Powderedmaggot

Mkay, I'm tired of all the same old shit I & my wife make for dinner. Spag, buritos, pizza, soup.... just don't cut it after a while. I'm looking for some recipies that I can throw together after work in about an hour (max.) from start to eating. I've got half a pig, some cow, an elk, lamb, a few chickens whole and in part and misc frozen garden stuff in my freezers. I like to make things from scratch (no instant mashed potatoes, campbells soup, ...) and I am looking for some good food to feed myself & family.

So, if you've got a recipie or idea post it up, I'm sure I'm not alone.

Powderedmaggot

I'll start with a quick pizza recipie

3c flour
1 1/4c warm water
3 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp yeast (quick or regular)
1 tbsp oil
a grain of salt (1 tsp if you like the stuff)
1/2 tsp baking powder

put water, oil, sugar & yeast in a measuring cup, mix it up and let it sit for a few minutes while you combine in a bolw flour, baking soda and the salt you may not have added. Add the liquid to the flour mix, stir it up (ooo little darlin' c'mon and stir it up)once it is gloopy glop throw a handfull of flour on the counter top and dump the contents of the mixing bowl on the counter. Turn on the over to 350 degrees. Kneed the glop until it is a good cohesive mass adding flour to the counter as necessary (about 5 minutes of rigorous kneeding will do it longer if you are not very experienced. put a bit of oil in the bottom of a mixing, put dough in bowl and roll it around untill it is coated with oil. PLace the bowl on the now warming oven and put a cloth over top of it.

Make pizza sauce (or open a can). tomato sauce & italian herbs (oregano, basil, thyme...) make a quick sauce. Add some finely chopped onion if you like, some garlic (whatever suits your fancy) dump it in a pan and heat it up on med heat.

While the sauce is cooking do you topping prep. If you like mushrooms it is best to precook them to get the water out so you za is not soggy.

Take a cookie tray or whatever you plan on using and coat it with butter or oil. punch the dough down and take it out of the bowl and stretch it roughly to size. Plop it on the tray and coax it into the correct shape trying to keep it an even thickness. Build crusts it you want. take a fork and poke a pile of little holes in the dough. Add the sauce, spread it around with a spoon but don't make it too thick. Sprinkle it with parmesan, add toppings, add mozzerela cheese. put it in the now hot oven for 10 - 15 minutes or until the cheese and edges of the crust start to get golden. Take it out, cut it up and eat it. Don't burn the top of your mouth. It will be fuck off hot for a long time.

asaris

Adding some Rosemary can do quite a lot for pizza crust as well. If you've done baking before, keep in might that pizza dough should be slightly wetter than bread dough.

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"my wife and i" not "i and my wife"!

alright- english time over!

there's always mac and cheese, and before you go "ugh" there's a way to make it super good- i always put in velveeta cheese(from the brick) into the milk and the butter and let it melt, then add the cheese sauce packet and whisk it, then cut up some kielbasa into small pieces and throw it in the cheese sauce, let the kielbasa heat through, then add the pasta and stir. it's super yummy and a good twist on something most kids absloutely adore, but most adults are tired of.

also, Martel and I like to get skirt steak, cut into fajita-sized strips, and marinate in chineese marinate (we really like Soy Vey ) Then there's a ton of stuff we do to it- put it on skewers, broil it for about 4 min each side or until done, then serve over rice with stir fried veggies- or just stir fry it with the veggies, that's good too. we do the same thing with the Soy Vey with chicken too, but that's best cut into small pieces then marinated then put on skewers. we also are big fans of "open faced turkey sammiches" which is just what it sounds like- bread, mayo, turkey, cheese under the broiler till the cheese melts. with everything you've got in your fridge you have the makings of some awesome hoagies and grinders and such. try cruising FoodNetwork.com for recipies- i know there's other recipie sites out there but i find the FoodNetwork site has the best instructions.

i envy you the lamb in your freezer sir!

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Powderedmaggot

Ya ya ya, I know, it was a poorly proofread edited piece of text. You should have capitalized 'I.'

You should try elk sometime. Mmmmmmmmmmm.

Actually one of my wifes specialties is mac 'n' cheese. When I met her it was mac & cheese and desserts and that was all she could cook. She has come along way in 16 years.

I'm not looking for recipies as much as ideas for quick meals.

maleficent

Depending on the type of lamb you have, one of my favorite things to do with a leg of lamb (would probably work well with lamb chops too)

With the leg of lamb, remove the bone from the leg - and you are left with one solid piece of meat. Remove as much of the visible fat from the meat as possible) Throw it into a large ziplock back, with some soy sauce, lots and lots of garlic, some fresh rosemary (or from a jar if you have no other) and maybe some fresh ginger. Let it sit overnight..

Now when it's nicely marinated... throw it on the grill, or uinder the broiler, and cook how you would cook a good steak (I like my butterfied leg of lamb medium rare -- basically a little more cooked than I like my steak)

Slice thinly

Serve with rosemary taters....

angeltek

With the exception of the kabobs, this can all be done in 30 minutes or less.

Persian Kabobs

This involves having to set up the meat in a marinade the night before.

Marinade is simple, finly chopped onion, 3 stems of safron disolved in 1 tablepoon of boiling water, salt and pepper. Cube some Lamb fillets (or pther meat if you like) and mix it with the marinade and put overnight in the fridge. When you get home, toss some rice (I Like the Basamati, but any will do) and add some safron in with the rice as well. Then pull the cubed lamb out and put it on a few skewers, and grill on the old Barbie, or if you perfer in a fry pan on your stove or in the oven.

Serve on the bed of rice, and toss some cilantro leaves on the side for garnish.


Terayaki Stir fry

Cook up a pot of rice.

While the rice is cooking chop up some onion, mushroom, green and red pepper, pinapple, 2 - 3 cloves garlic, and about an equal amount of ginger root. Heat up a frying pan or Wok if you have one. Heat oil up and set to medium heat. Toss onions in, and when they begin to sweat add in the mushrroms, green and red pepper, and pinapple. Mix it up a bit until the vegtables start to cook. Add garlic, ginger, 1/2 cup soy sauce and 1/2 cup pinapple juice (or sherry if you like). Simmer for a bout 5 minutes. plate up and serve.