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White Turkey Chili with a Vampire
By Rebecca in Learning in Freedom
December 4, 2008

This year, my husband was working on the day of Thanksgiving so my family of five decided to FRY a turkey the day after. Five bellies and 13 pounds of turkey - you can imagine the leftovers. After turkey sandwiches began to trigger our gag reflexes I decided to get creative. Not creative, a better word would be, desperate. I decided to make QUICK WHITE TURKEY CHILI. It was a hit so I’m going to share it with you and recommend that you prepare it with a fictional vampire. Cooking with and with vampires is so much fun!
 
QUICK WHITE TURKEY CHILI with one vampire:
 
cooked turkey - as much as you need to get rid of so that you don’t have to eat another turkey sandwich!
3 cans of white beans (northern beans) – My tofu loving friends turn up their noses when I break out my trusty can opener but if they don’t like it they don’t have to look. Opening a few cans is a quicker way of making a pot of beans, you can do it the slow way, I suspect, but we are desperately trying to get rid of turkey and not wanting to do anything slowly. Plus, the fictional Vampire might catch on to the fact that you are having him for dinner and FOR dinner. Everything is quick.
1 can chicken broth – again, quickie (one of my white chili recipes call for 3 cans, but that makes it too runny)
1 Vampire (fictional...I mean optional) – add a werewolf if you prefer.   My daughter preferred "Paris" to "Romeo."  If you get that reference I'm giving you a fictional high five. ;) 
½ an onion – I usually use a whole onion, because...
4 cloves of garlic – more cloves if you’re a “Twilight” fan because you are in danger of attacks from fictional vampires. While you are in fictional danger you might as well arm yourself with advice from myths.  Here's a modern twist to the old myth: Instead of wearing your garlic like a necklace just ingest it and let your army of pores protect you. Going overboard on the garlic will keep you safe from real life males also. Maybe that’s how the GARLIC myth came about – it kept everyone away?  SMART Medieval DADS!  (Even fictional Vampires laugh at our myths, you know.)
¼ cup lime juice (optional)
¼ cup cilantro (optional) - but if I’m eating the white chili it will be under a pile of cilantro
Sour cream – (optional) - dollop on top when serving
Jalapeños – (optional) – drop a few on the dollop
Cheddar or Pepper jack cheese (optional) – sprinkle over dollop
 
-Use your biggest frying pan and sauté chopped onions in some grape seed oil until they are clear. 
-Add the minced garlic. Turn down the heat.
-Add the can of broth and use the potato masher to squish up the onions. What the children don’t know won’t hurt them. 
-Add your fictional vampire.  Because fiction tastes so good.
-At this point you can add some canned sliced jalapenos if you like it hot and if no one in your family has geographic tongue. 
-Drain and add a can of white beans. Use the potato masher to squish the beans. This can is the “thickener.” 
-Add another can or two of beans then add your lime juice and ground comino. 
-Honestly, I would borrow some “pampered chef southwest seasoning” from a neighbor and just add a few tablespoons of that. 
-Let it simmer until you just can’t wait anymore.  Don't let the Vampire get cold...er...never mind.
 
Serve in bowl over chips with a dollop of sour cream on top. Sprinkle with a few cilantro leaves, sliced jalapenos, and some cheese….. 
 
So good!  The fictional Vampire will add a bit of spice but it will be worth it. 
 
Actually, WHITE CHILI is a favorite of ours. You can usually find a recipe for it on the back of the cans of Great Northern Beans. There is also a recipe for White Lightning Chicken Chili in the Pampered Chef "Main Dishes" book.  I would recommend using a real recipe and not the one off of the top of my head. 
 
 
 
 
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