1 chicken breast
soy sauce
Worcestershire sauce
black pepper
fresh dill
italian parsley
generic greek seasoning
olive oil
lemon juice
water, filled the bowl
salt, lots of it, it is a brine after all.


Dough

When I made it, it wasn't quite right. I think I ended up using a bit too much water on my hands making it sticky, but that quickly was fixed with flour on my hands while working it the next day. I oiled the pizza pan, preheated the oven to a whopping 500 degrees, and stretched out the dough into pizza shape. It ended up making 3 pizzas, and I modified how I did it each time. The first time, the dough came out a bit dense. I'm thinking this was due to my house being pretty cold, and the flour being cold from being in the fridge so the yeast may not have been very active. On the next two pizza's I stretched the dough out a bit more. This with the combination of olive oil on the pan made a perfect thin crust pizza. On the final pizza, I oiled the top of the crust. But I didn't see any real benefit of that.

Toppings
I spread the tziziki sauce on first, then added;
chicken, chopped
spinach
black olives
mushrooms
zucchini
red onion
feta cheese

So yeah, that is my first pizza attempt. I'll probably do more, because it was so damn good.

I told you I would post the Burger, Rice and Peas recipe soon.

This is a classic recipe in my family. However, I messed with some points because, well, I just do that.

1/2 lbs burger
1/2 red onion
black pepper
allspice
2 cups rice
1 pinch saffron
salt
1 bag frozen peas
1 bag frozen edamame
1 package sausage gravy
milk
water

So as I said before, I used half of the pound of burger in the taco salad, and the other half was used here. Instead of filling out the burger though, I just added some spices, and filled out the peas by adding edamame. So yeah, for the burger, you normally would use onion. Cook it all up, drain the grease, and save the burger and onion in another dish, so you can use the pan to make the gravy by following the directions on the packet. I cooked up the edamame, and shelled them all by hand which only took 5 minutes but you could also easily buy already shelled edamame. The rice was cooked also following the directions on the bag, but I added a pinch of saffron that we had around. Mad the rice a pretty yellow color and tasty too.

I'm guess I'm just going easy on these recipes. Nothing fancy here. Just good.

Bun
mayo
cheese
burger patty
tomato
red onion
lettuce
mustard
ketchup
bottom bun

In that order. For a side I bought a small tub of deviled egg potato salad. That was some good stuff. And it helped me to fill out my Tupperware collection as the container was reusable.

On another note, I used a cast iron grill skillet to cook up the burger. I love that cast iron skillet. I have actually started taking pictures of everything I make with it and in a future post I will show off how awesome it is. It'll be a kitchen equipment review. New category.

Quick. Easy. Very Cheap.

One night, I was hungry. I had a few things in the fridge and pantry, but not enough to make so other dinners I had planned. My main problem was a pound of ground beef that I was saving to make my family's Burger, Rice and Peas (which will be posted very soon.) At the time, though I didn't have the peas or gravy, and I didn't feel like going to the store. Instead I made a plan; use half of the burger now, and half for the Burger, Rice and Peas. This would mean I would need to fill out the burger portions in both meals, but that is something I could do. And this is that taco salad.

1/2 lbs burger
1 can black beans, rinsed
1 red onion, chopped
1 can refried beans
tortilla chips
cheese, grated
lettuce, shredded
tomato, diced
hot sauce
seasonings


To fill out the burger, I browned it up with the can of black beans and the red onion with various seasoning; cumin, pepper, hot sauce, salt. This actually came out really good. When I tasted it, it felt like a mouthful of burger, and the flavors came together as well. The rest was just a layers of ingredients and eating. Call it done.