Smoosh

I know, odd title, but I'm really bad at coming up with names.  I was trying to come up with something that used the first letter of the ingredients, but this is what it turned into... just go with it.  (Which makes me think of this movie - it was really cute, if you haven't seen it you should... ok, back to food.)

This was a quick dish using ingredients we had in the pantry/fridge.   It was one of those days I hadn't planned anything and I got home from work about the time Justin was waking up, so only had as much time as it took him to get ready for work.  I thought it was pretty good for just "throwing something together."

Ingredients:

• chicken broth (about a 1/4 cup)
• 1 can cream of mushroom soup
• sour cream (about a cup)
• 1 small can of chopped mushrooms (drained)
• 1 can of spinach (drained)
• sun dried tomatoes (chopped)
• 1 lb ground turkey meat
• whole wheat pasta

Here's what I did:

I poured some chicken broth into a pan and then added the can of cream of mushroom soup and sour cream.

Next I added the can of spinach (drained) and the ground turkey meat.

Earlier in the week I browned turkey meat, separated into 1 pound portions, put it in a labeled zip lock bag, and froze it.  Having part of the meal "pre-prepared" helps speed the cooking process.

My labeled bag the turkey was frozen in.

While I was working on the sauce, I started the pasta cooking:

Next, I added the sun-dried tomatoes and can of mushrooms (drained).  I think the sun-dried tomatoes added a nice flavor to the dish.  Then I just let it simmer for a few minutes:

It tastes better than it looks, I promise.

Here's how it looked on my plate:

Goat Cheese makes everything better - so we added some on top.

Rating Scale:

E:  9
A: 10 (I didn't plan ahead at all.)
T:  9

HH:  8 - He told me he liked as much (maybe more) than this post.  I like the curry better.


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Feta Sun-Dried Tomato Turkey Burger Sliders - Take 2

Remember the delicious looking sliders Freddie made in this post?  Well, as we said from the beginning the purpose of this blog is to help each other figure out what to make for dinner.  So, when I saw these sliders, I knew I wanted to make them.  Here is the recipe again.  They were very good.  The only thing I'd do differently is add a little more salt or some other spice to the meat before I cook it.  If you haven't noticed, I can't just go straight by a recipe, I have to tweak something to make it "mine."  In this dish it was a minor tweak, but I highly recommend it.  The recipe has you make your own sun-dried tomato mayonnaise with 1 cup of mayonnaise and 2 tablespoons of sun-dried tomatoes.  Instead of mayo (in the name of being more healthy, just because I love it, and that's what I had)  I used plain non-fat Greek yogurt.  If you don't like Greek yogurt, then you probably won't like this, but we love it, so we thought it added an awesome twist to this dish.  I also chopped the sun-dried tomatoes in my mini food chopper to make them blend better.  Here's what the sliders looked like on my plate:

 Let us know if you try this and how you put your twist on it!

E:  7
A:  8
T:  7

HH: 7

Feta Sun-Dried Tomato Turkey Burger Sliders

I mentioned in my last post about our obsession with sun-dried tomatoes. We cooked 3 meals in the last week that included sun-dried tomatoes. Point proven. We found this recipe to use the rest of the sun-dried tomatoes and we will definitely be making them soon. Aren't sliders just the cutest things?

Yes, the plate is almost falling off the kitchen counter. Eliott was salivating because I requested we take a picture of them before we started devouring them. I'm not a huge feta fan, but this was divine. The warm feta with the tangy tomatoes in the tiny turkey patty was perfect. The recipe included how to make a mayonnaise to go along with the sliders. I highly recommend it. We toasted the sliders in the oven for just a little while which led to Eliott's favorite question of the night, "Do you want your buns toasted, honey?"

Here's the recipe for Feta Sun-Dried Tomato Turkey Burger Sliders

E: 8

A: 8- had to buy the spinach and slider buns

T: 8

HH: 9- Eliott loved these!