Turkey Club Wraps – a dinner on the go

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Turkey Club Wraps are great for those days that you have very little time to make dinner – maybe you have to get to a ball field right after work or you want to get some lake time in before the sun goes down. It is also an excellent recipe for those times when you forgot to take something out for dinner! You can also make this one ahead of time and just store them for later (just don’t cut them in half until you are ready to serve them up.)

Homemade on a Weeknight does not mean that you have to cook every night – sometimes it means pulling together a great variety of ingredients to make a delicious meal. The assembly of these wraps is the real key to success! Over the years I have made tons of wraps (I worked my way through College at a sandwich counter!) and I have learned some tricks! The biggest one so many people miss is putting a little smear of cream cheese on the outer edge of the tortilla. This makes a nice little seal for the tortilla flap when you roll it up!

Turkey Club Cream Cheese Placement
Turkey Club Cream Cheese Placement

You can use the basic concept of these wraps to make a vast variety of wraps with whatever you have on hand – they don’t have to be Turkey Club Wraps every time. The cream cheese and the combo of veggies and meat are the essentials – after that you can go wild with ingredients. Some great things to try are Chicken Strips, Alfalfa Sprouts, Ham, Cucumbers, Bell Peppers, Ranch Dressing, Grilled Chicken, Avocado, Romaine Lettuce, Carrots, Steak strips…the list goes on and on. They also make a great meal to use of leftovers.

Turkey Club Ingredients

I think this dish will definitely be a great addition to your weekly menu rotation. If you like this recipe and want to get more like it, you can purchase the Homemade on a Weeknight Cookbook in Paperback or Kindle (eBook) versions through Amazon.

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Turkey Club Wrap

A quick and easy dinner on-the-go!
Course Main Course
Cuisine American
Keyword bacon, turkey, wraps
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Servings 8

Ingredients

  • 1 lb Bacon cut into ½-inch pieces
  • ½ lb Sliced Turkey
  • 2 Tomatoes sliced & halved
  • ½ Red Onion sliced
  • 1 cup Baby Spinach
  • ½ cup Italian Dressing
  • 8 oz Cream Cheese
  • 1 cup Cheddar Cheese shredded
  • 8 Tortillas Burrito Sized
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Instructions

  • Prepare all of the ingredients.
  • In a frying pan over medium-high heat, add bacon and cook until crispy. Remove from pan to paper towel covered plate and let cool.
  • Place smear of cream cheese in center of tortilla and on one edge. Layer on spinach, onions and tomatoes. Drizzle with dressing then sprinkle with cheddar cheese. Top with turkey and bacon. Fold over sides of tortilla and then roll up. Cut in half and serve. (Watch video above)

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Have you been scrolling through the food pics on this site and drooling? Do you need a go-to collection of recipes to sit down with each week to make your meal plan? Maybe it’s that you are just ready to start making meals at home with real ingredients to get your whole family on the healthy track? Well you are in luck! You can now purchase your own copy of the Homemade on a Weeknight Cookbook through Amazon today! It is available in Paperback or eBook Versions!

Homemade on a Weeknight: A Family Cookbook by Estelle Forrest

The Homemade on a Weeknight cookbook has 100 dinner recipes – divided into 5 categories:

Along with a collection of Side Dishes & Sauces to make every night of the week homemade! The ingredients are simple and easy to find in most grocery stores. You will find a variety of variations listed at the bottom many of the recipes as well as side dish suggestions.

You will also find Plating Notes on several recipes. This will help you make your food look as good as it will tastes. I have found that it’s especially important to make the plates looks appealing when you are trying to get your kids (or partner!) to try something new. The way you plate the meal also helps people to know “how” to eat the dish – sometimes a meal is better to eat all mixed together and sometimes it should be taken on in stages.

Right to left & Top to Bottom: Bacon & Bleu Steak Stuffed Potatoes, Pasta Salad, Huevos Rancheros, Sweet Pepper Nachos, Iberian Chicken, and Shrimp Burrito Bowls

Every one of these recipes have been made in my own kitchen and tested out on my husband and kids! I have spent hours and hours tweaking and trying new things so that I could create this collection of recipes. This weeknight cookbook is by no means a diet plan – Homemade on a Weeknight is a lifestyle plan. It is designed to help you and your family fall in love with eating real food at home any night of the week.

Taco Pasta Recipe Video

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Check out my first very recipe video! I am sharing the Taco Pasta recipe from the Ethnic Adventures section of my cookbook – Homemade on a Weeknight! This dish is super easy to make – less than 30 minutes! And most of the ingredients are things that everyone has in their cupboards already, making it budget friendly.

Taco Pasta

This recipe came about by trying to find a variation on mac and cheese. What kid does not love mac and cheese – but how do you liven it up so the adults in the family will eat it too? Simple – add some meat, some green chilies, tomato paste, and some spices and you have Taco Pasta.

You can use any type of short pasta – shells, penne, rotini, cellantini, elbows, seriously any type of short pasta! And you can also change this recipe up a little by using Ground Beef instead of Ground Turkey or you could could give it a little more kick by using Pickled Jalapenos instead of Green Chilies! I usually serve this with a little Southwest Side Salad (lettuce, black beans, tomatoes, carrots, shredded cheese, tortilla strips and Avocado Ranch!)

I really hope you all like this video – it was very fun to make! And you can see one of my sons’ little hands helping me out!

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Sausage & Peppers with Beer Cheese Pasta

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My family loves pasta dishes and I absolutely love to make sauces from scratch. It gives me a chance to be really creative with different flavor combinations.

So many people are scared to make a sauce and reach for a packet or jar instead. It really is not that difficult at all – if you can whisk you can make a sauce! And when you make a sauce from scratch you can save your family from a lot of preservatives and other additives that they put in to make them “shelf-stable”. That’s what Home Cookin’ is all about!

All you need is a way to thicken it (butter or oil, and flour, cornstarch or wine), some liquid (broth, milk, heavy cream) and then your desired flavoring (citrus juices, cheeses, pureed veggies, etc.) With these three basic things, you can make so many different combinations of sauces to go with any protein, pasta, rice or veggie!

This dish is one of the fastest Weeknight meals you can make and it is so full of flavor. The Beer Cheese sauce comes out so silky smooth. It is important that you use a Lager for this because they have a lighter flavor, it won’t over power the dish with hoppy-ness. If you use a stronger beer like an IPA or Stout, you will get a much stronger beer flavor. I also would steer clear of any type of fruity beer flavoring for this particular sauce – it may not blend with the cheese well since the fruit flavor maybe magnified when you cook it down. I like to use Pub Beer from 10 Barrel Brewing.

Sausage & Peppers with Beer Cheese Pasta

Plating is also a big part of this meal. Everyone eats with their eyes first – and this dish can easily be a feast! Almost every pasta dish I make, I like to serve in a shallow pasta bowl – like this one by Corelle. It is a 20 ounce shallow bowl that keeps the dish together while still letting it be beautifully presented. And the sprinkle of parsley makes just about any dish look picture ready.

Another great thing about making Pasta and Sauce dishes for my family is that I don’t have to make two meals (a low carb meal for me) because I can just make a bowl with the meat and veggies and still get in on that yummy sauce!

I think this dish will definitely be a great addition to your weekly menu rotation. If you like this recipe and want to get more like it, you can purchase the Homemade on a Weeknight Cookbook in Paperback or Kindle (eBook) versions through Amazon.

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Sausage & Peppers with Beer Cheese Pasta

A simple Beer Cheese Sauce over pasta with Chicken Sausage and Peppers
Course Main Course
Cuisine American
Keyword Home Cookin’, Pasta, Sauce, Sausage
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Servings 6
Author Estelle Forrest

Ingredients

  • 2 lb Chicken Sausage (any flavor) cut in 1-in chunks
  • 3 Bell Peppers (any color) cut in 1-in chunks
  • 1 ½ lb Short Pasta (spiral, shell, penne, etc.)
  • 2 tbsp Avocado Oil
  • 1 tsp Sea Salt
  • 1 tsp Coarse Black Pepper
  • 1 tsp Garlic Powder
  • 1 tsp Paprika
  • 1 tbsp Parsley (dried)

For the Beer Cheese Sauce

  • 2 tbsp Butter
  • 1 tbsp Flour (AP, Whole Wheat or Almond)
  • 1 tsp Sea Salt
  • 1 tsp Garlic Powder
  • 12 oz Lager
  • 1 cup Heavy Cream
  • 1 cup Cheddar Cheese shredded
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Instructions

  • Prepare all of the ingredients. Start water boiling for pasta.
  • In a large saute pan over medium-high heat, add oil, sausage, salt, pepper, garlic powder and paprika. Let cook for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally, then add peppers. Reduce heat to medium and cook for same amount of time as pasta. Add pasta to boiling water and cook as directed on package.
  • In a saucepan over medium heat, melt butter and add salt and garlic powder. Whisk in flour and cook for 2 minutes, stirring often. Still whisking, pour in lager and continue to stir for 2 more minutes. Whisk in heavy cream and cook another 3 minutes then add cheese by the handful, stirring to incorporate each time.
  • Once pasta is done, drain and rinse with cool water to arrest cooking process. Return to pot and pour Beer Cheese Sauce over top and half of parsley. Combine until pasta is thoroughly coated.
  • Plating Notes: In a shallow bowl, fill bottom with a portion of pasta.Top one half of bowl with sausage and pepper mixture and garnish with remaining parsley.

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The cookbook is divided into 5 categories: Home Cookin‘, Let’s Get Fancy, Ethnic Adventures, Soups, Salads & Bowls, and Healthier Fare. There is also a section on Side Dishes & Sauces so that you can easily make full meals – any night of the week!

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