This is a favorite of mine with a few new twists!! Try it out and let me know! 

Spicy Chipotle & Apple Stuffing 

What you will need: 

• 1 1/2 cups cubed whole wheat bread
• 3 3/4 cups cubed white bread
• 1 pound ground turkey sausage
• 1 cup chopped onion
• 3/4 cup chopped celery
• 1/2 cup of minced garlic 
• 2 1/2 teaspoons dried sage
• 1 1/2 teaspoons dried rosemary
• 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
• 1 Granny Smith apple, cored and chopped
• 1/2 cup dried Chipotle Peppers
• 1/3 cup minced fresh parsley
• 3/4 cup turkey stock
• 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted

What to do: 

1. Preheat oven to 350 degree F. Spread the white and whole wheat bread cubes in a single layer on a large baking sheet. Bake for 5 to 7 minutes in the preheated oven, or until evenly toasted. Transfer toasted bread cubes to a large bowl.
2. In a large skillet, cook the sausage and onions over medium heat, stirring and breaking up the lumps until evenly browned. Add the celery, garlic, sage, rosemary, and thyme; cook, stirring, for 2 minutes to blend flavors.
3. Pour sausage mixture over bread in bowl. Mix in chopped apples, dried chipotle peppers, and parsley. Drizzle with turkey stock and melted butter, and mix lightly. Spoon into turkey to loosely fill.

Enjoy!! 

Until next dish!!! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! ;)a xo

Important information everyone should know if they love to cook! ;)a xo

The Devil's Salsa

Even the pickiest of eater's will love this salsa! Promise!

Note- If you have never cut hot peppers before use caution, don't rub your eyes, nose or anything - immediately wash your hands for about 5 minutes. You may want to hold the peppers with gloves or paper towels depending your skins sensitivity.

What you need:

1 package of small (a little smaller then your fist) ripe tomatoes of your choice - diced or quartered
1 half of  English hot house cucumber (seedless)- julienned
1 cup of minced garlic
2 jalapenos - sliced
2 cherry peppers - sliced
1 half of habenaro - sliced - if you want more flavor and less heat use half a pablano pepper instead
Once everything is chopped and in a bowl add a few dashes of your favorite hot sauce to taste
Add one tablespoon of lime juice
Sprinkle of sugar
Ground pepper and salt to taste
Handful of chopped cilantro - this can be a pain to chopped - I use scissors right over the bowl

Mix all ingredients thoroughly!

What to do:

Use a chopper right in the bowl or go to town with the scissors getting everything down to bite size bits. Rinse your scissors when down...gets sticky if you forget! Once you are satisfied with your bite sizes bits - drain into a colander that has holes small enough not to lose any of your hard work.
Place back in your salsa bowl and you are ready to eat. I like to let it sit for a few hours or even over night, refrigerated, of course. As it sits it usually gets hotter. This makes approximately 7 cups of salsa.

Once in a while I add corn or black beans (drained). Make it your own but let me know how it turned out!

You can use this over rice, chicken, steak, fish or even salad! YUM!!

Enjoy!!!

;)a xo

Spaghetti Stir Fry Bruschetta Style

This is my first post to Growling Tummies! Pretty excited about it as I just made this last night. Now the twist on this little dish for me was using left overs. The best part is you don't have to or you certainly can if you want too. I had ordered in the night before and had way too much food left over. So, I thought this would be a great way to reuse and make it my own. ;)a xo

Let's get started!

Grab your left over spaghetti dish and set it aside. Take 2 scoops of minced garlic and toss it into a stir fry pan/wok whatever you want to call it. Put it on medium heat and add a splash of your favorite cooking oil.  Stir. Dice some fresh green peppers, one jalapeno and red onion to taste. Take one Portabello mushroom cap cut it into thick slices. Toss all veggies into the pan. Stir to cover veggies with garlic and oil. Sprinkle with Italian seasoning and fresh ground black pepper.

Once your veggies are nice and tender. It's time to add in your cold spaghetti left overs.  If you have meat mixed into your dish, pull these pieces into the pan first to warm more efficiently.  Once you feel the meat is warming up, lower your heat and add the rest of the spaghetti dish. Stir, cover and let simmer on low heat for about 10 minutes.

While this is heating up grab a loaf of your favorite Italian bread. Cut several thinks slices and place on a olive oil coated baking sheet/dish. Cover the bread with butter or brush with olive oil. Sprinkle garlic powder, fresh ground black pepper, and Italian seasoning.  Grab some fresh spinach leaves from the fridge. Pull out the best leaves to place on top of your bread slices. Set this aside while we go check on the Spaghetti Stir Fry.

After a few more stirs this dish should be ready to be scoped on to the bread slices with fresh spinach. Once you have the spaghetti neatly piled high on the bread top with your favorite Italian cheeses and place in the oven at 375 for about 15 minutes maybe longer depending how crunchy you like your bread.

Remove from the oven, plate and enjoy! This is nice with a side salad and your favorite red wine.

Hope you try out my first "Growling Tummies" blog post! Let me know what you think!

Till next dish! ....grrrrrrrrrrrr ;)a xo