Breakfast with the Best

Sunday morning breakfast is almost a Given, right? Well it was this week. My friend Faith and I made a very...Interesting breakfast. It was fun though :)

We Made French Toast, Bacon, and Hash browns, Yum.
We mixed food coloring in the french toast, just to see what it did. I enjoyed it!



Blue!!




Purple!

Ewwwww, Troll Boggies!
Its Like Christmas!
C'Est Fini! <3

I really thought it was funny How I've never tried that before. I LOVE French Toast, and to not have made them colors, sounds crazy to me. It was a little harder to tell if they were done or not, but hey. I recommend If you do this, that you have a lot of eggs, cause you kinda waste some. Now, Onward!


Hash Browns!
Bacon!

Yum!

Ravioli

Hey! I Did it! I am really happy with my terrible ability to make homemade pasta, its lovely! I made Ravioli! Simple pasta recipe;
2 cups flour (plus 1/3 cup for the rolling board)
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 eggs
1/3 cup water
1 teaspoon salt

Mix wet, mix dry, then add wet to dry. Once it gets to thick, use your hands! I so love to put crushed up sweet basil in it, you would add that with the dry before adding it all together. I have this recipe memorized! I doubled it for the ravioli, and it gave decent sized, It could have made more if I would have placed the filling right, but for my first time it made enough to feed me my mom, dad, and brother. Not bad, but it is a bit of work.

For the filling;
mushrooms
spinach
mascarpone cheese

I just kind of eyeballed it...I mean, you need to like your filling, so just mix stuff up and check it out. I also put garlic and onions, just as some extra yum. Pulse it in a food processor, and roll out dough, each ball. Then spoon the filling, and take one egg (whisk it, to make an egg wash) Then wash the egg, and put the top dough over. Cut out the pieces, and with your thumb and index push the dough together. For extra hold, I used a fork and just tapped it around the sides for extra help. Drop them in a pot of boiling water, and wait for them to lift up to the top.

I put my Ravioli in a simple tomato sauce that we had from a few nights ago in the fridge from spaghetti. It worked perfect.






It was really yummy, and I was REALLY excited for it to do what it did. It was a lot of work, but I enjoyed it! I want to get one of those rolling cutters that are a bit wavy not straight. Then I can cut in squares! I think I'd like that better. And I need to work a bit faster...My second layer of dough started to harden by the time I had mixed the filling up and did the wash. So I'll remember to keep it under something that'll keep it nice and moist. Anyway, I'm excited for this recipe. It's perfect.

★★★★'s/5★'s
Why?Because I wanted them square and we didn't have what I needed to make them square, haha. that's the only beef with this.

Chicken Alfredo Pizza!

A continuation of the dough recipe.
After the dough rises, you cut it in half



For thick crust pizza take half, and roll it out to about 13-inches. It's nice an thick, but cooks well on a pizza slab. Remember; the slab needs to go in the oven before you pre-heat it, so it can heat with the oven as well!



Then we start our sauce! The sauce is a basic Alfredo, just thickened more with a rue. Well, it could be thicker with heavy cream, but we just had milk.

Sauce
freshly ground black pepper
4 tablespoons butter
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 teaspoon red pepper flakes
2 tablespoon all-purpose flour, plus more for work surface
2 cups skin milk
1/2 cup grated Parmesan
1 cup grape tomatoes, red and yellow
4 oz. cream cheese

Melt butter, and red pepper flakes, let melt over low-medium heat, then add flour:whisking like crazy. Then let simmer for about two minutes, add cream cheese, let melt a bit, then add milk. Turn heat to medium so the cream cheese melts. Then turn down really low so you don't cuddle the milk. Add minced garlic.


Pizza
2 boneless skinless chicken breast
The homemade dough
2 cups baby spinach, well washed and dried
1 cup grape tomatoes, red and yellow
1 cup grated mozzarella
Olive oil, for brushing crust

I cooked the chicken with some garlic herb seasoning on our indoor grill, let it sit while I made the sauce, and cut it right before putting it on the chicken so it was nice and juicy. After I cut that up, I did a rough chop on the spinach because I had whole spinach instead of baby spinach, then I constructed the pizza:

Add the sauce to dough, then sprinkle the chicken. After that you add the spinach. Then top with Mozzarella, then add the tomatoes.


Cook on a pizza slab for 20 minutes (Or less, its dependent on the dough size, and how your oven works)


Take out, and let cool for only a few minutes. Serve warm



Honestly, I never want pizza with frozen dough again. I loved this dough, and i think if i made it was a regular pan it wouldn't have worked. The pizza stone made the crust nice and crunchy on the outside, but on the inside, it was really soft and tasty! I recommend this recipe whole heartedly

★★★★★'s/5★'s
LOVED IT. Nothing needs to be changed.

Dough

Hello :)
So the whole posting blog every day, I'm totally sucking at. But good thing things blog is a once a week sort of thing! I am happy to report that I will most likely have to recipes this week, but I'll let you know more on that later. I got excited and made pizza dough today! And then I made some delicious Chicken Alfredo pizza, YUM! So, lets start with the dough first!

Fresh Pizza Dough

Ingredients:
-2 packages active dry yeast
-2 teaspoons sugar
-2 cups warm water (100 to 110 degrees F.)
-2 tablespoons kosher salt
-6 cups unbleached all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
-2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, plus extra for bowl

In a small bowl, combine the yeast, sugar


Add warm water and stir gently until dissolved


Let sit until foamy- About 5:10 Minutes


Transfer Yeast mixture into a big bowl


Add the salt! (Usually I don't use salt, but for baking purposes;Yes)


Gradually add the flour, and olive oil; when it gets to hard to mix with spoon, use your hands!






The texture should nice and smooth, if its to sticky add more flour, if it's crumbly add more water (Teaspoons at a time please! ) To test smoothness, use your thumb and index finger;squish! It should be smooth. I kneaded for ten minutes



Then set in bowl, and cover with damp towel. Let sit for one hour; or until it doubles in size. And voila!

Check out my next post for what I made with it :)

Pudding

So i didn't make the pudding, Obviously. But I have some words to say about pudding.

First of all, when you eat it, how can you not feel like a little kid? It's so yummy, and easy to eat, If you don't feel like a little kid while you eat it, shame on you.

Second, I love pudding. It can make so many other things, like pies. And parfaits, and ice treats, and just yummy goodness.

Third, it's major easy to make. I mean come on, the instant stuff is a piece of cake (which you can put pudding in to make it moist!) but even from scratch it's easie-peasie. Just takes more than ten minutes.

so go out and get some pudding, you wont regret it <3

Pasta!

So guess what? I actually did something! It was a few weeks ago, but I think that now that i'm really sticking to new years things, that I should stick back to this too. I mean I love to cook, and have been doing it exceedingly lately. It's a calmer-downer :]

Anyway!
This week I made fresh pasta. Did you know there is a difference between Pasta, and Noodles? I didn't! More Yolks in noodles I think. Anyway, I loved it, and can never go back to boxed pasta again! This week i made it, my dad was out of town so i decided to make a few batches, and also dry out a few batches. It was a ball both ways. The dried was in a container for a good week and a half before I cooked it, and it tasted just as delicious!

Homemade Pasta
2/1/3 cups all purpose flour
1 teaspoon dried basil (I used sweet dried basil, and AMAZING i have to say)
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 beaten eggs
1/3 cup water
1 teaspoon olive oil

1. In a large bowl stir the flour, salt and basil. Make a volcano (like when you make old school biscuits!). In a medium bowl, combine eggs water and oil. Add to flour mixture. I recommend using your hands! It's just more fun that way ;)
2.sprinkle needing surface with flour and knead dough until smooth, about eight minutes. (I sat a timer in front of me, and Jammed out ). Cover in bowl for ten minutes. At that point I cleaned up my mess. I'm a major messy cooker.
3.Divide dough into four equal parts, roll each dough into squares, and let sit out uncovered for twenty minutes. After that you can use a press, but I just used a rolling pin and went at it. roll it out, cut, and let stand. You can let it sit out and dry! I just put it in a container...

since I didn't really do pictures along the way, I only did some to show dad who was out of town what I did in the kitchen when he was gone. ha. But next time I'll try for the step by step way, Kay? :]









How yummy does this look, huh? <3


★★★★★'s/5★'s
It was pretty easy (Just time consuming) and FUN!
plus, it was the best tasting pasta ever.
LOVED it, and you should all try it.

I've forgot...

Really. I have.
I am going to start it though!