Easy, Fun & Healthy Recipes for Thanks Giving

Apple Cinnamon Mini Tarts

What you will need to serve 8 people

1.) 2 cans of Pillsbury Biscuit Dough

2.) Fresh Green Apples

3.) Pecans & Walnuts

4.) Caramels

5.) Cinnamon

6.) A Baking Sheet

7.) Brown Sugar

Go and get 8 Granny Smith green tart apples and any needed ingredients from your local store. Pre-heat oven to 350. If you know someone that has an apple tree, than that's great! Peel the skin from and cut the apples into sections. Place apples into a medium sauce pan, with brown sugar, cinnamon, and caramels. Cook apples on medium fire for about 10 minutes. Remove from heat and place pecans and walnuts in the mixture.

Take out the biscuit dough. Use one biscuit heap per serving. Roll the dough out to the size of a saucer if possible, if not, then don't be afraid to borrow more dough from another biscuit heap.

Once you've rolled the biscuits out, take the mixture and place 1-2 table spoons of the apple mixture onto the biscuit/tart dough. Fold over and pinch the dough as though you're pinching pie crust. Be sure to make little air wholes so that the tarts do not explode.

Once you've pinched, folded and made air holes, be sure to sprinkle cinnamon, pecans, and brown sugar onto the tarts. Place into oven and cook for 15-20 minutes or until crust is a golden brown.

This goes great with ice cream and or milk as a treat.

After Thanks Giving Turkey Rolled Tacos

So it's after Thanks Giving and you're sick of the turkey carcass sitting in your fridge! Don't fret! Pull the turkey out, toss it in the oven at 300 with water for 30 minutes. Heat to moisten for strip it clean; remove fatty skin and anything yucky... Sit it in a container!

What You Need!

1.) The turkey - yes the whole daggone bird

2.) 1 large onion or a bushel of green onions.

3.) 2-3 Anaheim chilies fresh - or 1 canned will do as well.

4.) 4-6 leafs of romaine Lettuce chopped into strips.

5.) 1 large red bell pepper and 1 green pepper.

6.) 3 cloves of fresh garlic

7.) Sea Salt to taste - add as you go!

8.) Black pepper - add as you go and taste

9.) Good handful of cilantro-you can decide.

10.) Roma tomatoes.

11.) Olive oil - 1-2 cups. This depends on whether you're using a deep fryer or stove top pan.

12.) A Deep fryer - check any home kitchen department store.

13.) 2 bags of 50 Tortillas

14.) Round tooth picks

15.) Salsa

16.) Paper towels

17.) Splatter screen, found in cooking aisle

Take the chilies and bake or sear in the oven or in a pan on your stove top. Chop into fine pieces. You can sauté the onions, peppers, garlic, and cilantro.

Dice the onions and tomatoes and chop them up as well. Add the greens, onions, garlic, cilantro, romaine and peppers together in one bowl. Take the turkey and veggies, peppers and such all together!

You can mix it by hand, or place in a blender or food processor to combine well!

Mix it all together, including the veggies, peppers, tomatoes, garlic, seasoning, turkey and etc. Leave the tortillas! You will to use them to roll the tacos!

Now take the tortillas and heat them in the over, or in a cast iron pan. When you heated one bag of tortillas, take turkey and veggies mixture and combine it all! Mix well and begin to roll tacos.

Take tortillas and place on one side, tooth picks in front of you, and turkey mixture on the other.

Preheat olive oil in deep fryer or stove top pan.

Begin to roll tacos. Take tortilla, half a handful of the turkey mix, and place in the quarter of the tortilla. Wedge nicely and begin to roll... Until tortilla is completely rolled and place a toothpick through it when finished. Note: Are you familiar with taquitos? If so, roll them in that manner... Make as many as you'd like.

When you're finished place 4-8 tacos into deep fryer or and cook until golden or at 10 minutes at time! You don't really have to cook them that long because the turkey has been cooked. The oil has been pre-heating for a while now, so it will be very hot! Be careful and use a splatter screen if you're not using a deep fryer.

Place tacos onto drainer with paper towels to drain oil if a deep fryer wasn't used.

When you're finished frying, serve and enjoy! No more turkey! :)

Fresh Sautéed Green Beans - No Can!

I strongly boycott canned things because and I think that green bean casserole sucks! I'm for the fresh things! why not have fresh, tasty, crispy green beans?

What you will need:

1.). 2 pounds of green beans

2.) 3 cloves of garlic

3.) Olive oil: 2-3 tablespoons

4.) Sea salt

Take green beans and snip and tail them. Wash well, place them in a strainer. Take garlic and mince. Get a large sauce pan and add 3-4 tablespoons of oil, garlic and sea salt to a sizzle. Take green beans and gently place into pan and cook in olive oil for 10 minutes on high heat. Remove. If beans are too crispy, cook for an additional 5-10 minutes and remove. Do not cover because steam will continue to cook the beans. Wait until beans have cooled to cover. This will add a fresh touch to your Thanks Giving dinner!

4 Bean Salad Italian & Pasta Salad!

What you will need:

1.). 1 bag of fresh Pinto beans

2.) 1 bag of kidney beans

3.) 1 bag of small white beans

4.) 1 bag of black beans

5.) 2 bags of pasta salad-the pasta made from veggies such as carrots and beats with shapes are tasty and cute!

6.) Sun dried tomatoes

7.) 3 garlic cloves

8.) Feta

9.) Garlic cloves

10.) Sea salt

11.). 1 can of black olives

12.) 1 jar of green olives

13.) Fresh green onions

14.) 1 large cucumbers

13.) Raspberry or regular Italian salad dressing or vinaigrette.

Take fresh pinto, kidney, small white beans and black beans. Cook for 4 hours or until firm-done.

Take pasta and boil it and combine cooked with beans, feta, tomatoes, onions, olives, diced cucumbers, and minced garlic. Mix together well. Take sun dried tomatoes and feta to beans and pasta. You can use either raspberry vinaigrette or Italian dressing. Serve! This dish should be serves cold or hot! It's up to you!

Turkey Empanadas

Why not make turkey empanadas with the leftover turkey? It's easy, simple, tasty and fun! Here is what you will need: Note: Borrow the same ingredients used in the making of the turkey tacos except the oil and tortillas!

What you will need.

1.) 2-4 cans of Pillsbury Biscuit Dough

2.) Cheddar, Monterey Jack, or 3-Mexican Cheese

2.) 1 large onion or a bushel of green onions.

3.) 2-3 Anaheim chilies fresh - or 1 canned will do as well.

4.) 4-6 leafs of romaine Lettuce chopped into strips.

5.) 1 large red bell pepper and 1 green pepper.

6.) 3 cloves of fresh garlic

7.) Sea Salt to taste - add as you go!

8.) Black pepper - add as you go and taste

9.) Good handful of cilantro-you can decide.

10.) Roma tomatoes or even sun dried tomatoes.

11.) Olive oil - 1-2 cups. This depends on whether you're using a deep fryer or stove top pan.

12.) A Deep fryer - check any home kitchen department store.

13.) 2 bags of 50 Tortillas

14.) Round tooth picks

15.) Salsa

16.) Paper towels

Take the chilies and bake or sear in the oven or in a pan on your stove top. Chop into fine pieces. You can sauté the onions, peppers, garlic, and cilantro.

Dice the onions and tomatoes and chop them up as well. Add the cheese, greens, onions, garlic, cilantro, romaine and peppers together in one bowl. Take the turkey and veggies, peppers and such all together! You can mix it by hand, or place in a blender or food processor to combine well!

Take out the biscuit dough. Use one biscuit per serving. Roll the dough out to the size of a saucer if possible, if not, then don't be afraid to borrow more dough from another biscuit heap. Fill the biscuits with the turkey mixture. Fold and pinch the empanadas as you would fold a tart. Make wholes and put in over for 20 minutes.

Note: you can also deeep fry in olive oil, but they may be a bit oily and baking would be the best!

Enjoy and stay tuned for more recipes!