Recipes: Turkey Tortilla Pinwheels with Chipotle Chilli Aioli - Roasted Garlic Onion Cheese Ball - Smoky Cheese Ball - Meatballs and Kielbasa in Sauce

I have the BEST customers.  Aside from being friendly, always stopping to say hello and chit-chat, sharing recipes with me, and telling me about wonderful wines to try, they bring me food to taste.  I have to thank Bruce for his delicious homemade Peach-Mango Salsa and Tom for his delicious pasta and homemade sauce.  I savored every bite.  THANK YOU for thinking of me and sharing.

Continuing with my Super Bowl party theme, here are this weekends recipes ...

Located in dairy section
next to the horseradish.

I was buying horseradish one day and next to it on the shelf was Fresh Market's Chipotle Chili Aioli.  I had to try it and bought a bottle.  It was spicy, creamy delicousness.  My husband was eating it out of the jar.  From there he was dipping tortilla chips in it.  I knew it was something I wanted my customers to sample so I had to come up with a game day treat.  I already have roast beef and pork sandwiches planned for later in the month so I needed another meat ... with the help of my taste testers, we decided on smoked turkey.  Customers enjoyed both the sauce and the pinwheels.

Turkey Tortilla Pinwheels with Chipotle Chili Aioli

1 pkg. burrito size flour tortillas

24 slices Smoked Turkey or Oven Roast Turkey

16 oz. Tillamook Cheddar cheese, shredded

1 head leafy lettuce

1 jar TFM Chipotle Chili Aioli

Lay tortilla on flat surface.  Spread with aioli to edges of tortilla.  Place a single layer of lettuce on ½ of the tortilla.  Top with shredded cheddar cheese.  Place 3 slices of turkey on lettuce and tortilla.  Roll up tortilla tightly.  Place frill picks at 1-inch intervals along the edge of the rolled up tortilla. 

Cut in between picks and place pinwheels on serving plate.  Repeat for remaining tortillas.

Yields:  64 pinwheels

I like to prepare pinwheels in advance of a party.  I roll up the tortilla, wrap it in plastic wrap and place it in the refrigerator.  Prior to serving I remove them from the refigerator (one at a time), cut and place on serving dish.

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In past tastings customers have been enjoying the cheese balls so this weekend I prepared two.  Sorry you cannot purchase the cheese balls already prepared, but they are EASY to make at home.  

This first cheese ball I sampled out on Saturday. 

Smoky Cheese Ball 

16 oz. cream cheese, softened

½ c. butter

4 c. shredded natural smoked Gouda

2½ Tbl. TFM Chipotle Chili Aioli

½ c. diced red onion

1½ c. chopped smoked almonds

Mix together the cream cheese, butter and aioli until thoroughly blended. 

Fold in onion and Gouda.

Form mixture into two balls, and roll in smoked almonds.

Yields:  2 cheese balls


Although my taste testers and customers enjoyed this, I personally think it needed more aioli.  When cleaning up after my tasting a little bit of cheese ball was left, some crackers, and a tad bit of aioli in the jar.  I put the cheese on the cracker and drizzled with aioli.  Mmmmm, that was perfect for me.  Sample the cheese mixture before rolling it in nuts.  You can leave it as is, add more aioli, or after preparing the cheese ball, drizzle it with aioli when you serve it.

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This next cheese ball I served on Friday and Saturday.  Although customers enjoyed both, this was the favorite.  I adapted it from a Stonewall Kitchen recipe.  I didn't want to use smoked almonds on both my cheese balls, but felt I needed the smoky almonds to balance the slight sweetness of the jam.

Roasted Garlic Onion Cheese Ball

1 jar Stonewall Kitchen Roasted Garlic Onion Jam

16 oz. cream cheese, softened

¾ tsp; coarse black pepper

4 c. shredded Monterey Jack cheese

¾ c. chopped smoked almonds

Mix together the cream cheese, Stonewall Kitchen Roasted Garlic and Onion Jam and the pepper.

Fold in the Monterey Jack cheese.

Chill for one hour or more

Form mixture into a ball, and roll it into the pecans.

Serve with crackers or TFM French Rounds.

Yields:  2 cheese balls

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For the month of January I am sampling out Meatballs and Kielbasa in a sauce.  Every Friday and Saturday I'll be using a different sauce.  However, preparation is ... dare I say it ... EASY.  Friday I used Stonewall Kitchen Roasted Garlic Onion Jam.  Saturday was Stonewall Kitchen Maple Chipotle Grille Sauce.

Meatballs/Kielbasa in Sauce 

1 pkg. Bove's meatballs, defrosted  or 1 pkg Kielbasa 

1 jar of Stonewall Kitchen Roasted Garlic Onion Jam or 

     ¾ jar Stonewall Kitchen Maple Chipotle Grille Sauce

In a medium bowl mix meatballs or kielbasa with sauce/jam.  Transfer to an oven proof dish and heat in a preheated 450^o oven for 20 minutes.  Serve.  You can also cook in a pot on the stove or a crock pot.