Best Gyro Meat Recipe by Bestselling Author Deborah Dolen

Best Gyro Meat Recipe by Bestselling Author Deborah Dolen

Gyros are great and even better with fresh sun ripened mushy tomatoes and sweet Vidalia onions as well as sliced cucumbers or lettuce. The cucumber yogurt dressing (known as Tzatziki sauce) [recipe link below] and grilled pita bread make it all happen. Many people get stuck on where to get Gyro Meat? Well, if you can find it - you can safely assume it is over priced. 33% ground lamb and the rest lean ground beef with garlic and other spices mixed in - and you have home made Gyro meat! You can mix this up, roll it flat and freeze it to almost frozen if you want to cut strips. Few recipes I have seen mention lemon and if you have ever had a gyro served to you - you can see them often spritz the gyro loaf on the rotisserie with lemon. That breaks up the fat a little and definitely compliments the flavor. This is an excerpt of my bestselling Beef Jerky recipe book. The eBook also has a recipe for making jerky Greek style in a dehydrator which is not a ground type recipe as this one is.
The simple Cucumber Yogurt Sauce Recipe is here:
http://deborahdolen.blogspot.com/2012/09/cucumber-yogurt-sauce-tzatziki-by.html
To make this you can also use a jerky gun if you happen to have one. A jerky gun looks like a cake decorating tool. You can quadriple this recipe and baste it on a rotisserie or just make it jerky style in a dehydrator. Mine gets made with the oven method. I make extra and freeze it for future entertaining.
Makes 1 to 2 pounds depending on cooking method
2 pounds lean ground meat
1 pound lean ground lamb
Combine the meat and knead these spices into it:
4 tablespoons Lemon Juice [This goes on at the end to baste]
1-2 tablespoons garlic powder
1 tablespoon thyme powder
1 tablespoon paprika
1 tablespoon onion powder
1 tablespoon salt
1/2 tablespoon oregano powder
1/2 tablespoon marjoram
1/2 tablespoon cumin powder
1/2 tablespoon black pepper
Mix all desired ingredients and press through a jerky making utensil such as “Jerky Works." The Jerky should be dried at 155 degrees and may take anywhere from 8-15 hours to dry. Absorb any excess fat on paper towels. This recipe does not store for long periods of time as non-ground beef recipes that can last for several months. If you do not have a jerky gun, you can also use the freeze and cut method used in the "Hamburger Jerky" recipe in this book.
Baste your Gyro meat with the lemon in the last hour of dehydration.
This is wonderful served with toasted pita and fresh sliced sweet onions, tomatoes, lettuce and Tzatziki sauce also known as Cucumber - Yogurt sauce. The simple recipe is in this book.
Oven method at 140 degrees could be 12 hours, but I am not really out to dry it so much, so 4 hours is fine for me.

Deborah Dolen
Retired from owning 520 legal clinics Deborah Dolen now spends her time writing DIY craft books, poems, DIY filming on location for Mabel White Home Living, and canine rescue. Deborah Dolen is a new advocate against cyber bullying which has become a huge issue in an "anonymous" world as few people know how to cope with a cyber smear. The law is quickly changing and few are "anonymous" anymore.

Deborah Dolen Creative Recipes

Cucumber Yogurt Sauce Tzatziki by Deborah Dolen

16 ounces plain yogurt (I use lowfat)
1 medium cucumber, peeled, seeded, and minced (I do not peel all of mine to have some pretty green coloration)
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons vinegar
6 fresh mint leaves, finely chopped [Optional becaue few people have this handy]
Process all of the above in a food processor and chill to serve later with any Greek style dish. I bump mine so it leaves chunks of green cucumber in there which adds to the texture and color. RELATED RECIPES: Best Beef Jerky Marinade Ever Beef Jerky Recipe Book on Kindle Beef Jerky Recipe Book on Nook Deborah Dolen on Pinterest Gyro Ground Meat Recipe

Deborah Dolen is a Bestselling author on
Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Her books are primarily DIY related. Most of Deborah's recipes are "pinned" on Pinterest so if you want to read more unique recipes check out her board Deborah Dolen Recipes. Follow Deborah Dolen on Twitter or her Facebook fan page. Many people tell Deborah they wrote a book or want to break into writing and ask for advise. Based on the sheer amount of interest, Deborah Dolen wrote a great 3 series article titled "How to Market Your Book or Product" which comes up number one in a Google search out of millions of people competing for those words! This also demonstrates she not only knows how to market a book, she knows how you can be number one!

Getting to Know Author Deborah Dolen

Author Deborah Dolen may be the busy writer of 29 books. Her work all seems to share a typical bond of dealing with natural elements, for example honey, beeswax to make lipbalm, bee pollen to generate healing salves, and easy-to-grow plants which can be exciting to cut and request the home.

Like, Deborah has discussed edible flower petals, and she provides methods for producing great salads and wowing your friends with sprinkles of bright orange marigold petals and purple impatiens petals. I like Deborah's assistance to decide on some crops developed just for producing fresh cut floral patterns to create in your home, plus a collection of herbs in making skin care products and medicinal syrups in planning a yard. Beyond adding flower petals in salads, you may also make floral petal extracts for skincare. Deborah Dolen covers most of these--and more--aspects in her books.

If you've actually the slightest interest in beekeeping, you may discover that after reading Deborah's guide, The Beekeeper's Digest, you will actually want to become a beekeeper and increase honeybees.

Deborah Dolen

Beekeeping has become more and more popular for backyard gardeners. As Deborah writes Within The Beekeeper's Digest, honey bees produce a great number of byproducts it's awesome! And you do not need to be a beekeeper to produce organic products using things produced by the bees. For instance, you can purchase bee pollen from a local beekeeper and create "bee pollen oil" by just washing the bee pollen in macadamia nut oil. Deborah writes that jojoba oil and macadamia nut is closest to our own skin chemistry, so she uses for making virtually all body care recipes, both of these oils, including even soap, cleaning creams, and top products. Infact, it was from Deborah Dolen I discovered soap is simply oil. Back to bee pollen fat, you just relax bee pollen in macadamia nut oil to get a week, and you should find that you suddenly possess a wonderful red oil full of micronutrients and very healing for your skin. Deborah says marigold petals can also be powerful to impress in case you'd like since marigold oil, also referred to as Calendula oil, is fantastic for anti-inflammatory flow and purposes. She recommends it if you have edema.

Another interesting point Inside The Beekeeper's Digest is that the origin of the hive is essential. Byproducts and the remotely the honey are created from a major city pollution the higher. There are always a lot of interesting beekeeping facts in the book of Deborah, and she's a wealth of recipes for products like lip balms and soothing products. You might never think about beeswax exactly the same way!

Aromatherapy is another matter dear for the heart of Deborah Dolen. Her focus on the topic helps you understand essential oils and what they are recognized to do, which is really a good matter if you would like to create your own skin care products, to analyze. Aromatherapy Basics is Deborah's book made to help you tlearn botanicals and nature work. &

Among the recipes along this point of Deborah is to get a rose very- butter burns. Another example is her bruise solution using blue chamomile. It could be a information if you would like to produce your own bath bombs and bath salts, as described in two other of her books, The Home Apothecary and The Bathroom Chemist. These publications give you a load of shower and body products to provide as gifts for Christmas or other holidays. The cost is extremely low compared to purchasing finished bodycare products, and you may trust the good quality of products you make yourself.

Deborah Dolen gives plenty of recipes for food items that make great gifts in her Kitchen Arts Collection in addition to making body and bath products for the coming holiday season. This book includes a variety of dry dip mix recipes and lots of "presents in a mason jar" recipes. To get a sample menu, check Deborahis.org site: http://www.deborahdolen.org/ out.

Best Of Deborah R Dolen

Like a fine wine, some oils get better with age! These include clove, rose, patchouli, sandalwood, spikenard, myrrh and vetivert enhance as they age, but others, notably the citrus oils, oxidize and can become toxic and irritating with age.

Vetivert, I've had for many years, has a magnificent deep sandalwood fragrance. At that time of this writing, Sandalwood is $1,500 a pound and Vetivert $100 a pound. Essential oils high in antioxidants, including black cumin and carrot --should also survive for many years. Fading is the only affect I've seen over many years. Some essential oils are less rugged than others. Lemon and clary sage seem to fade after a year, but tea tree, lavender, and clove seem to hang in for two or three.

Most important to the life span of essential oils is the quality you get and then you store it. Closely sealed dark glass bottles stored in a cool dark place. Metal bottles, I truly enjoy--do tend to corrode in after 3 years. I'm sent professional grade metal containers that are treated and do not do that. Glass is the vessel that is perfect as it will not absorb the oils. Plastic is not going to operate unless it's a non-petrochemical composition and there's one I like and used only for modest quantities. Essential oils when stored in totally topped up, tightly sealed, light impervious containers in a cool place 68 degrees Fahrenheit (under 20 degrees Centigrade), preferably under nitrogen, can survive from 6 months to 2 years.

Oils degrade - causing some to lose valuable properties and causing some parts to become sensitizers or irritants (particularly citrus & conifer oils) , so keep closed and out of direct light. It may be advisable to rebottle to smaller bottles as oil is utilized to minimize the headspace (thus minimizing contact with oxygen).

Bottles do not need to be colored or dark, that's more of a myth. What color is your bottle? Unfortunately many people have succumbed to the fear mongering and propaganda set forth by the makers of coloured glass when it comes to keeping essential oils. The amber glass makers will say that amber is greatest, the green glass makers will tell you that green is best, etc. The reality is that the majority of essential oils are inactive in the visible area and reactive in the ultraviolet (UV) region of the electromagnetic spectrum. Since UV light of high enough energy is absorbed (not transmitted) by normal glass, irrespective of color, it makes no difference if the oils are in brown, blue, green, purple or whatever color glass. Of course there are a couple of exceptions, like with the chamazulene featuring oils (blue chamomile, blue yarrow, blue tansy, etc.) that you would not need to keep in colorless bottles for long periods under heavy lighting conditions. This is because chamazulene has strong absorption in the OBSERVABLE area of the spectrum (consequently the intense dark blue color of these oils) and so it is not just UV light that may effect these oils and the lower energy visible light.

I know many folks will still believe they have to keep their oils in drab brown bottles, even after reading this, but I can let you know that based in the research I have done and renowned chemists I hang with, it makes no difference what colour the bottle is for most the oils. You can extend the life of your oils with ROE, Rosemary Oleoresin infusion--which isn't to be mistaken with Rosemary Essential Oil. ROE slows down the oxidation process dramatically, as well as a bit of Dendtritic salt. ROE is a dark green, syrupy looking fixing and may be used at under half a percentage (maximum) to your total. These days I like just adding dendritic salt and vitamin e. I am not still truly mad about ROE.

I store my more valuable essential oils in a wine cooler. Plus they could be on "display."

Excerpt How to Make Perfume and Aromatherapy Basics Copyright © Deborah Dolen 2011 This e-book is available in full version on Amazon Kindle and Barnes and Noble Nook. By Deborah Dolen AKA Mabel White

About Dean Deborah Dolen

Deborah Dolen is the Editor in Chief for Mabel White DIY and author of over 25 DIY books, 1,000 articles and several TV "how to" Films.  Deborah Dolen is also an environmental writer and has her own content syndication.  Deborah Dolen was widowed when she was on her 30's and went on to raise three great daughters in FL up against many obstacles.  This is the time period she generated her most fascinating DIY books.

Deborah Dolen was born in a Catholic Infant Home on Niagara Falls, the U.S. side.  It was known as Our Lady of Victory.  Deborah grew up in the Adirondack mountains in Upstate New York although moved around a lot and always in transition.  Her teenage years were more stable and thoroughbred race horses were her passion. She skipped school a lot in the 70's to walk and groom the likes of Man o' War and Secretariat.  When she was not grooming horses in Saratoga she was hitting the ski slopes of Killington in Vermont, Pikes Peak, or Gore Mountain to name a few.  To this day K-2's are her favorite skis and Head are her favorite bindings.

In her 20's  Deborah Dolen built some 520 legal clinics for the poor from the ground up and ran for 17 years.  People simply needed affordable legal access and that still has not changed much.  Having grown up poor and discriminated against-even disallowed to play with certain toys...Deborah had never been a quiet type and bucked many regimes as an adult.  In the 80's she felt almost all legal fees were oppressive to the majority for no reason and feels they still are.  Her organization helped well over 100,000 people.  Many of those were able to teach other people in turn.  As with health care, Canada does not charge its citizens for most common family law issues and Deborah feels family issues, including financial ones, should not be a feeding frenzy in the states as it still certainly is. No one should profit of the demise of another person.

Fast forward a few decades and Deborah Dolen is very much into flying and canine rescue as well as DIY projects she writes about and films from her Florida home.  Although her passions have always been with horse racing she is very into auto racing, focus and performance in Daytona and Charlotte, NC.  Deborah presently writes about environmental topics beyond DIY subjects that will always fascinate her.  Her dog Ringo, adopted from Katrina, is usually by her side.

You can join Deborah Dolen her on twitter facebook or check out her home page for RSS syndication.    See demos of her work on YouTube here and Amazon.