Muffin Tin Pizzas and a Quick Vent

This is a cooking/crafts/sewing etc blog but I am going to take this opportunity to vent for a second.  The job market in my current location is horrible for military spouses.  I called the base and they had one job opening that was located at a base 45 minutes away...ummm no thanks! I have looked online, in newspapers, made phone calls and nada.  I am open to most jobs however I know I would not find joy in working at Lowes, McDonalds, Loves Travel Stop or a cell phone company. And I do not want to substitute teach.  The school year is over but I don't like being the random teacher in the classroom that students think they can take advantage of (though they soon realize that is not an option).  So I have come to the realization that for now I am a housewife.  I guess I better get going on more cooking and craft projects!

I made dinner for the first time in a week or so last night because I was home in Maryland.  When I asked Fly Boy what he wanted he said, "Buffalo chicken pizza!" Of course that is what he wanted but that is not what I wanted! So I decided to make "Muffin Tin Mini Pizzas".  They came out really well.  I made three different kinds so it was a nice variety.

Ingredients:

1 pizza dough (either store bought or homemade)

sauce

toppings

cheese

Cut the pizza dough into 12 small squares and place them into a greased muffin tin. Try to stretch the dough up the sides of the tin a little bit.  Pre bake the dough for 5-7 minutes at about 400 degrees.  Take the pan out of the oven and add your toppings. I layered mine: meat/veggies, sauce then cheese.  Bake for another 10 minutes or until the cheese is melted.

I made buffalo chicken pizzas, broccoli and chicken and salsa and chicken.

Stuffed Pizza Rolls

I love the website www.ourbestbites.com.  They just published a cookbook and I bought it even though I have a million cookbooks.  I made these before we moved to South Texas and they were yummy! I used their homemade pizza dough recipe too which was good. Check out their website for some yummy recipes!

Stuffed Pizza Rolls

Another Pizza Crust

I have not been blogging much in the last month but I have made a few new things that I would like to share. Please excuse the lack of pictures! I got this recipe from my friend Emily's blog.  The crust is really good.  I divided it in half and it made two medium sized pizzas. She got the recipe from Family Circle magazine.

1   cup  warm water (about 110 degrees F)
1   package (.25 ounce) dry active yeast
2-3/4     cups   all-purpose flour
1    teaspoon  sugar
1    teaspoon   salt
2   tablespoons   olive oil

1. Place water in a small bowl and stir in yeast. Let stand 5 minutes.


2. In a large bowl, whisk together 2-1/2 cups  of the flour, sugar and salt. Make well in the center and add the yeast  mixture and olive oil. Stir until dough comes together and forms a ball.  Turn out onto a well-floured surface and knead for 5 minutes, adding as  much of the remaining 1/4 cup flour as needed. Form into a disk and  place in a bowl that has been lightly coated with olive oil. Turn disk  over and cover bowl with plastic wrap. Allow to rise in a warm place for  2 hours.


3. Remove dough from bowl and punch down. Roll out into desired diameter.

Pizza Crust From the Pioneer Woman and My Buffalo Chicken Pizza

We like to have home made pizza and I have had problems finding a crust I like.  This one from the Pioneer Woman is pretty good!!!!


Pizza Crust


■1 teaspoon Active Dry Yeast

■4 cups All-purpose Flour

■1 teaspoon Kosher Salt

■⅓ cups Olive Oil

Sprinkle yeast over 1 1/2 cups warm (not lukewarm) water.


In a mixer, combine flour and salt. With the mixer running on low speed (with paddle attachment), drizzle in olive oil until combined with flour. Next, pour in yeast/water mixture and mix until just combined.

Coat a separate mixing bowl with a light drizzle of olive oil, and form the dough into a ball. Toss to coat dough in olive oil, then cover the bowl tightly with plastic wrap and allow to rise for at least an hour. Use right away or store in the fridge until you need it.
Cook at 500 degrees for 11 minutes or until crust is browning.
Recipe is from here!


So I like to make buffalo chicken pizza. It is simple and it is good!



You need:
Franks Red Hot sauce
Half of the pizza dough from The Pioneer Woman
Ranch
Cooked chicken cut in cubes
Monterrey Jack cheese


Roll out the pizza crust on a pan that has been coated with veggie oil.  Spread a layer of Franks over the dough. Top with chicken.  Drizzle Ranch or Blue Cheese dressing over the chicken.  Drizzle more Franks over the chicken.  Top with the Monterrey Jack cheese.  Cook for 11-13 minutes or until crust begins to brown.

Salmon and Deep Dish Cheesebuger Pizza

*Nate's Salmon*

Equal parts butter and soy sauce
A bit of worchestershire sauce
Garlic Powder
Salmon

Melt butter and mix with soy sauce, worchestershire sauce and garlic powder. Place salmon scales down on tin foil. Pour some of sauce over salmon close tin foil.  Grill on scale side, flip, peel off scales, pour remaining sauce on the salmon then grill on other side until done.

We usually eat it with rice and broccoli.

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*Deep Dish Cheeseburger Pizza*

Refigerated pizza dough
1 lb ground beef
med chopped/minced onion
pepper
2 small tomatoes
1/2 cup ketchup
1/4 cup mustard
tbsp worchestershire sauce
cheese

Press dough into a 9 inch round cake pan. Cook dough at 400 degrees for 10 min.  While the crust is cooking, brown the ground beef, minced onion and pepper until cooked. Mix in mustard, worchestershire sauce and ketchup after mixture is cooked. When dough is done pour in beef mixture and top with sliced tomato and cheese. Cook for another ten minutes.