Twisted Recipe #5 Pretzel Pizza!

Okay, so I don't know about anybody else, but I was for one, super excited about Little Caesar's new Pretzel Pizza...and then Horribly disappointed that it tasted like poo. 
Solution, make my own damn pretzel pizza! 

What you'll need:

• 1 1/2 cup of hot water
• 1 tbs of sugar
• 2 tsp of salt
• 1 packet of yeast 
• 4 1/2 cups of flower
• 10 cups of water
• 2/3 cups baking soda
• 3 egg yokes
• Another tbs of water
• Pizza toppings!

1. Combine in a mixing bowl:

• 1 1/2 cup of hot water
• 1 tbs of sugar
• 2 tsp of salt
• 1 packet of yeast 

Wait for it to get all foamy

• 4 1/2 cups of flower

And mix, kneed, and let sit for 55 minutes 

2. Make dough into whatever pizza/ calzone-type shape you want.

I suck at dough business, so what I got was an odd oblong of a whatever...

3. In a large pan (as wide as possible) bring to a boil, 10 cups of water and 2/3 cups baking soda.

4. Dip the dough into the water. 

I held mine out like a sheet and just slid it over the top of the water from end to end on both sides...it was not easy. When I do this again, I'll have to try something else maybe. I can't take a picture and dip funky shaped down into a pan at the same time, but look, it's wet now... 

5. Fill or top your pizza with whatever you like! Clella and I stuck with pepperoni, marinara, olives and mozzarella

6. Mix 3 egg yokes with 1 tbs of water and brush it over the exposed dough.

Because my funky shaped dough was too long for a backing sheet I flipped it over and made a calzone!...only just now realizing I could have simply made two pizzas... and of course my little daughter, Morrighan, had to have her own little pizza on the side.

7. You can add the traditional pretzel salt to the exposed dough. I added Italian seasonings and cheese... 

8. Bake for 12-14 minute at 450 degrees and done!

Mine looks funny but it tasted Amazeballs! Very filling, this pizza.

Happy Eating! 

Twisted Recipe #4 Pumpkin Balls!

I LOVE pumpkins! Have I said that before? I say it so often I feel it may be my motto. The Starks have, "Winter is Coming." The Lannisters have, " A Lannister Always Pays His Debts." And I have, "I love Pumpkins!" 

And not just their flavor (though, that may be more spice then vegetation...) I do so love the look of them. I've often thought of growing my own pumpkin patch...Sadly I have a rather black thumb in all things that grow from the ground. 

In any case, I charged myself with throwing a Halloween party this year. Part a celebration of candy and costumes and part a celebration of my best friends recent nuptials. 

Clella made cupcakes with bats and ghost, and I made potato salad, cutting olives into spiders (CREEPY) I also made Pumpkin Balls...Rice Crispy Treats that look like Pumpkins. 

Ingredients:

• 1 Stick of Butter
• 1 Bag of Marsh-mellows
• 1 Bag of Rice Crispy Cereal
• A TBS of Orange Food Coloring
• 1 Bag of Mini Reese's Cups 
• Cooking Oil

Rice Crispy Treats are ridiculously easy to make for how  num num they are. 

1.Melt butter in Pan with food coloring

2.Toss in all Marsh-mellows and stir until creamy 

3.Toss in all Rice Crispies and stir until all cereal is coated

4. Let it sit and cool down a small bit while you put on latex gloves and coat your hands with cooking oil. Then make very compact balls. 

See my balls

5. Then you will want to warm a plate in the microwave. Once it's good and hot set your Mini Reese's on it to melt their bottoms a bit. 

6. Put those Reese's on those balls and done! ...But, you'll want to let them chill for a good hour or they'll just fall apart as you eat them. 

See, so damn easy and so damn YUM!

And now, look at the centerpiece I made for the party. 

That's a Styrofoam Pumpkin, pained with glue and smothered in black glitter, and than violated with many feathers. Cute. huh?