Dad's Day Special: Grilled Pizza!

"Barbeque Queen" Elizabeth Karmel Offers "Shoestring" Recipes

(CBS) 

RECIPES

Grilled Watermelon Salad
Serves 4

Whoever thought of grilling watermelon? We did! It's unexpected, and a real summertime crowd-pleaser. Anyone up for a watermelon seed-spitting contest?!

INGREDIENTS:

1 small red or yellow watermelon (3 to 4 pounds), preferably seedless and not too ripe
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil, plus extra for brushing the melon
3 tablespoons fresh lime juice (about 2 limes)
Juice of 1 large naval orange
Pinch of sea or kosher salt, or more to taste
Pinch of cayenne pepper; or more to taste
1/4 cup chopped fresh mint
1/2 cup crumbled feta cheese (optional)

METHOD:

Preheat a gas grill or build a charcoal fire for direct grilling.

Cut the watermelon in half lengthwise, then cut each half in half. Cut these quarters into 2-inch-thick slices. Brush the slices lightly with olive oil and set aside until ready to grill.

Combine lime and orange juices. Taste; if it is too tart, add more orange juice. It should taste like a "sour" orange. Add the salt and cayenne and whisk continually while adding the oil in a thin stream. Whisk until thickened (emulsified). Taste and adjust the oil and salt to your liking. Add the mint and set aside.

Just before serving, place the oiled watermelon slices on a very clean cooking grate directly over the heat source. Grill until marked and just warmed through but still crunchy, 2 to 3 minutes per side. Let cool.

Cut off the rinds and discard. Cut the watermelon into chunks and place in a serving bowl. Pour the dressing over the top and toss gently. Top with the feta, if desired, and sprinkle with another pinch of cayenne.

All-American Pepperoni Pizza
Serves 2 to 4

Thirty-six percent of all pizzas ordered in America are pepperoni, making it the poster child for the industry. We've goosed our version with a spicy amatrici sauce, which just might become the new standard!

INGREDIENTS:

1/4 cup uncooked grits or polenta, for rolling the dough
1 ball prepared pizza dough, at room temperature
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 cup Five-Minute Amatrici-Style Sauce (page 137) or cooked tomato sauce of your choice
4 ounces pepperoni, thinly sliced (ideally from a whole pepperoni)
1 cup grated mozzarella cheese
1/4 cup freshly grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese
1/4 teaspoon red pepper flakes
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste

METHOD:

Preheat the grill, roll out and shape the dough, and grill the first side of the crust per the master instructions on page 10 for gas or page 12 for charcoal. Use tongs to transfer it to a peel or rimless baking sheet. Flip the crust to reveal the grilled side.

Spread the entire surface with the sauce. Top with the pepperoni and sprinkle with the cheeses.

Finish grilling the pizza per the master instructions.

Remove from the grill, sprinkle with the red pepper flakes, and season with salt and black pepper. Slice and serve immediately.

Adventure Club:

Replace the pepperoni with your favorite thinly sliced dry-cured salami.

Drink This:

Merlot is a wine that is as crowd-pleasing as pepperoni. Like the many varieties of pepperoni on the market, merlots range from very simple to mind-blowing.

Five-Minute Amatrici-Style Sauce
Makes 3 cups

INGREDIENTS:

8 strips center-cut bacon (ideally Nueske's pepper-crusted smoked bacon), chopped
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 14.5-ounce can chopped tomatoes, any flavor, undrained
1 clove garlic, minced or grated
1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste

METHOD:

Preheat an 8-inch skillet over medium-high heat for 1 to 2 minutes. Add the bacon and a little of the oil and cook, stirring, to brown the bits and render the fats.

Add the tomatoes and cook, stirring, until warmed through, then add the garlic, red pepper, and the rest of the oil. Simmer for another minute, then remove from the heat.

Season with salt and black pepper and cool before using. This will keep, tightly covered, in the refrigerator for up to 3 days.

Still more recipes on Page 3!

[sjw1253]

I find it interesting how people are taking a topic as simple as a "special meal" on a budget and take it to the politics. I wonder if those people are a bit OCDish about their politics.

This is not a meal for every day. Not everyone in America is overweight and there are clearly many people who need help with healthy nutritional needs.

I am much too underweight due to a rare disease. I need help in nourishing myself. I appreciate these recipes & cooking segments & shows very much.

The health benefits of olive oil are well proven and one dose not need to spend $40 to get the benefits from olive oil. The same for Balsalmic Vinegar.

I love the stuff and pay maybe ?$3/bottle at my local grocery store... The cheap stuff is great and I am sure it has its value in nutrition as well.

I just say - Lighten UP!!! - to those of you who are so synical and "sarcastic" about this segment. I love it and am glad to have the benefits of a "lighter side" of information.

Believe me runningralph - there are plenty of your type of stories plastered all over the news... Please realize that the programs are not focused strictly on you...

There are millions of people out here other than you with their wants & needs that matter just as much...

[runningralph]

Americans are too preoccupied with food. TV cooking shows, newspaper recipes, millions of cookbooks. Obesity is a national epidemic. The public would do better to devote that much attention on lowering the illegitimate birth rate, crime rate, drug addiction, fuel consumption, illegal immigration, Islamic jihad, etc. Food consumption should be looked as temptation to be controlled, not as a goal to seek.

[cyberus-2009]

(WARNING MASSIVE SARCASM ALERT)

$40 too much? No Way!!!

Heck I spend $8 a every morning on my oompa-soy-loompa-half-doompa-da-dee-uber-grande-latte and $20 at lunch for my wild caught salmon and organic baby green salad with 50yr old balsamic vinegar and hand pressed extra virgin olive oil dressing. $40 is NOTHING!

(Alert! You aresafe now .. the sarcasm storm has ended)

[denn034]

Most people budget say $500 for food which, works out to $16 a day. $40 a day would break average people. No one has extra money to splurge like that anymore, people. Liberals think that people have all this excess cash that can be taxed more which, is about as disconnected from reality as it gets. If anything, people need more money just to pay their current bills. It''s beyond amoral that the Democrats would even consider raising taxes or fees nationally, statewide, or locally. Period.

[denn034]

The words "a three-course meal for four on a budget of only $40" shows how disconnected the Media is from regular society. $40*30=$1200. Now, who here has a $1200 Grocery bill even with these high prices? Who here could even afford a $1200 Grocery bill? Come on now, CBS!

[prairiefox1]

Trim off the tough bottom of the spear by grasping each end and bending it gently until it snaps at its natural point of tenderness, usually two-thirds of the way down the spear. If the spear is less than six inches long, chances are it''s already been trimmed for you.
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SUCH A WASTE ! PEEL THE STALKS AND COOK THEM! THEY WILL BE TENDER AND YOU WILL GET MORE THAN THEY STATE!
I DO THIS ALL THE TIME! NEXT THEY WILL SAY THROW AWAY THE HEADS! REDICULAS!!!!

[prairiefox1]

I LOVE BARBECUED BEANS, BUT MOST OF THEM KEEP FALLING THROUGH THE GRILL!

[husein_pasha]

Because the grill will hurt more heavily when the bomb explodes, won`t it?

[husein_pasha]

Drink your pills and don`t give opinion when you are not asked

[husein_pasha]

Every day is dad`s day