It's Football Season!

It's football season! That means it's one of my favorite times of year, I love lazy Saturdays and Sundays of watching football, snacking, and drinking bloody mary's and beer.  Go Chiefs!, Go Jayhawk!, and Go Blitz Divas (my fantasy team)!

To kickoff the season I'll share this easy and tasty dip that my aunt made when we were out visiting last week.  It doesn't look pretty, but trust me, it's good and perfect for Gameday.

Ingredients
1 lb ground turkey breakfast sausage
1 can Rotel
1 brick low fat cream cheese
Tortilla chips

Directions
Break apart and brown turkey in stove top pan over medium heat. Add cream cheese, stir until melted. Then add rotel and stir until combined. Use tortilla chips for dipping and enjoy!

Tamale Pie

When I saw this in-a-hurry tamale pie posted on Eat, Live, Run I knew I had to give it a try. Instead of the typical cornmeal crust in a tamale pie, a polenta roll is used in this dish. This makes it a lot quicker to make and also dirty's fewer dishes. It's so easy on the clean up side, after dinner when my husband was doing the dishes, he thanked me for cleaning some of them while cooking. I didn't clean a thing, but don't worry I still took credit and said you're welcome. I'm sure if he knew I didn't clean them, he would thank me for not dirtying a lot so the you're welcome would be warranted regardless.

I made a few adjustments, the main one was adding ground turkey, where the original recipe was a vegetarian option. It was a quick weeknight meal, that I will be making again. If you can restrain yourself from eating it all the first time around, the leftovers were even better! Keep reading for the recipe.

Balsamic Four Onion and Portobello Mushroom Turkey Burgers

A couple of weekends ago, we were driving home from a friends wedding in Ithaca and we stopped at Caravia in Clarks Summit, PA. In addition to having once of the best chicken cutlet sandwiches I've ever had in my life, we picked up some delicious spreads, sauces, & jams. One thing I picked up was a jar of this Balsamic Four Onion spread and I decided to use it to make turkey burgers. When I told my husband I was making turkey burgers, you should have seen the skepticism on his face. What, burgers without beef? Let's just say he was pleasantly surprised and requested they become a part of our regular rotation. I have proof below, this is him devouring his second burger.

Mexican Lasagna

I had some ground turkey in fridge and enchilada sauce in my pantry so decided to throw together this Mexican Lasagna.  It's another one of those dishes that didn't photograph too pretty, but I'm about the taste.  It was a quick and easy weeknight meal, that also made tasty leftovers.  See below for instructions.

Ingredients
1 lb ground turkey
1/2 cup diced onion
1/2 cup green bell pepper
1 can of pinto beans
1 TB minced garlic
1 teaspoon of cumin
6-8 6" corn tortillas
1 cup shredded jack cheese
1 cup shredded cheddar cheese
1 can of enchilada sauce

Directions
1. Preheat oven to 425
2. Add ground turkey, diced onion, green peppers,  pinto beans (or black),  garlic, cumin to large pan and cook over medium-high heat until turkey is browned and mixture is heated through.
3.  Place corn tortillas on bottom of 8" baking dish, sprinkle a layer of jack cheese, spoon 1/2 of turkey mixture on top, and spread 1/3 of enchilada sauce on top. Repeat this process, but layer cheddar cheese on tortilla this time.  Place third tortilla on top, spread last 1/3 of enchilada sauce and sprinkle combination of jack and cheddar cheese.
4. Heat in oven for 20 minutes.
5. Enjoy!