Grilled summer favorites

Well we have survived to see another anniversary fireworks, to fire up the grill, have another hotdog day, and thank God that we live in America…the most Blessed nation in the world. Take care and I’ll be seeing you around…Agnes

Add these to your 4th of July Holiday:

Grilled Vidalia Onions: For each serving you will need one of the following:

Whole Vidalia onion; beef bouillon cube; tablespoons butter; ice cube; and 12 inch square of foil sprayed with non-stick cooking spray. Use a sharp paring knife to cut out a cone shaped core from the top about 2/3 of the way into the onion and about 1 and ½ to 2 inches at the top. Place the onion in the center of the prepared foil. Put the bouillon, ice cube and the butter. Wrap the foil around the onion making a small vent at the top. Place upright in a pan for the oven or up-right on the grill and until tender. Takes from 20 to 30 minutes…depending on size of onion and temperature of grill or oven (350F)

Alabama Fire Crackers: (Delicious)

Ingredients

1 2/3 cups vegetable oil

1 teaspoon garlic powder

1 teaspoon onion powder

1/2 teaspoon black pepper

2 (1 ounce) envelopes ranch dressing mix

3 tablespoons crushed red pepper flakes

1 (16.5 ounce) package multigrain saltine crackers

Directions: Place the vegetable oil, garlic powder, onion powder, black pepper, ranch dressing mix, and crushed red pepper flakes in a 2-gallon plastic zipper bag. Seal the bag and smoosh with your hands to thoroughly combine the oil and spices. Place the crackers into the bag, seal, and turn the bag over to cover the crackers with the spice mix. Let the bag sit for about 1 hour, then turn again. Repeat several more times until the crackers are well-coated with spice mix, and allow the bag to sit overnight. Remove crackers and serve. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED © 2017 Allrecipes.com Printed From Allrecipes.com 6/24/2017

Barbequed Beef Ribs Ingredients

1 cup apple juice

1 cup ketchup

1 (6 ounce) can tomato paste

½ cup brown sugar (packed)

½ cup vinegar

2 tablespoons prepared mustard

1 tablespoon salt

2 pounds beef ribs

Directions: Mix water, ketchup, tomato paste, brown sugar, vinegar, mustard, and salt in a slow cooker, stirring to dissolve brown sugar and salt. Place ribs in sauce, spooning the liquid over them, and cook on high for 1 hour and on low for 6 hours, check for tenderness, cook longer if necessary. Serve over hot cooked rice along with fried okra and corn on the cob.

Juicy Burgers

6 handmade beef patties

2 tablespoons flour

1 medium onion, chopped

Lettuce for 6 buns

6 slices of tomato

6 hamburger buns

3 tablespoons oil

Heat oil and brown onions and hamburger patties. Remove patties to a dish and keep warm. Sprinkle flour over the onions and drippings and stir to coat onions and dissolve the flour into the drippings. Stir in water and a little beef bouillon and return patties to the gravy. Cover and reduce heat to simmer. Simmer for about 15 minutes. Put lettuce on bottom of bun, top with a pattie, a slice of tomato, and top of bun. Serve at once.

Recipe for Laughter:

Upon arriving home, a husband was met at the door by his sobbing wife. (From Pete)

Tearfully she explained, “It’s the pharmacist. He insulted me terribly this morning on the phone. I had to call multiple times before he would even answer the phone.”

Immediately, the husband drove down town to confront the chemist and demand an apology. Before he could say more than a word or two, the chemist told him, “Just a minute, listen to my side of it. This morning the alarm failed to go off, so I was late

getting up. I went without breakfast and hurried out to the car, just to realize that I’d locked the house with both house and car keys inside and had to break a window to get my keys. Then, driving a little too fast, I got a speeding ticket. Later, when I was about three blocks from the store, I had a flat tire. When I finally got to the store a bunch of people were waiting for me to open. I got the store opened and started waiting on these people, all the time the darn phone was ringing.”

He continued, “Then I had to break a roll of coins against the cash register drawer to make change, and they spilled all over the floor. I had to get down on my hands and knees to pick up the coins and the phone was still ringing. When I came up I cracked my head on the open cash drawer, which made me stagger back against a showcase with a bunch of perfume bottles on it. Half of them hit the floor and broke. Meanwhile, the phone is still ringing with no let up, and I finally got back to answer it. It was your wife. She wanted to know how to use a rectal thermometer. Believe me mister, as God is my witness, all I did was tell her what she wanted to know.”

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