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Sunday, November 27, 2016

Too much Turkey!!! The perfect solution

EASY Turkey Corn Chili

Cube up the left over turkey  1-2 pounds
3 can's of great northern beans
1 can rotel tomatoes
14-20 oz veg stock (can use chicken)
1 T oil (olive is what I used but any veg oil works)
1 onion
3 cloves garlic
optional chopped up jalapeno peppers (up to  4 oz but depends on if you want it spicy)
2 t cumin
1t oregano
1/2 t cayanne pepper (can leave it out if you don't want spicy)
1/2 t salt
1-2 cups of corn (i use frozen but thrown in whatever)
about a cup of sour cream
about 2-3 cups of shredded cheese (cheddar or montery jack will work)

Place oil in skillet and cook up the onions and garlic over med  high heat.  Once somewhat translucent throw in the spices, and the rotel...heat up corn (can be thrown in or in a separate pot). Cut up your turkey and throw that into the skillet as well with the broth.  transfer to crock pot or (can start out with a larger pot type dutch oven if you don't have a crock pot)  Add all remaining ingredients EXCEPT the sour cream and cheese.

cook for an hour...add cheese and sour cream and once melted and heated through...serve

Traditional pfeffernusse


Pfeffernusse is German for pepper nuts.  My husband's great grandmother used a thimble and a tooth pick to cut these out so they were the size and crunch of a nut...Labor intensive.

I use a sawed off Funnel.

The recipe is a total guestimate but these measurements worked for me this year with gluten free flour.

MELT TOGETHER
2 cups corn syrup (grandma used 1 cup dark and 1 cup light)
1 cup sugar
1 cup butter
COMBINE ALL DRY INGREDIENTS
about 7 cups flour
spices are all heaping spoons
1/2 teaspoon cloves
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon allspice
1 teaspoon cinnamon
*dissolve 1 teaspoon baking soda in a little warm water
Melt together syrup, sugar, butter.  Combine all dry ingredients in a large bowl (best to use a large tupperware with tight fitting lid)  Now combine all ingredients and add soda last.  Mix well ...knead dough if necessary. Place in warm place covered for 8 days...grandma used to knead the dough every day but i found if I used a tight fitting tupperware I could skip that part and the dough would be pliable to roll out.

Roll to 1/4" think and cut with funnel.  I had small sticks cut to make sure the 1/4 inch was uniform.  yields anywhere from 850-1200 cookies.