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Friday Fives 5/25/12 – Memorial Day Food

May 24, 2012 By 1 Comment

Welcome to Friday Fives, the weekly meme where I post a list of five of something. For this week’s edition, I’m thinking about the food we are going to eat on Memorial Day. It’s traditionally the first day of the new year when we fire up our outdoor grill and eat picnic-type foods.  These are the five foods we always have:

1. My All-American Burgers, topped with lettuce and fresh tomato slices, plus ketchup and mustard (recipe below)

2. Redskin potato salad bought at the deli counter

3. Boiled corn on the cob with butter and salt (there is something about eating corn on the cob outside that makes it taste even better!)

4. Watermelon slices

5. S’mores – we toast the marshmallows on rotating skewers I won from Hershey’s from a BlogHer contest, over the fire pit I won from Hershey’s the following year!

ALL-AMERICAN BURGERS – SERVES SIX

INGREDIENTS:

  • 1.5 lb. ground beef
  • 2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
  • 3 tsp. water
  • 1 tsp. seasoned salt
  • 1 tsp. onion powder
  • 1/4 tsp. pepper
  • Optional – 6 slices American cheese singles, unwrapped
  • 6 sandwich buns

PREPARATION:

  • Prepare and heat grill. Combine all ingredients (except the sandwich buns of course!) in a large bowl and mix gently. Shape into six patties.
  • Cook 4-6″ from coals 10-15 minutes until hamburgers are no longer pink in center, or they reach an internal temperature of 160 degrees.
  • Top each burger with a slice of American cheese if desired, and close the lid of the grill or place a large saucepan lid over the burgers to help melt the cheese.

You can toast the sandwich buns on the grill just before serving, if you like. Serve with all the traditional fixings – we like mustard, ketchup, and sweet pickle relish!

What are your favorite foods to eat on Memorial Day if you celebrate it with a cookout?  Write a post on your blog, a link back to this post is greatly appreciated :)   No blog? No problem! Leave a comment on this post with your five favorite cookout foods.  Have a great weekend everybody!

 

 

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Menu Plan Monday 4-25-11

April 25, 2011 By

Yesterday was the first Easter in a long time that I didn’t fix the traditional ham dinner. We had been to a Memorial service for Chris’ Grandma on Saturday and there was a ton of food left over. So, we had leftover fried chicken, lasagna and caesar salad for Easter dinner!

Thanks to my friend Eliza mentioning it on Facebook, I discovered the site Give Every Night New Flavor, which looks to be a collaboration between ConAgra Foods and participating grocery store chains. I picked Kroger because it’s the only one on the list we have here in Lansing, and used the recipe search to come up with a few ideas for meals this week.

I searched for Italian recipes that take 30 minutes or more and serve 4 or more and found a Baked Ziti that only calls for 5 ingredients – my kind of recipe!  Here’s everything I’m making this week:

Baked Ziti Casserole with steamed broccoli and garlic toast

Betty Crocker Chile-Chicken Enchiladas with rice, chips and salsa

Manwich Sloppy Joes, with oven fries and corn

Breaded Fish Fillets with Betty Crocker Au Gratin Potatoes and steamed peas

Pizza Night

Slow Cooker Roast Chicken with mashed potatoes, chicken gravy, and green beans

I link up my menu plan posts at I’m an Organizing Junkie. Head over to see hundreds more menu plans, and feel free to tell me in a comment what you are making for dinner this week!

 

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TABASCO Original Red – What Do You Use It On?

February 1, 2011 By

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of TABASCO® Original Red. All opinions are 100% mine.

TABASCO® Original Red sauce has been a staple in my kitchen pantry for decades. I have to admit, I’m not a big fan of spicy food in general, but my husband LOVES Tabasco. He puts it on tacos, pizza, and even adds more of it to hot wings!  Tabasco is made with just three simple ingredients – salt, red pepper and vinegar – that are aged for three years to produce a hot sauce that actually enhances the flavor of food.

If you’re having a Super Bowl party, check out Tabasco’s Game-Day Party Menu where you’ll find recipes for pizza, wings, 35 different kinds of chili, dips, and finger foods like this twist on classic Chex Mix.

Hot & Spicy Party Mix

  • 1/4 cup butter or margarine, melted
  • 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
  • 2 to 3 teaspoons Original TABASCO® brand Pepper Sauce
  • 1 1/4 teaspoons seasoned salt
  • 8 cups of your favorite Chex® brand cereals (corn, rice and/or wheat)
  • 1 cup mixed nuts
  • 1 cup pretzels
  • 1 cup bite-size cheese crackers

Combine butter, Worcestershire sauce, TABASCO® Sauce, and seasoned salt in a small bowl and mix well. Pour cereals, nuts, pretzels and cheese crackers into a large plastic zip-top bag. Pour butter mixture over cereal mixture inside Zipper Bag. Seal top of bag securely. Shake bag until all pieces are evenly coated.

Pour contents of bag into an open roasting pan. Bake in a 250°F oven for 1 hour, stirring every 15 minutes. Cool and store as directed above.

Makes 11 cups.

If you like Tabasco on your pizza, check out Pizza Perfected for 10 ways to doctor up your pizza delivery. At the bottom of the page are links to 10 ways to doctor up frozen pizza and 10 more ways to doctor up homemade pizza, all using Tabasco sauces.  My husband says that putting Tabasco Original Red on pizza gives it the same tanginess he would get from using yellow banana peppers, except with the added heat.

So, what do you use Tabasco sauce on?

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