Showing posts with label recipes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recipes. Show all posts

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Homemade Pizza

I have been wanting to make homemade pizza for awhile now, but was too scared to try it due to the fact I have never made any type of homemade bread before so I had no idea if I could do it or not. Through a cooking/baking blog I read, I found a recipe for a simple crust that was supposed to be amazing. I found a simple sauce recipe from the same blog, so I decided to give it a try last Friday when I had the whole day free to mess with it.

I am happy to report my pizza turned out fantastic!! I absolutely LOVED it, and Tony compared it to pizza from New York Pizzaria. The dough was light and airy with a great homemade bread taste, and sauce was light with just the right mix of seasoning and tomato. Both recipes made enough for 2 pizzas so I actually made both this time so we could have cold pizza the next day. However, this is good to know because the dough is easy to make and freeze. I'll probably start keeping a batch in the freezer so I can throw together a pizza at a moments notice when needed.

I wish I had taken more pictures while I was making this, or even some good ones after I was done, but since it was my first time making pizza it took awhile to figure out the tricks like how to transfer the dough to the pizza stone haha. By the time they were ready we were starving so I snapped a few quick pics and we gobbled it up. yum yum yum!


In case you are interested in trying it, The crust recipe can be found here: Annie's Eats Perfect Pizza Crust, and I used the sauce recipe found here: Annie's Eats Pizza Sauce

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Chicken Enchilada Soup

Yesterday I made a really yummy chicken enchilada soup in the crock pot. I LOVE crock pot recipes because they require no effort, and dinner is ready by the time I get home from work. Usually I cook for T and I, but I wasn't sure this was something he would like (he's sort of picky), so I had been holding off making it for awhile. Yesterday he was going to be out for dinner so I figured it was the perfect time to try it. It was so yummy! It tasted very similar to McAlisters Chicken Tortilla soup, which if you know me at all, you know I love! When T came home I made him try a bite to see if in the future he would eat it if I made it again, and to my surprise he loved it too and ended up eating a bowl as a late night snack :) I will definitely make it again! :) yum! If you like this type of soup, you should totally try this

Recipe can be found here