I'd like to welcome a new edition to the PFT family!

I haven't blogged for a few days, and you can blame it on this this beautiful distraction;

It's a Charcoal!!!

She was bigger than I ever dreamed!

Papa Grill, Mama Grill, and Baby Grill.

Big Mama's first effort, NY Strip.  Not a good pic, but PFT!!!

Sunshine is stepping up his pizza game!

Sunshine just created a brick oven setup on his grill, that according to him, makes the best pizzas he has ever made.  Of course we cannot see these PFT pizzas because, as Sunshine puts it, "they take 4 minutes to cook and 1 minute to eat".  At least he sent me this;

The pizza is cooked on the square pizza stone at a real high heat (700 or so) while the round stone and bricks soak up the heat and help create even heat for optimum deliciousness.

If you ever secretly record your annoying smoking neighbor...

...make sure you have black tape over the red light on the front of your camera;

Who's a good doggy?

Chicken Enchiladas

-I started by pan searing some chicken breasts and simmering in homemade tomato sauce for 30 minutes.  I then removed the chicken and added chili powder, cumin, and oregano to the sauce and cooked it till thick like gravy.

-Then I assembled the rest of the ingredients;

 -Dump all the above into a bowl and toss in some of your seasoned tomato sauce, just enough to make it moist, but not soupy.

-Coat corn tortillas, one by one, in your tomato sauce;

-Fill each tortilla with chicken filling;

-Roll each one up, place in a baking dish, cover with tomato sauce and jack cheese.

-Cover with parchment paper or plastic wrap (to prevent cheese from sticking to foil) and foil, then bake at 350 for about 45 minutes.

Enjoy!

Latest dish from KC and Sunshine

Orange marmalade grilled chicken with roasted garlic whipped potatoes and lima beans.  Looks really really good!

Texas A@M relishes being an underdog.

I asked Texas A@M's #1 fan, Hershey,  what the prospects were for this years football team, his reply, "grrrrrrrrrrrr"!  Then he mumbled something about biting the fat man and went back to sleep.

Not looking good Aggies, not looking good.

Apparantly, it was PFT!!!

Sunshine sent me another pic, this time of something that he allegedly "ate the shit out of".  Question is, what was it?  My guess is that he ate it so fast that he forget what he was actually eating, so we will probably never know.

This pizza crust has more wrinkles than Cloris Leachman!

Also could have went with;

Still looks PFT, Sunshine!  I'll be making fried chicken in the coming days, you may want to make a road trip.  Wouldn't be the first time you drove for hours for some delicious fried chicken.

Dueling Pizzas!!!

I do not hear banjos playing, strangely though I hear some gangster rap from the 80's.

Sunshine finally sent me a pic of something, which is a minor miracle in itself.  I have to say it looked PFT!

(BTW Sunshine, you are a professional photographer, would it kill you to send me a pic that when I try to enlarge doesn't look blurry?  Never mind your honor, I withdrawal the question.)

Edit- Alright KC, I'm a dumbass, I didn't download the pic.  You happy now?











I'm guessing that the toppings were either beef or sausage, mushrooms, roasted red peppers, fresh basil, mozzarella, and feta cheese.  Well played Sunshine, well played!

Not one to back from a challenge, unless you look like a UFC fighter or have a gun, I went right to work in making a worthy pizza opponent.  Using dough I made 4 or 5 days ago and toppings that I had on hand, I made this;

Toppings were; red onions, green peppers, green olives, pepperoni, mozzarella, asiago cheese, and homemade tomato sauce leftover from the steak pizzaiola recipe.  It was also PFT.  I tried to match Sunshine's amoeba shape, but could not.

In the end, it was a close vote, but I think Sunshine totally trumped me on quality and pairing of toppings and won this round.  The margin of victory probably would have been much higher, but had to deduct points for inferior photo quality.

Crispy thin crust pizza

In my never ending quest for the perfect pizza crust, my latest venture was probably my best effort at thin and crispy.  The keys to this crust is a very dry dough, no kneading, and a smoking hot pizza stone.
Here is the recipe; (though amounts will vary according to altitude and humidity levels)
1 TBLS Dry Active Yeast
1 cup Warm Water
3 cups All Purpose Flour (don't use bread flour)
1 TBLS Salt
2 TBLS Sugar
2 TBLS Olive Oil


Directions
-mix yeast and water, let sit for 5 minutes
-combine the water and yeast with all other ingredients in mixing bowl and mix just to combine
(you want a dry dough, kind of like a "play-dough texture.   Add water or flour as needed)
-cover and let rise to double in a warm place.
-cut into 3-4 dough balls and let dough rest in refrigerator for at least an hour.  (The longer you let it rest, the easier it will be to work with)
-roll out dough with a rolling pin as thin as you can get it, 1/8 of an inch is ideal.  It will be hard to roll out and have the texture of leather.
-place on a corn meal dusted pizza peel, or back of a cookie sheet and add sauce and toppings.
-bake on a well preheated pizza stone (at least 500 degrees) for approx 8-10 minutes