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55 Days of Grilling: Day 5

Tonight, we made turkey, spinach, feta burgers with fresh rolls. The rolls were my usual dough recipe (4c flour, 1T yeast, 1T sugar, 1t salt, 1T oil/butter, 1/2c wheat gluten) with a six hour rise time in a warm oven followed by a really short rise time after shaping and an egg wash. Cooked at 375 for 15 minutes — could have used an extra minute or two.

The burgers were ~1.5 lbs ground turkey, 1/4 large red onion chopped, 1 package frozen chopped spinach (defrosted with water squeezed out), 2t salt, 1t pepper, 6 oz feta, 2 eggs (minus what was used for the egg wash on my rolls), seranno chillis, and about 1/2c panko. Grilled about 5 minutes each side at a high temp. Very good — may want to try adding mustard to burger mix next time.

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.

Grilled Corn

Turns out you can cook corn directly on the grill. When we bought our grill eight or nine years ago, I found a recipe has you peel back the husk, remove the silk, re-wrap the corn in the husk, and soak it all in saltwater for an hour. That is a lot of lead time, and we wrapped up our yard work at 9PM this evening … so an extra hour and a half or so to get the corn ready wasn’t going to happen.

But if you shuck the corn, baste it with a little olive oil, and toss it on the grill … turn the ears every 3-4 minutes to avoid scorching … it is delicious. Total cook time was somewhere between 15 and 20 minutes over medium-high flame. The grill itself was open a lot (every 3 or 4 minutes to turn it, plus checking on the burgers).