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Back to School Week – Totem Poles

Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:00:31 +0000

Brady is not a huge fan of the bread on the sangies.

I’d make them for him but he always just strips off the meat and eats it plain.

He loves roll ups so I came up with a new way to serve him lunch…

Voila, the Totem Pole…

WHAT YOU NEED:

8 slices deli turkey

8 slices deli ham or salami

12 1 inch cubes cheese (any variety)

8 whole yellow cherry tomatoes

1 apple cubed

4 chopsticks

WHAT TO DO:

Lay out your turkey and ham in two piles on a cutting board. Cut each pile into 4 even long slices. Lay out the rest of your ingredients around your cutting board so you can build your totem poles in a little assembly line. You have 1 set of strips of turkey and ham to work with for each totem pole.

Take your first chopstick and push a tomato down over one end. Slide it all the way down leaving about 1 ½ inches from the bottom. Then slide down an apple followed by a piece of cheese. Take the first set of turkey strips, roll them into a pinwheel shape and push the chopstick through the meat. Then add another apple, a piece of cheese, etc. Do the same pinwheel process with the first set of ham and add it to the chopstick followed by a piece of cheese, apple, and finally top it off with a tomato. Repeat process for other totem poles.

Serve these with veggie chips or some couscous cooked up quick with chicken stock…Yummy!

Noteworthy Nugget: You can get creative with these totem poles and give them faces by adding peppercorns for eyes or even using condiments like mustard to draw on faces. Your kids will get a huge kick out of them.

Hawaiian Pizza – One Arm Wonder

Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:00:20 +0000

Hawaiian Pizza

Serves 6 Prep time: 10 minutes Cook time: 10 minutes

1 store bought pizza crust
1/2 cup pizza sauce
1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
1/2 cup diced ham
1 can cubed pineapple

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. Remove pizza crust from wrapper and place on a baking sheet. Cover with pizza sauce leaving a one inch border around the sides. Sprinkle with cheese then top with diced ham and pineapple. Cook at 425 for 8-10 minutes. Slice with pizza cutter and enjoy with salad!

Hawaiian Pizza

Alex aka Ma, What's For Dinner — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:00:03 +0000

Serves: 6 Prep Time: 6 minutes Cook time: 18 minutes

1 store bought refrigerated pizza dough

1/2 cup pizza sauce

2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese

1/2 can pineapple chunks

1 package diced ham

1 jalapeno seeded and sliced (optional)

Preheat your oven to 400 degrees (or whatever you dough tells you to).

On a large baking sheet stretch out your dough to fit. Pour on your sauce and spread it around with a spoon leaving a 1 inch rim on each side without sauce, that is your crust. You can use more sauce if you like, my family likes light on the sauce.

Sprinkle the sauce with plenty of cheese, reserving just a bit to the side to put on top of the toppings. Next arrange your ham and pineapple as you like. Let the kids do this! They have a blast. I put sliced jalapeno on my half of the pizza because the rest of my family are a bunch of wusses when it come to the super spicy stuff. Top with a bit more cheese and bake for 17 minutes or until golden brown.

Pull it out of the oven and serve it up with a big salad. Game on! Enjoy!