{"id":156,"date":"2006-11-12T20:51:04","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T03:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennyw.com\/food\/156"},"modified":"2006-11-12T20:51:04","modified_gmt":"2006-11-13T03:51:04","slug":"on-the-tjs-turkey-burger-rollercoaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"On The TJ&#039;s Turkey Burger Rollercoaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While driving home from the airport this evening, <a href=\"http:\/\/laurenlavoie.com\">Lauren<\/a> turned to me and said: &#8220;You know what I would like for dinner&#8230;.Southwest Turkey Burgers.&#8221; We had a moment of silence, since <a href=\"http:\/\/kennyw.com\/food\/25\">the saga<\/a> had continued when Trader Joe&#8217;s discontinued the Turkey Burgers (again) this spring.<\/p>\n<p>To get her mind off of the Turkey Burger mourning, I suggested we experiment on a Mediterranean-style chicken sandwich.  We swung by TJ&#8217;s on the way home and gathered ingredients: chicken breasts, &#8220;Mediterranean flatbreads&#8221;, tzatziki, feta cheese, and some mixed greens. Lauren got in line while I did a quick scan of the freezer section for any interesting tidbits. It&#8217;s almost reflex for me to scan the burger section in vain for a restock of the Turkey Burgers, but for the second time in my life it was <a href=\"http:\/\/kennyw.com\/food\/25\">double-take time<\/a>. I returned to surprise Lauren with 2 boxes in each hand, and she proceeded to convey this story to our befuddled check out assistant.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-images\/food\/turkeyBurgerCheckout.jpg\" class=\"thumbnail\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, momentum continued on the Mediterranean chicken plan (we&#8217;ll crack open the burgers tomorrow night).  The results were good enough to post about (and easily satisfy my father&#8217;s requirement of &#8220;it should take less time to prepare a meal than to eat it&#8221;). Here&#8217;s the basic recipe:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chicken breasts<\/li>\n<li>Tzatziki (such as TJ&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.traderjoesfan.com\/Trader_Joes\/Products\/Snacks%2C_Chips%2C_Salsas\/Cilantro_Chive_Yogurt_Dip\/details\/\">Cilantro &#038; Chive Yogurt Dip<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Red onion<\/li>\n<li>Persian-stlye pita (such as TJ&#8217;s Middle Eastern Flatbreads)<\/li>\n<li>Mixed greens (such as TJ&#8217;s Herb Salad Mix)<\/li>\n<li>Feta cheese (such as TJ&#8217;s Authentic Greek Feta in Brine)<\/li>\n<li>Garlic<\/li>\n<li>Lemon juice<\/li>\n<li>Mint<\/li>\n<li>Olive Oil<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Slice the chicken breasts into strips and season with crushed mint, lemon juice, salt, and pepper. Saut&eacute; garlic in olive oil, then stir in the chicken.  Grill pitas on a grill pan.  Place pita on a dish, spread on some tzatziki, add mixed greens, chicken, crumbled feta, and thinly sliced red onions.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-images\/food\/mediterraneanChickenWrap.jpg\" class=\"thumbnail\" alt=\"homemade Mediterranean chicken sandwich\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While driving home from the airport this evening, Lauren turned to me and said: &#8220;You know what I would like for dinner&#8230;.Southwest Turkey Burgers.&#8221; We had a moment of silence, since the saga had continued when Trader Joe&#8217;s discontinued the Turkey Burgers (again) this spring. To get her mind off of the Turkey Burger mourning, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}