In honor of thanksgiving, my roommates and I decided to have “Friendsgiving”! We all pitched in and decided to make turkey burgers, green beans almondine, and mashed potatoes!!!!! Basically, it was the best meal ever. Healthy, easy, and delicious!

Turkey Burgers

For the turkey burgers, we got 1.5 lbs of ground turkey meat and seasoned it with some salt, pepper, and garlic salt. We even added some onions to it!

Here is the step-by-step process:

  1. Mix the ground turkey meat with the salt, pepper, and garlic salt. image-30
  2. Chop up onions and add them to the ground turkey meatimage-29
  3. Separate the meat, and make individual patties.image-21
  4. Grab a pan and heat up some olive oil and place the pattiesimage-14
  5. Flip over once you notice the meat is cooked.image-35
  6. The meat will be fully cooked when the inside is no longer pink!

Mashed Potatoes

Mashed potatoes are kind of tricky and a bit time consuming to make BUT they are delicious.

So here is the step-by-step process:

  1. Get your potatoes and begin to peel themimage-23
  2. Once they are peeled, you want to cut them up into quartersimage-9image-12
  3. Place them in a pot and fill it with water (make sure that they potatoes are covered with water)image
  4. Boil the potatoesimage-33
  5. After 20-25 minutes, drain the potatoes and place them back into the potimage-18 image-19
  6. Begin to mash them in low heatimage-4
  7. Add half a stick of butter and a cup of milk to the mashed potatoesimage-25
  8. Mix everything together and season with salt and pepperimage-1

Green Beans Almondine

This was the best part of the whole meal, so yummy! Green beans with butter, sliced almonds and salt & pepper…

Here is the step-by-step process:

  1. Bring a pot of water to boilimage-5
  2. Once the water is bubbling, add the green beans and leave them there for 7 minutesimage-6
  3. While those are boiling, get another pan and add two tablespoons of butter, salt & pepper and two handfuls of sliced almonds                                                      image-22
  4. Once the green beans are fully boiled, drain them and then mix in the sliced almond and butter sauce image-15

Aaaaand there you have it – the best meal ever for Friendsgiving! Super simple, relatively cheap, and actually healthy! Feel free to add gravy to the mashed potatoes or cranberry sauce to the turkey patties!


Overall Prep Time: 1 hour

Overall Cooking Time: 30 minutes

Overal Price: $25

I hope this post inspires you guys to host a Friendsgiving before you go home to celebrate with your families! Happy Cooking!!!