Bubble Pizza

Ahhh....Nothing like a Friday night.....and Pizza.

My kids love pizza....I like pizza....but sometimes I don't feel like standing around a hot oven cooking pizza or spending money buying pizza.  This is where Bubble Pizza comes into play.

This meal is another simple recipe.  It is also a meal that can be made ahead of time {like earlier in the day}; which is what I did.

What to give it a try???  Here's the recipe:

Bubble Pizza

 Real simple ingredients:

2 Cans of Biscuit Dough {I happened to have these jumbo sized ones, but I think the best kind are the generic-because they're smaller}

Cheese

Pepporoni {or any other Pizza toppings}

Sauce {you can use pizza sauce, spaghetti sauce, whatever.  I used my tomotoe sauce I have mixed up.}

 In a greased 9 x 13 pan, lay out your biscuits.  Noticed how I was able to get 12 whole ones in this pan.  I then started cutting up the remainder of the biscuits and stuffing them in the holes.

 Spread your sauce all-over.

 Add your pizza toppings; in my case Pepporoni.

 Layer on some cheese.  I used cheddar cheese & then decided to sprinkle it with some parmesan cheese.

 Before I wrapped it up in foil, I decided to sprinkle it with some Basil.

Wrap the top with foil & either: A. put it in the fridge and let it sit; or B. heat the oven to 400 degrees and let it cook for 30 minutes; then take the top off and cook it for another 10 minutes.

 Ooohy, Goohy Cheesy goodness!

 Cut it up & Enjoy!

My kids give their approval  :)

Pasta Bake

Sometimes you just need to have a simple dinner.  The other night, I volunteered to take a dinner to a family; this meal is adaptable so you can double or triple it {think making extra and freezing to have an easy meal at another date}.

Pasta, sausage, cheese, and sauce; that's all you need to make this dinner.

Easy right??  You bet.  So here's the recipe:

Pasta Bake

First, cook up some sausage.

I used Jimmy Dean pork sausage that I had in the freezer; and since I was making two meals, I cooked up two rolls.  I liked this sausage alot because there was barely any grease.  While the sausage is cooking up, cook up some pasta.

I used penne, and probably used 1 to 2 lbs of it.  I know it's not very accurate, but I buy dry pasta in bulk, and sort of just guess at it, making sure there's enough to feed my family; therefore I doubled that thinking.

To the sausage, add your choice of spaghetti sauce; add just enough so it looks like this:

Enough sauce to cover everything, and a little bit extra for moisture when you add it to the pasta.

In a greased 9 x 13 dish, add pasta & sausage sauce. 

Then to that add, cheese......italian cheese, cheddar cheese, whatever kind cheese you want.  Add a little, add a lot....your choice, it's up to you.

Mix it all up.  You can then add another layer of cheese.

Bake @ 400 degrees for 30 minutes covered, and then another 10-15 minutes uncovered to crisp up the cheese.  Serve and Enjoy!

I wish I had a picture of the finished product, but....I just wasn't able to....Life huh :)

Rolls

Hello, My name is JeNae & I'm a carb-a-holic....

I *heart* bread.

French bread, sourdough bread, breadsticks, rolls, WW bread, the list can go on & on.

Hands down, I will always pick my Mom's rolls.  Her roll recipe is my favorite.  Yesterday I decided to make some rolls; I was taking a family some dinner and thought I should add some homebaked goodness.

Well, this recipe makes alot of rolls.  So instead of making dozens of rolls, I split it up making half rolls & the other half cinnamon rolls.  Those cinnamon rolls were sure delicious.  The rolls were fantastic as well.

The great thing about this recipe is the short time that it takes.  You could have one pan of rolls in under an hour.  Your kitchen will smell yummy.

Do you want to make some??  Here's the recipe:

Rolls

In your Mixer combine the following ingredients:

3 1/2 Cups of Warm Water

1 Cup of Oil

3/4 Cup Sugar

6 T Yeast

Let it sit for 15 minutes.  It should look like this:

Next, add:

3 Beaten Eggs

1 T Salt

4 Cups Whole Wheat Flour

Start Mixing

You are then going to add another 6-7 Cups of White Flour; or just enough flour so the dough clears the bowl.

  

Next, get some shortening

And grease up your hands.  It works.  You're going to take pieces of the dough {not to big} and roll them in your hand and place them on a cookie sheet {I got 15 to one sheet}.

Cover them and let them rise in a warm place for 15 minutes.  They should look like this:

In a 425 degree oven, bake the rolls for about 10 minutes; or until the tops are golden.

When you take them out of the oven, grab some butter,

And smear the tops of the rolls.

There you go...Yummy homemade rolls.

Enjoy!

{I posted this recipe over @ A Southern Fairytale}

Crunchie Munchies

My brother is stationed overseas.  He's missing homecooked meals & goodies from home.  I would love to be able to ship these yummy goodies over to Japan, but I don't think they would make the week-long trip; plus I think they would melt.  So, I adapted this family recipe {a dessert that tops my list} for him to make it only using a microwave {because that's all he's got}.

You can most certainly use your stove in melting the chips; or make it like I did.  I also halved the original recipe to fit my 8x8 pan-didn't want to have extra treats around {I am watching what I eat ;) }.

So here you go.......

Crunchie Munchies

{Printable Recipe}

6ozs Butterscotch Chips

1/2 C Peanut Butter

4 C Rice Krispies

6oz Chocolate Chips

2 T Butter

2 T Water

1/2 C Powdered Sugar

Put the Butterscotch chips & Peanut Butter in a microwave safe bowl.  Melt in the Microwave 30 seconds at a time {you don't want anything to burn}; stir after every 30 seconds.

Throw in the Rice Krispies

Mix until incorporated

Put half of the mixture into a greased 8x8 pan & chill.

Meanwhile, in another microwave safe bowl, add the chocolate chips, butter & water

Microwave for 20-30 seconds at a time; stirring everytime.

Stir in the powdered sugar.

I noticed that when I stirred the sugar in, I needed to nuke one more time for about 10 seconds.  You want to have the sugar incorporated into the chocolate.

Take your pan out of the refridgerator and spread the melted chocolate over top.

Add the rest of the Rice Krispies

Chill in the refridgerator again.

This is important because you want everything to set-up; you want to be able to cut into it and not have it fall apart.

This is what your finish product should look like:

Enjoy that yummy peanut-buttery chocolately goodness!

I linked this recipe here.

 
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