Gobble gobble! That’s something you see written a lot at this time of year. I would say “hear a lot this time of year” but honestly, it’s been years since I’ve heard a real turkey’s garbled yell. Not something the next door neighbors keep in their yard. Maybe your neighbors do…..?
I don’t love turkeys, but I do love cheese-balls! And snacky foods. And cheesy foods. So I saw this baby on Pinterest and felt in my bones that I should copy it! I followed the recipe from Homemade in the Heartland for this handsome gobbler, though I didn’t have all the decoration ingredients. We ended up having a Thanksgiving snack table before the actual turkey dinner, and this gobbly guy fit right on it!
Instead of starting life out as an egg, he started out as this (cream cheesy, oniony, pinappley goodness):
And then rolled around in this (pecans):
I found that after sitting around a while, the pecans started to soften up (especially the next day). I think I would try and roll him in pecans at the very last minute before the party! I used white chocolate chips for his eyes, glued him together with black candy melts. His neck is a pepperoni stick and candy corn for beak and feet!
With the extra red candy melt I made his “gobbler” and wrote….a little word….I was in a hurry, ok?!! (and my brain has been turning to mush lately)
To go along with Mr. Gooble, I was all excited to try this traditional Texas snack mix! (Texans, tell me the truth in the comments below:) A delicious recipe for Texas Trash! I found it on Little Magnolia Kitchen and just changed her recipe a bit to fit with what I could easily find. The only Chex cereal I could find was Honey Chex (see photo above)!! And the nacho flavored Bugles. I made up half the recipe, and could barely squeeze it into my pan. Little Magnolia’s recommendation to use a large aluminum foil roaster is a good one….next time! I didn’t have steak spice, so just kinda made my own with what I had. So things were kinda different, but kinda……AWESOME!
It turned out Y.U.M.M.Y!! Definitely a hit!!! I think it might go on our “traditional” list. We thought of our Texan relatives while we ate it!! 😉 (Oops, should I have said that???)
There were some other new recipes that I tried out this year…..let me get it together and I’ll do another post…..
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