantro, cut up
1/4 cup of diced cherry tomatoes
juice from one lemon
juice from one lime
salt and pepper to taste
*cut extra of the onion and cilantro b/c I then tweak at the end to meet the desired taste
mash up the avocado, add the rest and enjoy!
I serve it with pretzel crisps - we LOVE pretzel crisps around here - I found them in the speciality cheese section at the grocery store a few months ago and then the good lord decided "these should be available in a monstrous size for the Stiffs" and lo and behold, I walked into Costco last week and saw them on display.