Slow Cooker Success!

So today, Dave and I had our first experience with a slow cooker - AND WE ROCKED IT.
Want a recipe for some delicious turkey chili?
It's your lucky day, cause here it is!

Snowbirds Turkey Slow Cooker Chili (adapted from Southern Living and Laura's version):

Ingredients:
- 1 1/4 lbs. 94% fat free ground turkey
- 1 large yellow onion and 1 small red onion, chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 red and 1 green pepper, chopped
- 1 1/2 cups canned corn (12 oz.), drained
- 1 large green hot peppers, seeded and minced
- 1 (28 oz.) can of crushed tomatoes
- 1 (15.5 oz.) can of black beans, rinsed and drains
-1 (8 oz.) can of tomato sauce
- 2 heaping tablespoons chili powder
- 1 heaping teaspoon red pepper flakes
- 1/2 heaping teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 pinch allspice
- 3 pinches cayenne pepper
- salt and pepper, to taste

1. Cook first three ingredients in large skillet over medium-high heat, stirring until turkey crumbles and is no longer pink. Drain.
2. Spoon mixture into slow cooker. Stir in corn and all other ingredients until well-blended.
3. Cook on high for about 4 hours and then on low 1 hour.

Serve with sour cream, shredded cheddar jack cheese, cornbread and WINE!
I wanted to upload a picture, but apparently I have absolutely no memory left on my computer. Bummerville. But, here is a picture of Snowbirds on NYE with a looming Boba Fett in the background.

Photo courtesy of Jessica Perry!

Enjoy your weekends, guys!

out of my bedroom window...

a beautiful day just to sit and watch the snow fall in the most peculiar of ways, and...

yes. if you can't read it, that's alligator jerky, bitches! today's gonna be a good day...

Our first post!

Hello out there!

Dave and I - I being Alex - have decided to create a blog for our musical project, Snowbirds. This comes on the heels of creating a Yotube Channel for ourselves, where you can view all our music videos (using the term loosely, of course). This blog isn't going to be just about our music, though surely that will be a big part of it. Here is where we will post links to new songs, videos, events like shows and open mic nights, and the like. We have other interests too, it's true! Dave is quite a whiz at brewing beer up at High Point Brewery (yes, I said "whiz" - I am an old soul!) and has a strong interest and knowledge of beers and craft brews. We like to go to gastropubs often to test out new brews, so you'll be undoubtedly be hearing about a bit of that! Also, I love to shop, cook, gossip, and BAKE. We will also be posting about recipes I've tried out (with Dave as my lovable guinea pig) and quite possibly clothes I am drooling over, much to the dismay of poor Dave. And of course we love music, so we will be posting about our current musical obsessions, be it songs from 40 years ago or bands we have just laid ears on. Anywho, this is just a brief introduction to our new blog, so if you love music and musings on life, love, beer, baking and other random ramblings, then please keep reading!

XO

photo courtesy of the lovely amber byrne mahoney @ liveitout photography