Friday, June 20, 2008

I'm No Paula Dean

Friday, June 20, 2008
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My cooking skills today suck. I don’t know why. When I actually do cook a meal for myself that is not soup or tuna fish, it comes out pretty tasty. However today, the cooking gods are not looking down on me very fondly.
I started this morning making a pasta salad. It’s easy enough, right? Well even easier cause it came in a box with seasoning and everything, however I forgot about it and boiled the noodles for too long so now the pasta is sticky and mushy. Ick. This morning I took out some ground sirloin and planned on making a family recipe called Pizza Burger. I called Mom to ask at what temp and how long to cook it at since I never actually made it, but I know HOW to make it. I forgot I needed breadcrumbs, so my mom mentioned that if I wet a piece of bread and smoosh it into the meat it will work the same way. My old world grandma used to do that. So, I made it and it came out freakin terrible. It was boiling; not baking in a pool of gross grease and the sauce didn’t even really cook. Ugh! I was kind of looking forward to it, but I'll deal and eat the mushy pasta salad instead. blah. Next time I cook will be better. Last two times I cooked it was delicious. I made a perfect filet mignon, and another time, chicken with tomatoes, garlic and basil. Yum!
If you’re wondering what on earth is Pizza Burger, or if you heard of it, and are interested in how it goes down, here goes. I am spilling family secrets here people. Don’t go publishing it without giving me any royalties. Well after you heard how it came out, I doubt you will. It sounds gross but it's pretty tasty when its actually made correctly.
You mix breadcrumbs (I had none so used wet bread) ground beef/sirloin, some garlic powder an egg or half an egg depending on the amount of meat you have, and oregano together.
Spread the meat thinly out in a flat pan.
Top with pizza sauce/tomato sauce. Sprinkle with oregano and parmagiana cheese.
Bake.
Not so hard right? When Mom and Gram used to make it, it was not so hard.

4 comments:

Amanda Hug'NKiss said...

you have to drain grease off of ground beef - maybe that was a step you missed, hence the boiling grease-beef

Dateless in Detroit said...

no, you dont brown the meat prior to baking it, you just bake it. I didnt ring out the bread really, so I am pretty sure that is what happened to make a greasy watery mess.

The Intl said...

No no, you MAY be a Paula Dean ... but you probably are no Paula Deen.

Anonymous said...

Could have used cracker crumbles instead of breadcrumbs...