Guest Victoria Hamilton's Homemade Turkey Sausage #recipe #giveaway

 

Today the Kitchen is pleased to present the marvelous Victoria Hamilton, with a delicious recipe from her Merry Muffin Mysteries. And she's doing an incredible GIVEAWAY of a "Hug From Canada" gift package! So be sure to leave a comment below, for a chance to win this terrific prize. Take it away, Victoria:

 

Hello Mystery Lovers!

My main character in the Merry Muffin Mysteries is Merry Wynter, who – spoiler alert – bakes muffins as part of her income, trying to keep her real American castle solvent by selling them to local coffee shops, bakeries and the senior home her mother-in-law owns.

In Thanks for Muffin (Merry Muffin Mystery #8 – coming out October 14^th, 2025!) she and her business partner Pish Lincoln are finally seeing the culmination of their dreams, a gala opening of the long planned and awaited Wynter Woods Center for the Performing Arts. They have invited luminaries to celebrate with them at a dinner and party.

But they have also invited a number of the social media influencers, most with local connections, to stay over the long Thanksgiving Weekend, which means serving to a dozen or so people a buffet of breakfast items every morning, as well as the other meals. Of course murder will interrupt the weekend, but folks still have to eat!

This recipe is the kind of thing Merry would make from scratch for folks wanting protein, but low fat. A healthy kind of sausage! What makes a good sausage? It’s all about the herbs and spices. These patties benefit from the fresh sage, which pairs so perfectly with turkey anyway. That’s why I have a good amount of fresh sage from my garden in it, as well as the ground sage.

So these are easy, yes, but I created it mostly because I like them a lot! Having them on hand makes my morning fast and easy when I make these ahead of time and keep them in the freezer!

Merry’s Homemade Turkey Sausage

Ingredients:

1 lb lean ground turkey, light and dark meat, preferably.

1/3 cup Italian breadcrumbs

¾ tsp ground sage

½ tsp ground rosemary

½ tsp salt

½ tsp pepper

¼ tsp garlic powder

¼ tsp marjoram or oregano

¼ tsp smoked paprika

¼ tsp crushed red pepper flakes

Optional (but recommended!)

½ - 1 tbsp minced fresh sage

½ - 1 tbsp minced fresh parsley

Combine all spices, then mix the spices and breadcrumbs with the ground turkey, working it well into the meat but not overworking!

Divide into eight approximately 2 ounce portions; I do use a scale for this step, as for me it simplifies things and reduces the guesswork. You could just divide the mixture, eyeballing it.

Flatten into patties, or make into sausage lengths.

Spray light high-temp oil into pan, then grill the sausages, browning nicely and flipping. Don’t overcook! They only take a few minutes on each side.

 

Serve with eggs, or other breakfast items! As patties they pair perfectly with an egg and English muffin for breakfast sandwiches.

Full disclosure: this is my favorite breakfast, an Egg McHamilton, if you will! I love Dempsters’ (A Canadian company) Everything English Muffin because they have wonderful flavor.

These sausage patties freeze well after cooking.

Enjoy your quick work day or school day breakfast!

~::~

And now for the GIVEAWAY!

 

Win the ‘Hug from Canada’ Prize Package!  

 

It includes: VictoriaHamiltonMysteries.com pens, a one-of-a-kind Merry Muffins canvas book tote, a box of Four O’Clock organic ‘Apple Crumble’ black tea, a box of Canadian Jakeman Maple Cookies, and Canadian chef and Member of the Order of Canada cookbook author Jean Paré’s ‘Mostly Muffins’ cookbook, chock full of wonderful muffin recipes! Also included is a $25 US Amazon gift card. Contest is open to Canadian and US readers!

 

Leave a comment below to be eligible to win (and be sure to leave your email address, so we can contact you).

~::~

About Thanks for Muffin:

When Merry Wynter’s festive gala takes a fatal turn, she’ll have to grill her guests to catch a killer . . . 

After years of planning and hard work, Merry Wynter was finally ready to host the grand opening gala of the Wynter Woods Center for the Performing Arts. With musicians, entertainers, members of the media and even influencers on the guest list, the event went off without a hitch—until a particularly nasty journalist posted a criticism of the gala and everything Merry was trying to accomplish. Still reeling from the review days later, Merry wasn’t sure what to feel when she discovered the reporter’s dead body on the grounds of Wynter Castle. 

With many of her guests staying on at the castle for the weekend, Merry realizes they’ve got a murderer in their midst. Going from celebrating to sleuthing, she discreetly questions each of them, trying to weed out the culprit. She quickly learns that the victim had heated arguments with several of the people at the gala, and it turns out those people were all connected by a tragedy in the past. Certain the killer is among them, Merry will have to unearth the final clue that nails the killer—before the killer decides she’s getting too close . . . 

Includes delicious recipes!

~::~

About Victoria Hamilton:

Victoria Hamilton is the pseudonym of nationally bestselling romance author Donna Lea Simpson. Victoria is the bestselling author of three mystery series, the Lady Anne Addison Mysteries, the Vintage Kitchen Mysteries, and the Merry Muffin Mysteries. She also writes a Regency-set historical mystery series, starting with A Gentlewoman’s Guide to Murder. Visit her website at victoriahamiltonmysteries.com.

Social Details:

Website: http://www.VictoriaHamiltonMysteries.com (Sign up for her newsletter for all the latest!)

On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VictoriaHamiltonMysteryAuthor

On BlueSky: @mysteryvictoria.bsky.social

On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mysteryauthorvictoriahamilton/

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/598635.Victoria_Hamilton

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Victoria-Hamilton/e/B007T7LGAU