Fast Food Revamped

Tonight we did a new take on burgers and fries. We made turkey burgers and sweet potato fries. The meal was excellent.

This meal serves 4. You need:

-1 pound of ground turkey
-1 clove of garlic
-some diced onion
-some diced mushrooms
-sprinkle of Parmesan cheese
- 1/4 tablespoon of egg whites
- salt and pepper.

Mix all the ingredients together and make 4 individual patties. Even though it's summer, we cooked them on a frying pan because we don't have a grill. They cook about 7 minutes on each side.

For the french fries:
-4 small sweet potatoes - scrubbed but not peeled. We cut shoestring style and seasoned with salt and pepper and olive oil. We cooked at 400 for 20 minutes. If you want crispier fries, we suggest 25-30 minutes in the oven.

For toppings we used:
-1/2 avocado
-pepper jack cheese
-bacon which Tori burnt to a crisp

Any toppings would be great including the traditional onions, tomatoes, lettuce and pickles! You could also use an actual bun :) we went bunless.

Summer Treats

Tough to believe that July is almost over and we haven't blogged at all. But don't worry we've still been cooking! Today we thought we would share a few things we've made this month as well as a brand new recipe!

Up first, a tried and tested pinterest find! Tori's sister has made "slutty" brownies a few times so Tori thought she would try them herself. They are very simple to make. We just don't recommend baking them when your apartment is already 90 degrees.

These are a 3 layered brownie. The first layer is chocolate chip cookies. Tori made the cookies from scratch but you could just as easily buy the ready to bake cookies. Next up is a layer of oreo cookies. Followed by brownie mix.

Preheat the oven to 400 and bake for 55 minutes. Simply spread the cookie dough over the bottom of pan. Then add oreos. Then add the brownie batter- make sure it covers all the cookies!

Next up this summer, we made a peanut butter dough ball. Again so simple and another tried and true pinterest find. All you need is:

-1 cup powdered sugar 

-3/4 cup creamy peanut butter 

- 1 block of cream cheese (softened)

- 3 tablespoons packed brown sugar 

Combine these ingredients and then form them into a ball. Once you have a ball of dough, cover it with:

-3/4 cup milk chocolate chips 

-3/4 cup peanut butter chips 

Refrigerate until serving. We served with cinnamon graham crackers and the plate was practically licked clean. Sorry no picture!