What's for supper?

Instant taters and veni brat. Gets the job done.

Kids r POd they aren’t here, it’s one of their favs, gotta love dad meals lol.

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Homemade cast iron pizza tonight. Delicious.

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Grilled pork steaks, taters fried in butter, onions and a little garlic.

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ThunderLund78 wrote:

Homemade cast iron pizza tonight. Delicious.

Care to share what you do for the crust and how you bake it or cook it ?

Bearcat89 wrote:

Care to share what you do for the crust and how you bake it or cook it ?

This one’s really easy BC. Both the crust and the sauce are base recipes which are great on their own but spice them up any way you’d like.

CRUST:
2.5 Cups of Bread Flour
1 tsp salt
1 pkg (2tsp if in a jar) Active Dry Yeast
1 cup warm water
1 TB Olive oil

Preheat your oven to 450 deg.

Activate the yeast by mixing the yeast, water and sugar in a small bowl and let it sit for 10 minutes.

While that’s sitting, mix the flour and salt in a large bowl and pour the olive oil over the flour/salt mixture. Then add the yeast/water sugar mixture little by little while stirring with a wooden spoon until it forms a loose ball. sprinkle a little flour on the ball and on your hands and form it into more of a solid ball, making sure all the flour at the bottom of the bowl is incorporated.

Then spread some flour on your counter top and knead the dough for about 3 minutes – keep adding a little flour if it starts to stick to your counter or hands. Then roll it out with a rolling pin to the size and thickness desired. I used a large cast iron pan so I made it big enough to go about an inch up the pan all the way around. Add a little oil with a paper towel to the pan before putting the dough down.

Put the pan/dough in the oven for about 3 minutes and then pull it out to add sauce and toppings.

SAUCE:
You can use store-bought but this is a REALLY easy homemade base sauce:
1 cup tomato sauce
1/3rd cup tomato paste
1/2 tsp dried basil
1/2 tsp dried oregano
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp onion powder

Add it all to a small saucepan and stir. bring it to a boil and then remove from heat and set aside until it comes time to spread it on. and I added a few shakes of red pepper flakes for some spice. but add whatever you’d like.

AS for toppings – put on what ever you like but go quality! It’s homemade so I bought big pepperoni and hard salami slices form the deli, not the packaged stuff. Make big chunky meatballs out of hot Italian sausage rather than the pre-made crumbles, buy whole milk Mozzarella, go all out.

Enjoy!

Tonight’s supper… Garlic butter cajun steak bites, mashed potatoes and roasted broccoli! Paired with a Zombie Dust Undead IPA from 3 Floyd’s Brewing. Definitely one of my favorite things we make!

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Those steak bites sound great Thunderlund!! After all the big meals around here lately it was nice just to have homemade tomato/basil soup and rustic oven grilled cheese.

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Venison eye of round seared with a hoisin and soy sauce glaze served over a bed of wild rice with sautéed veggies.

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Very nice Gino. Cooked to perfection too it looks like.

Thanks, it was pretty good. It’s not backstraps but close!

Hope none of that goo touched the rice!!

Looks really good, seriously.

On this nice snowy day I made a big crock pot of venison/pork chili. I used a pound of ground venison and cubed up some smoked pork loin I had in the freezer from a while back.

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Chili Colorado. Very fragrant, flavorful chili flavors – not spicy but fragrant and rich.

Heat the chilies up medium temp until you can smell them, add 2 cups of beef stock. Bring to a boil, turn the burner off, cover and let them soak for a half hour. Then into the blender.

Great leftovers for lunch.

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I’ll expect to see some pretty fancy new years eve and day meals.

I’ll probably get bologna sammiches.

Well we went to Costco just after the store opened looking for King Crab legs and Scallops, nothing. Looked around the frozen section found only big boxes of legs for close to 400 smackaroos. So headed over to Slyvee and found the legs, 40 bucks a pound , the frozen Scallops will hafta work..

Rib day today

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Spent half the morning making these up for lunch.

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Had homemade Pirrogues with gravy and wings with a choice of 4 sauces. An eclectic supper for sure. It was awesome, but I desperately need some vegetables in me after this holiday run!

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dang thunder…..that looks nummy!!!!!!!!

Smoked ribs, got a air fryer for Christmas so I had to test it on some onion rings

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When it’s chilly cold out I like to cook, heats the house too. This is the end result of a venison neck roast for deer camp 2022.👍

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I’d say it’s a good night for some chili.

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What’s with the big fat noodles Glenn??? Brats doing a swim with some onions this away!!

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There the plain elbow noodles. Just grew up having noodles in chili.

Guess it was another way to stretch the meal in the old days.

Kinda like adding egg and oatmeal to hamburger, mix it all together and cook, stretches the burger. I still do it.

Eeew, you are old school..

Swimjiggin wrote:

Eeew, you are old school..

old habits are hard to break.

besides i’m on a paltry union pension!!!!!!

Fresh Pheasant pot pie tonight. First time making it and wow will definitely be making it again.

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You guys are fancy. I made grilled ham & cheese with peeled and sliced Bosc pears. Surprising how adding the pears to a simple grilled ham & cheese makes it seem special. Too late for a picture, the sandwiches disappeared fast.

Wife made her tater hot dish. Oven sure warmed up the house!!

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What’s that plate doing next to my bowl?