Home made pizza recipe.

This past weekend it was warmer on the planet Mars, then in Manitoba Canada where I live.  Cold weather makes me crave comfort foods, like soup and pizza.  Dough Ingredients:

• one cup water
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp honey
• 2 tbsp canola oil
• 2 cups whole wheat flour
• 2 tbsp wheat gluton plus enough whole wheat flour to make half a cup
• 2-1/4 tsp quick rise instant yeast (I use Fleischmann's)

Place dough ingredients in bread machine in order shown.  Make a well in the flour to put the yeast in.  Set bread machine to dough setting.  Mine makes dough in 1.5 hours.  This is enough dough for two 12 inch pizzas.

Grease pans with canola oil then sprinkle about a teaspoon on cornmeal on each pan.  Cut dough into two equal size pieces, shape, roll and form into pizza pans.

My son-in-law AJ used to work for a pizza place.  He said that they rise the dough in the pans for one hour before baking.  So I let the dough rise in the pan for half an hour.  I won't be doing that again, because both pizzas stuck to the pan and were very difficult to get out.

For thick topping pizzas, bake the pizza crust for 8 minutes at 400 degrees F° before adding favourite toppings.

Slice veggies and meat in food processor.  The big bowl of green food is fresh chopped spinach with about twenty fresh chopped basil leaves.

Spread about half a cup of tomato sauce on the pizza crusts.

 

Layer on sliced mushrooms.

 Sprinkle Italian seasoning on top the mushrooms.

Add red peppers, onions and meat.

This is summer sausage.

Photo above is the summer sausage one before adding the cheese.

Hmmmm... pepperoni veggie.

This time I used shredded pizza three cheese blend and some shredded mozzarella.  Other times, I have shredded mozzarella, Parmesan and cheddar cheese.  When making a greek pizza use greek seasoning instead of Italian, crumbled feta with the mozzarella cheese, fresh tomato slices, scramble fried ground beef and sliced black kalamata olives.

 

Sprinkle about 1/2 teaspoon per pizza of crushed red chili peppers on top of the cheese.

 Return to 400 degree F° oven and bake for ten minutes.

Bake an additional 2-5 minutes longer if you prefer your cheese browned.

Remove pizza pie from pan, turn onto large cutting board and slice. 

See how the pizza stuck to the pan...no more rising in pan.

  This honey whole wheat crust is absolutely delicious!

 These  pizzas were baked for 12 minutes after the toppings were added.

 Bon appétit!

Happy New Year!

 

A wee bundle of pure joy!  The best Christmas present ever!  Yesterday, Liam's mom and dad went on a movie date.  I got to babysit!  Yippee!

Shannon made him this diaper cake with the following ingredients: 

• 64 size 2 diapers
• wide ribbon
• elastics,
• two receiving blankets
• the handle grips are a pair of baby socks
• a baby bottle is the headlight
• stuffed poo bear
• three bibs 
• one fleece blanket for the seat.

 Happy new year all.

Welcome to the world Liam James - Congratulations Véronique & Scott

Our Katimavik daughter Véronique and her husband Scott have a son. 

Liam James 5lbs 6oz, 19 inches long.  He arrived four weeks early.  Mommy, daddy and bébé are all doing fantastic! 

 

 

 

My dearest friend Barb gets her grand-daughter every Wednesday.  About a month ago, I asked Scott and Véronique if I could have baby one day a week.  Scott says sure, in fact they will drop baby off on Friday evening and pick him up on Sunday when they come for Sunday night family dinner.  For obvious reasons, I vetoed that plan.
Yippee!!  A grandson.... ~dancing around the room with glee~

Secret Santa Presents arrived!! - Yippee

  I picked up the parcel yesterday.

A plain brown envelope from my Secret Santa.  Much to my delight there were four presents!  Not one or two.. count them.. four presents.  I must have been extra good this year.

 Looks like I got a Christmas card as well.  Cool.

A lovely Christmas ornament, this wee bag is full of quilting items has a heart with a bee on it that says "Quilting Bee".

Two very pretty pot holders,  I can always use more pot holders. 

 

 The white side is the front and red is the back.

 Front side of potholder number two.

 Back side.

 

A beautiful home sewn credit card holder/wallet complete with a gift card from Second Cup.

 Made in Germany - a fancy designer Christmas tissue pack. 

 These tissues look like fabric.  This will come in handy.

 

Thank you very much Secret Santa for all the great loot!  Merry Christmas to you and yours.

Polar Fleece Owl - sewing with children

We made stuffed owls this morning.

 This pattern is available free at Sew a Little Fabric's blog.

First, appliqué the black pupils onto the white eyes.  I put embroidery stabilizer behind the white eye ball to prevent the fabric from getting caught in the needle plate hole.  I used a small zig zag stitch with black thread.  After going around each pupil I stitched straight across it as well.

The white eyeballs were blanket stitched to the face.  The eyeballs could be set closer together, even touching would be fine.

 This owl has quilted wings cut from Christmas stocking scrap.

The wings were also blanket stitched in place using matching blue thread.

With right sides together straight stitch the front to the back of the owl,  leaving the space between the wings at the bottom open for turning and stuffing.

 Here is my owl all turned, stuffed and stitched.

 These owls are for the girls to sew.

 Each one is different.

 

Group shot of the happy stitchers.  It was a most excellent lesson.  Class dismissed. 
Happy stitching all.