Recipes: January 2013

Week 4: Pizza Party ****1/2

Pizza Yeast and pre-measured flour

Rick cutting up his sausage

Amanda preparing her dough

Toppings

Cheese

Dough

Amanda's pizza before baking

Katie flipping her dough

More dough action

Steve concentrating

Sandy kneading her dough

Me mixing up some dough

It takes lots of intense concentration

STEVE

Katie's pizza

Katie and her pie

Sandy and her work of art

My dough

Rick making the most perfectly round pizza

Steve's masterpiece

Steve hanging loose with his pie

My dough formed evenly

Sandy's pizza after

Amanda toasting to our pizza party of friendship

I divided my dough in three pieces to segregate the different types

(L to R / T to B) Chicken Alfredo/Alfredo, Chicken Parmesan/Cheese, Buffalo Chicken/Buffalo Cheese

Clean up of the great sauce disaster of 2013

My completed pizzas

This week was a joint cooking adventure by Rick, me and some of our bestest friends. We all brought ingredients and had a pizza making party while watching the Blues game. Good times. I give this meal 4 1/2 stars shining bright. Everything was delicious and turned out great! I would give it 5 stars if it wasn't for the high caloric content of the meal and my overindulgence of candy for dessert, but that is on me and has nothing to do with the innocent pizza.

Week 3: Time to Eat ***

Table set

Dinner is ready and Rick is starving

My plates

The inside of my lasagna roll up.

I am giving this meal 3 out of 5 stars. The parmesan garlic knots couldn't have been better! The topping was delicious and using the flaky biscuit dough worked perfectly. The lasagna roll ups were quite dry, even though we used extra sauce. The cheese filling was not quite enough to make them cheesy enough and the areas of noodle that were not covered in sauce dried and hardened when baked. If I were to make this recipe again, I would use more stuffing in the noodles and more sauce. However, they were already high in calories and fat as it was so this would not be a very healthy recipe. As for the glazed muffins, the tops were good. I wouldn't compare them to old fashioned donuts as the recipe review stated but they were not horrible. I probably won't make this a repeat recipe.