Thread: L4P Recipe Book

Thought about posting this up, everyone pitch in your favorite recipe. Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner or snack everything goes.

Starting off,
"Sausage dip"

There are a few ways to do this but here is what I use:
2 blocks cream cheese (reduced or regular, do not use fat free)

1lb of spicy italian sausage

2 Cans of Salsa (medium or hot) although some people use Rotel

"Scoops" Tostitos or triscuit crackers

Instructions:
Brown and cut up the sausage into very small chunks, somewhere in between a bread crouton and bacon bits. Grab the cream cheese and cans of salsa and put them both into a appropiate sized bowl. Add the diced sausage while mixing the salsa and cream cheese, it should come to a very pale orange color. After that you can either microwave on high for 5 minutes (I suggest stirring it up part-way through) or slow cook in a crock pot for 2-4 hours. I've also managed a bbq at the drag strip.

Give it a final stir and serve with chips. The dip can be refridgerated and is actually really tasty while cold, although the chips have a tough time "scooping" without breaking.


Looking forward to what everyone can come up with,
Bon Appetit!

great idea for a thread.

Seared Ahi tuna.

2 5-6 oz. ahi tuna steaks
1 teaspoon kosher salt ( i salted to taste, didnt want to over salt)
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 teaspoon whole pepper corns
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 tablespoon butter

heat the oil and butter over med-high heat and add peppercorns. cook the peppercorns till they pop and open up, or about 5 minutes (mine wouldnt open up). while the peppercorns are cooking, rub the cayenne and salt on the tuna steaks. once ready place the steaks in the oil/butter/peppercorn mixture and sear both sides, i did mine for about 1 minute per side, did a good enough job for me, left it really rare in the middle and nicely browned on the outside.

serve over baby green salad with roasted sesame & ginger dressing!

suggesstion: if you have a stove outside, cook outside, this makes A LOT of smoke.

The Bacghetti.

Depending on servings required cook the appropriate amount of spaghetti or noodles in water with a dash of salt in the pot. Beside that get a frying pan and 4-5 strips of bacon close by. Break the bacon into small little pieces, I sliced them across and folded them over and placed them in the pan. The two cook at about the same time 7-9 minutes for spaghetti and I had to cook the bacon bits in 2 stages because of the size of pan.

Heat up your preferred spaghetti sauce in another pan for a minute or two before straining the spaghetti, adding the bacon bits and the sauce for an awesome dinner. Serve with a side plate of full strips of bacon... can never get enough bacon. Eh.

Buttermilk Pancakes.

2 cups flour
5 tsp baking powder
2 eggs beaten (Chris Brown style)
2 cups of sour milk
6 tbsp melted butter
4 tbsp sugar

Mix all the dry ingredients add milk butter and eggs, mix lightly and cook like normal pancakes.

^Childhood favorite right there.

For pizza, my fave is to BBQ it.

Get 1lb dough from your favorite place
Split in 2 pieces (each half will serve 1-2)
Spread out into an oblong shape (it wont be pretty, but size it to your available pan- see below)
Add your sauce and toppings

Heat your BBQ on 1 side only (I use mesquite charcoal)
Put pizza on a pan that allows indirect heat (pizza stone, or a pan that has a flat rack- anything to separate the dough from the flame)
Place pan on the non-flame side of BBQ
Cook for 15-30mins (moving pizza around as needed)

Voila, your own wood (or charcoal) fire pizza oven!


I see now that this probably will do you no good, sorry

Burgers.

Depending on how many you are serving decides the amount of ground beef.

I used Organic beef, just a personal preference doesn't matter either way.

I was cooking 4 burgers.
Put it into a medium sized mixing bowl, crack one egg in with the ground beef, add your sauce/spice for me it was montreal steak spices, touch of pepper and dianas bbq sauce. Stir this up until all is well mixed in, now you will notice the meat is a little too "Juicy" in the wrong way, add bread crumbs, or I added Quaker Oats because I didn't have bread crumbs. Mix it all together, you won't end up even noticing the Oats later. Simply absorbs everything and is cooked into the meat. After that make patties, you want them all about the same size, remember that the burgers expand so make them a little smaller than you want, all about the same size and thickness, nothing like flipping patties at different times. Put the patties on a fresh plate and head to the bbq.

Now hopefully by now you have the bbq fired up nice and hot. Put the patties on there and for those who know how to bbq burgers carry on with the usual you are done here. Serve with fixings.

For those that don't (everyone has to learn sometime) get the burgers placed away from direct flames, if you have big @$$ flames coming above the grilles turn down the heat, just leads to un-even cooking and charring (ask me how I know). Now you'll want to sit them on each side until you they "look" like a burger, but you can also easily lift them off the grille and not leave any left over meat stuck to the grille. About 5-10 minutes on each side depending on how bad@$$ your bbq is. Just check with a spatula by lifting a side, if it starts crumbling its not done so let it cook longer. Be sure to use a fresh plate when bringing the burgers back in, DO NOT use the plate that had raw meet on it.

Now to check to make sure its quick you can cut into the middle easily enough to see if its red, if it is you can either go out and put it on the bbq again, or I usually fire it in the microwave and nuke it for a minute. This is easy and doesn't change the taste I find.

Get your fixing, ketchup, mustard etc along with however you want your buns. Grab a beer and enjoy.

Let the bbq burn off any excess, turn it off, and brush it off with a bbq brush while it cools. Turn off the propane and cover.

Made this a couple months ago and it was a little sloppy but delicious!

Cuban Pizza

Ingredients

2 12" Boboli® Thin Pizza Crusts
2 tbsp. olive oil
1/2 c. spicy brown mustard
1/2 c. mayonnaise
12 slices Muenster cheese
12 slices thin deli ham
10 sandwich-style dill pickle slices

Directions

Preheat oven to 450° F.
Bake time: 10 minutes

Brush pizza pan or sheet pan with 1 tablespoon of olive oil. In a small bowl, combine mustard and mayonnaise. Spread each crust with half the mustard mixture. Lay one crust on the pan and top with 6 slices of the cheese, 6 slices of the ham and a single layer of pickles. Add the remaining 6 slices of ham, 6 slices of cheese and the second crust with mustard side down. Brush the top of the crust with the remaining 1 tablespoon of olive oil. Bake for 10 minutes. After removing pizza from oven, place a heavy-bottomed skillet on top of the pizza to press it down. After 2 – 3 minutes, remove skillet and move pizza to a cutting board. Cut into 2"x6" rectangular slices.

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Ingredients

3 tablespoon olive oil
1 sweet onion, peeled and chopped
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1 tablespoon minced fresh rosemary
1 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme
2 pounds stew beef, cut into 2-inch cubes
1/2 teaspoon salt, plus more to taste
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, plus more to taste
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 cup Marsala wine
1 pound butternut squash, trimmed and cut into 2-inch cubes
1/4 cup chopped Melissa’s sun-dried tomatoes
3 to 4 cups beef broth
2 tablespoons fresh chopped flat-leaf parsley
Crusty bread, for serving
Directions