He likes zero condiments except ketchup - not even salad dressing on his salad! And me, I like ALL the condiments!
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I keep meaning to make an egg roll bowl. I’ve seen some recipes online, just haven’t done it yet. If anyone has a recipe they recommend, please share it.
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My husband liked the idea of chili. Simmering on the stove. Super simple.
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I use a 50:50 mix of ground turkey and riced cauliflower with added chopped onion, garlic, and favorite spices to stuff bell peppers. I cook them on the stovetop stuffed into a pot open ends up. Fill the pot slightly below the tops of the peppers with tomato sauce diluted with some water, bring to a boil, and cook until done (about 30-40 min).
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Yeah really anything you do with ground beef you can do with ground turkey! My H also has never been a fan of ground turkey 
but more recently I have found that if I use it in a mix of something (so not a turkey burger but say, stuffed peppers) he will manage to eat it. 
I actually am a fan of ground chicken even over turkey - love a chicken meatball.
My meatloaf recipe uses half ground beef and half ground Turkey.
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I haven’t used ground turkey in a while. Whenever I bought it, the ingredients had some rosemary flavoring which I understand is used for oxidation. I can detect the rosemary, and in some cases, makes the dish I am making taste off. I wish ground turkey packages didn’t have that.
I have never heard/noticed that! But I looked it up, you are correct!
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Just a little funny story. My FIL has long refused to eat any chicken/turkey in any form. Growing up, he was responsible for killing them to eat them, so it is fair. But since they’ve lived with my SIL, BIL is highly allergic to red meat thanks to a Lone Star Tick bite. So SIL just tells him it’s ground beef and he hasn’t noticed, and obviously hasn’t thought to ask how BIL is eating it…
I also prefer ground chicken. The turkey was on sale and had a good use by date so I bought it.
When my kids were growing up they would get annoyed when I used ground turkey in the pasta sauce. Funny thing as adults they all eat ground poultry.
My stepdad alao wouldn’t eat chicken after growing up on a farm.
Add me to the list that likes ground chicken better than ground turkey. I use 1/2 ground beef and 1/2 ground chicken and chicken Italian sausage when making my lasagna and H has never noticed the difference.
We did something similar with DS when he was growing up. We grew profuse amounts of basil, and he loved pesto and Italian dishes, but he wouldn’t touch spinach. To this day I don’t think he knows how much “basil” he consumed in his spaghetti and other saucy dishes.
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It’s fascinating how picky eaters love pesto. It was my S’s almost only green food when he was little, and now my grandson is following in his footsteps. Haven’t yet met a kid who didn’t love it.
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Ground turkey vs. ground beef:
When both goskids had their first apartments, they asked for my chili recipe.
After they both made it, claimed it just didn’t taste like the one they grew up eating, swore
they followed recipe exactly. Finally dawned on me that the recipe called for ground beef. Unbeknownst to them, I always used ground turkey instead of beef…their whole life!
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We made homemade pizza last night. My H uses a variation of Alton Brown’s sourdough for the crust, so it requires planning a solid day in advance, which we aren’t always organized enough to remember to do.
Made one pie modeled after our favorite “zingara” pie at a local place, which has vodka sauce, sweet italian sausage, hot cherry peppers, green olives, fennel pollen and parmesan cheese. I used soy sausage crumbles (doctored up with miso paste, garlic powder and a bit of fennel extract) in lieu of real sausage. It was delicious.
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honestly, sounds amazing!
I have made homemade pizza crust many times but always will pick up the TJoe’s dough ball if I am there. I noticed last week that Aldi (same family as TJ’s) had pizza dough balls for $1.29! I’m wondering if it will be similar to the TJ’s one.
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Friday is usually pizza night at our house, often with friends. I make a sourdough crust, too, but a “quick” version of a regular pizza flour recipe with 1/4 cup discard + 1 tsp yeast + a generous tablespoon of grated parmesan (for additional flavor). After a single one-hour rise, the dough is ready to be shaped, dressed, and tossed on the grill. We provide the homemade sauce and traditional toppings. If our friends want to pervert their pizza, they have to bring their topping atrocities with them.
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Bumping up.
Made a beef roast with assorted vegetables (carrots, potatoes, mushrooms, onion, zucchini, grape tomatoes) in the dutch oven this weekend - with a twist. After I browned the roast on each side I took it out and before adding vegetables added some beef broth and harissa paste to get all the brown bits off the bottom of the dutch oven. The harissa paste REALLY kicked the flavor of the meat and vegetables and the little bit of broth UP. Richer, a little smoky, a little spicy. Would def repeat!
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