Sailor Mnemosyne
Upside Down Skillet Pizza
Appliances Needed: Stovetop, frying pan (with an oven-safe handle), oven, knives to cut vegetables
Mnemosyne's Level of Difficulty for the Average College Student: stressed (mostly because it takes just a little while longer to make)
Preheat the oven to 425F
This'll make about 3-4 servings depending on how you cut it. The servings aren't all that -big-, though.
Topping:
200 grams ground beef (just enough to spread out nicely in the pan)
1/2 onion, chopped (optional of course)
In a cast iron frying pan (a frying pan that's got a nice thick bottom, and doesn't have a plastic-style handle, or handle-cover)
Saute (cook it over a medium to high heat) until the beef's got no pink left on it. And the onions (if you use them) should be clear.
Put a piece of paper towel over a plate and dump the mixture onto that to drain fat (unless you used lean ground beef, in which case you shouldn't need to do this).
200mL tomato sauce
2mL basil
2mL oregano
2mL garlic powder
2mL marjoram
2mL Italian seasoning (all of these seasonings are optional, they just make a nice sauce)
1mL seasoning salt (or table salt, or parsley salt, or no salt at all)
A bunch of vegetables (a stalk of celery, 1/4 green pepper, 1/4 red pepper, mushrooms work). Chop them all up.
Put the meat mixture back into the pan, heat it up, add the above mixture, stir, and let it sit on low for about 3 minutes.
Spread the whole mixture evenly in the pan.
20mL mozzarella cheese
Sprinkle over the meat mixture.
Crust:
60mL flour
60mL milk
1/2 egg (crack an egg, scramble it, and measure out about two tablespoons of it)
50mL mozzarella cheese, grated
Pinch of pepper (optional)
Whisk them together (with a whisk, or a fork) in a small bowl.
Pour the batter over the top of the meat mixture in the pan (it makes a very thin crust that probably won't -completely- cover the mixture).
Put the whole pan in the oven, and bake it for 15-18 minutes (the sauce'll probably bubble up over top of the crust)--(remember when you take the fryingpan out, the handle will be hot--it's funny but people tend not to think about that).
To serve it, put a plate upside down over the top of the pan, and flip it, so the skillet comes out upside down onto the plate. The crust on the bottom, etc. Probably won't come out right in the centre of the plate.
You can put some more cheese on top. Serve warm.
Taken from the recipe notebook I had to keep during a cooking class.
This sounds absolutely amazing. I'm so gonna try that next week.
surprised
I don't know if it's been mentioned yet, but spaghetti bolognese is really easy and really yummy to make. Level:
heart How I make it (serves about 4):
Ingredients:
400 gr ground beef
400 gr spaghetti (but obviously you can use any type of pasta - I prefer penne or tagliatelle)
2 cans of canned tomatoes - roughly and quickly cut into pieces (you can use fresh ones, but I hate the skins and getting rid of those takes too much time
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(500 ml passata - if you like a slightly thinner sauce)
4 onions, chopped
250 gr mushrooms, sliced
your favorite (dried or fresh) (Italian) herbes, just don't forget a pinch of salt and a twist of pepper
olive oil or butter
For the sauce: Heat oil and/or butter (I prefer olive oil because of the taste) in a large frying pan. Put it on low/medium heat. Saute the onions - they should turn soft and smell incredibly yummy after about 5 minutes. Make sure you don't turn off the fire and eat all the onions - you will have to start all over.
whee After that, saute the beef until it's got no pink left. Throw in the mushrooms and let it fry at medium heat for about 5 minutes. Then add the tomatoes and passata, add the herbes, pepper and salt, and let it simmer for about 30 minutes.
In the meantime (about 15 minutes before the sauce is ready), boil water for the spaghetti and cook it as it says on the package. When it's done, don't forget to add like a spoon of olive oil for taste and texture.
Enjoy. If you like, have some nice red wine to go with it.
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