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Quick and Easy Dinner – Baby Pizza Pies

October 21, 2011 By Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner 4 Comments

Ok, so this was a direct result of watching too much TV.

The boys and I were lounging around last weekend and we caught a Pillsbury biscuit commercial.

They made little pizzas out of the biscuit dough.

dinner Quick and Easy Dinner Baby Pizza Pies

We were all over it!

Now we’ve taken our biscuit dough and turned them into

Upside Down PIzza

Always a crowd pleaser…

But they were all over this new idea they saw on the commerical.

When hockey practice runs late and there’s still homework to do…

This is a great and quick go-to!

Baby Pizza Pies

WHAT YOU NEED:

1 tube Pillsbury refrigerated pizza dough

1/2 cup spaghetti sauce

1 cup grated mozzarella cheese

dinner Quick and Easy Dinner Baby Pizza Pies

WHAT TO DO:

Preaheat your oven to 350 degrees.

Break open your biscuit tube and separate the biscuits.

Pat out each one a bit to flatten out and spread evenly on a baking sheet.

Top each pizza with a spoonful of spaghetti sauce and a handful of shredded cheese.

Bake at 350 for 15 minutes.

Dinner is served.

dinner Quick and Easy Dinner Baby Pizza Pies

With applesauce in this case.

On paper plates!

Totally WTing it this evening…

I told you hockey practice ran late!

 

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Apple Week – Dutch Babies with warm apples

October 7, 2011 By Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner 5 Comments

So you all know how much we looooove our pancakes around here.

We have them pretty much…

Every.

Single.

Weekend.

But sometimes you want to switch up your pancake just a bit.

Enter the Dutch Babies!

baking with kids Apple Week Dutch Babies with warm apples

Want to know the boys favorite part?

They each get their own little ramekin made special just for them!

WHAT YOU NEED:

4 T butter

4 eggs

1 c. milk

1 c. flour

¼ sugar

1 t. vanilla

for the apple topping:

2 granny smith apple, peeled, cored, and sliced

1 t butter

1/4 t salt

1/4 t cinammon

1 T sugar

WHAT TO DO:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Combine eggs, milk, flour, sugar and vanilla in a large bowl and whisk well.

Melt butter in a skillet over medium heat.

When butter has melted pour equally into small ramekins and swish butter around in the bottom of each to coat.  (If you don’t have ramekins just batter into skillet then transfer into oven.)  Place ramekins on a baking sheet and put into the oven.

Bake for 25 minutes.  Sides will be golden brown and puffy.

baking with kids Apple Week Dutch Babies with warm apples

Meanwhile melt remaining butter over medium high heat.  Toss in apples, sugar, salt and cinammon.  Allow to cook until apples are nice and soft and caramelized.

baking with kids Apple Week Dutch Babies with warm apples

Remove dutch babies from oven and serve immediately.  Top with powdered sugar and apples.

 

 

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Salad Week – Pesto Pasta Salad

August 24, 2011 By Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner 4 Comments

This is one of our favorite recipes.

You can make it quickly by taking some help from the store…

In other words,

Pick up a container of pesto sauce and a rotisserie chicken.

Or make ‘em from scratch…

That’s how we roll, yo…

dinner Salad Week Pesto Pasta Salad

Pesto Pasta Salad

WHAT YOU NEED:

1/3 cup toasted pine nuts

6 cloves of garlic, divided

4 cups fresh basil leaves

1 1/2 cups extra virgin olive oil, plus 1 T divided

1 T fresh lemon juice

1 cup parmesan cheese

S&P

1 box whole wheat rotini or ziti

1 cups cooked chicken, diced

1 large zucchini, diced

1 yellow squash, diced

1/2 cup yellow green beans

WHAT TO DO:

Bring a large pot of water to boil.  Season with salt when boiling and cook pasta until al dente.

Meanwhile in the bowl of a food processor combine toasted pine nuts and garlic.  Pulse quickly, about 10-15 seconds.  Next add in basil and a pinch of S&P.

Turn the food processor on and allow basil to be chopped.  Next stream in olive oil, slowly, until well combined.  Add in lemon juice.  Pulse it again and add in parmesan cheese.  Once it is all combined set aside until your pasta is done.

2 minutes before pasta will be finished toss in your yellow green beans.  Drain, reserving 1 cup of pasta water (I always save a cup of water in case my sauce needs to be thinned out a bit.)

In a separate skillet heat the remaining tablespoon olive oil over high heat.  Chop remaining garlic clove and add it to the oil.  Just before the garlic begins to brown add in your zucchini and squash.  Cook for about 5 minutes, until it begins to soften up.

dinner Salad Week Pesto Pasta Salad

In a large bowl, pour half of your pesto sauce.  Pour pasta and veggies on top of the sauce.  Top with chicken.  Pour remaining sauce on top and mix well.  Season with S&P if necessary.

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Blueberry scones with blueberry butter

July 29, 2011 By Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner 10 Comments

I love fresh scones.

But I’m not a baker…

So I rarely make them.

But this is a relatively easy recipe to get yummy scones on the table on a weekend morning.

baking with kids Blueberry scones with blueberry butter

WHAT YOU NEED:

2 cups all purpose flour

1 T baking powder

1 t salt

1/3 cup sugar

1/3 cup unsalted butter, very cold, cut into chunks

3/4 cup cream

1 egg

1 pint blueberries (locally grown)

2 T sugar in the raw

WHAT TO DO:

Preheat your oven to 400 degrees.

In your food processor bowl combine flour, baking powder, salt and sugar.  Pulse quickly to combine.  Add cold butter and pulse quickly to cut butter in until it looks like coarse sand.

In a separate large bowl combine cream and egg.  Mix well.  Pour off just a bit into a small bowl then pour the flour mixture in.  Stir a bit just to combine.  Fold in your blueberries very gently being careful not to burst them.

Now comes the creative part…

You can turn out your dough and form into a large square or circle and cut them into traditional triangles or you can do what I do and just drop them into circles on an ungreased cookie sheet.

Using a pastry brush, brush the tops of the scones with the reserved cream/egg mixture and sprinkle with raw sugar.

Bake at 400 degrees for 15-20 minutes.

Serve with Blueberry Butter.

 

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Grilled pork chops with grilled pineapple and blueberry sauce

July 27, 2011 By Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner 12 Comments

Blueberry week rolls on!

We grilled up some yummy pork chops…

Then topped them with a delicious grilled pineapple and blueberry sauce.

Amazing!

dinner Grilled pork chops with grilled pineapple and blueberry sauce

WHAT YOU NEED:

Grilled pork chops (we marinated ours in teriyaki sauce and grilled them for 10 minutes)

1/2 pineapple, cubed and grilled with pork chops

1 T butter

2 cups blueberries (organic and locally grown if possible)

1/4 cup white wine

1/4 cup maple syrup

3 T brown mustard

S&P

WHAT TO DO:

In a medium sauce pan heat the butter over medium high heat.  Toss in blueberries and grilled pineapple.  Let the blueberries heat up and start to burst.

Once the blueberries have cooked for about 4-5 minutes add in white wine and allow alcohol to burn off.  Pour in syrup and let cook for another 5 minutes.

Stir in mustard and season with S&P.

dinner Grilled pork chops with grilled pineapple and blueberry sauce

Allow sauce to simmer until pork chops are cooked and have rested for at least 10 minutes.

Pour sauce over pork chops and enjoy!

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Boozy Bluesy Blueberry Cobbler

July 25, 2011 By Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner 12 Comments

Happy Blueberry Month!

We love us some blueberry desserts!

baking with kids Boozy Bluesy Blueberry Cobbler

And cobbler is one of our faves.

Have you tried this new Jack Daniels honey liquor?

baking with kids Boozy Bluesy Blueberry Cobbler

It’s amazing!

Spice up your cobbler with it and you’ll be tickled!

Boozy Bluesy Blueberry Cobbler

WHAT YOU NEED:

6 cups fresh local blueberries

2 sticks  unsalted butter, divided

1 c sugar, divided

2 T corn starch

1 T lemon juice

1 t ground cinnamon

1/2 cup Jack Daniels Tennessee Honey (honey liquor)

¾ t salt, divided

1 ½ c all purpose flour

2 T baking powder

¾ c heavy cream

1 whole egg

1 T water

2 T sugar in the raw

WHAT TO DO:

Preheat your oven to 375 degrees.

In a large pot melt 4 T butter.  Cut remaining butter into cubes and place in freezer.

Add blueberries and ½ cup sugar to the melted butter.  Stir in corn starch, lemon juice, cinnamon, ¼ t salt, and Jack Daniels Tennessee Honey.  Mix well.  Cook for a few minutes to allow the alcohol to burn off then turn off heat.

In your food processor sift in flour, remaining sugar, baking powder, and remaining salt.  Pulse quickly to combine.

Add in butter from the freezer and pulse until the flour mixture looks like sand.

Pour in cream and pulse again quickly just until the dough comes together and is slightly sticky.

Beat your egg in a small bowl and add water.  Set aside.

Pour your fruit mixture into a 9×13 baking dish. (You can also make this in a cast iron skillet or in individual gratin dishes for individual cobblers.)

Drop the dough by spoonfuls onto the fruit mixture, spread it out as it will all cook together in the oven.  Brush the top of the batter with egg wash then sprinkle on sugar.

baking with kids Boozy Bluesy Blueberry Cobbler

Place the pan on a baking sheet to catch “bubble over” and bake at 375 for 45 minutes or until golden brown.  Serve with ice cream or whip cream.

 

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