pizza

 tonight’s deep dish pizza

mushrooms, hot Italian sausage, beef, garlic onion, American cheese, parmesan, Romano.

pizza

 tonight’s deep dish pizza

mushrooms, hot Italian sausage, beef, garlic onion, American cheese, parmesan, Romano.

Stuffed Meat Loaf Kibby bil Sanieh

baking bread+being a meat lover;how to combine both?(in one recipe) basically wheat and spiced meat, Stuffed Meat Loaf,Kibby bil Sanieh….

Stuffed Meat Loaf

Kibby bil Sanieh

adapted from betty Crocker’s International Cookbook

made from ingredients on hand

made smaller than original recipe

page 166

1/4 lb bulgar wheat,4 oz.

1/2 lb ground beef,8 oz.

onion, chopped

salt , pepper

chilled rendered bacon fat

Stuffing:

1 link italian sausage

onionchopped

pine nuts,about a tablespoon or so

dash of ground cinnamon and ground nutmeg

cover the bulgar with cold water for 10 minutes empty bulgar into a strainer lined with a dish towel wrap and squeeze out the water. Mix ground beef, chopped onion, salt and pepper add bulgar, knead until well mixed.

prepare the stuffing,

uncase the sausage link and saute with onion, pine nuts and seasonings.

In a small oven proof dish press in half of the beef mixture, then the filling and then the remaining beef mixture.

Spread out a teaspoon or so of bacon fat on top.

Cook at 350 degrees, about 30 minutes, (a small ovenproof dish can fit into a toaster oven).

let it cool and set up about 5-10 minutes.

serves 3-4 or 1 hungry person over several hours.

no idea on beverage paring, could be eaten with salad greens etc.

perhaps ………

Eggplant spinach lasagna

Eggplant spinach lasagna

cut eggplant lengthwise, season and oil, roast in oven
set aside;

sauté chopped onion and garlic, green pepper in oil
add flour, season etc.
add cream, milk etc. to make a white sauce
add cheese
add chopped tomatoes, tomato sauce
cooked till thickened
set aside;

make wide pasta noodles
about 2 cups flours 2 eggs

assemble (13x9x2) as you would with layers of
pasta, eggplant and baby spinach with the sauce.

Bake till bubbly

sorry no pix maybe if I make it again I’ll take some pictures

POTATO PANCAKES

Plotskies

potatoes

onion

eggs

carrot

bacon

salt

pepper

seasonings

heavy cream

vinegar

hot sauce

preferrable a two burner stovetop cast iron seasoned grille or equivalent.

Medium grate potatoes and onions into a bowl with some fine grated carrot proportioned to your liking, easy on the onions, (4 meduim potatoes to about 1/4 cup shredded onions maybe about a tablespoon of (optional) carrot), add two eggs and mix , lightly, salt, pepper and season to taste (I prefer bit of dry rub added). Proportion ingredients as to not overpower the potatoe taste. I do not dry the shredded potatoes as the eggs will bind them.

In a mixing bowl add a small amount of heavy cream and a capfull of vinegar.Beat to stiff consistency. Hold for garnish.

Light up the grille, one side medium heat and the other side low heat. Course dice raw bacon or fatback and render some fat on the grille, (add olive oil or butter if desired, keep some diced frozen raw bacon in freezer for this purpose). Spoon pancake sized portions of the potato mixture on the grille thin or thick as you prefer, adjusting heat on the cooking side of the grille to preference for a crispy dark or light brown crust. Surround the pancakes with the bacon chunks to prevent sticking and to give the potato cakes flavor. Turn over pancakes when they start to hold together and cook as desired.

. When pancakes are almost done move to the low heat section of the grille to complete cooking. Move cooked bacon bits to the side of the grille and replenish with more bacon as needed. Finish the rest of the potato mixture moving the completed pancakes off the grill to a warm platter or someones empty plate sided with some bacon bits.

Serve the sour cream on the side and have a bottle of hot sauce available. The pancakes can be garnished in a variety of ways only limited by your imagination as long as you keep the potato taste. Can be refrigerated or frozen when completed and reheated or rebaked etc.

Preferable to potatoe chips, serve pancakes hot off the grille with some bacon bits for a hungry crew with frosted mugs of beer or pass around the vodka (for breakfast have strong coffee available), in a cool kitchen gathered around the heat of the grill for a satifing meal. Even better on an outdoor grille or fire on a cool or cold snowy day.

ROASTED ONION,GARLIC AND RED PEPPER PIZZA

Prepare your favorite pizza dough recipe.

While the dough is rising, peel 2 sweet Vidalia white onions, cut into quarters.

Peel and slice 2 red peppers.

Put the onions surrounded by several cloves of garlic and red peppers in a small ovenproof covered dish or casserole and drizzle with olive oil.

Bake in a 400 degree oven for 45mins-1hr.

Let cool and remove the red peppers and in a food processor pulse the roasted onions and garlic to a slurry.

Press the pizza dough into a large cast iron skillet extending the dough up the sides of the pan.

Spread the onion garlic mixture on top of the dough and top with red peppers.

Salt and peppers to taste.

Let the dough rise to your liking while upping the oven temp to 500 degrees.

Bake till brown and crispy. About 10-12 mins.

You can remove the pizza from the pan and return to oven rack for additional baking if preferred.

Let cool slightly on a wire rack, slice and serve with cold beer.

Happy New Year

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009

RING IN THE NEW WITH A PIZZA !

What better way to wash down a pizza !

It snowed in the afternnon to evening and the temps dropped making it a cold night. Renee provided transporation for lady as she didn’t want to brave the snow. I ended up watching the tube for most of the night and the others played games. Made up some dough and baked pizza. Diane made many side dishes and desserts. Champagne toast at midnight and we watched the motorcycle jump/ times square ball drop at midnight.

Diane didn’t have to work till 10 Am, I slept in and put the kitchen back in order and cleaned the office and shuffled up some paper work, yeah, tax time comming and also keeping an eye on the interest rate alerts from the mortgage company. we should be starting an on-lne app for a re fi soon. I have projects on the back burner for 2009 .Turntable sitting on the desk now and I have digitized some of the albums to harddisk/mp3 player (I have Justine’s old Zen player she has an Ipod) with many other albums in the cellar. Boxes of pictures/slides/VHS and Uncles Leos old home movies to convert “someday” (“Someday” is the new day that will be added to the week so we will be able to get everthing done!) Renee was looking at Craigs list for a DVD/VHS to tape her TV shows. She got one at Salvation Army but it wasn’t fully functional. L8tr pEtE