Topic: NWR's WorldWide Test Kitchen

[Mop it up]

I know, but for whatever reason I just don't think it tastes good on breakfast sandwiches.

[ShyGuy]

The official breakfast substitute for mayo is cream cheese.

[BeautifulShy]

So I just finished preparing my dinner for tonight. Mom's Meatballs

Now this isn't the typical meatballs.


Here are all the ingredients you are going to need.
-6 pounds of Ground beef
 -Minute rice
-3 eggs
 a 8 ounce can of tomato sauce.
And finally a 25 oz can of spaghetti sauce.

First of all preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

 Next you want to wash your hands as you will be getting your hands very messy.

Put the ground beef into a bowl and the 3 eggs as well as some minute rice.Put 1 egg at a time and mix that up and then add another egg.Repeat till done. Less eggs if you have less ground beef. Now use your hands to mix the ground beef, eggs, and rice mixture.

 Once you have everything mixed get out a glass pan and coat the bottom of the pan until it covers the bottom with some tomato sauce. Now you get some of the ground beef mixture in your hand and make it into a ball and then place onto the glass pan. Keep doing this until you have no room on the glass pan.
 Put your seasoning on top of the meatballs then put the spaghetti sauce on top. Put in oven for 45 mins.

Enjoy!

The rice it makes it so that the meatballs stick together better. Also the ground beef needs to have as little as fat possible so that the meatball sticks together better.Also you don't cook the rice before putting it in with the ground beef.
7% fat works best as far as fat content in the ground beef goes. Also try to put in a bonding agent. Oatmeal and Ritz crackers work. Break up 4 of the crackers. Half a cup of oatmeal for 2 and a half pounds of Ground beef.

[ShyGuy]

how much ground beef. a pound? Also what brand of tomato sauce?

[BeautifulShy]

how much ground beef. a pound? Also what brand of tomato sauce?

For this batch I had maybe 6 pounds of ground beef but I only used 4 pounds for the 10 meatballs that I could fit in a 16 by 9 glass pan. Tomato sauce you really only need for the bottom of the pan. For the topping you use spagetti sauce. Also I have been informed that you don't need to cook the rice beforehand. You basically just put the rice in the mixture and form the balls. Also the rice not cooked before hand makes it so that the meatballs stick together. Also the ground beef has to not have much fat to it or the meatballs have a way of not sticking together.The reason why I posted the above was because I didn't have minute rice tonight. I will edit it later to include the original recipe. My meatballs are calling.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Man..... I would really love to see some pics.

Buy a cheap $10 digital, then mail it to me when you are done.
I will put the pics up online then mail the camera back to you.

or get a good camera with an SD card slot, and e-mail the pics through the Wii(can you do that) or mail the SD card instead. you'll only need a single stamp that way.


edit: What should we call your meatballs?

Meatballs Marinara?

[BeautifulShy]

I guess that can work until I come up with something else.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Can you edit your post to include the amount of beef you used and clarify on the sauces used (tomato sauce vs spaghetti sauce). Maybe even a little more formatting to it.

i.e.

So I just finished preparing my dinner for tonight.

Meatballs Marinara
Now this isn't the typical meatballs.

Here are all the ingredients you are going to need.
1 lb Ground beef
Minute rice
3 eggs
1 can tomato sauce
1 can/jar spaghetti sauce

First of all preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

Next you want to wash your hands as you will be getting your hands very messy.

Now you want to cook the rice.
-After you have done that set it aside for later use.

Next put the ground beef into a bowl and the 3 eggs.
-Put 1 egg at a time and mix that up and then add another egg. Repeat till done.
--Less eggs if you have less ground beef.

Now use your hands to mix the ground beef and eggs mixture.

Once you have everything mixed get out a glass pan
-coat the bottom of the pan until it covers the bottom with some tomato sauce.

Now you get some of the ground beef mixture in your hand
-put some of the rice into it then add some more ground beef.

Make into a ball and then place onto the glass pan.
-Keep doing this until you have no room on the glass pan.

Put your seasoning on top of the meatballs
-then put the "spaghetti" sauce on top.

Put in oven for 45 mins.

^doesn't have to be like that, but something like that makes it easier to separate the steps and the ingredients.

edit: I just thought about it and I'm not sure how difficult it is to post from the Wii. Do you have a wireless keyboard? formatting you post might be a very time consuming task if you don't.

edit2:

Metaballs Marinara.... dinner or appetizer?

[BeautifulShy]

Yes I do have a USB keyboard.
It is Dinner.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Manlette/"All Day" Omelette
 
This isn't an omelette for just any old sap. This is an omelet for a Hungry Man or Woman.

Ingredients:
3-4 eggs
Shredded Cheddar Cheese
3-4 strips bacon
2-3 sausages
1-2 slices of ham
chopped red & green bell pepper
chopped onions (I used purple and yellow)
sliced mushrooms (I used portabello)
chopped tomato
hash browns (I used ~2 patties)

*Two Omelettes were cooked from the amounts seen cooked in the pictures*
*ingredients above are for 1 omelette*

Step 1)
Pop you hash browns in the oven, you want to make them golden brown because you are gonna mash them later.

Step 2)
Start frying your bacon. make it crispy since you are gonna turn them into bacon bits.

Step 3)
While cooking bacon, start chopping up veggies.


Step 4)
Drain bacon grease, save it for later.

Step 5)
Cook your sausages. (I used already cooked sausage patties, but cooked them in the skillet anyway)


Step 6)
Chop up your ham (I used sandwich meat ham)


Step 7)
Oil up your pan (vegetable oil) and put in your veggies and ham


Step Check on your has browns, they should be pretty much done by now.


Step 9)
Crush up your bacon into bit, your sausage and your hash browns into pieces


Step 10)
Now whip up your eggs for omelette making (I add milk even though LL Cool J says not to) then add about half of your cooked vegetables w/ ham in to the egg batter.


Step 11)
Pour some bacon grease back into the skillet, and then pour in your eggs(w/ veggies & ham). make sure they cover the whole surface of the skillet. When egg is sufficiently cooked, either flip it get the remaining egg batter in the middle or lift the edges and drain it underneath.

Step 12)
Add your hash brown, sausages and 2/3 of your bacon bits(save the other 1/3)


Step 12.5)
Add your vegetables and your cheddar cheese


Step 13)
Fold your omelette over and add more cheddar cheese and the last 1/3 of your bacon bits


Step 14)
enjoy your Manlette/"All Day" Omelette


*Bonus*Bonus*Bonus*

Tacomelette Supreme

Ingredients:
Giant tortilla
sour cream

Step 15)
lay out a giant tortilla and spread sour cream all over it

Step 16)
place your Manlette/"All Day" Omelette inside your tortilla


Step 17)
enjoy your Tacomelette Supreme

[ShyGuy]

Once again, HOLY CRAP

[BlackNMild2k1]

Next week may be the Breakfast Pizza.

It's made with all the same ingredients, just prepared differently.

[MegaByte]

That last part reminded me of Taco Town.

[BlackNMild2k1]

That's funny because I was joking with my girl how the only piece of breakfast it was missing was the pancakes/waffles.

So I joked about how next time I was gonna dip it in pancake batter and then deep fry it.

.....she almost choked on her Manlette.

[Stratos]

I could feel my arteries harden while reading those directions... AWESOME!

Some friends and I would have a 'Man-fast' instead of breakfast on occasion and we made our eggs in a similar way. We threw a lot of random food in the skillet and threw it on top of french toast when it was done. It was usually just four of us but we ate enough to feed a small country.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Each omelette is technically enough to feed 3 people, but I usually eat mine all to myself.
Then I don't need to eat again till much later that night if not just wait till the next morning.

Half now, half later usually works too.

[Toruresu]

Wow, just wow. BnM, I'm curious, are you a cheff or something?

[Mop it up]

I've made something similar before, except that I don't mix meats, I choose just one of bacon, sausage, or ham (or Spam, an underrated breakfast meat). That's just too much for me.

I've never put an omelet in a tortilla before, though. I might try that, on a much smaller scale.

[ShyGuy]

Yeah, shout out for Spam! Fried Spam is delicious.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Wow, just wow. BnM, I'm curious, are you a cheff or something?

Actually, I don't even know how to cook..... except for the things I invent myself.
I'm usually winging it when I go into the kitchen.... and I haven't had a failed experiment yet!!
::knocks on wood::

I've never put an omelet in a tortilla before, though. I might try that, on a much smaller scale.

Actually, this was the first time I put an Manlette into a tortilla, but I've done it with regular sized omelettes so that I could just pick it up. It worked so well, I thought I would throw it in as a bonus upgrade for the Manlette.

[ShyGuy]

I made some Honey Mustard chicken this weekend, I should have take pictures. I will take some pics next time.

[BeautifulShy]

What is the recipe Shyguy?

[ShyGuy]

Super simple:

1 part honey
1 part dijon mustard
1/5th part white vinegar

Marinate the chicken for 2 days

http://www.extreme-sandwiches.com/?p=119

[BlackNMild2k1]

Grilled Ham, Egg & Cheese Sandwich

Quick, easy, good.

Ingredients
1 egg
cheese (I used cheddar)
2 slices bread
1 slice of ham
butter
mayo

Step 1)
Fry your ham in a hot skillet. No no need to add anything, just let it brown a little on both sides.


Step 2)
Prep your bread. Mayo the inside.

Step 3)
Butter your pan, Fry your egg, break the yolk if you like, season to taste (salt & pepper)


Step 3)
Put your fried ham & egg on the bread, top it with cheese


Step 4)
put top bread on. butter the outside.

Step 5)
butter your pan, and put your sandwich in.... butter side down & butter the the other side


Step 6)
Cook to golden brown on both sides.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Mushroom & Onion Stove Top "Foil Broiled" Burger

Ingredients:
Yellow Onion
Portabella Mushrooms
Hamburger Patty (mine was frozen)
Hamburger Buns
Bacon
Cheese
Mayonnaise
Salt & Pepper
Garlic Powder
Paprika
(I wanted to use Chili Powder, but I didn't have any)
Large square of Aluminum Foil

Chopped Mushrooms & Sliced Onions seasoned with S&P, GP & Paprika


Seasoned(S&P, GP) Burger Patty(frozen) placed on the above with more of the above on top


Foil Wrap burger and seal the edges to trap air inside when cooking


Place foil wrap on hot skillet (should work on hot grill too)


You know you did it right if it balloons up like jiffy pop popcorn

don't forget to flip it atleast once after about 7-10 minutes per side

Unwrap foil and look at the perfectly cooked mushroom and onions and a burger that looks soooo juicy and delicious


Add your (already cooked) bacon & cheese to your bun (mayo optional) and enjoy!