Reviewed: Feb. 25, 2012

Great meal for cool evenings

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Larry Daugherty

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Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Oil City, Pennsylvania, USA

Living In: Dade City, Florida, USA

Reviewed: Oct. 15, 2007

This was an ok base recipe, I used chicken broth instead of water & cut out the bacon & salts. Needs a little fine tuning, I'll have to make some changes next time...

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Jenni

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Elgin, Illinois, USA

Living In: Appleton, Wisconsin, USA

Reviewed: Jan. 28, 2007

A bit peppery for me, but this is one of those recipes that if I don't fix it, my husband will make it for himself...so it's gotta be good.

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OCEANVIXEN79

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Crownsville, Maryland, USA

Living In: Fort Worth, Texas, USA

Reviewed: Dec. 16, 2006

Thank you for the warnings about salt. I didn't have any turkey or beef, so we used chicken. I partially cooked the bacon in a skillet, just enough to draw out some grease, and then cooked cubed chicken in the bacon grease (yum). Because the chicken and bacon were already partially cooked, I only cooked the stew for about an hour. Turned out terrific!

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daniel

Reviewed: Nov. 27, 2006

My grandmother used to make a tomato based turkey soup the day after Thanksgiving or Christmas and this was the closest recipe I could find. The base of the recipe is good, I just made some changes to suit my tastes. Changes: Used leftover turkey from Thanksgiving. Omitted the salt, sugar, garlic salt and flour. Added 1 clove of fresh garlic. Added 1/2 tsp. of red pepper flakes. Substituted water for chicken broth. Also used fire-roasted peeled and diced tomatoes. I thought the flavor was very nice and using bacon and chicken broth was enough salt for me. My version of this stew turns out more like a very chunky soup. Yummy! Yummy! I would make it again and again!

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A Korean

Cooking Level: Beginning

Home Town: Ogdensburg, New York, USA

Living In: Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Reviewed: Oct. 23, 2006

This recipe is a great dollar stretcher. I like to add more flavor by taking the big pot I'm going to make the stew in and frying the bacon in it, removing it to add back in later, then caramelizing the onions in the reminants. Follow the rest of the recipe as is, and when you add the potatoes to the pot make sure to get up all the good bits off the bottom of the pan with the potato water and it'll make it extra tasty.

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Scwkitty

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Grove City, Ohio, USA

Living In: Clintonville, Ohio, USA

Reviewed: Oct. 16, 2006

Pretty good, but a bit too spicy for my liking. I think next time I'll use half as much pepper and an extra teaspoon of sugar.

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Lindsay

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: San Jose, California, USA

Living In: Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

Reviewed: Feb. 8, 2006

sorry didn't like this one very much

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Kelly E.

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Thompson Falls, Montana, USA

Reviewed: Dec. 22, 2005

Good "comfort food" for these coooold days. Used turkey bacon to keep it veggie.

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ted

Reviewed: Nov. 14, 2005

Maybe this is obvious, but I found it odd that the recipe didn't instruct you to brown the turkey first. Also, I omitted the bacon, added a cup of lima beans and a dash of cayenne pepper for a better flavor.

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