Allow me to introduce myself, I'm Dinah and this is my blog with my ma. You can call her Pam.
We're on a mission, to enrich everyone's lives one recipe at a time. Once a week we cook together and may I say that we make some fabulous goodies together. On her end is the rich yummy foods that have been taught to her from the amazing Italian cooks in our family to me on the other end of the spectrum which is mainly sweets. I'm an aspiring baker so cooking with savory things isn't really my strong points so within this new blog I'm going to buff up on my culinary skills and we want to share really rich and great food for you and your family to enjoy. Whenever you are in your 20's and in college looking to use that slow cooker that your parents bought you but you've been using it to hold your plants. In your 30's and have extremely picky kiddo's who aren't the easiest to convince to eat something new. In your 40's and are working your tail off and simply don't have time to go to the market buy all these expensive ingredients, come home slave over a hot stove, then finally eat close to midnight with these dishes waiting for you the next day. In your 50's & beyond looking for a nice dinner for two with your significant other on date night this is the blog for you. We swear on our cooking rights that we will evaluate every recipe, give our results, taste them of course, and also give some idea's on how to spruce us said recipes. Join us here every Tuesday as we make, eat, and blog our food adventures. Okie, I must warn you we're no wasps. While we are open to all food lifestyles this is in no way a vegan blog or even an organic food blog. Those are fine and dandy but just not us.
Recipe 1:
Sandra Lee's Apple Maple Turkey Burgers with Maple-Dijon Sauce
Side dish: Garlic Fries
Ah, Sandra Lee. She's a fixture around the Bellas-Rhinehart household. While we love Sandy's food we more so love her for her um...*cough* drinks. She's quite the good time cocktail girl huh? I digress, this recipe (from seeing it on her show) seemed pretty tasty. What's not to love about turkey burger with all these interesting flavors paired together. Now if you're like my husband he was a bit iffy when I put the words syrup, apple, and turkey burger together but if you really think about it turkey is poultry and that's a type of meat and so is turkey breakfast sausage and those come in all types of maple, apple, honey, etc... so what's the real difference?
Starting out we fried the bacon which we would suggest having thick cut bacon cook until crisp (works better in the turkey mixture than jar bacon bits listed in her recipe) once bacon was finished ma chopped up the bacon with kitchen scissors. While I got to work on the sauce (which was super easy: 1/4 cup mayonnaise, 1 tablespoon honey mustard, 2 tablespoons real maple syrup) ma was putting the turkey mixture together. Which consisted of 2 1/2 pounds of Jenni-O ground turkey, 1/4 cup cut up bacon, 1/2 cup chunky applesauce, 1 teaspoon poultry seasoning, 2 tablespoons real maple syrup, 1/2 teaspoon salt, & 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper. Once mixed ma formed them into patties. Ma took a piece of the paper towel and wiped each pan with bacon grease then placed the patties on the pan. We set the oven for 400 degrees (as we had our Kroger garlic fries cooking) and as soon as the fries became crisp out they came and in went those amazingly delicious smelling turkey burgers. The turkey burgers took about 20-30 minutes to get done (but you can monitor them to your preference) 5 minutes before they were fully cooked ma pulled out the pans and placed a nice slice of provolone cheese on each pattie. Now in Sandra's recipe she doesn't have a cheese placed on the items list but if cheese tickles your fancy then we suggest provolone. It adds a nice mild flavor with the turkey burgers. As time went on we got our plates together and our mouths watering to taste this delicious array of food. Now you can plate your burger however you choose, it's your dinner after all but we kept it simple. Actually the sauce was the grand master of the whole meal. Who knew a little mayo, honey mustard, and syrup could make such a fantastic little dollop of tastiness. Not just for the burger but my aunt discovered the amazingness with the fries and sauce together.
So, after all the food came together what did these food chicks think? It's a solid home run! What an amazing array of flavors that make these burgers taste like they were prepared at a ridiculously high priced restaurant in California. From the toasted buns to the simplicity of the garlic fries the whole meal came together and not a crumb was left even for the grinch to steal, better luck next time green man!
Ma's Spot: First off I'd like to say what an enjoyment this is to be doing this with my daughter. At first I thought the combination of maple syrup with apple sauce and turkey was strange but then it came together so beautifully for a wonderful tasty treat. I love the fact we didn't go to any fancy store to purchase the ingredients everything was from our local Krogers and was their brand. I felt toasting the buns was a little added touch that it needed and may I say just gently wiping the pan with bacon grease added that extra flavor as well. I also suggest that Kroger garlic fries are the best fries and a wonderful side dish to any meal including tonight's meal.
Here's the link to Sandra Lee's actual recipe: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/sandra-lee/apple-maple-turkey-burgers-with-maple-dijon-sauce-recipe/index.html
Join us next week for a little italiano feast!
So that's it, for blog entry number uno. Join us every Tuesday night and we'll welcome you into our kitchen and who knows maybe we'll beef up your recipe box a bit and fill your tummy with food, your mind with ideas, and create a nice family dinner.
Spoons and Spatula's,
~Dinah and Ma
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