Grilled Pizza with our favorite Semolina Pizza Dough Summer vacation... we've been waiting for weeks, literally counting down the days while eagerly awaiting it's arrival. A time of leisurely mornings, no schedules and ultimately comments of "I'm bored... what should I do?" Well, Mommy to the rescue! With her family out of town, Liv's friend Celeste spent a few days with us as we began this year's summer school holiday. For years I've been "baking" our pizzas on our outside grill. !) Once topped, a simple flick of the wrist will slide your dressed pizza back onto the grill for the final cooking. Semolina Pizza DoughPrinter Friendly Recipe 2 tsp active dry yeast2 1/2 cups bread flour (or all purpose flour)3/4 cup semolina flour1 1/4 cup warm water2 Tbs olive oil1 1/2 tsp sea salt1/2 tsp Italian Seasoning (optional) Place all ingredients into your bread machine as directed. Place rolled dough directly onto clean and oiled grill grates. Remove from grill using your handy pizza peel (or cookie sheet!)
eat make readCategory: best of 2008 This was originally posted on June 30, 2008. Simple and delicious. This recipe is laced with cinnamon and topped with fresh blueberries. Awesome! When I was stuck in airports a few weeks ago, I ended up buying more than my share of magazines. One of them, O magazine, had a whole article about blueberries and tasty recipes to make with them. This weekend I picked up a pint of blueberries at the market eager to get started on my unconventional focaccia recipe. When I pulled the bread out of the oven it was a beautiful sight. Blueberry Focaccia from O magazine I cut my recipe in half and it worked out well. 1 package (1/4 ounce) active dry yeast 2 1/4 cups warm water 6 cups all-purpose flour 1 cup light brown sugar 1 tsp. salt 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon 1 large egg 6 Tbsp. unsalted butter, room temperature Vegetable oil, for greasing 2 pints (5 to 6 cups) blueberries1 In a small bowl, mix yeast and water; set aside until foamy, about 5 minutes.
Springform Deep Dish Pizza Recipe Pizza is in heavy rotation on our weekly menu. We’re crust people – and I don’t leave a scrap of it behind. Nothing screws up a good pizza like a bad crust. We’ve gone through several pizza doughs looking for the perfect crust and we always come back to The Usual. We’ve been baking pizza with the Gourmet recipe for nearly 4 years now. Occasionally, I’ll want to try something different and I stumbled across an old bookmark that provided the perfect opportunity: Deep Dish Pizza. I swapped out The Usual for Baking Illustrated’s Basic Pizza Dough. I was pleasantly surprised. Deep Dish Pizza For the dough: 1 3/4 cup warm water, divided 1 tsp sugar 1 envelope (2 1/4 tsp) instant yeast 2 Tbsp extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for greasing bowl and springform pan 4 cups (22 oz) bread flour, plus more for dusting 1 1/2 tsp salt For the pizza: 1 cup pizza sauce 2 cups shredded fresh mozzarella Fillings of your choice (we used cooked italian sausage, pepperoni, and pineapple chunks)
Baked Lemon Pasta I love simple dishes like this. They remind me of my single vegetarian days in L.A. when I’d often come home from work and find a total of three grocery items in my kitchen. This is in contrast to the 9.446 grocery items in my kitchen now—everything from bacon grease to a freezer full of beef, but we won’t go there today. Lemon is an unlikely flavoring for pasta, but oh…is it ever refreshing and good, especially in the spring and summer. There’s something about this baked version, though, that I just love. That’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it. This recipe may be doubled, tripled, or octupled—it’s totally easy. The Cast of Characters: Spaghetti, lemons, garlic, butter, sour cream, olive oil, salt, Parmesan cheese, and parsley. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Start by grating the zest from one lemon. If you don’t have a microplane zester, please remedy that situation immediately. In a skillet, melt the butter over low heat. Add an equal amount of olive oil. And mince it very finely. Oh, yum.
Pizza Spice It’s pizza week here at Kayotic Kitchen! Time to stock up on flour and oil, everyone! I’m giving you an entire DIY pizza kit: crust, sauce, seasoning and my favorite toppings. All you need to be seriously happy and to make those around you happy as well. I’m starting with my pizza spice. So what are you waiting for? Ingredients: 1 1/2 tbsp oregano 1 tbsp dried basil 1 tsp dried rosemary 1 1/2 tbsp dried onion flakes 1/4 tsp dried thyme 1/2 tsp coarse sea salt 1/2 tsp chili flakes 7 black peppercorns 1/4 tsp garlic powder Optional: 1/2 tsp fennel seeds Directions: It’s not exactly rocket science, I’ll be the first to admit that, but getting the exact right blend wasn’t as simple as I thought it would be. Talk about storyboards! I use the spice mill that came with my food processor, but a simple coffee mill or mortar and pestle will do as well. It’s so dead-simple to make these kind of special blends yourself.
Cinnamon Streusel Pancakes | Two Peas & Their Pod - StumbleUpon Cinnamon Streusel Pancakes When we went to California in November, we spent a day eating our way through Los Angeles with our good friend, Amanda, from Kevin and Amanda. Amanda had a long list of food places for us to try. We started our food feast at The Griddle Cafe in Hollywood. The pancakes at The Griddle Cafe are humongous! We were determined to recreate our favorite pancakes at home so one morning we put our game faces on and got to work. Josh let a big scoop of butter melt all over the pancake, making the pancake even more decadent. I will warn you these pancakes are insanely sweet. To see what else we ate in L.A, check out Amanda’s post. If you like these Cinnamon Streusel Pancakes, you might also like: Pumpkin Pancakes with Cinnamon Syrup from Two Peas and Their PodChocolate and Cinnamon Pancakes from Baking BitesCinnamon Roll Pancakes from Big Red KitchenWhole Wheat Cinnamon Pancakes from In Good Taste
My New Best Pizza Dough As you must have noticed by now, we love pizza here! It’s okay to be a pizza fiend. No, really, it is. It’s by far our favorite junk food Friday meal. Since I usually top ours with not all too much cheese, my own pizza sauce and add loads of fresh veggies, I’m not quite sure just how junky it still is. Or maybe I have a different perspective on what really constitutes junk food. I’ve tried lots of recipes over the years. What was even more depressing were all those times I couldn’t get the dough to rise no matter what I tried. Now, if you need me… I’ll be on the Stairmaster. Ingredients: 1 cup warm water 2 1/4 cup all-purpose flour 2 tsp instant yeast 2 tbsp honey 3 tbsp olive oil 1 1/2 tsp salt (2 tsp also works well) Directions: We’ll be needing yeast—I opted for instant yeast but feel free to use active dry yeast—salt and olive oil. You can either use your stand-mixer, food processor or hands for this. Add 2 tbsp honey. And add 1 cup warm water to it. Add the oil and 1 cup of flour.
Homemade Samoas & - StumbleUpon Yeah, that’s right. I made homemade Samoas. OK, so these are a bit more time-consuming to make than your average cookies (there are a few assembly-related steps), but they are so worth it. Plus: how great would these be as Christmas gifts? I found the Samoas recipe on BakingBites; you can also find recipes for Thin Mints, Do-Si-Dos, Tagalongs, and Trefoils. What you need: For the cookies: 1 cup butter, softened 1/2 cup sugar 2 cups all-purpose flour 1/4 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 tsp vanilla extract up to 2 tbsp milk For the topping: 3 cups shredded coconut 12-oz good-quality chewy caramels 1/4 tsp salt 3 tbsp milk 8 oz. dark or semisweet chocolate (chocolate chips are ok) What you do: First, the cookies. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Now…the topping! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. (This step is sort of delicate – and can be painful, what with the hot caramel and all – so be careful. 6. 7. How beautiful are these?! Above: Homemade vs.
Pizza Braid | Busy Mommy: An Iowa Mom Blog - StumbleUpon A pizza braid is very kid-friendly, easy on the wallet and extremely simple to make. My aunt and cousin first introduced me to them and I’ve been hooked ever since. The possibilities are endless of the varieties you could make (check out the Apple Dessert Braid!), but the recipe below is for a very basic hamburger and pepperoni braid. You could make your own dough, but I prefer the shortcut of using Rhodes rise and bake dough. This is one of my favorite shortcuts to make a nice loaf of bread or use in recipes like this one. As I said, this is extremely basic. The dough takes a few hours to rise, so I take it out in the morning and place a towel over it. Yes, yes the dough in that photo has not risen fully. Then you spread out the sauce, lay the meats down, followed by the cheese. Then with a pizza cutter, start cutting about 1 inch thick strips down the whole rectangle. Follow the pictures above. A few minutes before it’s done I brush with olive oil and sprinkle with oregano.
Banana Ice Cream Sandwiches & Veggie Wedgie I really love frozen bananas-who doesn’t? Raw banana ice cream has been one of my favorite treats since last summer- it’s so easy and quick to make! Now that the weather is warm again, I started making it more often but this time I thought I should try something different- I wanted to make ice cream sandwiches with banana filling, and since I was making the filling raw, I thought that it would be cool to also make the cookies raw, no? The result was pretty good : a very light, dairy free and nut free creamy treat! Ingredients For the cookies : -1 cup oat groats or 1 1/2 cup oat flour -1/2 cup raw cacao powder -200gr dates -3 tbsp coconut butter -2 tbsp agave syrup -1 tbsp water Filling : -6 frozen bananas -1 vanilla bean, scraped To make the cookies, if using oat groats, grind them to make oat flour. To make the ice cream use a blender or a food processor to mash the frozen bananas.
Fail-Proof Pizza Dough and Cheesy Garlic Bread Sticks {just like in restaurants!} Fail-Proof Pizza Dough and Cheesy Garlic Bread Sticks {just like in restaurants!} Are you all addicted to pizza as much as I am? I’m addicted to a lot of things, but pizza would be close to the top of my list. It’s just so addicting! I can’t help myself. If you can learn to make it perfectly at home, it’s not only cheaper, it’s healthier! Well, it CAN be healthier if you put in the effort….which I did not do this time around…oops. The hardest part in pizza making is the crust. Here are the details of my pizza dough recipe that you are going to want to know: {1} I use warm water-not hot, not cold. That’s pretty much it. Incase you got lost in that last paragraph, there are some easy to follow step by step instructions below. I turned my pizza dough into delicious Cheesy Garlic Bread Sticks. In a large mixing bowl, preferably that of a stand mixer, stir yeast and honey into warm water. Once you reach this stage, turn the mixer on high to knead for 6 minutes. Ingredients: Directions:
Cinnamon Toast&Rolls The USDA released its new food pyramid the other day (which is actually a plate now instead of a pyramid), and I am sorely disappointed to report that cinnamon rolls did not appear anywhere on that plate. I think by now most of us know what should be on our dinner plate in terms of healthy, well-rounded nutrient-laden meals, but it is my considered opinion that our breakfast plate should include cinnamon rolls now and then. And not just any cinnamon roll, mind you, but how ‘bout a homemade cinnamon roll hybrid that is a cross between a cinnamon roll and cinnamon toast, is super easy to make and gosh darn delicious. In honor of their ancestry, I call these little gems cinnamon toast rolls, and here’s all you need to make them… Yep. Trim the crusts off of the bread Roll the bread really flat Brush both sides of the bread with butter Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar Roll in any fashion you like (I’ve also folded them into little triangles) Cinnamon Toast Rolls Click here for a printable recipe
Hasselback Garlic Cheesy Bread Hasselback Garlic Cheesy Bread First thing: this Calphalon Giveaway ends on Friday! Enter enter enter! Second thing: this bread is the bomb. Last week, I got some evil Kerrygold Samples in the mail. Aw, shucks. What is a girl to do? To prevent myself from inhaling it all in a 24 hour period, I put some in the freezer, but then immediately thought of this bread I’ve been wanting to make. They hang out in my booty. {TMI? This bread is the very reason why I run. And believe it or not, this is super simple to make! So, that’s all the info you need to know, m’kay? First thing you’re going to want to do is grab all your ingredients. Into a mixer bowl, add in your water, yeast and honey. Once your yeast has gotten foamy, stir in the salt and the flour in 1/4 cup increments. Once the dough starts pulling away from the sides and the bowl is looking pretty clean, then it’s time to set the timer and walk away. 5 minutes later your dough should be tacky and smooth. And melt it down. Hello, lover. See?