TOTW for July 13

trailhugger

trailhugger

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The Topic of the Week is Summer Recipes. Anything on the grill, anything with veggies from the garden, anything you eat while out at the lake or beach. Anything you eat and immediately think of summertime.

What are the ingredients?
How do you prepare it?
How do you serve/eat it?

:beer:
 
Best Burgers

I'll start with my Best Burgers. The recipe is for 1 lb. of meat, so four good-size burgers. Multiply other ingredients as necessary for more burgers. Seasoning amounts are estimates, I just eyeball it! Sometimes I throw in other things, just depends on the mood. ;)

1# ground beef
1/2 medium onion, chopped fine
1 large egg
6 saltine crackers, crumbled
1/4 cup of shredded cheese (cheddar or mont. jack)
1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
1 t parsley or cilantro
1 t Montreal Steak Seasoning
1 t garlic powder
1 Tablespoon Worchestershire sauce
salt and pepper
barbecue sauce of choice

Mix all dry seasonings together with crumbled crackers, add egg and beat together, then add chopped onion, cheese and Worchestershire. Add ground beef and mix all together. I use my hands because it's just easier, even if cold and a little messy! Form into patties ready to grill and sprinkle with salt and pepper.

Before you put them on the grill, press down in the center of each patty and put about a Tablespoon of your favorite BBQ sauce... I'm using Famous Dave's "Devil's Spit" right now.

Place on the grill with sauce side up, flip when you think they're right, cook other side until you think they're done.

Serve on a toasted bun with your choice of toppings: sliced cheese, bacon, tomato, lettuce, onion, ketchup, mustard, mayo... I usually serve them with fries or chips & salsa. Other sides are optional but include potato salad, slaw or grilled veggies (onion, squash) from our garden.
 
grilled chicken


ingredients:

a handful of everything i can find in the cabinet to throw on it.

a man dont need no stinkin recipe!
 
Broccoli Garlic Pasta

good warm or cold
one pound of Pasta, Medium shells or Rottini work best
Garlic, if small cloves, use 4, if large use 2
large head of broccoli
olive oil ( prefferance is Bertolli )
salt

Cook pasta al dente drain, set aside

As pasta is cookin, cut broccoli head into small florets, no stems, STEAM just enough to warm thru. Set aside.

take garlic cloves, mince and then lightly saute' in olive oil in large skillet. do not brown, just want to flavor the oilive oil.

stir/fold pasta and broccoli into skillet add a little more olive oil to taste, add salt to taste no more than a 1/2 teaspoon.

Serve in large bowl, enjoy.

Simple, quick and pretty tasty
 
Grilled & Stuffed Poblano Chilies

Fun to make as an appetizer or as part of a larger dish. Can make any number of chilies by estimating approx. ½ cup of mixed ingredients per chili.

Skirt steak (or flank sliced horizontally before grilling)
Chorizo sausage
Black beans
Jack cheese
Scallions
Cilantro
Cumin
Adobo
Garlic

Marinate steak for at least 4 hrs. Prepare chilies by cutting off stem end and removing seeds and membranes. Leave as much as possible of the chili for a “pocket” into which you will stuff ingredients later. Grill chilies, steak and sausage. Slice steak into strips and cut into bite-size lengths. Crumble sausage and mix with steak and beans, cheese, scallions, and seasonings. Stuff into chilies and wrap in foil. Return to grill for 15 mins.

Eat!
 
I've got a rack of ribs and a whole fryer on the smoker right now, brined in brown sugar, seasoned salt, garlic, and cajun seasoning for 2 days, I don't have recipes, I just run the spices I'm putting together through my head to see if they work together. That method hasn't let me down yet. For chicken and pork, brown sugar and a little applesauce make for a good base for a paste type rub, add whatever else you would like, red pepper, etc. carmelizes well and seals the juices in.
 
Beer....
- Ingredients: Beer, lime (If Corona)
- How to prepare: Open top using a lighter, stick, pocket knofe, belt buckle, teeth, or any other convenient object. If Corona, cut up a lime.
- How to serve/eat: raise bottle to lips. Tilt backwards. Stop whne empty. If a Corona - try and squeeze that chunk of lime in there, even though you know damn well it is too big, but you are too stubborn to cut it again.
 
Land Shark w/lime x2.
steaks
burgers
wings w/ the new Budwieser sauce (hot)
ribs
We do alot of corn and onions,peppers, etc also
cant forget johnsonville Brats in the Beer bath
 
Grilled Cabbage

Cut a head of cabbage into fist sized chunks, slather a little butter on them, wrap each chunk with a strip of bacon, drizzle some Lawry's seasoning on them, then wrap each chunk in tin foil and grill for about an hour at about 350. Be careful...it'll make you slap your mama!
 
you could have bud light lime its good lol.
 
Bacon Wrapped Shrimp

Shrimp (bigger the better)
Horseradish ( I use hot)
Sharp Cheddar Cheese (shredded)
Bacon (I use thick cut)
Toothpicks (wooden)

1. Start with your favorite size of raw shrimp
Bigger the better for ease of prep
2. Peel and de-tail shrimp
3. Butterfly them (cut the back vein side open with a knife)
4. In each butterflied section, put horseradish and shredded cheddar cheese
5. Wrap a half slice of bacon around the shrimp to hold everything in and pin it with a wooden toothpick

6. Place them on the grill and flip after a few minutes. Remove when bacon is cooked.

7. Wish you had made more.:flipoff2:
 
potted meat salad.


1 can potted meat
2 tbl spoons mayo
1 tbl spoon mustard
sprinkle of celery salt

put can of potted meat into small bowl or other container
put in mustard and mayo
sprinkle in celery salt
mix well
eat with crackers of your choice

yum yum good in a pinch.


dawg
 
bronco slim said:
Grilled Cabbage
Cut a head of cabbage into fist sized chunks, slather a little butter on them, wrap each chunk with a strip of bacon, drizzle some Lawry's seasoning on them, then wrap each chunk in tin foil and grill for about an hour at about 350. Be careful...it'll make you slap your mama!
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My mother-in-law showed me that one recently, I now eat cabbage at least twice a week.

I like to cut up fresh squash/zuchinni, add about a stick of butter, half a pound of bacon, a medium onion, and grill in a tinfoil pouch. About 35-40 minutes later you have the best damn squash on earth.

Shrimp skewers marinated in beer and everglades heat seasoning are another summer favorite.
 
Damn, that was me, not sir Fred in the above post. F-ing shop computer....
 
You guys are making me hungry!

Here's some hamburgers we like to do:

1lb Ground Beef
A-1 Chicago Style sauce
(here you can add in whatever spices you like for extra flavor)
seasoned fries are a good side dish as well.

mix together and form patties.
grill until done.
eat.
drink a cold beer.
eat some more.
shoot bottlerockets at your neighbor.
have another burger.
lay on couch in food-coma.
deny any and all accusations of projectiles coming from your yard, and entering airspace in close proximity.


:beer:
 
Now thats a winner!!
uglyjeepoffroad said:
Bacon Wrapped Shrimp

Shrimp (bigger the better)
Horseradish ( I use hot)
Sharp Cheddar Cheese (shredded)
Bacon (I use thick cut)
Toothpicks (wooden)

1. Start with your favorite size of raw shrimp
Bigger the better for ease of prep
2. Peel and de-tail shrimp
3. Butterfly them (cut the back vein side open with a knife)
4. In each butterflied section, put horseradish and shredded cheddar cheese
5. Wrap a half slice of bacon around the shrimp to hold everything in and pin it with a wooden toothpick

6. Place them on the grill and flip after a few minutes. Remove when bacon is cooked.

7. Wish you had made more.:flipoff2:
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DRKelly's Famous Single Man Recipe
Get something out of freezer, nuke it, 5min later your not hungry.
My favorite summer time food. zuchini on the grill slathered in olive oil and Butt Rub seasoning, & jalapeno's stuffed with cream cheese ,wrapped in bacon and grilled. ummmm If you like dove or quail , try putting a a jalapeno in the chest cavity, wrap in bacon, and grill.
I'm going to try the other zuchini recipe from here tonight and the cabbage sound good too.
I smoked a boston butt this weekend, I would tell you my secret recipe but then I'd have to kill ya.
 
wow, I didn't realize so many of you actually cooked stuff, I get really angry when I have to microwave something for more than a few minutes, thats why I refuse to go to restaurants other than fast food most of the time. When I am hungry I don't go into my kitchen or some restaurant to have to wait to eat, I go to eat :shaking::lol:
 
Ribbeys

I like to take Beef short ribs and put in the crock pot with 1 can tomato sauce and 1 jar john boy and billy spicy sauce, 1 cut yellow onion. Let cook all day while working and the buggy and dinner is served after about the 3rd busted knuckle and 1 cut finger.
 
heres something i really like in the summer on the grill, and its easy to do.

steak
thing of powdered ranch dressing
some butter/margerine


get a steak, throw some garlic salt/ or sea salt on it just before throwing it on the grill.

cook it

while its cooking, mix the butter/marg w/ the ranch dressing powder/seasoning until you have a paste

When the steak is done, spread the paste on top of the steak so the butter/marg soak in

Porkchop/chicken breast can be substitued for steak, as well as italian dressing powder, whatever suits you.

Its quick, and very easy. I just save my deeply marinated steaks w/ steak sauce for the winter
 
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