Food Friday: Turkey Hummus Wraps

I have a great recipe for you today.  Nice and easy and a great snack!  Let's get on to the show.

You will want to gather the ingredients.  I also happened to have a super awesome boyfriend who cut up my cucumbers perfectly.  BTW the super awesome boyfriend isn't a required ingredient but it makes it much nicer. ;)

First you want to start with the turkey.  I laid mine out on tin foil for easy clean up.

Second you want to slather on some hummus.  I didn't put on too much because I was not sure how messy it would end up being.  Feel free to put more.

Now place the cucumbers.  I felt that two was the perfect amount because I wanted to still be able to fold the turkey into a roll.

Next put the red peppers.  I love red peppers so I decided to put on a handful.  They were also sliced fairly thin to allow for the aforementioned folding.

Now the final veggie is the green bean.  I know it seems silly to add in green beans but I really like them.  Cooked, steamed, raw, whatever.  It will add a little bit of crispy crunch.

The last step is to roll the turkey up.  I also cut mine in half so they were easier to handle when eating.

And here they are in their packaged glory!  Don't they just look so delish?!  I have to say they were very very good.  It was the perfect "I am hungry but not hungry enough for a meal".

I did notice that after they sat in the refridge over night they became a little watery.  I am not exactly sure which component was responsible for the wateriness.  It might be a good idea to place them on a paper towel.  Or to completely solve that problem, you could just eat them right away. :)

Enjoy the ease of a yummy snack!

P.S. I made it a whole week of postings!!!!  Yay maybe I can make it two!

Gluten-Free Food Review - Turkey Frozen Dinner

Welcome!!  I am still in a super awesome mood from the mail I got yesterday.  Two more days and then I can reveal!

On to what you are here for :)

I have had today's review item several times now and I continue to enjoy it every time.  It is the Savory Turkey Organic Bistro frozen dinner meal.

Doesn't it just look so delicious?!

I was heating this up yesterday in the breakroom and several ladies commented on the difference the picture looked from the real thing.  Especially went it came to the color of the lentil and quinoa pilaf and the lack of sauce.

Regardless of this discrepancy, the meal was very enjoyable.  I must say the consistency of what the meal looks like once it is heated is pretty much the same every time.  The beans and carrots tasted fresh to me and the flavor of the quinoa and lentil pilaf is delicious and almost a little peppery.  The turkey is moist and flavorful as well.  The mushrooms hide within the bottom of the turkey pilaf mix so search them out.  I enjoy mushrooms but if you happen not too, I don't believe the mushroom taste overpowers any of the other parts of the dish.  You are wondering about the sauce aren't you.  Well, I think it ends up getting sucked up by the pilaf.  In the very middle of the picture of the meal it looks a little saucy.  That is about the extent of it.  Even with the lack of luxurious sauce like the box photo shows I still really like this meal.

Like I said before I have bought this meal several times and enjoyed each one.  I like it because it is a quick gluten-free meal that I can bring to work if I don't have time to put something together in the morning (or more like I don't feel like it).

I have yet to try the other meat/side combinations, but they have beef, chicken, and salmon as other proteins.  If you happen to have tried the others please let me know what you think!!

On last thing.  My sister Jill sent this via group text to Staci and I this morning.  I almost died laughing.  Luckily I was alone in my car at the time so no one thought I was crazy.

All of our birds loved looking at themselves in the mirror and talking to themselves.  Obviously they thought it was another bird. :)  Hopefully you enjoy it too.

Food Friday - Adventures in Crock Potting

For this Food Friday I will be sharing my first real adventure in cooking with a crock pot.  I received a 5Q one for Christmas (so exciting) and accidentally left it at home when I traveled back up to Orlando.  My sister luckily goes to school up here so she brought it up for me.

We had a Publix turkey dinner for our "christmas" dinner and when it was fullly heated/cooked the bag was opened and juice started crazy waterfall pouring out of the bag.  My Mom is not the best gravy maker and had already bought jar gravy for those that wanted some, so I declared the turkey juice was MINE!  The bf gratefully helped to separate the juice into two Tupperware containers (the whole time thinking I was crazy for wanting it).  Regardless of what he thought, my grand plan was to use the juice as a base for a turkey soup!

Fast-forward to this past weekend and I had a grocery list of all of the ingredients I wanted to add to my soup.

I had squash, zucchini, celery, sweet onion, stewed tomatoes (still in their full form) turkey tenderloin, italian green beans, vegetable stock, the frozen turkey stock, and a home grown carrot from the bf's parents garden.

Frozen turkey juice close up!

I chopped everything up to about the same sizes.

Yes this is a homegrown carrot.  Very delicious!

I heated up the turkey juice on the stove so that when I put it in the crock pot it would be ready to go.  As I was pouring the pot of juice in I realized I probably should have strained it... but I had already scrapped off the top layer of fat before I froze then.  So the more little turkey pieces the better.


I dumped all of the veggies in (at that point realizing I might have gone overboard).

I cut the turkey into chunks and cooked them almost all of the way through in a pan on the stove.

They were dumped into the crock pot too.  I tasted the broth and realized it was super salty so I added in some veggie stock, garlic powder, pepper, onion powder and set the crock pot to Heat for 3 hours.

After a while I just had to check on it so I lifted the lid

and saw....

At this point I felt it was time to add in the stewed tomatoes.  Now that is probably not a very common item to have in a soup but my Memere always made her chicken noodle soup (which my friends have tested and it does have cold healing abilities) with a can of whole stewed tomatoes.  The tomatoes were always my favorite part of the soup.  Cutting them in half in your bowl to see the red juice seep out into the rest of the bowl... yummy.

I stirred it around and let it cook some more.

After a while I pulled the lid off again (I know I know I am not supposed to have to do that) to stir and peek and the soup looked perfect.

 The last thing I added was a strained can of italian green beans.  We left for Curtis Earth Trivia with the soup on warm just to finish it up.

We came home to an apartment that smelt almost exactly like my Memere's chicken noodle soup.  Which in and of itself made me feel happy and successful.

I made myself wait a WHOLE day before I ate the soup.  Made the bf have it for dinner and I must say it was very wonderful (even though he thought it tasted too much like veggies and not enough like turkey).

Chicken noodle soup for the bf will have to be next since he "suffered" through this one without too much complaining ;)...