A1 Steak sauce

So today Normy and I are moving! And can I just say that I am so excited for a change! I know whoop–de–do, we are moving into another apartment. Hey for me that’s exciting stuff! I need a change! and I am getting a bigger kitchen! I am looking forward to setting up in a new place that is bigger! It’s the little things! I get a pantry in this kitchen! I haven’t had a real pantry in like 4 years! I have more cabinet and counter space too! I can’t WAIT!

So since we are moving I had to have a last dinner with James in our old apt. We have had a great many meals in this apartment that James has been, so I had to make him one last one…

So James likes meatloaf so that’s what I made…

Recipe

1 1/2 pounds lean ground beef
1/2 cup crushed buttery round crackers (I used Panko Bread Crumbs)
3/4 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
1 (1 ounce) package dry onion soup mix
2 eggs, beaten
1/4 cup ketchup
2 tablespoons steak sauce

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

Stir the ground beef,

Bread Crumbs,

Cheddar cheese,

and onion soup

mix in a large bowl

until well combined. Whisk the eggs, ketchup, and steak sauce in a separate bowl until smooth. Mix the eggs into the meat until evenly combined, if the mixture seems too dry, add a little water.

Press into a 9×5 inch loaf pan.

Bake in preheated oven until the meatloaf reaches 160 degrees F (71 degrees C) and is no longer pink in the center, 45 to 60 minutes.

Dinner is served

I got that big thing of Tabasco at Costco just for James for when he comes to dinner, cause he LOVES Tabasco!

Pizza Pizza!

I don’t think I made this pizza right, wasn’t that good to me…Maybe you will make it better. But to me the flavors didn’t go and it was too much meat…So I will have to redo it and try it again. I mean it has all the ingredients I love, so I don’t know why they wouldn’t go well together or why it didn’t taste as good as it looked… So I think It was something I did when making it…I think I cut the meat to thick…So you should make it still. Maybe it will turn out better for you! See not all my food turns out! I’m not perfect, there I admit it!

Recipe

It’s your lucky day! You get two recipes in this post!

So start with the Pizza Crust

1 teaspoon (SCANT) Active Dry Yeast
3/4 cups Warm Water
2 cups All-purpose Flour
3/4 teaspoons Kosher Salt
3 Tablespoons Olive Oil

Sprinkle yeast over 3/4 cups warm (not lukewarm) water. Let stand for a few minutes.

In a mixer, combine flour

and salt.

With the mixer running on low-speed (with paddle attachment), drizzle in olive oil

until combined with flour. Next, pour in yeast/water mixture

and mix until just combined, and the dough comes together in a sticky mass.

Coat a separate mixing bowl with a light drizzle of olive oil, and form the dough into a ball.

Toss to coat dough in olive oil, then cover the bowl tightly with plastic wrap and set it aside for 1 to 2 hours, or store in the fridge until you need it.

Note: it’s best to make the dough at least 24 hours in advance.

Pizza

1 whole Recipe Pizza Crust
1 whole Skirt Steak Or Flank Steak
Salt And Pepper, to taste
2 whole Red Onions, Sliced Thin

3 Tablespoons Butter
4 Tablespoons Balsamic Vinegar
2 cups Marinara Sauce
12 ounces, weight Fresh Mozzarella Cheese, Sliced Thin
Shaved Parmesan Cheese
1/2 cup Good Steak Sauce (more If Desired)

Preheat oven to 475 degrees. Arrange rack in the bottom half of the oven.

Saute red onions in butter and 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar

over medium-low heat until dark and caramelized, about 10-12 minutes.

Remove from heat and set aside.

Combine marinara sauce (I made my own of course)

with 2 tablespoons balsamic. Set aside.

Grill steak over high heat until medium rare. Remove from grill and set aside.

Roll out pizza dough until very thin.

Top with marinara mixture and spread to coat dough.

Lay caramelized red onions all over the sauce,

then top onions with slices of mozzarella cheese.

Bake pizza for 12-15 minutes, or until crust is golden and cheese is bubbly (but watch to make sure it doesn’t burn.)

While pizza is baking, slice steak into very thin slices.

Remove pizza from the oven, then drape slices of steak all over the surface. Drizzle the top of the pizza with steak sauce (use squirt bottle if you have one) and top the whole thing with Parmesan shavings.

Cut into squares and serve immediately.