Weeknight Chili

I could name this so many things...Single Girl Chili, Chili Small Enough That You Don't Turn Into A Bean Because You Ate it Everyday for a Week Chili, Fast and Furious Chili...but I settled on:

Weeknight Chili
1/2 lb ground turkey
1 can black beans, drained, not rinsed
1 chopped tomato
2 small carrots, scredded
1/2 med. onion chopped
1 chile in adobo, chopped
2 T tomato paste
1 cup water
2 T chili powder
1 t cumin
1 T salt
1 t vegetable oil

Heat oil, and cook onion and shredded carrots. Add turkey and brown. Add beans, chile in adobo, and tomato. Season with chili powder and cumin and salt. Whisk paste and water and add. Bring to a simmer. CHili should thicken. Taste. Dip tortilla chips in it. And then season with more chili powder if you'd like.

We are putting this on baked potatoes tonight. Or I may just eat it alone if the damn potatoes don't cook in time for me to go to Job Numero Dos.

It looks like real, all day, chili, don't it??

Ways to change: use kidney beans, chili beans with seasoning (I was out), use beer instead of water, use canned tomato with green chiles, use tomato sauce instead of paste/water mix, use beef, use leftover stew meat, oh it goes on and on.

Week Two: Cooking/Recipe Club

(Updated 7pm 7/16)
Week two is a turkey burger. Due to unforeseen circumstances, Tony was home for the day waiting on a package, and so we made these burgers for lunch! It is nice to have a homemade hot lunch on a Wednesday. Along with the burgers, I made a white bean salad. Recipe to follow the burgers.

Likes: The turkey burgers had a lot of flavor and were not dry (I refuse to even type the m-word).
Dislikes: I am not a fan of parsley! I don't know why, but it just takes over the whole taste of recipes for me. So the parsley, although gave a great color and look to the burger, it overpowered what I wanted to taste most...the FETA. I even added EXTRA feta!

Maria Menounos' Mykonos Burger

Prep: 12 minutes; Cook: 11 minutes.

Ingredients
1/3 cup chopped fresh parsley
1 pound lean ground turkey
3/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1 3/4 ounces crumbled feta cheese ** more like 1/3 cup **
4 (1/4-inch thick) slices red onion **white onion...no biggie**And I added 2T roasted red pepper, diced
4 whole-wheat hamburger buns, toasted


Preparation
1. In a medium bowl, mix first 8 ingredients (through feta). Use an ice cream scoop or 1/2-cup measure to make equal-size patties.
2. Broil for 5–6 minutes on each side or until done.

3. Place burger on bottom half of bun. Top with onion slices and a Dijon-and-ketchup mixture (a trick for cutting sugar from your diet), if desired; garnish with parsley, if desired. Cover with top half of bun.

Yield
Makes 4 servings (serving size: 1 burger)

Nutritional Information
CALORIES 253; FAT 9g (sat 3g,mono 1g,poly 1g); CHOLESTEROL 61mg; CALCIUM 99mg; CARBOHYDRATE 21g; SODIUM 514mg; PROTEIN 22g; FIBER 3g; IRON 3mg

White Bean Salad
1 can of white beans, rinsed
two handfuls of halved grape tomatoes
1/4 diced white onion
1 diced red bell pepper
1 cup corn
1/4 cup chopped parsley
salt
pepper
garlic salt
Greek Seasoning
2T red wine vinegar