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  • BBQ Chicken Portabello Pizza

    BBQ Chicken Portabello Pizza

    In the best of plans, before I leave for work in the morning, I marinade the mushroom caps in a ziplock back and upon returning home from work, they are ready to go.
    8 large portabello mushroom caps – marinade in your favorite oil and vinegar dressing for 1-8 hours. You can also use corn tortillas, fry until crisp and serve the chicken mixture on top for BBQ Tostados. Or use pizza dough from Trader Joe’s or you local pizza place, or english muffins bagels. All work well.

    BBQ Chicken Filling:
    Cook 4 chicken breasts in a heated skillet with 1 tablespoon olive oil.
    Season with Italian seasonging and garlic cloves finely chopped or pressed.
    Add 1 cup each of; green, red or yellow peppers, chopped zucchini, and sliced mushrooms.
    Add 1 small red onion-thinly sliced
    Simmer for 5 minutes. Slice chicken into bite size pieces.
    Variations: Jalapeno pepper slices, crumbled crispy bacon
    or try Alfredo sauce for your base and use the BBQ sauce in the chicken filling. Yummy.

    Spread Sweet Baby Rays BBQ sauce onto mushroom caps. Spread chicken/Vegetable mixture on top of BBQ sauce.
    Sprinkle with 1 cup grated mozzarella, monterrey jack, cheddar or crumbled feta cheese.

    Bake mushroom caps for 20-25 minutes until they are fork tender. (Follow instruction for you pizza dough for cooking times and temperatures.)

    Serve with a side salad with BBQ Ranch dressing.

  • Smokin’ Ribs

    Smokin’ Ribs

    My hubby makes the best ribs.  How good are they?  I do not order ribs when I go out.  Always disappointed.  They just don’t do it as well.  Dennis’ are the best!

    Best Pork Ribs in the World! Just Awesome!

    Start the BBQ, and let her heat up.  We have a two sided BBQ and so hubby lights one side and uses the other side to smoke the ribs.  He leaves them on the cool side for a couple of hours and then turns them and leaves them another 2 hours.  They seem to be perfection.  His BBQ sauce creates a sticky sauce that is heaven on a rib.  Search for BBQ Sauce to find on this site.

    Pork Ribs with the Rib Tips and Tumeric Rice

    The only other BBQ sauce that comes close to his is Sweet Baby Rays.  It is nice.

  • BBQ Sauce

    Start with a base of purchased BBQ sauce, add soy sauce, and brown sugar and balsalmic vinegar.  Heat to blend to taste.  Coffee adds a great base note to many soups and sauces.

    If you want to build from scratch, you need to make a tomato bbq sauce, then add the other ingredients.

    Liquid smoke, salt and pepper, red pepper flakes.

    The final consistency needs to be sticky so it sticks to the meat.

    Sharp and Sweet.

    When all else fails, reach for the Sweet Baby Ray’s from your local grocery.