Easy Pizza Pinwheel Recipe

Anything pizza related gets devoured in this house. I try to make some kind of pizza from scratch, once every two weeks or so. Tonight we had pizza pinwheels! Please please please do make the dough! It is so much more delicious this way!

Here's what you'll need:

3/4 c warm water

4 tsp yeast

1/3 c sugar

1 tsp salt

1/2 c shortening

1/2 c egg beaters (or 2 eggs)

4 c flour

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1 c sauce

2 3.5 oz jars of baby food (Optional- but don't skip your veggies! I used carrots and garden vegetables.)

1 c Shredded cheese (roughly)

How She Does It:

Put the yeast in warm water with sugar and allow to get bubbly (5 minutes). In a mixer with a paddle attachment, add salt, shortening, egg beaters, and 2 c flour and mix until incorporated. Add additional 2 c flour and mix well. Place dough in a warm place until it doubles in size (1 1/2hr). 

Preheat oven to 350F

Cut dough in half. Roll out to 1/4 inch thick. It should be about 12x16 inches or so. Mix the baby food and sauce and spread 1/2 onto the dough. Sprinkle with cheese. Roll the dough tightly into a long log. With a floured knife, cut 12 slices and arrange on a greased cookie sheet. 

Repeat with the other ball of dough. Bake for 18-24 minutes or until golden brown.  

Allow to cool and enjoy! 

I really love these because they are so versatile. You can serve them hot, room temp, or cold. You can make them with ham & cheese, sausage & cheese, or anything you like in the middle. Sneaky mommy snuck the veggies in today! 

And they were a huge hit! I hope you enjoy them as much as we do! -Jenn xo

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Old Fashioned Pancake Recipe

Mmmmm I love pancakes! Growing up, my dad made a big pancake breakfast twice a month. We would have eggs, sausage, and fluffy-crispyedged-yummy-pancakes. Naturally now that I have a family of my own, I'd like to make pancakes for them too. 

When my husband and I married, I knew it was time my dad would finally teach me his recipe. No such luck! Apparently it's a dad thing and since we didn't have kids and I wasn't a dude (still not a dude lol), I was doomed to never know his secret. Over the years I have tried many a recipe and they all seem to fall short, until now. Now my pancakes are not like my dad's but they are delicious :)

So here we go...

Old Fashioned Pancakes

1 1/2 C flour

1 tbs baking powder

1/4 C sugar

1 tsp salt

1/4 C oil +extra for griddle

2 eggs 

1 C milk

1/2 tsp vanilla

Combine dry ingredients and set aside.

Whisk wet ingredients and stir in dry.

Heat griddle to 350F and and brush with a small amount of oil. You can use cooking spray but you won't get those crispy edges that everyone fights over :).

Pour the batter and cook until top is bubbling and edges are golden. Then flip and cook an additional 2 minutes. 

I also make 2 inch mini cakes for the little ones in the house. 

This recipe is small-ish and only makes about 8 med-large pancakes. It can be doubled and sometimes I'll do that and freeze the leftovers for later in the week.

Mmmm I usually only make these once a month and we all looki for to pancake day :)

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Homemade Flour Tortilla Recipe

Today the hubby was jonesing for a quesadilla. We have been out of tortillas since Saturday and I wasn't eager to leave the house. Eric was all like, "babe, you could make them" and so my search began for a recipe. I ended up combining two recipes to create a small recipe for flour tortillas.

Delicious Flour Tortillas from Scratch

You'll need:

2 cups flour

1 Tbs shortening

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

3/4 cup hot water

Combine all ingredients but the water. Add in water and using the hook attachment on your mixer and allow to mix on medium speed for 3-5 minutes. Heat a dry cast iron skillet to med-high heat. Roll out 8 tortillas on a floured surface. Cook tortillas in dry pan for 20 seconds on each side. Place each completed tortilla between two damp towels. Lastly, try not to eat them all yourself.

Sorry about the messy photo, the hubby was chowing down before I got a good picture. Total cost for 8 tortillas: $0.14. Knowing that it's better than anything store bought, priceless. I love nap time!

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