When my first book, Dinner: A Love Story, came out, I will never forget my agent calling me to discuss publishing the book in England. "There's an agent over there who wants to buy the rights for it," she told me, "but he's concerned about all the Trader Joe's talk and ground turkey recipes." The Trader Joe's thing I understood, but what's up with the turkey haters across the pond? Too much ground turkey? Was there such a thing? Ever since 1994 when Andy secretly used it instead of beef in our favorite bolognese recipe, I've always made sure to throw a pound of it in the weekly shopping cart if I come upon a good-quality organic dark meat grind. (It's always harder to find this than I expect; Trader Joe's does not deliver that front; Whole Foods usually does.) The problem lately with ground turkey, though, is that when I'm charged with turning that pound of meat into a recipe, the dinner-making side of my brain immediately defaults to one of these old-schoolers:
"Dumpling" Meatballs with Sesame Green Beans
"Dumpling" Meatballs with Sesame Green Beans
"Dumpling" Meatballs with Sesame Green Beans
When my first book, Dinner: A Love Story, came out, I will never forget my agent calling me to discuss publishing the book in England. "There's an agent over there who wants to buy the rights for it," she told me, "but he's concerned about all the Trader Joe's talk and ground turkey recipes." The Trader Joe's thing I understood, but what's up with the turkey haters across the pond? Too much ground turkey? Was there such a thing? Ever since 1994 when Andy secretly used it instead of beef in our favorite bolognese recipe, I've always made sure to throw a pound of it in the weekly shopping cart if I come upon a good-quality organic dark meat grind. (It's always harder to find this than I expect; Trader Joe's does not deliver that front; Whole Foods usually does.) The problem lately with ground turkey, though, is that when I'm charged with turning that pound of meat into a recipe, the dinner-making side of my brain immediately defaults to one of these old-schoolers: