Patrick's Seasoned Butter (For Corn-On-The-Cob)
"This is my invention to make corn-on-the-cob even better than it already is. Use this seasoned butter with either boiled, microwaved, or grilled corn. Once you make up a pound, just wrap it in aluminum foil and keep it in the fridge until you need it. This stuff really is good. I always put out both the regular butter and this butter and guess what they always grab for seconds once they try it? A good item to have ready for the backyard summer cookout."
- Ready In:
- 30mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Yields:
-
1 pound
- Serves:
- 40
ingredients
- 1 lb salted butter
- 1 teaspoon chili powder (chipotle-type)
- 1 teaspoon garlic salt
- 1 tablespoon Italian salad dressing mix, powder (from a packet)
- 1⁄2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 1⁄2 teaspoon mesquite powder (Durkee smokey)
directions
- Melt the pound of butter in a large glass bowl, using the "defrost" mode of the microwave. Before it is totally melted, remove it from the microwave.
- Pour in the seasonings and stir well with a fork.
- Using a bowl that is wider at the top than at the bottom, (for a mold) spray the bowl with Pam and pour in the seasoned butter.
- Place in freezer until solid again. Unmold when solid, wrap in aluminum foil and store in refrigerator until needed for use.
- Chipotle chili powder is smokey and can be ordered online if you can't find it locally.
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<p>I am a retired State Park Resort Manager/Ranger. <br /><br />Anyway, as to my years in the State Park System (retired now), I was responsible for 4 restaurants/dining rooms on my park and my boss at Central Headquarters said I should spend less time in my kitchens and more time tending to my park budget. I spent 25 years in those kitchens and worked with some really great chefs over those years, (and some really awful ones too!) <br /><br />I spent THOUSANDS of hours on every inch of that park and adjacent state forest (60,000 acres) and sometimes I miss it. But mostly I miss being in that big beautiful resort lodge kitchen. I miss my little marina restaurant down on the Ohio River too. I served the best Reuben Sandwich (my own recipe -- posted on 'Zaar as The Shawnee Marina Reuben Sandwich) in both the State of Ohio and the Commonwealth of Kentucky down there and sold it for $2.95. Best deal on the river! <br /><br />They (friends and neighbors) call my kitchen The Ospidillo Cafe. Don't ask me why because it takes about a case of beer, time-wise, to explain the name. Anyway, it's a small galley kitchen with a Mexican motif (until my wife catches me gone for a week or so), and it's a very BUSY kitchen as well. We cook at all hours of the day and night. You are as likely to see one of my neighbors munching down over here as you are my wife or daughter. I do a lot of recipe experimentation and development. It has become a really fun post-retirement hobby -- and, yes, I wash my own dishes. <br /><br />Also, I'm the Cincinnati Chili Emperor around here, or so they say. (Check out my Ospidillo Cafe Cincinnati Chili recipe). SKYLINE CHILI is one of my four favorite chilis, and the others include: Gold Star Chili, Empress Chili and, my VERY favorite, Dixie. All in and around Cincinnati. Great stuff for cheap and I make it at home too. <br /><br />I also collect menus and keep them in my kitchen -- I have about a hundred or so. People go through them and when they see something that they want, I make it the next day. That presents some real challenges! <br /><br />http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/parks/parks/shawnee.htm</p>