Another walk

[bobquasit]

To my surprise, Sebastian took another walk with me today. It was shorter than I wanted, only about 25 minutes, but we had a nice stroll.

Earlier tonight, I did an experiment of sorts. I mixed equal amounts of ground turkey and ground beef together, made it into hamburgers, and barbecued them.

I didn't like the way the meats mixed together; they weren't homogenous, but seemed like very moist clay. The texture seemed wrong. I mixed in a small amount of my soy sauce & Worcestershire marinade, but was very dubious about the whole thing - so much so that I grabbed some hot dogs and threw them on the grill too.

The burgers had the color of chicken breasts, and didn't smell quite right. I was psyching myself into nausea. But when I finally tried one, I have to admit: it was virtually indistinguishable from a regular beef burger. And I think it was probably a good bit healthier, since it had half the red meat of my usual burgers!

Comments

[audacian.livejournal.com]

This is one of my favorite turkey burger recipes:

http://www.bhg.com/recipes/recipedetail.jsp?recipeId=R122058

[unquietsoul5.livejournal.com]

I take it you don't like just plain Turkey Burgers?

[bobquasit.livejournal.com]

Bird meat has always freaked me out, for some reason. I'm working on changing that. The half-and-half burgers were very well received, incidentally; Sebastian just had a left-over one for dinner, and he said he couldn't tell the difference between it and my regular ones!

I used a ground turkey which I believe includes dark meat. They also had one that was made with white meat only (we were shopping at Trader Joe's). I don't know if dark meat is more or less healthy, come to think of it...

Useful Comparison Chart Here

[unquietsoul5.livejournal.com]

Here's a useful comparison chart of Turkey (not burgers specific):

http://www.fitsugar.com/Nutritional-Comparison-White-Dark-Meat-Turkey-Torfurky-2338270

Note the text below the chart. Dark meat has more Iron. Note also the vegan alternatives which are actually higher in calories and fat and lower in protein (not good things).

We do a lot of chicken, and only turkey now and then. We don't do Tofu stuff as Kiralee's doctor wants her to avoid such since that surgery she had last year as soy is bad for her and is used in too many things as filler already. Same with meats and dairy with hormones.

(We're on organic no-hormone meats and dairy products and have been for some time. Its more expensive but necessary with her medical needs).