Monday, October 4, 2010
Deep Dish Pizza and Peach Pie
CRUST: 3 1/2 c. all purpose flour
1/4 c. cornmeal
1 pkg. (1/4 oz) quick-rise yeast
1/2 tsp. salt
1 1/2 tsp. sugar
1 c. water
1/3 c. olive oil
SAUCE: 6 c. shredded mozzarella cheese
1 can (28 oz) diced tomatoes; well drained
1 can (8 oz) tomato sauce
1 can (6 oz) tomato paste
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. each garlic powder, dried oregano, dried basil, and pepper.
In large mixing bowl, combine 1 1/2 c. flour, cornmeal, yeast, sugar, and salt. In a saucepan, heat water and oil to 120-130 degrees. Add to dry ingredients; beat just untilmoistened. Add remaining flour to form a stiff dough. Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 6-8 min. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease top. Cover and let rise in warm place until doubled, about 30 min. Punch dough down; divide in half. Roll each portion into an 11-in. circle. Press dough onto the bottom and up the sides of two greased 10-in. ovenproof skillets. Sprinkle each with 2 cups mozzarella cheese. In a bowl, combine the tomatoes, tomato sauce, tomato paste and seasonings. Spoon 1 1/2 c. over each pizza. Layer each with your choice of sausage, pepperoni, mushrooms, olives, etc. Top with 1 cup mozzarella and 2 Tbsp. parmesan cheese. Cover and bake at 450 degrees for 35 min. Uncover; bake 5 min longer or until lightly browned.
EASY PEACH PIE:
1 lg. peach jello 1 1/2 c. boiling water ; mix together.
Slice fresh peaches into jello (I usually use about 5)
Add 1 1/2 - 2 c. vanilla ice cream.
Stir until ice cream is melted then pour into graham cracker pie shell and chill until set.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Pasted this recipe from sisterscafe.blogspot.com
(This is a recipe intended to approximate that awesome chewy bread that they bring out at the Macaroni Grill. The kind you dip into the olive oil, balsamic vinegar and cracked garlic.)
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 1 cup oat flour
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/4 tsp. nutmeg
- 1/4 tsp. cinnamon
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 3/4 cup brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup nonfat milk
- 5 oz. Ghirardelli dark chocolate chips (or your favorite bittersweet chocolate chips)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a medium bowl, stir together flours, baking powder, salt, nutmeg and cinnamon. In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg, then the milk. Stir in the flour mixture. Stir in the chocolate chips. Drop by rounded teaspoons onto cookie sheets. Bake 12-14 minutes or until browned around the edges.
Makes 36 cookies.
Wheat Thins
In a medium bowl, whisk together:
3/4 cup whole wheat flour (whole white wheat flour is my personal preference)
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. baking soda
2 T. brown sugar
1 1/2 T. dry buttermilk powder*
2 T seeds (sesame seeds, poppy seeds, or a mixture of the two is good), optional
*although buttermilk powder is a somewhat unusual ingredient, it can be found in most grocery stores in the baking isle. I use it all the time in place of fresh buttermilk in recipes. It’s quite handy and has a long shelf life. If you’d rather use fresh buttermilk, leave out the powder and use 1/2 cup buttermilk in place of the water later.
“Now here’s the really cool thing you can do with this. You can mix up a whole bunch of batches of these crackers up to this point and bag them up in Ziplocs and put them in the freezer where they will sit just waiting for your next cracker emergency. I like to keep several cracker mixes in my freezer, labeled with the ingredients I need to add.” *Note from Crystal…I love it! She’s a woman after my own heart, making mixes to save time and make less of a mess and it makes the process so DO-ABLE!*
And those ingredients are:
1/2 cup water
3 T. oil or melted butter
Add these to the ingredients in your bowl (either freshly mixed, or dumped out of the bag from your freezer) This is olive oil I’m using here, but use whatever you have.
Stir together to make a soft dough. It will be very soft and sticky.
“Don’t over-mix the dough. It should be stirred just until the flour is all absorbed, and not kneaded at all. Once it’s all incorporated, cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let sit for about 10 minutes. This lets the whole wheat flour absorb all the liquid that it wants.
After you let it rest, divide the dough in half (eyeball it) and plop half of it on the bottom of a regular baking sheet that has been greased or sprayed well with Pam. You can also use a silicone liner, which is what I usually do, but for these pictures I showed just a plain old baking pan because not everyone has silicone liners. If you do have one, by all means, use it. If you do, you don’t need to grease it at all.”
“Once your blob is on the pan, cut a piece of saran wrap the size of your pan. Place the saran wrap over the dough and begin rolling with a rolling pin right over the saran wrap.”
“If your pans are kind of warped like mine, you may not get too far rolling with a rolling pin, but this is a really soft dough, and you can just press it and smooth it with your hands. This is where the silicon liners really come in handy– you can have the silicone liner flat on your counter, roll the dough and THEN put it on your warped pan to bake! But if you have just a pan to work with, smooth it out the best you can with your hands.”
“One half of the dough will cover the sheet pan entirely. It will be very thin. When you have it all smoothed out, remove the saran wrap. It will come right off.”
“We’re almost there! Now just the finishing touches. I use a pizza cutter to score the dough into cracker squares. You don’t have to cut all the way through the dough, but you can. Just don’t press too hard because I don’t want you to scratch your pan or damage your silpat because then you’ll be mad at me. Just lightly score so that you can break the crackers apart easily after they’re baked.”
“After you do several lines vertically, turn the pan to make some horizontal cuts. Finally, sprinkle the dough with a generous sprinkling of salt (table salt, sea salt, kosher salt, whatever you have), and you can sprinkle it with some extra seeds or whatever floats your boat. I used some extra sesame seeds here. You can get creative here with garlic salt, onion salt, etc.”
“There they are, all beautiful and ready for the oven. See how my edges aren’t straight, and some of the dough has oozed over the side of the pan? Doesn’t matter. People will eat them anyway. If you want to get really picky you can trim the edges with your pizza cutter, but why?”
“Oh, and don’t tell your 6-year-old daughter that pricking with a fork is not necessary. She thinks it’s an important job!” *Note from Crystal-YEAH, get you kids involved! They’ll love making their own crackers!*
“Now Bake at 350 for 14-15 minutes or until golden brown and crisp. They might be slightly soft right out of the oven, but they’ll most likely crisp up as they sit. If they don’t, you can always stick them back in the oven to crisp for a few minutes.”
“See, I couldn’t even get the picture taken before there were two crackers swiped from the bottom corner! The kids had these taken care of in no time. I was lucky to have some to take a picture of after they were broken apart into individual crackers. Here’s a really blurry picture for you!”
Monday, May 3, 2010
Yummy Spinach salad!!
Spinach leaves
1 1/3 cup sugar
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Zucchini Casserole
Zucchini Casserole
¼ c. chopped onion (add more if desired)
This recipe comes from a girl in my ward. It's really yummy, and I got some zucchini this weekend, so I am excited about dinner tonight. I didn't know if this would fill and satisfy since there is no meat, but the boys at my house loved it, and requested it again.
1 c. sour cream
1 pkg. Stove Top Dressing
6 c. thick sliced zucchini
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 c. shredded cheese
1 cube butter, melted
Cook onion and zucchini in boiling water for 5 min and then drain. Combine soup, sour cream, cheese, salt and pepper to taste. Add drained zucchini to the cheese mixture. Mix well. Combine stuffing mix w/ butter. Spread ½ in bottom of casserole dish; put zucchini mixture on top of stuffing then top w/ remaining stuffing. Bake 30 min. at 350 degrees.
Monday, February 8, 2010
Creamy Chicken Noodle Soup... so good.
Ingredients:
2 Tbsp. chicken soup base
6 cups canned chicken stock (broth
2 cups chopped carrots
2 cups chopped celery
3/4 cup chopped onion
2 cans (10 1/2 oz. each) cream of chicken soup
1/4 cup evaporated milk or 1/2 cup whole milk
Roux (equal amounts of flour and butter used to thicken). (I don't even use roux. It is thick enough without it.)
2 cups cooked diced chicken (sometimes I use a can of chicken)
2 1/2 oz. (about 4 cups) cooked noodles ( "Country Pasta, homemade style egg pasta" from Costco is good. It's like homemade.) or
I make my own, and it's pretty easy.
1 Tbsp. cold water
1 egg
Mix together and add about 1 cup of flour. Roll out on floured surface and cut into strips. Dry overnight, or just make sure and boil them good if you make them just before.
Heat chicken soup base (or bouillon cubes) and stock together. Add carrots, celery, and onion, and simmer until vegetables are tender. If noodles are not already cooked, I add them now as well.
Add cream of chicken soup and milk. Thicken with roux as desired, then add cooked chicken and noodles. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Makes about 2 1/2 quarts or 10 one cup servings.