EASY SUPER SUNDAY HOT DOG BUFFET

Posted on January 31, 2013 by easyrecipesandstuffc

Like just about the entire world I’m getting ready for hungry guests on Super Sunday!  But, I want to watch the game too!  So I needed an easy recipe that will feed the whole gang.  How about a hot dog buffet.  Other than very basic cooking skills, all you have to worry about is deciding how many dogs and toppings you will need to feed your guests. And, what the heck, I’ll throw in a super easy salad recipe to balance out your table.

Hot dog buffet

EASY RECIPE

Ingredients:

FOR HOT DOGS:

All beef franks (I used Nathan’s Bigger Than The Bun)

Polish Sausages

15 oz can No Beans Chili (or more)

Large Hot Dog Buns

White Onion – chopped

Tomato – sliced

Avocado – wedges

Cheddar Cheese – grated

Sweet Relish

Kosher Dill Spears

Jalapeno Pepper slices (jar)

Yellow Mustard

Preparation:

Prepare buffet style bowls with your toppings: chopped onions, sweet relish, pickle spears, jalapeno pepper, grated cheese, tomato slices, cover and refrigerate.

When the guests start to get hungry BBQ or boil the polish sausages per package instruction, and toward the end add the all beef hot dogs.

Heat the chili, peal and slice the avocado, place both in bowls and put in the buffet line along with the other toppings stored in the refrigerator.

Chicago Style Hot Dog:  to bun add all beef frankfurter, top with mustard, chopped onions, sweet relish, a dill pickle spear, and tomato slices.

Polish Sausage Dog:  to bun add Polish sausage, top with white onion, yellow mustard, and jalapeno.

Chili Hot Dog: to bun add all beef frankfurter, top with chili, cheese, onion and avocado wedges.

For Easy Tomato Artichoke Salad side:

Ingredients:

4 large tomatoes

1/2 red onion

30 Kalamata pitted olives

1 and a 1/2 12oz jar Marinated Artichokes

10 fresh basil leaves

2 Tbsp Balsamic Vinegar

1 tsp  Olive oil

1 Tbsp white wine

1 tsp Italian seasoning

1/2 C Feta crumbled cheese

salt and pepper to taste

Preparation:

Quarter the tomatoes, and scoop out the seeds. Cut the tomatoes into bite size pieces.

Slice the Kalamata olives in half.

Slice the red onion into thin rounds and then in half.

Chop the basil leaves.

Drain the juice from the jar of artichokes, cut any large pieces in half.

Pour the preceding items into a large bowl.

Add a dash of salt and ground pepper

In a small bowl mix the olive oil, balsamic vinegar, wine, and Italian dressing. Add dressing to contents of large bowl and gently mix.

Add the feta cheese and gently mix.

AND STUFF

And there you go, three great hot dog choices, and a super fresh salad.  All you need now are friends, some drinks,  and the game!  Have a fun and safe Super Sunday!

Good Eating and Table Talk,

Roger

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SLOW COOK PULLED PORK SLIDERS

Posted on January 23, 2013 by easyrecipesandstuffc

EASY RECIPE

Pull Pork Slider

Time to break out the Ninja Cooking System again for my new pulled pork slider easy recipe! This recipe can be cooked in the slow cooker while you attend your child’s sporting event.  When you get home just remove and fork the pork, throw together coleslaw, and Cuban Black Beans and its dinner time.

Serves 6 with lots of leftovers.

Ingredients:

4 lbs boneless pork shoulder

1 large onion sliced into thin rounds

1 C chicken stock (canned)

1 C coke

3/4 C BBQ sauce

2 cloves garlic – minced

1 Tbsp chipotle sauce

1 tsp chili pwder

1/2 tsp liquid smoke

1/2 tsp dried cumin

1/2 tsp salt

dash pepper

12 Slider buns

For Coleslaw:

1 ten oz  package of pre-shreded cabbage

1 carrot cleaned and sliced into small thin juliennes

3 green onions – sliced

Salt and pepper to taste

Combine and mix coleslaw mixture and then add 1/8 cup Italian dressing.

Mix and refrigerate.

For Cuban Beans:

Make a real hard bean recipe or buy a can of Cuban Black Beans.

Pulled Pork Preparation:

In your Ninja Cooking system (or in fry pan) add 1 Tbsp olive oil and saute onions.

Add pork to Ninja (or add pork and onions to slow cooker)

In mixing bowl add all other ingredients and stir to mix.

Add contents of mixing bowl to pork and onions pouring it over the pork. Lift the pork up to get mixture underneath.

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Turn Ninja onto to slow cooker – low heat  and figure out something to do for the next 7 hours.

When you plate the dish, place heaping amount of pork on each slider and top with a little coleslaw. Add coleslaw and beans to plate, and you;re ready for a great family meal!

The first in series Jack Fields and Amber Reyes adventure novel is available at all major e-book retailers.

The first in series Jack Fields and Amber Reyes adventure novel is available at all major e-book retailers.

AND STUFF

Finally the TV in our bedroom died.  I’d been waiting for years for that day.  You see,  She Who Must Be Obeyed and I are too frugal (cheap?) to buy a new TV when the one we have works. But it finally blinked out for the last time. Sweeeeeeet!

So, I began to scheme how I would  pitch my need for a huge flat screen – maybe 45 to 52 inches. I figured if it was big enough I could watch TV and at the same time get a tan from the radiation.

We began to think about how we would configure the room and it rapidly became more complex than I had imagined.  We could hang it on the wall and move everything to the side, buy a new dresser to place it on, or reconfigure the other stuff, or who knows. The dread of moving and buying stuff began to overwhelm me. Until it occurred to me that HD was the key not necessarily size.

I did a little research and  discovered that  32″ TV is less wide than the old 27″ TV. The new TV would fit in the same spot easy, and I could call it a day. Who knew, a 32″ flat screen is less wide than a 27″ old style TV.  I know, it makes no sense – I imagine it could have something to do with inflation.  Anyway, since everyone else is buying monster flat screens it turns out you can buy a 32″flat screen HD smart TV for less than it cost me to buy my first 18″ color TV out of college.

So now Roger very happy.  I have a new TV that is super clear, and since it isn’t any bigger than the old one I didn’t have to move a bunch of stuff in the room. On the downside though, 32″ is not large enough to give me a good tan, so I occasionally have to go outside.

Good Eating and Table Talk,

Roger

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SPICY CHICKEN DIABLO

Posted on January 15, 2013 by easyrecipesandstuffc

EASY RECIPE

I like spicy chicken wings excepts for the skin and all those tiny little bones. Or put another way I like the red hot sauce and chicken meat. So, this week my easy recipe is Spicy Chicken Diablo. All the heat of the bar style wings without the extra fat.

Spicy Chicken Diablo

Recipe serves 4

Ingredients:

1 and 1/2 lbs. boneless skinless chicken breast

5 oz package of Mahatma Yellow Rice

fresh string beans

16 frozen pearl onions

Red Hot Wings Sauce

salt & pepper

dash of dry Italian Seasoning

Preparation:

This recipes keys off the 20 minutes it takes to cook the rice.  So you want every thing ready to go as the rice times down.

Heat BBQ to medium high.

Rinse chicken and pat dry and then salt and pepper to taste.

Rinse string beans and slice off stems.

Rinse frozen pearl onions.

pour Red Hot Wings Sauce into basting bowl

Place string beans, onions, and a dash of salt, pepper and Italian seasoning in double boiler with sufficient water in base to steam beans.

Get the pot ready for the rice. Set timer to 20 minutes.

Start the rice per box directions and start the timer.

At the 18 minute  mark place chicken on the pre-heated BBQ.

At the 18 minute mark turn double boiler on high.

At 14 minute mark flip chicken and on the  new side up spread Red Hot Wings Sauce.

When string bean water is boiling hard reduce heat to medium low to just keep it steaming

At 10 minutes flip chicken and spread Red Hot Wings Sauce on new side up

At 7 minutes flip check and re baste.

At 4 minutes turn rice off but leave leave cover on. And flip and baste chicken again.

When rice timer goes off remove chicken from BBQ,  plate it and  make small cut to make certain no blood runs.

Let chicken set up while you plate the rice and string beans.

Slice the chicken and plate.

And just like that you have made a super easy super hot low fat chicken dinner.

The first in series Jack Fields and Amber Reyes adventure novel is available at all major e-book retailers.

The first in series Jack Fields and Amber Reyes adventure novel is available at all major e-book retailers.

AND STUFF

I’m pretty happy about finishing the sequel to my screenplay Goldplay, My new one, Veyron, has Jack and Amber off on a seemingly harmless, almost vacation, security job on a Classic Car Rally from the Grand Canyon to Sedona.  Of course things quickly go wrong and they are in a world of danger.

I like these characters because they are a loving couple in the genre of Hart to Hart except instead of being rich and curious they are ex FBI and Special Ops just making a living.  I see them as Hart to Hart on steroids.

Veyron is ready for my reader friend to go over it, and if he give it the thumbs up it will be off for coverage.

What next? Not sure but I’m thinking the great outdoors.

So, how about between bites of Chicken Diablo you discuss your favorite movie scenes.

Good Eating and Table Talk,

Roger

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EASY LITE CHICKEN COBB SALAD

Posted on January 8, 2013 by easyrecipesandstuffc

EASY RECIPE

If you’re like me you’ve been eating and partying through the holidays and now it’s time to pull back a little.  How about a super easy lite Chicken Cobb Salad? Ham instead of bacon and no hard boiled eggs thank you.  I love bacon, but honestly I don’t miss it in this lite salad

lite chicken cobb salad

Recipe serves 4

Ingredients:

2  half chicken breasts – skinless boneless

1/2 lb ham steak (fully cooked)

Butter leaf lettuce

Romain and radicchio

cherry tomatoes

5 green onions – diced

2 avocados

1/2 C blue cheese

1/3 C red wine vinegar

2/3 C olive oil

2 tsp lemon juice

1 Tbsp. Dijon mustard

1/2 clove garlic – minced

1/4 tsp sugar

salt and ground pepper to taste

Preparation:

Dressing:  Add to bowl red wine vinegar, mustard, garlic, sugar, lemon juice, salt and pepper. Stir. Next slowly add the olive oil while constantly mixing. Cover and place in refrigerator.

Chicken:  Heat oven to 450 degrees.  Rinse and dry chicken. Add a Tbsp  of olive oil to oven safe fry pan. Salt and pepper the chicken. On medium high heat fry chicken for 3 minutes. Flip the chicken and transfer fry pan of chicken to the oven.  Bake for 8 minutes or until no blood runs when poked. USING OVEN MIT remove hot fry pan of chicken  to plate to set up.

Ham steak: Using store bought fully cooked ham steak slice into Julian pieces.

Cherry tomatoes: cut in half.

Avocado – remove skin and slice nice pieces to echo the ham.

Chicken:   Slice chicken in Julian pieces to echo other elements.

Plate 4 salad dishes with the greens and drizzle with dressing, Add ham, chicken, avocado, tomatoes and blue cheese. Add a little more dressing to new elements.

And that’s it, you just made a super good relatively lite dinner.

AND STUFF

I was pleased when the world didn’t end last month. My working theory is the keeper of the Mayan calender fell off a cliff on the way to work eons ago and simply was unable to factor the next thousand years.  To compound the problem I opine that the youths of that era were too caught up in reality plays to bother to learn the calender trade.   My guess is we have a long time left as a group….its the individual I’m not so sure of.

I was skiing Mammoth last week with my youngest son and  friends from Redondo, Omaha, and Thailand. We were having a great time, no worries in the world. Good food, wine and conversation each night.  photo (8) One day I had the idea of taking the better skiers up to the top of the mountain to go down Cornice Bowl,  which on that day was groomed. We were all good skiers, and although that run is near vertical it’s always fun.  No, make that usually fun.

I led the way, buds in ears listening to tunes. I carved my way down the face a few turns and then heard a scraping sound. Almost immediately a body with no skis blew through me flipping me like a bowling pin. Both my skis blew off and now I was on my back streaking down the face. Having the sense to not try to jam my boot in the snow for fear of breaking my leg or starting a tumble scenario, and there being no people, cliffs, or huge rocks in my path  I spread my arms and rode it out feet first on my back.  After about a  400 foot slide I came to a nice safe stop.

I looked up and realized it was one of my friends who blew through me. My friend was up but moving slow. Eventually a kind stranger brought my skis to me, and even later my friend arrived – shaken up.

Why tell this story?  Don’t worry about end of the world predictions from a thousand years ago, pay attention to what’s happening now! Have a good time in the present cuz you never know as an individual what’s coming your way.

Oh, one more thing.  I have to admit, having survived the 400 foot slide, I can say Cornice was fun as usual.

Good Eating and Table Talk,

Roger

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