A few weeks ago, I entered a sweepstakes at Cookie magazine. I don't remember what the prize will be (and I probably won't win, although I did win a fancy black lacy bra-panty set from Glamour some years ago.) The online entry included the standard little boxes that are by default checked: ...news from Cookie! and ...offers from hand-picked sponsors, and so forth.

Usually I uncheck all the boxes. I'm on enough mailing lists as it is. but the "Recipe of the Week" option caught my eye. Why not? I thought, and promptly forgot about it.

Last Thursday, I was thinking about the ground turkey in the back of the refrigerator. What was I going to do with it? Originally I was going to do turkey burgers, but then the night I bought it, Husband ended up bringing home some yummy food. As I thought about what I needed to get at the store for burgers, or whether to do tacos, or something else with that turkey, an email from Cookie popped up: "What's For Dinner Tonight: Turkey Meatballs."

Yowza! The answer fell in my lap.

I read the recipe to discover that it wasn't just a boring meatball recipe. It wasn't difficult. It didn't involve exotic food preparation methods or hard-to-find ingredients.

Cookie's version is a "throw all ingredients into the food processor" method. I couldn't be happier. Sure, my fingers got a little sticky from rolling the meatballs, but it was well worth it. They were tasty - better than generic meatballs, and more healthful too (they include spinach!)

Husband requested the meatballs again at the start of this week. Yes! A recipe worth doing more than once in a single week. And so I made meatballs again on Tuesday.

Today, the email from Cookie is "Lamb Chops with Bulgur Pilaf" - sounds delicious, and includes some interesting variations (such as using dried cherries or cranberries in the pilaf instead of raisins, or including mint with the lamb.) Garnish ideas include pomegranate seeds, almonds, or salted pistachios.

Sounds yummy -- and doesn't look difficult. We'll see what next week brings!

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Cookie didn't contact me, pay me, etc -- I just entered their contest and decided to subscribe to their weekly recipe newsletter - and was excited enough about the turkey meatballs that I wished to mention the success