Writers Block, Thursday Trinkets, & Tex-Mex Turkey Soup

"This is for the tired and for the dreamers and for those families who'll never be like the Cleavers with perfectly made dinners and sons like Wally and the Beaver...... So when the world knocks at your front door, clutch the knob and open on up, running forward into its widespread greeting arms with your hands before you, fingertips trembling though they may be."" -Anis Mojgani: Shake the Dust 

  Lately I have been stuck in a rut. It's like everything I had a passion for suddenly seemed useless and the things I strive for seemed so far beyond my reach. The reason for my sporadic and dull posts lately is when it came time to write a post, my mind goes blank and nothing I write seems to be interesting. This isn't the first time since I started blogging, that I thought about taking a break or even deleting my blog, but I never do because I know that some time later I will get back into the hang of it and enjoy it again.

  I'm trying to find out what I am destined to do in this world; I used to think I knew exactly how my life would end up, but that idea has long since faded and I'm just trying to keep head above water some days. Ever since I took debate  as a sophomore I have loved spoken word poetry and it seems to be one of the things that I can always turn to when I'm feeling overwhelmed . So I've decided to start a category of posts called "Thursday Trinkets" where I will post things that I am interested in at the time, whatever is on my mind, and they may or may not also be combined with a recipe post.  Many bloggers do it {like Tuesday Things from How Sweet It Is} and I've thought about having doing something like that for a while now, but I think this will be a good little project to help me from getting detached.

Chipotle Turkey Burgers with Avocado Mayo

This will be a short post since I have school work to do that I've been kind of neglecting, 2 kittens who seem to have more energy than I do and a never ending appetite, and a few recipes that I have to find and try out for this weekend. 

I'm actually not a big red meat eater when compared to my dad, but I do like a good burger and a rare-medium steak, and of course I love BBQ, but those things aren't always that good for you. So that is why I like to eat veggie burgers, but I don't ever remember eating a turkey burger, so I decided to make a recipe since we had some turkey in the freezer. I based this recipe somewhat off this Southwestern Black Bean Burger recipe and I decided to make an avocado mayo to oppose the heat from the chipotle. 

Homemade Turkey Stock & Turkey Pot Pie

   Turkey stock is one mandatory thing we make at our house if we hosted Thanksgiving that year. Its weird how when making the stock, our house smells more like turkey than it did on the day we actually cooked the turkey. We usually make turkey soup, but this time I made a pot pie. After having turkey sandwiches for lunch and saving turkey for the pot pie, there wasn't a lot of  of turkey leftover.

 Pot Pies are classic, whether it be chicken, turkey, or beef. But it seems like every pot pie that I buy in the freezer section at the store nowadays tastes like they added a cup of salt to it. Yuck! Ive made pot pies before and usually I make the pie crust myself, but with my SATs coming up this weekend among a list of other things I have to do, I decided that using store bought pie crust wouldn't hurt any.

 My dad said that this tasted better than the pot pies he used to buy from the store. This pie is packed with vegetables and has a thick, creamy sauce that goes well again the buttery, flaky crust.