Secret Sauce for your burgers!

We had this on our burgers last night and I got 2 out of 4 thumbs up. So try it on your family and see what happens. Mine was divided!

I thought it was very good and did make me feel as if we'd gotten take out instead of eating a little healthier at home.

SAUCE for 4-6 burgers

2/3 cup Whole egg mayonnaise

1/3 cup sweet pickle relish

2 teaspoons yellow mustard

3/4 teaspoon white vinegar

1/2 teaspoon paprika

1/2 teaspoon garlic powder

1/2 teaspoon onion powder

Combine and spread on your burger bun!

http://nickoskitchen.com/blogs/homemade-mcdonalds-bigmac-recipe

Patty Melts with Secret Sauce

Happy Thursday!  Prayers to those that need them!  Thank you again for stopping by.  Well, OMG!  Of course, I go and start a diet and then stumble across this beauty!!  There is just going to have to be a cheat day somewhere in my near future!  Please, take this, use it, abuse it and tell us just how *#&@!! good it was when you did!  :) Maybe I will get lucky and Spicy will take a run at it for her Asylum and let us know how it turned out!  There is no doubt in my mind that it will be nothing less than food porn!!! :)

Lugene Fischer Gerber‎RECIPES OF NORTH DAKOTA

Patty Melts With Secret Sauce

1½ pounds ground beef
2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon kosher salt
½ teaspoon ground black pepper
12 slices sourdough bread
½ cup Secret Sauce
3 medium Vidalia onions, thinly sliced
6 slices Cheddar cheese
8 tablespoons unsalted butter

Secret Sauce
¼ cup Dijon mustard
¼ cup mayonnaise
1 tablespoon barbecue sauce
½ teaspoon hot sauce
In a small bowl, stir together mustard, mayonnaise, barbecue sauce, and hot sauce. Store, covered, in refrigerator up to 3 days.

In a large bowl, combine ground beef, Worcestershire, salt, and pepper. Shape ground beef into 6 oval patties.
In a medium cast-iron skillet, melt 2 tablespoons butter over medium heat. Add onion. Cook, stirring occasionally, until onion is soft and golden brown, approximately 35 minutes.
In a large cast-iron skillet, cook patties over medium-high heat until browned and cooked through, approximately 2 minutes per side. Remove skillet from heat. Remove patties from skillet; wipe out skillet.
Layer 1 bread slice with 1 tablespoon Secret Sauce, 2 to 3 tablespoons caramelized onions, 1 slice cheese, 1 patty, and another 1 tablespoon Secret Sauce. Top with another bread slice. Repeat with remaining bread, Secret Sauce, caramelized onions, cheese, and patties.
Heat skillet over medium-high heat. Melt 2 tablespoons butter in skillet. Working in batches, cook sandwiches, flipping once, until golden brown and heated through, approximately 3 minutes per side. Add remaining butter to skillet as needed.

Bacon Burger Dog

It's summer time! Well for most of you, mine doesn't start until Friday.  I am hoping to get started on the grilling season as soon as possible.  So when I found a new website I knew I needed to share these guys with you! bbqpitboys.com (and I would link if my computer wasn't an idiot). 

Bacon Burger Dogs

The ingredients you'll need:

• Hot Dogs – Natural Casing
• Hamburger – 80/20 (Slightly chilled)
• SPG Seasoning – Recipe found at this link
• Thin Cut bacon – 2 slices per hot dog
• Hot dog Buns
• Your Favorite condiments

DIRECTIONS

GETTING READY

1. Your hamburger should be slightly chilled to make it easier to work with when rolling it around the hot dog. You can do this by placing it in the freezer for a few minutes
2. Make a ball of hamburger (about tennis ball size) and season it with the SPG
3. Flatten the ball out on your work surface – You want a thickness of about 1/8 to ¼ inch.
4. Take your knife and trim the flattened patty so that about 1 inch of hot dog will stick out on each end.
5. Place your hot dog on the hamburger and roll the hamburger around it until you have a single layer on hamburger surrounding the hot dog – trim off excess.
6. Work the hamburger wrapped hot dog with your hands to help the hamburger stick to the hot dog.
7. Take 2 slices of the thin sliced bacon and wrap them around the hot dog diagonally
8. Again work the hot dog in your hands to adhere the bacon to the hamburger

MAKING

1. Set up your grill for indirect heat (hot coals on one side of the grill and no coals on the other side of the grill) – You’re looking for a grill temperature between 350 to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. Place the hot dogs on the indirect heat side of the grill (side with no coals)
3. Cover the grill with the lid (top vent over the hot dogs) you are looking at a cook time of 30 to 40 minutes depending on your grill temp.
4. After 20 minutes, rotate the hot dogs 180 degrees and flip them over. This will let them cook evenly
5. Just before the hot dogs are done, put your favorite grated or sliced cheese on top of each hotdog
6. Put cover back on grill to let cheese melt
7. After 2 or 3 minutes and cheese has melted remove hotdogs from the grill

FINALIZING

8. Place a hotdog on a bun and add your favorite condiments

SERVING

9. Serve and Enjoy!

Spicy German Skillet!

Well I woke up with a worse cough than yesterday so I will get you a recipe (or three;) today. Then I will put my kids on a bus and head back to bed! I love how nighttime meds help you sleep, but you wake up feeling hung-over on top of being sick! Ok rant over!

Todays recipe came from Facebook land. One of my friends posted it. When I shared it there, another friend said she did something similar and gave me permission to share it with you!

Below is 2 recipes in one, theirs and the changes I made in parentheses.

German Skillet Dinner
AKA Spicy German Skillet Dinner ;)

3 TBSP butter
1/2 cabbage, chopped
1 medium onion chopped
2/3 cup minute rice. (1 cup)
2 lbs hamburger (1lb Italian sausage and 1 lb HOT Italian sausage)
1 can diced tomatoes (1-2 fresh tomatoes sliced, because I didn't have canned)
Salt and pepper to taste

In a large skillet melt the butter and layer ingredients in the order above. Put on the lid and simmer for 25 minutes or until burger is cooked and onions are transparent.

Here is my friend's version of the recipe.

She said she doesnt really have a detailed recipe, so I know she is awesome! Best recipes and things our kids will eat come from us creating in our kitchens!

About 2 lbs hamb. 
Bag of coleslaw mix,
1/2 c rice
can of tomato soup...
I add water if it looks dry. 
Browned meat separate.

The one thing I would do different in my recipe is weekday she did in hers. I would brown my meat separate. I stressed to much over it not being cooked properly!

Here is a picture of mine after everything was layered.

Lasagna redo

Settle in it's a long one...

So for those of you who follow us, you know that I did my hubs lasagna recipe a while back (if you are new, then you will learn where the idea of an Asylum came from). I was informed that I did not   give you a proper recipe. I believe the conversation went like this(the PG-13 version).

Spicy "what recipe should I use tomorrow?"
Mr. Spicy "if you give me credit you can use my lasagna."
Spicy "I did that yesterday."
Mr. Spicy "did you tell them the proper way to make it?"
Spicy "I said layer the ingredients in the pan"
Mr. Spicy "there is a proper way to make it! People are just out there willy nilly throwing $ hit in a pan."

Here is where I left to get a drink....
When I came back he was into the structural integrity and something about a fork cutting through properly! I believe there was something about "people out there "bleeping" it up!"

So here I am giving you the CORRECT recipe.

Mr. Spicy's Lasagna

Ingredients
2 lb hamburger
2 lbs mozzarella cheese
1 large or 2 small jars Prego Traditional spaghetti sauce.
1 box lasagna noodles

Directions



1.) Get your wife to brown the hamburger. She will probably add dried minced onion without you knowing.
2.) Get your oldest child to boil water for the noodles and tell him to set the oven at 375°, then tell him you said 350°!
3.) Boil your noodles or have said child boil them. Under cook them so they finish cooking in the oven and are not mushy.
4.) Get a GLASS cake pan or have said child do that as well.

5.) Place a layer of noodles, then meat, then sauce, then cheese. In THIS order, no willy nilly $ hit!
(Please make your layers even and spread the sauce perfectly over the meat)

This is also where you will need to feed cheese to the dog and then complain to your wife that the dog is fat.

6.) Then a layer of meat, then sauce, then noodles and top with cheese and use all of your OCD powers to make it look perfect.

 

Try to hide from the dog that you are eating more cheese.

7.) Bake for 35-40 minutes but check it at 30 min. You want to see the bottom layers bubbling and the edges of the cheese on top should be golden brown.
8.) Serve pieces the size of your families head's.
9.) Tell everyone how YOU make awesome lasagna while your family cleans up and looks at you funny.

Now do you understand the Asylum theory?!?!?!  I love my hubs to (lasagna) pieces but there are some days that I wonder about the last 16 years...

 

 I may or may not be around much this week as we are going to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally! I hope to check into the Facebook page with food from the Rally!  Take care and enjoy the rest of your summer!

Asylum Craziness!

So I thought today I would share my husband's Lasagna recipe. Please feel free to alter ingredients as I would if he'd let me!

Hubby's famous Lasagna 

2 lbs burger browned

2lbs mozerella cheese

1 1/2-2 boxes lasagna noodles, cooked

Spaghetti sauce

Layer your ingredients in a cake pan and bake at 350 until the cheese starts to bubble on the sides and the cheese on top is a golden brown.  Be ready this baby is heavy to pick up! 

I hope you are all enjoying your summers! Won't be long and the Little Asylum Residents will be back in school! School supply shopping happens this week! I'm not excited or anything...

Porcupine Balls!

No, I am not using that as a cuss word, even though it would work perfectly as one!  Porcupine Balls if you have never had them are another version of meatballs with rice.  This was another one of those recipes my mom made when I was growing up.  It is also one of those recipes I triple so that I can freeze half of it for later.

Porcupine Balls

1 1/2 cups bread crumbs                      

1 lb  ground beef                        

2/3 cup uncooked rice (I use Minute rice)                        

1/2 cup milk                        

1 package (1 oz) onion soup mix                        

1 egg                        

1 cup water                        

2 cans (11 1/2 oz each) tomato juice (3 cups)                

 Heat oven to 425°F. In large bowl, mix bread crumbs, beef, rice, milk, dry soup mix and egg. Using wet hands, shape mixture into 30 meatballs. Place in ungreased 13x9-inch baking dish or 3-quart casserole.

Pour water and tomato juice over meatballs; stir gently

Cover and bake 50 to 55 minutes or until rice is tender and beef is no longer pink in center and juice is clear.   

I serve these over rice or egg noodles.

Crazyyyyyyyyyyy Tuesday!

Rainy day here at home!  But the rain is much needed!  I miss my sunshine, I love the stuff, can't ever get enough of it lol.  Anyway, back inside the Asylum where we belong It's a lazy kind of day so we have a simple recipe for today.  This one comes from our friend Racheal Ray.  She comes up with some funny names sometimes too and this one is no different, well in my opinion lol! With this one the name comes from the fact that she says this recipe is a combination of everything good about going to a baseball game!  Food wise anyway lol! Hope you enjoy! :D

Sloppy Joe Di Maggios

1 Tablespoon extra virgin olive oil

2 pounds lean ground sirloin or ground turkey

1 packages beef or pork hot dogs, sliced 1/2 inch thick

1 onion, chopped

1 Tablespoon steak seasoning

1 Tablespoon chili powder

3 Tablespoons dark brown sugar

3 Tablespoons Worcestershire sauce

1 14.5 oz can tomato sauce

9 soft burger rolls

Heat the extra virgin oilive oil, a turn of the pan, in a deep skillet over medium high heat.  Add meat and crumble as it browns.  Add chopped hot dogs after 3 to 4 minutes then cook 3 to 4 minutes more.  Add the onions to the pan and cook to soften, 5 to 6 minutes more.  In a bowl mix the spices, sugar, Worcestershire and tomato sauce.  Pour sauce over the meat and simmer a few minutes to combine flavors.  Slop onto buns and serve!