Tasty Tuesday Turkey Tetrazinni

I found this recipe in the Bowman Landes Cookbook. Bowman Landes is a company very close to where I grew up in Ohio. They have the absolute best turkey jerky, ever, but I digress.
I'm not going to put the recipe in its entirety on this post, because I don't know if I am breaking some sort of copyright law. If you do want the recipe in its entirety e-mail me or contact Bowman Landes and ask if they still print the cookbook Turkey Treats Entree's and Encores. It is recipe #1. The ingredients are: noodles, cream of mushroom soup, milk, water, Cheddar cheese (I uses smoked Cheddar cheese), turkey, frozen peas & carrots, seasoned bread crumbs, Parmesan cheese (I used Pecorino Ramano, a hard sheep cheese similar to Parmesan). I omitted from the recipie parsley and piminto. Basically you make a cheese sauce (I am very excited about this accomplishment as I have never made a cheese sauce that did not involve powdered cheese), add everything but the Parmesan and breadcrumbs, throw it in a baking dish top with the cheese and bread crumbs and bake.
The family reviews were unanimous, everyone thought it was very tasty and I should, and probably will make this dish again.
Fiber Content
There isn't much to report. I am still spinning like mad (in every sense). I am in the process of picking Prizes for the fabulous food for fiber contest. So leave those recipes!!
Holly

Tasty Tuesday

Now I know that there is someone out there who is looking at this picture and saying to themselves, "this woman is pathetic, she's never made hamburgers and tater tots." Well I have made hamburgers and tater tots and this is not it. This is a picture of a venison burger and tater tots. Recently we purchased a quantity of venison. As I have never worked with this meat before I immediately went to the local library and check out both books on venison (I was impressed that they had 2), Oh Deer, The Venison Cookbook for Beginners, by Cheri Helregel and Venison by Rebecca Gray. There were a lot of good recipes in these books but none for an easy hamburger so I kind of made it up. It is really hard to just squish the meat into patties like hamburger because it is so lean so I added a dash or two of Worcestershire sauce and a hand full of breadcrumbs and it tasted pretty good. It got rave reviews from the family. I have one more food picture: when I put the tater tots on the stone to cook the reminded me of Stonehenge, yea I know I'm a little weird.
Fiber Content

The pink socks are done, woo hoo. As this is my only bit of Christmas knitting that I am doing this year, I feel very good about finishing before Christmas. Now I just have to pack them up with a nice how to care for your handknit socks tag and get them off to their intended recipient.

Holly

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Tasty Tuesday

I did it, Yea! I made something new and exciting for my family for dinner. I was looking for something to do with left over turkey, and found it. This is the Pampered Chef's turkey cranberry holiday wreath if you are interested the recipie is here. It looks really spiffy, but is not actually that hard.

I thought that the pre-stuffed wreath looked really pretty, like a star. Here is the finished product. I served it with green beans. It got a big thumbs up from the husband, but just a lackluster "can I have more green beans" response from the daughter. I thought it was very tasty.

Fiber content:

Well, knit unto others is done for this year. I didn't win any of the cool prizes. What I did win is the good feeling that happens when you help someone else. I also won a new habit. The habit of knitting for charity. I am almost done with my second hat, I am into the second decreases. Here is a picture: I did finally cast on my sample (pics and more on Thursday), and I need to finish the pink socks. I have no spinning to report, because I am just too busy knitting.

Holly
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Tasty Tuesday
Abigail had a great post last Monday about cooking ahead. This got me to thinking. Actually this is a subject that has been percolating in my brain for some time. This is the thing, I don't love to cook, I like to eat somewhere where I don't have to cook and, more importantly, clean up. However, lately, I have been convicted about eating out. We do it too much. So for economical and health reasons I have put myself back in the kitchen on a more regular basis. There is just one problem: I have a repertoire of 8 recipes, and when my beautiful daughter says "mom are we having spaghetti again?" I know it is time to step out of my comfort zone, gastronomically speaking. So I am instituting Tasty Tuesdays, where I will be trying a new recipe and letting all of you know how it goes. Hey, maybe I'll even try making a button, hmmm. Don't worry these posts won't be entirely fiber-free (the knitting/spinning variety, not the bran variety).

Abigail here is a recipe (one of my 8):
Tater Tot Casserole
Ingredients:
1 lb ground beef
1 can cream of mushroom soup
Cheddar cheese
1 bag tater tots
Directions.
Brown ground beef, drain. Mix ground beef and cream of mushroom soup together in casserole dish. Shred as much cheddar cheese on top of mixture as you like. Artfully place tater tots on top of cheese in a single layer. Bake at 350 for 45 minutes (or until cheese is bubbly and tater tots are brown).
*sometimes I mix in mushrooms, peas or mixed veggies (either frozen or fresh) with the ground beef.
*This can be made ahead of time and frozen or refrigerated
*Browning the beef ahead of time saves time.
Some actual knitting content:
I am still working on my hat. It is so much fun...but I must..cast..on..knitting...class...sample. I have been so tired of late with all of the cleaning I am doing that simple, no brain involvement knitting, rather than complicated colorwork is more up my alley, but alas and alack I must cast on this sample.
Holly

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