BTB Patty Melt

Do you love ordering a Patty Melt when you are out? We love Patty Melt's so much that we make them at home, and we season ours with The Dust. Choose great quality grass fed beef for your meal. Grilling is always best, but you can cook this on the stove top in a frying pan and still get an amazing burger.

Ingredients:

Ground Beef
The Dust
Swiss Cheese (or whatever you are in the mood for)
Sweet Onions (thinly sliced)
Fresh Sour Dough Bread
Big Tony Brown Sauce 
Non-stick spray

Directions:

First season your beef with a sprinkling of Dust. Depending on how many people you are serving, you will want to adjust the amount of Dust you use. If you have one pound of ground beef, a teaspoon should be enough. Blend the seasoning into the meat in a large bowl. Then make the patty's based on the size of burger you want. Put those aside for now.

If using a large skillet, spray the pan with non-stick spray and heat the skillet to medium.
Place your thinly sliced onions into the hot pan and saute until translucent or slightly caramelized. Stir periodically so they don't over cook. Once complete remove from pan onto dish and set aside.

Place your beef patties into the hot skillet (the one you just cooked the onions in) and turn up to medium/high heat. Let the patties cook for about 3 minutes and turn over, at 3 minutes the meat should have a nice golden char look. Let the other side cook for 3-4 minutes also. Less for more rare and more for more well-done. 

While the beef patties are cooking, it is time to toast your bread. Pop the sour dough slices into the toaster for nice golden toasty bread.

Place your toasted bread on the plate, add your sliced onions and cheese and place under the broiler for about a minute to get the cheese melty and heat up those onions. Take out of the oven, add your patty and the sauce of your choice. 

Eat up!

BTB Meat Pockets

Big Tony Brown is bringing you our own version of meat filled pastry pockets. You know there is nothing better than meat and bread. These are so easy to make and are a perfect edition to your finger foods that you can serve at your next Super Bowl party!

You will need (makes 8+ pockets):

• 2lbs of ground meat of your choice
• We used fresh ground pork sausage & ground turkey
• BTB Mild Dry Marinade 1/4 cup (divided)
• Packaged ready-to-bake biscuits
• Flour for rolling pin
• Rolling pin
• Clean cutting board
• BTB Sauce (your favorite)

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1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

2. Unwrap your ground sausage and blend a couple tablespoons into the sausage until it is evenly mixed and melted into the meat. Do the same (in a separate bowl) for any other ground meat you have chosen.

3. Heat a large skillet over medium heat and spray with non-stick spray. Add the sausage to the skillet and cook thoroughly. If you have a second meat, remove the sausage to a clean bowl and follow the same steps for the second meat. Add both meats back to the skillet and mix them thoroughly. 

Assembling the pockets:

1. Sprinkle some flour onto the cutting board and rolling pin to keep the biscuits from sticking.

2. Remove the biscuits from the package. Roll each biscuit out until flat and think. Should be oval shaped.

3. Drizzle your choice of sauce onto the thin dough and brush evenly.

4. Spoon a liberal amount of meat onto the dough, make sure you will still be able to seal it.

5. Fold half of the dough over itself and press the edges together to seal them completely.

6. Place each pocket on an un-greased cookie sheet. Bake (per the biscuit package directions) in the oven for 16-18 minutes on the center rack.

7. Remove from oven and serve with your favorite BTB sauce.