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Dinner slump

Mrs Leanin' H said:
Thanks Hillsdown, I will try that! It sounds like you like to cook from looking at your latest menu. Yum!
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Mrs H, I really do enjoy cooking ,baking not so much. Hubby is gone so much that when he is home I like to make something different and special .

Tonight I am going to try a spinach salad ,dressed with a yogurt balsamic dressing and topped with fresh blueberries. Will let you know how it turns out as I am winging it. I will be serving it with grilled pork tenderloin.

Since you have young children at home you should try the cheese stuffed hamburgers, kids and adults love them. You just take your ground beef and season lightly, make two somewhat thin patties and stuff them with your favorite cheese be it cheddar, gruyere ,monterey jack etc. Then seal the two patties together around the edges shaping them so they are not too thick. Grill as normally done and top with an accompanying cheese to the one you have stuffed it with a few minutes before they are fully cooked . The cheese flavor is basically infused into the beef. Use condiments as you usually would and enjoy. It is delicious, and picky eaters usually love it.

We like to use blue cheese on the inside and then top with a medium gouda or swiss. Because of the unique flavors of the cheeses and the beef I like to just add sauteed mushrooms on mine, nothing else . Hubby adds the works ,lettuce, tomatoe. onion, pickle, ketchup ,mustard and relish .
 
Spinach salad... mmm..

I invented a dressing last summer that we really like. You just make a regular oil & vinegar dressing, using the blender or food processor, but add a couple of strawberries to it. Then put it on the spinach with sliced strawberries, finely sliced red onions, and slivered almonds.

Simple and delicious. 8)
 
While I do truly appreciate the nice recipes ya'll have suggested, In the wise and true words of my 3 year old son when his mother gave him a plate of veggies and a potpie........."Mom, I'm gonna need some meat!" Salad is nice, but I need STEAK! :wink:
 
leanin' H said:
While I do truly appreciate the nice recipes ya'll have suggested, In the wise and true words of my 3 year old son when his mother gave him a plate of veggies and a potpie........."Mom, I'm gonna need some meat!" Salad is nice, but I need STEAK! :wink:
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:lol: :lol:
 
That is why I suggested the burgers ,,meat and cheese. What little boy does not love that, and it is a little different than the normal burger and a change from steak .. :wink:
 
Faster horses said:
HD, I make burgers similar to yours, but I wrap bacon around
the patties before I grill or broil them. Bacon really adds a nice
touch and they look rather fancy!!
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Now clean out the inside of a large jalapeno, stuff it with cream cheese laced with garlic, wrap a slice a bacon around it (keep it in place with a toothppick) and toss it on the grill for about 5 minutes. Keep a cold beer handy! Good eats!
 
Liveoak said:
Faster horses said:
HD, I make burgers similar to yours, but I wrap bacon around
the patties before I grill or broil them. Bacon really adds a nice
touch and they look rather fancy!!
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Now clean out the inside of a large jalapeno, stuff it with cream cheese laced with garlic, wrap a slice a bacon around it (keep it in place with a toothppick) and toss it on the grill for about 5 minutes. Keep a cold beer handy! Good eats!
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Live Oak we do poppers all the time here, but have never wrapped them in bacon. You brought them to an all new level... :D
 
If breakfast for dinner don't sound good, what about a low country boil? Its a outside deal but sure is good. Start with a 3 gal pot, 2 gal water get a zaterain or lousana brand bag of crab boil put it and a bottle of crystal hot sauce and the crab boil in the rollin boil and salt the boil to taste. Put some red taters and corn on the cob, a couple of big onions and a 1/4ed cabbage. Then, some cut up smoked sausage. Let her boil good for 15 mins then check your taters. Your gettin close to bein done so make sure the taters are right. Then put in your clams, like cherry stone. Let ur boil come back then ad ur scrimp and some snow crab legs if u won't. Go no more then 3 mins then out the fire. Get the youngins back, and with some help, strain the water off. Have u a table covered with a good skaterin of news paper then carefully pour out your bounty. The whole family sets around the table and gets there fingers nasty as well as gettin foundered. Don't bust the crab boil bag in the boil. For some reason, everybody will get the scouers. After u get ur water ready, it only takes about 20 mins. Clean ups easy. Just rap it all up in the news paper.
 
cowhunter said:
If breakfast for dinner don't sound good, what about a low country boil? Its a outside deal but sure is good. Start with a 3 gal pot, 2 gal water get a zaterain or lousana brand bag of crab boil put it and a bottle of crystal hot sauce and the crab boil in the rollin boil and salt the boil to taste. Put some red taters and corn on the cob, a couple of big onions and a 1/4ed cabbage. Then, some cut up smoked sausage. Let her boil good for 15 mins then check your taters. Your gettin close to bein done so make sure the taters are right. Then put in your clams, like cherry stone. Let ur boil come back then ad ur scrimp and some snow crab legs if u won't. Go no more then 3 mins then out the fire. Get the youngins back, and with some help, strain the water off. Have u a table covered with a good skaterin of news paper then carefully pour out your bounty. The whole family sets around the table and gets there fingers nasty as well as gettin foundered. Don't bust the crab boil bag in the boil. For some reason, everybody will get the scouers. After u get ur water ready, it only takes about 20 mins. Clean ups easy. Just rap it all up in the news paper.
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CAn I come for dinner?? :D :D That sounds awesome... We need to do a ranchersnet cookbook...
 
This post is making me hungry! :D I just have to try Cowhunter's boil. Have no idea where to find the clams or crab or shrimp out here on the desert but they must have those delicacies in town. :D THANKS!

Here's one I like on the BBQ........
#1 wrap elk cabobs in bacon, scewr on a kabob stick with baby onions, hunks of squash, pineapple, ect. Pretty good eating.

#2 From the jalepeno idea...... do the same thing but different. Take a big shrimp, add a jalepeno slice and a hunk of pepperjack cheese, wrap with bacon, stab a toothpick in it and BBQ a bunch.
 
hillsdown said:
Liveoak said:
Faster horses said:
HD, I make burgers similar to yours, but I wrap bacon around
the patties before I grill or broil them. Bacon really adds a nice
touch and they look rather fancy!!
Click to expand...

Now clean out the inside of a large jalapeno, stuff it with cream cheese laced with garlic, wrap a slice a bacon around it (keep it in place with a toothppick) and toss it on the grill for about 5 minutes. Keep a cold beer handy! Good eats!
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Live Oak we do poppers all the time here, but have never wrapped them in bacon. You brought them to an all new level... :D
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add a cut up duck breast or deer backstrap in there and thank me later. you can also put ground beef in there.
 
hillsdown said:
Mrs Leanin' H said:
Thanks Hillsdown, I will try that! It sounds like you like to cook from looking at your latest menu. Yum!
Click to expand...

Mrs H, I really do enjoy cooking ,baking not so much. Hubby is gone so much that when he is home I like to make something different and special .

Tonight I am going to try a spinach salad ,dressed with a yogurt balsamic dressing and topped with fresh blueberries. Will let you know how it turns out as I am winging it. I will be serving it with grilled pork tenderloin.

Since you have young children at home you should try the cheese stuffed hamburgers, kids and adults love them. You just take your ground beef and season lightly, make two somewhat thin patties and stuff them with your favorite cheese be it cheddar, gruyere ,monterey jack etc. Then seal the two patties together around the edges shaping them so they are not too thick. Grill as normally done and top with an accompanying cheese to the one you have stuffed it with a few minutes before they are fully cooked . The cheese flavor is basically infused into the beef. Use condiments as you usually would and enjoy. It is delicious, and picky eaters usually love it.

We like to use blue cheese on the inside and then top with a medium gouda or swiss. Because of the unique flavors of the cheeses and the beef I like to just add sauteed mushrooms on mine, nothing else . Hubby adds the works ,lettuce, tomatoe. onion, pickle, ketchup ,mustard and relish .
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Burgers sound awesome!!

I am just the opposite, I can bake, but am a simpleton when it comes to cooking.

Here's a yummy spinach salad for ya! I stole the recipe from a cousin.

Spinach
diced granny smith apples
craisins
pecan halves
cooked, diced chicken breast
Toss with poppyseed dressing
 
That sounds so good, next time I'm in town I'm going to get the
ingredients.

Mrs. H, do you have a good sloppy joe recipe? I do, and I'll share
if you want. We had a tornado hit our place in W. Montana and
we had so many good hearted people come to help clean it up;
the ranch cook at Rock Creek Cattle brought a huge roaster of
the best sloppy joes I'd ever eaten. I got her recipe and that's
the one I've used since 1981.
 
Here's one I aint done in a while. I use to make one almost everytime I grilled on saturday. Take a large peace of smoked sausage. A pork and deer backstrap. Slice up with the grain, long thin, wide strips. Season with creoile seasonin. Get u a box of tooth picks and wrap it around the sausage with it held by the tooth picks. Its kind of hard to do. U have to use a lot of tooth pics. It should be about 3 inches around. Then wrap it in bacon. U will have tooth picks stickin out already to hang the bacon and won't need but a few. Put it on the grill with ur steak on a cooler smokey spot. Your goin to leave it over night. A gas grill with 1 burner on low will work but I cook with oak wood. Before u go to church sunday, go out and retreve it. Don't get worryed when u see this thing. It will be black. Go on and hear the preachin then come back and start pullin tooth picks. It slices up and holds togather real good and takes the pork fat and smoke into the venison and pork. I call it a mule organ.
 

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