Recipe #2

Manda's 'Mazing Hamburgers


What You'll Need:

• Lean Ground Beef (the amount depends on how many burgers you want to make)
• Worchestershire Sauce
• Liquid Smoke
• Onion Powder
• Garlic Powder
• Salt
• Pepper

Prep:

• Place a pan on a burner, spray it with no-stick spray, and turn the heat on

How To:

1. Take out a plate and your ground beef. Take a handful of beef and roll it into a patty shape (make as many as you need). Put the patty on your pate.
2. Sprinkle some Liquid Smoke and Worchestershire Sauce over the patties, followed by garlic powder, union powder, salt, and pepper. Make sure you put lots of salt on, because it cooks down.
3. Place the patties in your hot pan on the stove and watch them cook. When they are no longer pink they are done.
4. Take them out of the pan and put any toppings you like on them. Dig in!

Note: French fries go really good with burgers. Head up some vegetable oil on the stove and fry up some fries to go with it, and instead of ketchup with your fries use fry-sauce, which is two parts mayo or miracle whip, one part ketchup, and a spoonful of pickle juice. Enjoy!

-Manda&Mia-

Recipe #1

Easy String Cheese Pizza


What you will need:

• Bisquick Biscuit Mix
• Mozzarella String Cheese
• Sun Dried Tomato & Basil Cheese (optional, but it tastes better)
• Basil
• Oregano
• Garlic Powder
• Rosemary
• Sage
• Red Pepper
• Tomato Paste (6 oz)
• A Cookie Sheet
• Butter

Prep:

• Preheat oven to 350
• Grease cookie sheet with butter

How To:

1. Start with about a cup and a half of Bisquick Biscuit mix in a bowl. Add water until it has a dough-like appearance. Feel free to add more Mix if you want a bigger pizza.
2. Knead the dough in the bowl and mix in a couple pinches each of Oregano, Basil, and Garlic, and one pinch each of Sage and Rosemary.
3. With your hands, press the dough into the general shape of a pizza crust with the edges folded over. Set aside.
4. In a small sauce pan, stir basil, oregano, garlic, sage, rosemary, and red pepper into tomato paste (to taste). Heat thoroughly.
5. Using a knife, cut slits or poke holes (small ones) in the pizza crust. VERY IMPORTANT! You won't be able to fit it in your mouth if you skip this step.
6. Put a sufficient amount of pizza sauce onto the crust without spilling.
7. Pull out your cheeses. Peel string cheese into halves and cover the majority of the pizza. Then taking small slices of the sun dried tomato and basil cheese, fill in any gaps.
8. Put your pizza on the cookie sheet if you haven't already done so (make sure the pan is greased with butter first) and place it in the oven. Cook 10-12 minutes or until edges are brown.
9. Pull out, let cool, cut into slices (or any other kind of shape) and dig in.

We hope you enjoy this pizza! Comments, questions, and tips are welcome!
Manda&Mia

Introduction

Welcome fellow Food Geeks, we hope you are as excited about this here blog as we are, and that you'll eventually get something useful out of us. Ovbiously we aren't professionals of any sort, but everyone knows that home cookin' is the best kind there is. ;) For those of you who haven't guessed, the general contents of this blog will include discussion on products, techniques, original and modified recipes, and random food-related endeavors. We hope you enjoy all our hard work!

Sincerely,
Manda & Mia