Name: Smoked Venison Chops
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 30 min
Yield: 4-6 people
Ingredients: 4-6 boneless venison chops; 1 batch Semiconservative Granola Girl Rub

16 Uses for Everything Bagel Seasoning

October 21, 2020 by Jeanmarie

Have you every had an Everything Bagel? The person who decided to scrape up all the shake-off toppings from the other bagels and put them together was brilliant. The person who thought to jar it and sell it was even more brilliant. Literally, you can put it on everything to add a little bit of amazing seasoning without a lot of work. Here are 16 uses for everything bagel seasoning.

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The Seasoning

First let’s talk about the seasoning itself. It is usually sesame and poppy seeds with dried minced garlic and dried minced onions and most likely salt. From there, each brand varies a little. Some add other seeds or different proportions. You can buy it, but it is far more economical to make a big batch and store it in a mason jar with a shaker top. You can go here for our recipe which include mustard seeds for a little something zingy.

16 Uses for Everything Bagel Seasoning

Everything Bagel Seasoning @ Breakfast

One: Fried Eggs

Sprinkle it on you fried eggs right after you crack them into the pan. It will absorb just enough liquid by the time your egg is ready, so the garlic and onion will not be crunchy, but the result is delicious.

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Two: Hardboiled Eggs

Sprinkle it on hard boiled eggs and diced avocado. This one of my favorite quick Whole30 breakfast ideas. (See my post on 10 Whole30 Breakfast for more ideas).

Three: Whatcha’ Got Omelet

Add it to a Whatcha’ Got Omelet. This works especially well if you are using some leftovers that already has some Everything Seasoning on it.

Everything Bagel Seasoning @ Lunch

Four: Tuna or Egg Salad

Add it to your tuna salad. Or your egg salad. Chicken Salad. Turkey Salad. You get the idea. You do want to make this a little ahead since the minced garlic and onion will give a startling crunch if you eat it right away. Additionally, making it ahead also allows those garlic and onion flavors to meld with the mayo and protein for added deliciousness.

Five: Salad Topper

Sprinkle it on your salad. One of my favorite Whole30 lunches is to make some compliant tuna salad and then fill a one pint wide-mouth mason jar about half way with arugula and other veggies, add a layer of tuna salad and then top with some Everything Bagel Seasoning. There is no need for dressing just be sure to get some tuna and veggies in each bite. (For other great Whole30 Lunch ideas, check out this post.)

Side Dishes with Everything Bagel Seasoning

Six: Roasted Vegetables

Roasted or grilled vegetables are perfect with a little everything seasoning. My favorites are Roasted Everything Asparagus and Roasted Everything Mushrooms. Grilled veggies are just like roasted veggies, toss them in olive oil and everything season, add them to a grill

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Seven: Potatoes

Potatoes also love everything seasoning. Check out this recipe for Everything Roasted Potatoes. You can also sprinkle some of boiled potatoes served with butter to boost the flavor.

Eight: Mushrooms and Onions.

When we have steak, whether venison or beef, we like to have a side of mushrooms and onions cooked in lots of butter or ghee. Adding some Everything seasoning adds lots of flavor without a lot of extra effort.

Nine: Sauteed Zucchini

It’s almost zucchini season around here which means the zucchini will be present at meals regularly until fall. Slice zucchini and onion. Add olive oil, butter or bacon fat to a skillet over medium heat. Add onions, zucchini and everything seasoning to the pan and saute until it reaches your desired texture.

Everything Bagel Seasoning Main Courses

Ten: Everything Encrusted Venison Steaks

This was one of the first recipes I published here on the Semiconservative Granola Girl and it is a hit. I recently updated the recipe here.

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Eleven: Everything Venison Schnitzel

I wanted to make a Whole30 version of our Everything Encrusted Venison Steaks and Everything Venison Schnitzel was the outcome. These tender chops are a perfect.

Electric Smoker Smoked Tri-tip with Everything Dry Rub

Twelve: Smoked Meat

Everything Seasoning makes the perfect mild dry rub for any meat. We love it on Smoked Tri-tip, Smoked Pork Butt and Smoked Venison Chops.

Thirteen: Grilled Meat

Turns out that perfect dry rub for smoked meat is also perfect on grilled meat. Try it on venison, chicken, pork and beef.

Snacks with Everything Bagel Seasoning

Everything Bagel Smoked Cashews--a recipe for your electric smoker

Fourteen: Smoked Nuts

We love to smoke nuts in our electric smoker and one of our favorites is Smoked Everything Cashews. Check out the easy recipe here.

Fifteen: Everything Chex Mix

Who doesn’t love check mix. And how about some Everything Seasoning Chex mix. Check out our recipe here.

Sixteen: Everything Popcorn

We love popcorn. Homemade popcorn made with canola oil and our popcorn maker. (We have two different poppers one at home and one at the cabin: Westbend Stir Crazy). We don’t use the butter melters though because they are messy to clean up. So we melt our butter in the microwave. Add 1 tablespoon of everything seasoning to 1/4 cup melted butter. Then pour on your popcorn and toss.

Versatility of Everything Bagel Seasoning

I knew that we used Everything Bagel Seasoning for well, everything, but I had no idea we would have 16 Uses for Everything Bagel Seasoning when I started this post. I hope that you enjoy a few of these uses for everything bagel seasoning.

Everything Bagel Snack Mix

October 7, 2020 by Jeanmarie

There is just something about a snack mix like Chex mix that just makes you want to pour handful after handful into your mouth. Am I right? Of course, the regular stuff is great, but I recently noticed that we are using Everything Bagel Dry Rub on just about everything: meat, vegetables, potatoes. So why no make a everything bagel snack mix that brings those flavors together.

Everything Bagel Snack Mix combines everything we love about everything bagels with everything we love about Chex Mix. It's easy and homemade

About Snack Mix

I don’t know if you have ever made a Chex Mix before, but they are super easy: melt some butter, add some spices, toss them into a compilation of cereal and other bite sized snack foods. Bake, stir, bake and stir. That’s it.

In this version of Everything Bagel Snack Mix, we are not just melting butter and adding Everything Bagel Dry Rub, instead, we are using a combination of granulated (or powdered) garlic and onion along with sesame seeds and poppy seeds to get the best flavor.

We chose to use a combination of rice and corn cereal. To that we have added cheese snack crackers (like Goldfish), little pretzels (like Goldfish Pretzels or Snyders Itty Bitty Minis) and, of course, everything bagels chips. I broke the bagel chips one at a time to make them more bite sized. When I tried to break them all at once they ended up getting kind of crushed.

How to Make It

Preheat the over to 250ºF and prepare a baking sheet with a piece of parchment paper. Mix all of the dry ingredients in a large bowl.

In a glass measuring cup (for easy pouring) or a small bowl, melt butter. Add worcestershire sauce, granulated garlic, granulated onion, and the seeds.

Pour about half of the butter mixture over the cereal mix. Gently stir to coat. Be sure to carefully pull from the bottom. I like to use a big rubber scrapper for this. Add the rest of the butter mixture and continue to to gently stir to coat.

Spread the mix onto the prepared baking sheet. Sprinkle the mix with the Kosher salt. Toss a little more, if desire. Bake for 1 hour, stirring every 15 minutes. Cool and enjoy.

A note about when to add the seeds. I tried adding the seeds directly to the butter (as described here) and adding them after the mix was already on the baking sheet. In the end, the sesame seeds seem to fall off no matter what you do, although they do seem to stick a little better and longer if you add them to the butter.

Everything Bagel Snack Mix for the Win

I made this for several trips to the cabin this summer when we would have company and with each group it was a hit. My father-in-law even told me that he doesn’t like Chex Mix, but that he like this one. He could have just been being nice, but…..So we hope you enjoy.

For more ideas about how to use Everything Bagel Dry Rub (everything but the bagel seasoning), be sure to come back next week for our Everything Seasoning Round Up.

Everything Snack Mix

Garlicky, oniony Chex Mix with the addition of sesame seeds and poppy seeds.

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Prep Time 5

Course Snack

Cuisine American

Equipment

large mixing bowl
glass measuring cup
large spoon or rubber scrapper
baking sheet
parchment paper

Ingredients

4 cups rice cereal like Chex
4 cups corn cereal like Chex
2 cups plain or everything bagel chips
1 cup bite sized pretzels like Goldfish Pretzels or Snyders Itty Bitty Minis
2 cups cheese crackers like Goldfish Cheddar
½ cup melted butter
2 tablespoons worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon granulated garlic or garlic powder
½ teaspoon granulated onion or garlic powder
3 tablespoons sesame seeds
1 tablespoon poppy seeds
1 teaspoon coarse Kosher salt

Instructions

Preheat oven to 250°F. Prepare baking sheet with parchment paper.
In a large bowl, gently stir the cereal, bagel chips, pretzels and crackers to mix.
In a glass measuring cup, melt the butter, then add the rest of the ingredients, except the salt.
Gently add the melted butter mixture to the cereal mixture until cereal mixture in coated. Transfer to prepared baking sheet. Sprinkle with salt.
Bake 60 minutes, stirring every 15 minutes.

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Air-fryer Roasted Everything Mushrooms

September 23, 2020 by Jeanmarie

Summer is not the time to run the oven. We live in an old house with hot-water radiators, so the only way we’re getting air conditioning is those window models. And that means more often than not, we just kind of suffer. Fortunately, it really is cooler in the country, especially when you live on the top of a hill. But, my point is really that I don’t want to run the oven. But I do love roasted vegetables, but the great thing is if you have an air-fryer you don’t need to turn on the oven to make these Air-fryer Roasted Everything Mushrooms.

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Easy Air-fryer Roasted Everything Mushrooms

Start with 16-24 oz of whole mushrooms. We generally use the baby portobellos, but white mushrooms work too. Wash them. There are lots of theories about washing mushrooms, and I don’t know which one is right. I run them under some cool water and rub them with my fingers then lay them cap side down on a kitchen towel to dry a little.

Trim the hard ends of the stems. I cut them in half or quarters depending on size.

When I know that I am going to be roasting mushrooms, I like to look for small mushrooms, but sometimes they are just not available. I want Roasted Everything Mushrooms to be bite sized, so I cut them accordingly. I also want them all to be about the same size so them cook evenly.

Preheat the air-fryer to 400°F. Put the mushrooms in a bowl or zipper top bag to toss in olive oil, about 2 tablespoons. Then spoon the mushrooms into the basket of the air-fryer. Generously sprinkle Everything Bagel Seasoning on them. Set the timer for 7 minutes. Check for done. Add more time as necessary. Roasted mushrooms will be firm and juicy and delicious. The perfect weeknight gourmet side dish.

Sometimes we make our own Everything Bagel Seasoning and sometimes we buy it. Either way these mushrooms are yum.

Air-Fryer for the Win

When my husband got me the air-fryer a couple of years ago for Christmas, it was the gift I didn’t know I wanted. We probably use it 4-5 times a week. If you are on the fence about an air-fryer, I definitely recommend it. Air-fryers are great for weeknight sides that would take twice as long in the oven and they are perfect for those summer months when turning the oven on just seems like a mistake.

Air-fryer Roasted Everything Mushrooms are just the latest in our series of roasted everything seasoning sides. Be sure to check out our recipes for Everything Roasted Asparagus and Everything Roasted Potatoes.

PS. If you don’t have an air-fryer or you want to run the oven, you can make Everything Roasted Mushrooms in a conventional oven. You can bake them at 400° for about 30 minutes.