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55 Days of Grilling: Day 4 Breakfast

Anya and I made pancakes on the grill today — I put the batter in and flip the first time, then she takes them out of the pan. She wanted to toss the cooked pancake on the grill to get some “grill marks” … which was pretty cool.

The batter is an extra vanilla-y buttermilk pancake recipe:

2c flour
1t baking powder
1t baking soda
1/2t salt

2c buttermilk
3T maple syrup
1 egg
2T oil
1T vanilla

It’s actually a powdered buttermilk, so that’s half a cup of buttermilk powder and two cups of water. I mixed up some “pancake mix” so next time we’re making pancakes … we just need to add water, oil, maple syrup, vanilla, and an egg.

55 Days of Grilling: Day 1

55 Days of Grilling: Day 1
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55 Days of Grilling: Day 1

Recipe by LisaCourse: DinnerCuisine: AmericanDifficulty: Easy
Servings

8

servings
Prep time

45

minutes
Cooking time

40

minutes
Resting Time

4

minutes

Ingredients

  • Roasted Garlic Buns

  • 4 cups flour

  • 1/2 cup wheat gluten

  • 1 Tbsp unsalted butter

  • 1 Tbsp yeast

  • 1 Tbsp sugar

  • 1-2 Tbsp roasted garlic

  • 1 egg (pre-bake wash)

  • 1 Tbsp salted butter (post-bake wash)

  • Burgers

  • 2 lbs 80% ground beef

  • 1/2 cup diced red onion

  • 1 tsp ground pepper

  • 1 Tbsp soy sauce

  • 1 Tbsp chili garlic sauce

  • 1/2 cup shredded cheddar cheese

  • 2 medium eggs

  • 1/2 cup panko crumbs

Method

  • Bread
  • Combine yeast with about a cup of water and 1 Tbsp sugar
  • Combine all ingredients except for the egg and salted butter in mixer and kneed on medium-low speed for five minutes.
  • Allow dough to rise for two hours.
  • Deflate dough and form into rolls (I make Kaiser style rolls — form a long log of dough, then tie in a knot). Let rise for one hour
  • Preheat oven to 400
  • Beat egg and brush on risen rolls. Allow to sit for a minute, then brush another layer of egg.
  • Bake for 15 minutes. Brush with melted salted butter and allow to cool on a wire rack
  • Burgers
  • Mix all ingredients together
  • Grill!

Notes

  • These were really good — Scott fried up some bacon in a cast iron pan so we had bacon cheese burgers.

55 Days of Grilling

Scott’s been really excited to start grilling again now that the temps are warmer. We’ve got a little grill right by the family room door, and we’re ready to grill. The goal is to grill something each day for the next 55 days — starting with burgers for dinner tonight. There’s a long list of things we want to try grilling — especially grilled pineapple (so I’ll have to get to the grocery store soon!) and how-high-can-this-thing-go pizza. Hopefully we can get above 600 degrees and make some really nice pizza crust.

Maple Hot Cocoa

Anya and I made hot chocolate to warm up after spending a day shoveling snow — it’s a quick recipe. For each serving, add a cup of almond milk, 2 Tbsp maple syrup, 1 tsp vanilla extract, and 1 Tbsp of unsweetened cocoa powder. Put the milk in a pan.  Stir in the maple syrup and vanilla extract. Once warmed, whisk in cocoa powder. Serve. Ideally with some homemade marshmallows — I need to make some honey marshmallows, we ate all of the homemade marshmallows I made last year.

DigiBoil Saga – Conclusion, more or less

We’ve had a horrible time using the DigiBoil we ordered some four or five months ago. The temperature is way off. The manufacturer says there’s no calibration on the unit — and, if we want to be able to calibrate the unit, we should pay the money for a Brewzilla. A quote from their latest e-mail:

“The Digiboil is primarily designed (and marketed) for other purposes – we sell a great many for use with stills or as HLTs, typically. To that end, the granularity of temperature control of the Brewzilla is not typically needed for the Digiboil.”

In my opinion, that’s a little disingenuous. We ordered a DigiMash — a package to turn the DigiBoil into an all-in-one electric brewing system.

We were considering the iteration with a pump included

I’d totally believe it was originally designed as a HLT, accessories packages were put together to make it a brewing system but those accessories were discontinued because the thing doesn’t work well enough to be a brewing system. But my opinion is that it was certainly was marketed as something fully functional. And the extra couple hundred bucks for the Brewzilla got you more advanced features like step mashing.

The strangest thing is that the problem seems to be the controller — building up a NodeMCU-based controller would make something better than a Brewzilla (you can flash your own firmware if you want the logic to change — we got put off the Brewzilla because v3.1.1 units weren’t available in the US when we were looking to purchase something. The v3.1 logic started the timer when the elements kicked in. You’d have to buy an upgraded 3.1.1 board to get the new logic that starts the timer when the target temp is reached (and sixty minutes at 155 isn’t the same as sixty minutes spent going from 135 to 155 then holding at 155).

Hogie / Sub Roll Recipe

  • 4 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 cup warm water (may need to add more water to get proper dough consistency)
  • 2 Tablespoon sugar
  • 2 1/4 teaspoon active dry yeast
  • 1 teaspoon kosher salt
  • 4 Tablespoon cold butter, cubed
Method:
  1. Add the yeast, sugar, and 1/2 cup of warm water in a bowl of a stand mixer.
  2. Mix and let sit for about 10 minutes until the yeast is bubbling.
  3. Add in 2 cups of flour and remaining water. Start off on low. Mix for 4 minutes.
  4. Add in the salt and 1 cup at a time of the remaining flour and mix for 5-6 minutes. If needed, add water a tablespoon at a time.
  5. Add in the butter 1 Tablespoon at a time and mix until almost fully incorporated before adding more.  Mix for 3 minutes until the dough is smooth and shiny. Cover and allow to rise for one hour.
  6. Punch the dough down and place on a very lightly floured board. Divide into 4-8 pieces and shape.
  7. Preheat oven to 375 F.
  8. Place on a baking tray lined with a silicone baking mat. Allow to rise again until almost doubled. ~30-45 minutes.
  9. Slash bread using a lame.
  10. Bake for 16-23 minutes or until golden brown.