I’d like to share with you my favorite turkey burger recipe which happened to come to me via my Mom. The problem I have with most turkey burgers is the flavor, ground turkey just doesn’t have that deep rich flavor of beef and can’t stand on it’s own. On the flip side, turkey doesn’t have…
Category: Poultry
Sloppy Joes
During her life time, my Grandma Lila cracked the code to the perfect Sloppy Joe. No fancy add-ins. Just four basic ingredients: ground beef, onions, ketchup, and mustard. That was it. I have tweaked her recipe slightly in the years following her death. The biggest change being the use of ground turkey instead of the…
Cranberry Soy Chicken
I made some homemade cranberry jelly about a week ago, and have been brainstorming non-Thanksgiving ways for using it. So far, this is what I have been able to come up with – a soy, cranberry, and garlic sauce on roast chicken that has been roasted on a bed of garlic seasoned potatoes, mushrooms, and…
Apple-Brined Turkey Breast
This recipe came to me via my mother, who, I believe, clipped it out of the Washington Post food section. She has been using tips from this brining recipe for years now, and every Thanksgiving she digs out one of her massive 5 gallon zip-lock to brine her turkey in a mixture of apple juice,…
The Ephemeral Bee 