White Bean Turkey Chili with Cornbread Waffles

Or how to induce a full on food coma.

Oh dear, this was a delight. We're talking I got high fives from Chad good.
Insanely easy too. A little too easy. If I tell you how easy it is, my street cred as a good cook is going to go crashing to the floor.
Screw it.
Here we go.
Ingredients:

-Let's go with about 3/4 of a cup of greek yogurt (yeah, i use the hell out of this stuff)
-two cans of white beans
-a can of artichoke hearts
-half an onion and about 1/3 of one of those big bell peppers or 1/2 if you can't find one of those big bastards
-half a brick of fat free cream cheese
-one normal size package of ground chicken or turkey
(I usually make this with chicken but City Market finally got their head out of their asses and got organic ground turkey...EEEEEE!:-) )
-can of hot chilies (or mild if you don't like that sort of thing
-Can of corn.(not creamed, that's just awful)
-fist-full of spinach (optional)
Garlic powder, salt, pepper, ya know,the spices you'd like to season up chili with.
Waffles:
Bob's red mill cornbread mix, an egg, a tablespoon of olive oil, half a can of chilies, and some water. (Oh yeah, you're going to need a waffle iron)

Directions-
Bust out the crock pot.
Marvel at it's greatness. This little machine is going to do for your cooking what calculators on cell phones did to math skills.
Plug it in and turn it on high. Leave the lid off, cause you're going to be throwing stuff in there left and right.
Start with the yogurt and cream cheese.
Next chop up that pepper and onion and throw it on in the skillet. Yes, we're going to cook them before putting them in. You'll thank me.

Then throw in the crock pot. Try not to miss it.
Empty the (drained and rinsed)cans of  corn, beans, chilies and artichokes into the pot.
Cook the meat. And break it up real good.

You may have to put down your drink for this step.

Throw all of that in the crock pot too....add about a half a cup of water.
Stir.

IVery important. It's not going to look like enough liquid, but it totally is. Trust in your crock pot.

Now, you've got about three hours until this is ready.
Oh what's that? The waffles. Well, they take a whole five minutes to prep, so you're good.

What to do?
Chad and I went to the gym and did cardio and weights then played one of the best games ever!!! What you do is stand on one foot on the bosu ball and toss a weighted ball back and forth. Sounds boring, but when you're trying to get the other person to drop the ball by throwing it too low or way out to the side, shit gets real.

Then you come home and smell the house and just about lose your mind.
Fire up that waffle iron.

Start with the egg and oil and beat them together in a bowl. Add a little more water than you think you'll need and beat that. Add chilies.
I used about a quarter of the package of mix.

Spray your waffle iron and make up a couple of waffles. Make the whole package per instructions but with more liquid  and a whole can of chilies if feeding 4 or more.
These made the meal.


Presentation isn't everything, but it's something.

 

Sprinkle the top with a little bit of cheese if you like, or just dive in.

If it's just two of you, you'll have leftovers like a boss. I've been asked to make a couple more waffles so they can be used with leftovers. It'll keep about a week, but let it cool quite a bit before stickin this bad boy in the fridge.
Also, I put all of the ingredents into a little app and found out this has less than 300 calories per serving.

Booya, health!