Picnic Meal Plans: Fireworks
Crab Fingers | Layered Spinach Salad | Charcoal Potatoes | Grilled T-bone Steak | Ray's Peach Pie
Crab Fingers
Recipe Summary
Complexity: | Easy |
Serves: | 12 |
Category: | Appetizer |
Meal: | Fireworks (Picnic Meal Plans) |
1 | lb | crab fingers, canned |
1 | cup | ketchup |
3 | Tb | horseradish |
1 | Tb | lemon, juice of |
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Place ketchup, lemon juice and horseradish in bowl and mix. Arrange crab fingers around plate, place mixture (cocktail sauce) in center
Layered Spinach Salad
Recipe Summary
Complexity: | Easy |
Serves: | 8 |
Category: | Salad |
Meal: | Fireworks (Picnic Meal Plans) |
0.5 | cup | cheese, Romano, grated |
3 | slices | bacon |
1.5 | lb | spinach, fresh |
2 | cup | mushrooms, sliced |
1 | medium | onion, red |
1 | 10 oz container | peas, frozen |
0.5 | cup | mayonnaise |
0.5 | cup | sour cream |
1 | tsp | sugar, granulated |
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Combine 1/2 cup Romano cheese and crumbled fried bacon. Layer in large bowl spinach, cheese mixture, mushrooms, onion slices, and peas. Combine mayonnaise, sour cream, and sugar. Mix well and spread over salad to seal top. Sprinkle 2 tablespoons of Romano cheese over top. Refrigerate overnight, covered. Toss just before serving.
Charcoal Potatoes
Recipe Summary
Complexity: | Easy |
Serves: | 4 |
Category: | Starch / Pasta |
Meal: | Fireworks (Picnic Meal Plans) |
Microwave potatoes for 3 minutes per potato. Place on hot grill, turning once for 4 -5 minutes; until charred on the outside.
Serve with butter and sour cream.
Grilled T-bone Steak
Recipe Summary
Complexity: | Easy |
Serves: | 4 |
Category: | Beef Entrée |
Meal: | Fireworks (Picnic Meal Plans) |
3 | lb | steak, t-bone |
1 | Tb | oil, olive |
1 | tsp | garlic powder |
1 | Tb | pepper, fresh cracked |
1 | Tb | salt, kosher |
1 | medium | lemons |
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The keys here are to have the fire very hot and the steaks at least 1 thick. Have the steaks at room temperature, brush olive oil on both sides of steaks, add pepper, salt and garlic powder. Grill about 5 minutes on one side and 4 on the other. (depending on how you like your steak and the thickness of the steaks) remove steak from grill and let sit for 10 minutes. It will finish cooking on the platter; so take it off just before it is done as you would like. Squeeze lemon onto each steak.
Note: The general rule of thumb for medium rare is 1 minute per 1/4 inch thickness per side. A 2 inch thick steak would take 8 minutes per side.
Ray's Peach Pie
Recipe Summary
Complexity: | Easy |
Serves: | 6 |
Category: | Dessert |
Meal: | Fireworks (Picnic Meal Plans) |
3 | Tb | butter, salted |
3 | large | peaches, frozen sliced |
0.5 | cup | sugar, brown |
1 | tsp | cinnamon. ground |
2 | oz | bourbon, Jack Daniels |
1 | Tb | cornstarch |
2 | Tb | water |
0.5 | recipe | Pie Dough |
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Heat butter in a pan, add peaches and cook on memium-high for 5 minutes. Add brown sugar and cinnamon and Place butter in pan, heat and add the peaches, cook 5 minutes on med-high. Add brown sugar, cinnamon and cook until tender. Add bourbon off the stove, stir. Mix cornstarch in water and add to peaches, stir until thickened.
Pour into baked pie shell and serve with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream.
Note: Be sure to add the Pie dough recipe to your shopping list.