a forgiving recipe

I know a recipe is a good one when I can mess it up and it's still delicious. Last week I made these turkey burgers with black beans and mushrooms...I was halving to recipe and then didn't half the amount of black beans, I also turned half of the mushrooms and onions to soup in the magic bullet (FYI ONLY good for baby food) before chopping up the rest...and then I put them in before realizing I was supposed to cook them first, so I scooped them out and cooked... most of them...This led to a burger consistency that was really hard to actually cook on the grill. But we managed two to survive the grill and cooked three in the oven. And we put them on toasted ciabata rolls with green salsa, avocado, monterary jack cheese, and arugula...seriously delicious. Cory gave them an 8 or 9 despite the mishaps. If a recipe can survive me you know it's a keeper. I even took a picture of how cute they were but of course don't have it here at work at 6:26 a.m. Oh well, I'll get on that soon. Enjoy!!!

Ultimate Turkey & Black Bean Burgers (from the Family Kitchen)

16 ounces cremini mushrooms
1 clove garlic
1/4 yellow onion
1 tablespoon butter
1 cup refried black beans
2 pounds turkey
1 teaspoon sea salt
fresh ground pepper

Directions:
Place mushrooms, garlic, and onion in a food processor. Pulse until the mixture is finely ground. In a large skillet, melt the butter and cook the mushroom mixture until very soft, about 5-7 minutes over medium heat. Transfer the mixture into a large bowl, add the refried black beans, ground turkey, salt, and pepper, and mix all together until very well combined.

Split the mixture into 6 even portions. Roll into balls and flatten into thick burgers. Cook in a skillet or on a barbecue grill until cooked through. Serve on ciabatta buns with your favorite fixin’s. My favorites? Avocado, fresh pico de gallo, a touch of grated cheddar jack cheese, lots of mayo, a kiss of mustard.

ALERT!!!!

This is silly, but it's been bothering me, so here you go: IN THE DR PEPPER PORK RECIPE FROM A FEW POSTS BACK....you cook the meat with an onion. Just chop up roughly and put in the pot before it goes in the oven. PHEW--that was close..I hope no one cooked this to disastorous results.

It's days like these.....

Today (well mainly from about 330 on...) has been a bit of a rough one. Harrison is a whirlwind of potty accidents and terrible twos. I spent way too long doing something that turned out to be totally unnecessary. And then I locked my keys in the car. Of course- pregnancy brain has definitely tdken over (something to blame anyway :)) And now I am forced to slow down and wait. For AAA. For 90 minutes. It's days like today that it's important to take solace in the little victories- I made my favorite Rosemary/potato/fontina pizza. And I used my new spendy $13.99 cookie sheet. And it turned out perfect. The pizza literally slid off leaving no mess to clean up. yum. I actually took a picture to capture it. And also we broke through '97 feels like 105' with some rain and thunder that I got to watch Harrison get really excited about- gotta love a summer storm. Some quiet time alone is good anyway, right???