Italian Garlic Bread

Well today I decided to make some garlic bread on the BBQ to serve with spaghetti. I will make fresh Italian bread to make my garlic bread and use a mini bread loaf pan to cook them in. It’s take a little work and time to make this but it’s totally worth it at the end! Well lets the grilling begin! 

Italian Garlic Bread Recipe:

INGREDIENTS:

• 3 cups warm water 105-110 Degree Fahrenheit
• 1 tsp white sugar
• 1 tbsp active dry yeast
• 1 tbsp salt
• 7 cups all-purpose flour

DIRECTIONS:

1. Add the sugar and yeast to the warm water in your mixing bowl and let proof approximately 2-5 minutes;

2. Stir in 4 cups of flour and beat until smooth with dough hook with your mixer. Cover and let rest for 15 minutes;

3. Now it’s time to beat in the salt and then add enough remaining flour to make a stiff dough. Knead until as soft and smooth. Remove dough from bowl and grease the bowl with Pam spray then turn in the dough in the grease bowl, cover, and let double in size. It works best when place in oven with light on to rise;

4. Once doubled, punch down and divide into pieces to fill your mini loaf pan. Cover then and place in oven to rise again;

Punch down the dough.

5. Once doubled again, punch down the mini loaf and let it rise ounce again; 

6. Now it’s time to pre-heat your Joe for indirect cooking at 450 degrees Fahrenheit;

Pizza stone with ceramic leg spacers.

7. Once risen, mist with water and place in a preheated Joe. Mist loaves with water and rotate the mini bread loaf pan occasionally while they bake to prevent hot spots. When almost ready paint the bread with the garlic butter recipe below. Let it cook till the bread is nice and golden. The last minute or two of the cook sprinkle some Parmesan cheese on the loaf!

Mist water on mini loaf.

Brush on garlic butter.

Sprinkle Parmesan cheese.

Ready!

Ready!

Garlic Butter Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1/4 Cup Unsalted Butter, softened
• 2 Cloves Garlic
• 1 Tablespoon Parsley, chopped fine
• 1/4 Cup Parmesan cheese 

Direction:

Press the garlic (or chop fine if you do not have a press). Mix the butter, garlic, and parsley together in a small bowl. Spread the garlic butter mixture over the mini loaf of bread.

Bonne Appetite and Happy grilling!

Chicken lollipop

My wife wanted something different then the traditional drumsticks for super so immediately knew that it had to be something special besides the traditional “drumstick”, so with a little research, it led me to the chicken lollipop. These lollipops are easy to make but a little time consuming but fun to make. 

Ingredients

• chicken drumsticks
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 cup smoked paprika
• 1 tablespoon fresh ground black pepper
• 1 tablespoon salt
• 1 tablespoon chili powder
• 1 tablespoon garlic powder
• 1 tablespoon onion powder
• 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 1/4 cup Diana Rib & Chicken sauce or your favorite sweet BBQ sauce
• 1/4 cup Sriracha sauce

Directions:

In a bowl mix the sugar, paprika, black pepper, salt, chili powder, garlic powder, onion powder, and cayenne pepper very well and place aside.

In another bowl you want to mix your Diana Rib & Chicken sauce with the Sriracha sauce. This will be your sweet heat sauce for glazing the Lollipops with.

OK lets get started with the fun stuff. First thing you want to do is cut the small tip of the drumstick off using a sharp knife or clever.

Now you want to make a cut completely around about 2 cm form tip of the bone you just cut off. You want to cut through the skin and tendons all the way around.

Next, remove that small skinny part of the meat we just cut off and push the other section down creating the Lollipop. That little section you removed is usually the bitter part of the legs meat this is why we remove it. I learned about removing this little section from a BBQ Pitmaster.

To help them stand up on the grill cut a little section of the other tip of the bone on the fat end of the lollipop.

Place your lollipop inside a large Ziploc bag along with some of the rub and shake them in the bag to coat them well them place bag in fridge for 30 minutes.

Meanwhile pre-heat your Kamado Joe for indirect cooking at 275 degrees

Once the KJ is up to temp, place the lollipops on the grill bones sticking up straight. Close the lid and let it cook for approximately 2 hours or till internal temp reaches 160 degrees. (you can also place foil on the bones so they don't burn or discolor on you)

Holding the lollipop from the bone role them in the sauce we made earlier then place them back on the grill and cook for another 30 minutes or until temp internal temp reaches 175 degrees.

Bonne appetite!

As you can see these lollipops have a nice glaze to them which makes them perfect for presentation to your guest J

The ultimate peanut butter burgers

Well this morning I started my day Kayak fishing with a friend and while fishing I came up with the ideal of making the ultimate peanut butter burgers! These turned out excellent and I thought I would share the recipe with everyone! You wouldn't be-leave how peanut butter is actually pretty good on a burger! Let’s get grilling shall we!

Patties Ingredients:

• 1 lbs Lean Ground Beef
• 1 lbs Ground Turkey
• 500 gram of Bacon
• 3 clove garlic minced
• 1 onion finely chopped
• ½ tsp onion powder
• 1/4 cup bread crumbs 
• 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
• 1 egg
• 1 TBSP Fresh Ground Black Pepper
• 1 TBSP Kosher Salt
• 2 TBSP Dizzy Pig Cow Lick rub or Montreal steak seasoning
• 1 TBSP Worcester sauce
• 1 TBSP HP sauce
• Optional 2 TBSP Bacon Fat (the grease saved from cooking Bacon)

Burger topping Ingredients:

• 1 egg per patties
• 4 slice of bacon per burger
• 2 slice of sandwich ham per patties
• President Choice Bacon flavored Mayo (found at the supper store)
• Roasted Pineapple & Habanero Sauce (found at Costco)
• Tomatoes slices
• Onion rings
• Peanut butter
• Maple syrup
• Slices of Cheddar Cheese
• Fresh Lettuce

Direction:

Step one ground the bacon in meat grinder or you can buy it already pre-grind-ed by butcher;

Now in a large mixing bowl mix all the burger patties ingredients above very well ensuring everything is well mixed together;

 In this pic you can see the bacon fat added

Added 1 egg for better bounding

Shape your burger patties and place on wax paper on a pan then cover with saran wrap and refrigerate for two hours;

I added a little bit of fresh pepper on top of them

Meanwhile make your pretzel buns from my recipe found here: home-made-pretzel-buns-on-joe recipe

Now pre-heat your Joe and Grillgrates to 375 to 400 degrees;

Cook the burger patties halfway then flip and cook till internal temp reaches 160 degrees;

When halfway through the cook you can cook the onion rings on the grill and a few bacon slices and two slices of ham per patties;

Also in a small frying pan you want to cook an egg over easy;

In a microwave cook for approximately 20 seconds 5 TBSP of Peanut Butter and 1 tsp maple syrup till smooth then mix well.

Putting the Burger together:

Put a generous layer of the peanut butter on the bottom pretzel bun;

Place the patty on top;

Now place the slice of cheese, then the 2 slices of ham, the bacon and top it all up with the lettuce and slice tomato and Roasted Pineapple & Habanero Sauce;

Add Cheese

 Add Ham

Add Bacon

 Add Lettuce

 Add Tomato

 Add a little pepper and salt

Add Roasted Pineapple & Habanero Sauce 

It’s now time to place the egg then onion rings;

 Add egg

Add Onion Rings

On the top bun put a generous layer of the bacon flavored mayo;

Finish it off with the top pretzel bun and enjoy!

Bonne appetite and Happy Grilling J