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Mexican manicotti, roasted red pepper hummus with flatbread & maple walnut granola

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Zippylip
Zippylip Posts: 4,768

This is a three fuel/three cooker kettle, egg & blackstone tag team deal, my favorite way to cook.  Love beans & grains in any form so made two.  Figured too that since the egg was in bake mode I’d toss in a batch of granola after the manicotti was done & make use of that residual heat, stuff can pretty much be baked after shut down, one of the great attributes of ceramic.  The flatbread was made the next day so the Blackstone got the nod.

Started off by rolling out some whole wheat pasta sheets (50/50 whole wheat/semolina)

 

 Then stuffed them with refried beans

 



Made some homemade enchilada sauce & laid the manicotti in, topped with more sauce

 

 Then onto the egg at 350 indirect;

 

 Meanwhile grilled some local sweet corn, onions, bell peppers & my garden serranos & pablanos on the kettle;

 


Chopped into a chunky, pile, & served:

 


The hummus, roasted red peppers, cecis, garlic, lemon, lime, water, salt & pepper

 


 

The flatbread, just plain pizza dough brushed with olive oil, salt & pepper, herbs afterwards

 


 



Dessert, the nuts & twigs.

 

the batch actually made two full mason jars:


Think I’m gonna make some more ‘ice cream’ & crumble some of this on there.

Great weekend
happy in the hut
West Chester Pennsylvania

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  • MaC122
    MaC122 Posts: 797
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    Wow!! Nice cook! Looks great, I need to step my game up
    St. Johns County, Florida
  • HoosierBBQ
    HoosierBBQ Posts: 111
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    MaC122 said:
    Wow!! Nice cook! Looks great, I need to step my game up
    Exactly what I was thinking! That's fantastic!
    Grilling year round in Orlando, FL on a large BGE & Santa Maria
  • SciAggie
    SciAggie Posts: 6,481
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    Great cook. I like the combination of flavors in the manicotti. I need to try making manicottie with homemade pasta. I make pasta regularly but haven't done this. It seems you basically cook the pasta in the sauce? No cooking before?
    Coleman, Texas
    Large BGE & Mini Max for the wok. A few old camp Dutch ovens and a wood fired oven. LSG 24” cabinet offset smoker. There are a few paella pans and a Patagonia cross in the barn. A curing chamber for bacterial transformation of meats...
    "Bourbon slushies. Sure you can cook on the BGE without them, but why would you?"
                                                                                                                          YukonRon
  • Zippylip
    Zippylip Posts: 4,768
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    SciAggie said:
     It seems you basically cook the pasta in the sauce? No cooking before?
    yup, it doesn't take much to cook fresh pasta... it just cooks & sucks in the flavor of the sauce while it's at it
    happy in the hut
    West Chester Pennsylvania
  • Biggreenpharmacist
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    Wow!

    Little Rock, AR

  • GregW
    GregW Posts: 2,677
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    Impressive!!
    Nice camera work also.
  • Mattman3969
    Mattman3969 Posts: 10,457
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    That is impressive sir!!  

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    analyze adapt overcome

    2008 -Large BGE. 2013- Small BGE and 2015 - Mini. Henderson, Ky.
  • bud812
    bud812 Posts: 1,869
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    This is gonna piss off Darby.

    Not to get technical, but according to chemistry alcohol is a solution...

    Large & Small BGE

    Stockton Ca.

  • Zippylip
    Zippylip Posts: 4,768
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    bud812 said:
    This is gonna piss off Darby.
    darby shmarby, he wakes up pissed off
    happy in the hut
    West Chester Pennsylvania
  • YukonRon
    YukonRon Posts: 16,989
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    This is impressive. Looks delicious. Feeling so unworthy now.......
    "Knowledge is Good" - Emil Faber

    XL and MM
    Louisville, Kentucky
  • Carolina Q
    Carolina Q Posts: 14,831
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    Zippylip said:
    bud812 said:
    This is gonna piss off Darby.
    darby shmarby, he wakes up pissed off
    hahaha!

    Great looking cook, Marc. Love homemade enchilada sauce. I could drink it straight! And the flatbread!!!

    Nice pics too.

    I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

    Michael 
    Central Connecticut 

  • Zippylip
    Zippylip Posts: 4,768
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    Zippylip said:
    bud812 said:
    This is gonna piss off Darby.
    darby shmarby, he wakes up pissed off
    hahaha!

    Great looking cook, Marc. Love homemade enchilada sauce. I could drink it straight! And the flatbread!!!

    Nice pics too.
    thanks & yea the flatbread was really good, spent about 90 seconds-ish in the blackstone is all, baked to chewy & a little browning; that was after a less than 10 minute preheat, literally fired it up, went inside & in the time it took me to stretch out the dough & get it on the peel the thing was hot enough to do that... one amazing cooker that thing is
    happy in the hut
    West Chester Pennsylvania
  • Carolina Q
    Carolina Q Posts: 14,831
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    What was the temp of the Blackstone? Mine will be done in my oven, haven't decided on stone or steel yet. Herbs thyme and oregano?

    I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

    Michael 
    Central Connecticut 

  • Zippylip
    Zippylip Posts: 4,768
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    What was the temp of the Blackstone? Mine will be done in my oven, haven't decided on stone or steel yet. Herbs thyme and oregano?
    really don't know the temp, I don't have an IR & the gauge on the blackstone is aggressively inaccurate because its probe is not actually in the oven; what I do know is that after a 15 minute preheat it'll bake a standard thin crust pie in less than 2 minutes all while registering in the neighborhood of 450 degrees so you do the math... 

    And thyme only on this one.
    happy in the hut
    West Chester Pennsylvania
  • bgebrent
    bgebrent Posts: 19,636
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    Damn man.  Looking good!
    Sandy Springs & Dawsonville Ga
  • Carolina Q
    Carolina Q Posts: 14,831
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    Zippylip said:
    What was the temp of the Blackstone? Mine will be done in my oven, haven't decided on stone or steel yet. Herbs thyme and oregano?
    really don't know the temp, I don't have an IR & the gauge on the blackstone is aggressively inaccurate because its probe is not actually in the oven; what I do know is that after a 15 minute preheat it'll bake a standard thin crust pie in less than 2 minutes all while registering in the neighborhood of 450 degrees so you do the math... 

    And thyme only on this one.
    gotcha. thanks!

    I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

    Michael 
    Central Connecticut 

  • Carolina Q
    Carolina Q Posts: 14,831
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    THANK YOU @Zippylip !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Marc, that HAD to be among the best breads I have ever had!! And I didn't even make the dough. When I saw this thread earlier today, I knew I had to try the flatbread. Sometimes, when I'm feeling lazy, I buy pizza dough from one of our local grocery stores. It's usually quite good. Bought some today (it was made yesterday)  and baked it tonight as you described.

    Did it in my oven at 450°. After about 5-6 minutes, I turned on the broiler and continued until the top "looked right". Soft, tender, great oven spring. No cheese, no meat, no tomatoes... and it was still better than most pizzas!!! And it looked just like yours. :)

    Thanks, man - THAT WAS WONDERFUL!!

    EDIT: Forgot to mention, I used my baking steel, not the stone.

    I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

    Michael 
    Central Connecticut 

  • Zippylip
    Zippylip Posts: 4,768
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    No cheese, no meat, no tomatoes... and it was still better than most pizzas!!! And it looked just like yours. :)

    yup, simplicity always works in the kitchen
    happy in the hut
    West Chester Pennsylvania
  • Gunnar
    Gunnar Posts: 2,307
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    You sir are living the high life....
    LBGE      Katy (Houston) TX
  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,102
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    Zippylip said:
    bud812 said:
    This is gonna piss off Darby.
    darby shmarby, he wakes up pissed off
    C'mon, youz guys are freeeends!!!



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  • Florida Grillin Girl
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    Zippy does it again! It all looks awesome, Marc.

    @Carolina Q, Your oven was probably 550 degrees!! Did you ever test that oven temp? 
    Happily egging on my original large BGE since 1996... now the owner of 5 eggs. Call me crazy, everyone else does!
     
    3 Large, 1 Small, 1 well-used Mini
  • Carolina Q
    Carolina Q Posts: 14,831
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    @Carolina Q, Your oven was probably 550 degrees!! Did you ever test that oven temp? 
    I ALWAYS check oven temp (IR). For 450°, I have to set it at 350°... but I still check. And no, I don't WANT a new oven! :rofl:

    Faith, try the flatbread - AWESOME!!

    I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

    Michael 
    Central Connecticut 

  • johnkitchens
    johnkitchens Posts: 5,227
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    Now that was a great looking cook!

    Louisville, GA - 2 Large BGE's