Bye Bye Apple Tree

Our apple tree has been a dying for awhile now.  Since it is time for brush pick up and our house is for sale, we thought we would go ahead and chop it down and put it in the brush pile.  Unfortunately Adam only had a hand saw and a hatchet.  He worked on it awhile and then had me go ask our neighbor if he had a chain saw.  Luckily he did, but the blades were pretty dull so it still ended up being quite a chore.  But we got it down.  Poor apple tree.  I've made many pies with it and when my mom was here we made a ton of applesauce.  We were sad to see it go.

he worked hard!

Tonight we had turkey burgers.  Back in the day when we had applesauce stocked up, I looked for a bunch of recipes that used apples or applesauce and came across this one.  I don't remember where I found it, but it's been a keeper.  Aubrie really loves it.  And tonight Emilie had some too.  The turkey is so moist!

Apple Maple Turkey Burgers

with Maple Dijon sauce

1-2 lbs ground turkey

1/4 cup bacon bits

1/2 cup applesauce

2 Tbsp maple syrup

1/2 tsp salt

1/4 tsp pepper

Add all ingredients together in a large bowl.  You can add less applesauce if you are working with under 2 lbs of turkey.  If you feel like the raw turkey mixture is a little runny, you will want to put foil on your grill and then the turkey patties to prevent them from falling through the cracks.  Once the turkey is mostly cooked, you can take it off the foil and put it directly on the grill for grill marks.



Maple Dijon Sauce

1/4 cup mayo

1 Tbsp Dijon mustard

2 Tbsp syrup

I like to put my buns on the grill to be toasted.  You can fry extra bacon to garnish the burgers with.  I usually just have lettuce and red onion on ours.  It is delicious!

We also had sweet potato fries.  The first time I had these were at Candice Burtner's house.  She made them with coconut oil.  I found some coconut oil at Whole Foods and I just chop up the sweet potatoes, put them on a foil lined cookie sheet, and coat with some coconut oil.  I bake them at 425 for about 15 minutes, then flip them over and bake a little bit more.  Mine got a little crispy tonight.  I love dipping mine in BBQ sauce.  MMMMM.  The girls liked these as well. 

Here are a couple of pictures of little Emilie yesterday when we got back from the Y.  Aubrie won't sit still for a picture.  She'll say "cheese mommy" and look away.  That's why her photo is so blurry.  Love to all!

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