Ever try Taco Bell and get disappointed? Too salty? To mushy, well it sounds to me as if someone needs to make their own, well, we did too, and this turned out amazing, and honestly it was quick simple and easy, very little effort and trust me it turned out amazing!
Phase 1 Chili Time!
Oil your pan lightly Add in some ground beef Add in 1 large or 2 small onions diced up Break burger up so its very small Keep mixing the burger and onion.
Add the following spices to your own taste Mexican oregino Ground cuming Ground black pepper Smoked Paprika and Onion Chili powder Mix the spices up fully and ensure that all your meat gets some love
Add a few drops of apple cider vinegar
Add 2 cups of water
Keep stiring as you add ingredients
Take a glass and add some corn starch in to make a slurry to thicken your sauce and add it to your mix
Cover and simmer for 5 minutes
Add 1 can of refried beans
Add 1 can of tomato paste
Add some adobe chipolte peppers (preferably diced up, if not, take some time and dice the peppers up first.) If you can’t handle heat then please do not add them.
Let simmer for 10 minutes
Shred up half a block of cheese, (Do not buy pre shredded cheese, as it has a higher melting point and is has lots of chemicals and is not as good quality, or even better yet buy some higher quality cheese!)
Start slowly adding the cheese into the mix until cheese is melted, and then add more until its completely melted in.
Take it off the heat.
Phase 2 Serving
Take a tortilla wrap
Add some of the mix in the middle, add some sour cream, even better yet, Mexican sour cream, and then wrap it up, and serve it!
We hope you enjoyed this, if you made this let us know what you think, we really love it, and honestly one of the best dishes we made yet!
Sandwiches are great, but ever wonder why yours looks bad and get stuck buying one just to get one that looks and tastes great?
I’ve been guilty of it, and I know so have you, but here is the thing, you have to consider the quality of meat your using, the type of bread or bun your using, and sauce and how its going together, it really does mater.
So lets take some time and think about it.
Phase 1. The meat!
The meat is a big part of a sandwich, and often if you go to the store and buy sandwich meat, its thin, not as flavorful and just not the best quality around, so what do we do?
In our video here we used chicken, but you can use pork or a beef product, season it to what you like, pepper, salt if you must (I like low sodium myself), maybe some honey, and bake it until its cooked , but you want it moist.
When done take it out of the oven, let it cool and then slice it thin, or however you like it, many of us don’t have a meat slicer and thats ok, (who has room for that anyways.), when done put it in the fridge for a bit.
Phase 2. Veggies.
Cut up your veggies nice and thin, but remember to use veggies that are dry, cukes and tomatoes are nice and all, but they can often be wet and can make your sandwich a soggy mess, so if your going to use tomatoes make sure you are not putting seeds in, this will ruin it, take those out. you want lettuce or spinach or something similar. make sure to have several varieties or your sandwich is going to be boring.
Phase 3. Sauce.
Directly on the inside of the bun on both sides, I like just plain mayo over that, it acts like a lubricant, and helps keep the bread from going soggy, you can do a mayo mix with hot sauce, or mustard or other things to give it a bit more flavor.
You can use other sauces like BBQ sauces, or a vinaigrette, or other tasty sauces you might want to include.
Phase 4. Cheese
You need cheese, plain and simple and to be honest you do not want cheesewiz, you want something of quality, you can get cheese slices, but honestly that brings you back to just making bland crap, so you can buy a block of cheese and cut that up, or go to the deli and buy a really nice block of cheese, trust me the flavor this brings is so electric and amazing, and trust me the cheese that you get from the deli is actual real cheese, and if you’ve never had it, trust me you need to.
Phase 5. Bread
You could use whtie bread, but when you buy a a good quality sandwich is it on white bread, most often it isn’t, why not choose a multi grain, or even better a nice bun, or roll, after all you want the best quality you can get, and this is going to do it.
Phase 6. Putting it all together!
Ok, so here is the fun part, not the most fun part, that is you eating it.
Take your roll and cut it down the middle, or if its bread just use both slices, but put your mayo, or mayo mix on the bottom of each side, this will act as a lubricant, which helps from keeping the juices getting your bread product
Then put some lettuce on the bottom and layering it nicely.
Now you want to take your meat and start layering that as well, giving it a nice presentation and having enough on it to make you happy.
Now start putting your veggies on it one by one, keeping in mind not to put too many veggies on it as it will make it messy and also hard to close, this isn’t a Subway sub, they do give you lots of veggies, but not a whole lot, and in the end it does look good, but the quality isn’t there.
Now your sauce you want to use, and remember do not over load this, or it is going to be messy, you want to have enough you taste and know its there and are happy, but not so much its going to over flow.
Then your cheese, and you want enough of this, especially if its from the deli.
Then lastly some more lettuce and close your sandwich.
The only thing left to do if you really want, you can put this in a pre heated oven to toast it.
But thats all, try this out some time, and if your someone who would enjoy to bring this to your work for lunch, buy the quantities for the week, and do the math, I bet you its cheaper than buying it every day, and honestly your co workers are going to be jelous!
Ok, so first off yes, I get it, liver and onions can be terrible, however it is an old time favorite, and on top of that, there are people out there with iron issues, and some people who go to the hospital a lot because of it, so liver and onions are an important part of their diet to help them stay out of the hospital, and that is serious, our very own Chef Alex has a brother who is one of those. The trick is to make live and onions taste acceptable, so it can be eaten with out issue, and I think I have solved the issue, so lets get to it.
Phase 1 Dealing with the Liver!
Slice up your liver into small pieces and put into a bowl and cover with white vinegar for 30 minutes. This is a very important step as the vinegar will dull a lot of the horrid taste out of it, the real issue with liver is that it is so rich in iron it becomes very hard to eat, the vinegar will help dull that down.
Phase 2 Setting Up The Dredge Station.
Take a bowl and add lots of flour into it and set it aside.
Phase 3 Get Saucy!
In another bowl add the following, some Ginger and Garlic Paste, Sweet Thai Chili Sauce, Apple Cyder Vinegar and mix it up really good.
Phase 4 Onions.
Cut up some onions small, but chunky.
Phase 5 Cook Them Up!
This is important, drain and rinse the liver at least 3 times, its important to get this nice and cleaned up, now put the liver into the sauce and mix it all up.
Now we start to cook, lets start cooking the onions till they are getting nice and soft.
Start to dredge the liver into the flour and then into the frying pan and cook it all up until its done!
We hope you tried this, and we hope you liked it, I turned my wife who absolutely hates liver into a believer.
Ever wonder what the best burger is? Is it Wagu, it probably is, but honestly its far out of most peoples price range, and isn’t so easy to find or afford, with out blowing your whole pay check on one meal, there is an alternative, and that is Bison, Bison is very regulated, and farmers are not allowed to do the same thing they do with cattle which means that there are no growth hormones’ or any other chemical, so bison is a lot better for you, along with the fact that it is very lean, so it one of the best tasting burgers you can get for your money hands down.
This is one reason you want a very high performance food processor, when Aimee and I want ground beef, we don’t buy ground beef, we buy steak, roast or other meats and grind it into ground beef.
Some times when you find Bison meat, its not ground for you, but rather steaks, or cubes, so if you want burgers you have to grind it yourself, and this is why having a good food processor is important, so you can make your own ground beef.
If you never had Bison before I urge you to take a moment and try this recipe as you won’t be disappointed, this is absolutely the best burger your ever going to eat.
Phase 1 Wheres the Beef
Take your bison meat and simply put it into the food processor, no spices at all, just pure meat, grind it up until its a consistency of ground beef.
Take the meat out and start forming them into patties, we like smash burgers so we just made Bison balls.
You want to leave this sit at room temperature for about 10 minutes before you cook, in the mean time oil a frying pan up and heat it up so when your ready to cook its hot and waiting.
While we are waiting for the patties to come to room temperature we shall make some sauce.
Phase 2 Sauce Me!
In a bowl pour in a lot of mayo, (don’t worry you can save this for future use to.)
put in a small amount of apple cyder vinegar
Put in a bit of ketchup
Put in some mustard
I would put some dill pickles in the food processor and then put this in too.
And give it a good mix and make sure its all incorporated.
Phase 3 Cook the burgers
Fry up your burgers on the last flip put on a slice of good quality cheese, you took your time to make such a high quality burger you want to make sure your using good cheese, don’t cheap out here.
Phase 4 Putting it together
Ok, so its time to put this all together, grab your favorite bun and lets layer.
First we are going to put some lettuce then a bit of sauce.
Your burger, and if you want some more cheese, do her up.
More sauce, tomato, onion, and lettuce and finally the bun.
Thats it folks, your friends should be jelous you have the best burger around, and I promise you, if you serve this to your friends and family, they will absolutely think your the best cook in the world!
You can add some hot sauce to your burger sauce if you want, but personally I don’t think its the best idea in the world, to me it distracts from the flavor of the meat,
Service this with some corn and some homemade French fries!
I hope you enjoy this, drop me a line if you have made this, let me know what you think!
Sloppy Aimees is my take on a Sloppy Joe, just more healthy fun, and much more tasty.
This is fun, easy and very tasty!
Ingredients
3 Onions
3 Green Peppers
Garlic
Ground Beef
Pepper
Salt
Worcestershire Sauce
Spaghettis Sauce
Apple Cyder Vinegar
BBQ Sauce
Your choice of hot sauce
Big burger buns
Cooking
Start by chopping up your onion, green pepper and garlic, it would be best if you had a food processor and let it do it for you, more simple and a lot quicker.
In a oiled frying pan start frying up that mix.
Add in your ground beef, breaking it up making sure its very chunky.
As it cooks down its going to reduce.
Add some pepper.
Add some Worcestershire sauce.
Add some spaghetti sauce.
Add some apple cyder vinegar, not a lot but it does help with taste and works with helping your blood sugar and blood pressure.
Add some BBQ Sauce, your favorite flavor.
If you want some hot sauce this is where you add it in, if your sharing the meal, think about how other people will feel about it, you don’t wanna kill anyone.
Mix this all in good, and cook until done, be careful to make sure the meat is well cooked.
Lastly get your but buns ready and put some mix in until it looks like a sloppy joe, but this time make it messy!
This is a meal best served with fries and maybe some veggies, a great pick me up meal, very simple and quick to make, we really hope you enjoy!
Mac n Cheese Casserole is a great meal, very simple fast and easy, it tastes great and it is a different meal that should please and fill you!
Mac n Cheese is great on its own, and adding to it can be wonderful!
Phase 1 Noodles
Cook your bag and choice of noodles as directed on the package, we like using elbow macaroni!
Phase 2 Ground Beef
For the beef you can use steak or any other type of pork, but then again you can use any type of pork if you want, but you can also use ground meat as well, if you don’t have a food processor then just buy it already ground, I find by choosing your meat to make into ground meat you have a much better quality and all, so it will be more rewarding.
Take your meat and grind it up in the food processor then put it in a oiled pan and add salt pepper and some spices you like and cook it until done.
Phase 3 Tomato Sauce
You can use 1 can of tomato sauce and 1 can of crushed tomatoes, salt pepper and any other sauce you may choose I also added 2 onions a whole garlic that was also put in the food processor mix it well and cook until its bubbling and your set, take it off the burner.
Phase 4 Mix 1
Take a baking pan you can cook with, maybe like a cake pan, and start by putting your cooked and drained noodles and line the bottom with that, and then the meat and then your tomato sauce you just cooked, and mix it all up good, were almost done folks.
Phase 5 Cheese Sauce
Take a frying pan and cut up some butter and a bit of oil so the butter doesnt burn, once the butter is melted, take a half a cup of flour and stir it well so there are no clumps, and this is very important no one wants to bite into a meal and taste clumps of flour, then add 1 and a half cup of milk mix it well, then start adding 2 types of cheese, bit by bit until the cheese is melted in keep stirring so nothing burns once thats finished were very close.
Phase 6 Mix 2 The Final Mix
Now lets take the cheese sauce and pour it on top of the casserole , and now…
Phase 7 Baking
Now make sure your oven is preheated for 375, then bake for 20 minutes, once the 20 minutes is over, your done, but let it set for 10 to 20 min, and your done!
This is one of our earliest videos we filmed, it is quite old, and we will eventually be re making another video!
Donair is an Atlantic Canadian meal, one of our must haves and favorites, it isn’t the healthiest thing in the world, but you can make it healthier with a bit of work!
If you go to Canada and you order one, and the sauce isn’t sweet, then it’s not a donair, if you are in Atlantic Canada at any time you must try it, it is our cultural dish and honestly one of the best things you will ever eat!
When it comes to spices put a lot in, but for things like chili powder and Cheyenne powder, you want to watch yourself a bit don’t make it hotter than you want, some people can’t handle spice eh, I’m not one to measure spices out, just look at the volume of what your cooking and use your best judgement!
Ingredients
Meat Portion
Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Oregino
Garlic powder
Chili Powder
Onion Powder
Cheyenne Powder
Medium ground beef or Lamb meat (you can do 50/50)
Pre heat your oven for 450 degrees
Oil a bread pan, or any pan you want to use.
take the ingredients and mix them together and beat them together very well, you want a solid meat loaf.
Put them in the bread pan, and pack it in tightly.
bake for 45 to 50 minutes.
Sauce Portion
3/4 cup of vinegar
2 cups of sweetend condensed milk
Garlic powder
Mix all the ingredients in a container that you can stick in the fridge, mix it well, and let it rest in the fridge for an hour!
Putting it all together!
Tomato
Onion
Cheese (Cheddar or Mozzarella is best, but use what works for you!
Pita bread
(optional Lettuce)
Ok we are ready to put everything together, so first, after the meat has cooled down, we are going to slice it up good, and then re fry it with some extra virgin olive oil, just to get it nice and hot and may be a bit of sear.
This is how you want it to look, very similar to this, and often this can be hard so don’t judge yourself on how perfect you have your sliced.
Take a slice of pita, put your meat on it, then cover it with a lot of sauce, and then some onions tomato and finally shred some cheese on top of it.
You can choose to bake this on 300 for 10 minutes if you wish, I don’t myself, I eat it as is, you can add some lettuce, and if your looking to serve it with something might I suggest some potatoes, often we eat this along side of pizza, and it should look similar to.
I truly hope you enjoyed this as much as I do if you ever get a chance to taste this, it is truly one of our favorite meals, and often if we have a visitor we share this with them, its one of those meals you have to try once.
