World's Best Tzatziki Sauce Recipe

Tzatziki Sauce is a classic Greek Sauce often served on Gyro Sandwiches. I love it on top of many different meats and as a salad dressing or veggie dip.

Try it on chicken or pork chops ... or better yet, make Katlyn's recipe for Souvlaki...and top it with Tzatziki sauce! 

Kalyn's Souvlaki
(Makes 4 -6 servings, recipe created by Kalyn)

Ingredients:
4 - 6 thick boneless pork chops -cut into six pieces

Or use boneless chicken breasts

Marinade Ingredients:
1/2 cup olive oil
1/2 cup fresh squeezed lemon juice
1 T red wine vinegar
1 T dried oregano (if you have fresh oregano, even better, use 2 T of fresh)
1 T finely minced garlic

Cut pork chops into cubes about 1 1/2" - 2" square and place in zip loc bag. Combine marinade ingredients and pour over meat. Marinate in refrigerator for 6-24 hours.

Preheat grill to high and let meat come to room temperature. Thread on to skewers, putting a piece of a veggie or cherry tomato between them. (Double skewers are great if you can find them.)

When grill is hot, place Souvlaki skewers on grill and reduce heat to medium-high. Grill until Cooked through.

Click here for the Tzatziki Sauce recipe and photos 

Recipe - Fat and Happy's Pizza Breadsticks

This photo and recipe comes from one of my favorite blogs, Fat and Happy. She had a recipe swap and this recipe was submitted to her and she shared it on her web site. The goal of the swap was to create something new a simple a variation of a pizza but have the essence of pizza. She wanted something that did not require a yeast crust Fat and Happy with no assembling and proofing time.

What if the toppings were inside the dough itself like a pizza bread? Or a pizza stick. A bread stick filled with pizza toppings. It could work!

Her pizza breadstick is somewhere between a bruschetta and a grissini (breadstick.) It's perfect to complete a salad or as an addition to an hors d'oeuvres table.

Fat and Happy Food Blog Tips and Techniques: Make hundreds of variations on this recipe by changing the cheese, herb and other ingredients. Roll them long and thin or short and fat, just depends on your preference.

Fat and Happy's Pizza Breadsticks

3/4 cup white flour
1/4 cup wheat flour
1/3 cup shredded cheddar cheese
1/4 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
1/2 tsp salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 tbls fresh oregano
2 sun-dried tomatoes (4 halves)
4 olives
4 tbls olive oil
1/4 cup ice water (amount may vary)
Salt for top of breadsticks
4 thin slices of prosciutto ( optional)

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
Place the flour, salt, baking powder, oregano, sun dried tomatoes and olives in the food processor; pulse to combine and cut up the ingredients. Pulse while drizzling in the olive oil. Continue to pulse while slowly adding small spoons of water in, be careful to not dump in all the water. The dough will combine into a ball, only add enough water for this to happen. Pulse the dough a bit after each water addition to see if it comes together before adding more. The dough will be somewhat moist.

Place the dough on the counter, cut it into equal parts and roll each section out on a lightly floured surface. You should be able to get 12 breadsticks, depending on how long you roll them out.

Place on an ungreased cookie sheet. Wrapping a thin slice of prosciutto around the bread stick is optional at this point but it's so damn delicious when it bakes into a crunch bite. Carefully hold up one end of the rolled stick and lightly wrap a thin piece of prosciutto around it the best you can.

Bake until the the bread sticks become slightly browned; for a crunchy breadstick this took 25 minutes in my oven. For a softer pizza breadstick remove them at about 22 minutes. Allow to cool slightly on the pan then enjoy.

Spinach Stuffed Mushroom Recipe - Easy!

How to Make French Onion Soup

Million Dollar Portobello Mushroom Burger

Fresh Garden Salad and Goat Cheese Toast

Easy, One-Ingredient Ice Cream

Sorry, I posted this awhile back and apparently the link and photos were removed.... this link works and it makes easy and yummy "ice cream"

http://www.instructables.com/id/1-ingredient-Ice-Cream/

Homemade Ice Cream with ONE ingredient

You'll never guess what it is............ bananas!

Click here to get the recipe and the step by step pictures.

Portobello Mushroom Burger

Here's an easy and delicious hot sandwich recipe that comes in handy during all the Christmas rush.

Zucchini Recipes

It's that time of year - here are some links to zucchini recipes

Layered Zucchini

Zucchini Oven Chips

Zucchini Bread

Fried Zucchini Blossoms

Crispy Fried Green Beans with Bacon

4 servings

1  pound green beans, washed and sorted with stems removed
1/4 pound sliced smoked bacon, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
1small yellow onion, peeled and thinly sliced
3 TBSP red wine vinegar
2 tsp. granulated sugar
handful coarsely chopped Italian parsley - optional
Sea salt and freshly ground pepper to taste

(Optional - handful of pine nuts)

Bring a large pot of heavily salted water to a boil. Meanwhile, prepare an ice water bath by filling a bowl halfway with ice and water.

Place beans in the salted boiling water and cook until crisp tender, about 3 minutes. Drain and place in the ice bath to cool. Drain and set aside.  (Can do this earlier in the day)

In a large frying pan set over medium heat, cook bacon until it starts to brown. Add onion and cook until it caramelizes and turns golden.

Add reserved green beans, (pine nuts) vinegar, and sugar and cook, stirring, until sugar has dissolved. Mix in chopped Italian parsley and season with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper.