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Joe picked up some ground turkey last week. It was buy one, get one free. I froze one of the packages and put the other in the fridge. I hadn't decided what to make with it and almost put it in the freezer with the other pack.
I'm not fond of turkey burgers, so that wasn't an option. We already had spaghetti with meat sauce last week, so that wasn't an option either. And I really wasn't in the mood for a big pot of chili. Don't get me wrong, I love chili and can usually eat it any time of the year, but the heat has been really getting to me lately and chili just wasn't something I wanted to cook or eat in the middle of a heat wave!
Just before I put that second pack of turkey in the freezer, I remembered eating a…
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