Sunday, January 12, 2014

The softest, fluffiest, best tasting Pizza dough ever!

Before Christmas I wanted to have a pizza/movie night for Lucy and her cousins. I'm hoping to make this a yearly tradition as we had a great time. We made a snowman pizza had snowman cookies, and watched "The Polar Express."

http://www.deliacreates.com/2011/01/snowman-pizza-and-dough-recipe.html


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 The pizza was the biggest hit. I've never been a fan of thick crust pizza, but this recipe blew my mind! I followed it the longer way, by using a mixer and letting it rise. I felt it offered the best results. I also just used regular flour where it called for bread flour, but I'd like to try bread flour next time. Also as far as the toppings, I would double the ranch dressing and double the cheese next time, but I also want to try it with regular toppings. Mine got cooked a little bit too long, so keep your eye on it. This crust is definitely going to be my staple pizza recipe from now on!!

Kahlua Pulled Pork


This recipe is so easy and quite amazing from what I've heard. I put it in the crockpot in the morning and by the evening I was admitted to the hospital for emergency surgery so I never got to try it, but my family raved about it and it was gone in 2 days.

4lb pork butt roast
1 tbsp liquid smoke
1 tbsp Red Sea salt
1 tbsp White Sea salt
1 head green cabbage

1. Place roast in crockpot and poke several holes in it with a knife. Drizzle the liquid smoke over roast. Then rub both salts onto the meat. Cover and cook on high for 6-7 hours, or low for about 11 hours. 
2. Chop up the cabbage. Remove roast from pot and shred. Place chopped cabbage in bottom of pot and mix with juices. Add the shredded roast on top of cabbage. Pour a cup of water over and cook on high for 1 hour.

Enjoy! I can't eat meat for awhile so I asked my family to freeze a serving size of this for me when I could. Can't wait!