Supreme Pizza Bubble Bread

When you have all the makings for a nice supreme pizza...it really bites when your only 'bread' is some canned biscuits. I said to myself...."I REFUSE to press them out to make mini pizzas! Nor am I going to press them all together to FAKE pizza dough!"

So here is what I did to make my pizza 'outside' the box....

Supreme Pizza Bubble Bread
JennyMac Lipsmack Creation

2 cans of refrigerated biscuits (10 count each)
1 cup of chunky tomato sauce (mine is just canned whole tomatoes mooshed with my hands with Italian seasoning, garlic powder and parmesan cheese added to taste)
1/2 cup onions, chopped.
1/2 green pepper, chopped
1 pint mushrooms (raw or sauteed)
1/2 cup pepperoni, chopped in half
1/2 cup Italian sausage, (however styled, mine was leftover from a hot sausage sub night, chopped)
4 mozzarella cheese sticks, chopped
1-2 cups mozzarella cheese, shredded.
Freshly grated parmesan

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

In a large bowl, mix the sauce, onions, peppers, mushrooms, pepperoni, sausage and chopped mozzarella sticks. Cut each biscuit into quarters and mix into the 'supreme' mixture.

Put supreme mixture on lightly oiled pizza pan (not the ones with holes). Spread it out about 1 inch from edge. Bake for 20 minutes. Top with shredded mozzarella cheese and bake for additional 5 minutes or until cheese is melted. Top with freshly grated Parmesan. Pizza can be served as a slice and eaten with fingers or just serve from pan in center of table and everyone just pull and eat!

Here have a bite!

Fun pull apart type of dinner that is kid friendly and chocked full of veggies! Also, this was NOT a supremely EVIL pizza if that is what you are thinking, I used turkey pepperoni and sausage, the mozzarella was reduced fat. So there.

Supreme Lipsmacking,

Gearing up for Game Day!

How cute is this !?! Can you envision this at your Super Bowl party? We've been watching football for the past few weekends...gearing up to see who is going to get to the SB...perfect way for me to practice my preparations for the big event!

I found this on Pillsbury.com and as usual I played around with some of the fat content and it came out AWESOME. I think my presentation is even better than theirs!

Spinach Pull Apart
adapted from Pillsbury.com

3 Tbsp butter, melted
2 Tbsp garlic canola oil
1/2 tsp. garlic powder
4 oz. Fat Free cream cheese
3 Laughing Cow Light Swiss cheese wedges
3 Tbsp. fat free mayonnaise
1/4 cup parmesan cheese
1/2 cup reduced fat mozzarella cheese
1 box (9oz) frozen chopped spinach, thawed and squeezed dry
1/2 tsp. Italian seasoning
1/2 tsp. pepper
2 cans reduced fat Crescent Rolls
1 cup marinara sauce.

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Spray bundt pan with non stick spray. In a small bowl, mix butter, garlic powder and garlic oil (I just make some by heating up some canola oil with a few cloves of garlic, store in clean bottle with garlic cloves).


2. In a medium bowl, mix cream cheeses, mayo, spinach and seasonings. Stir until blended and set aside.









3. Unroll crescent doughs, separate into triangles. Cut each triangle in half lengthwise to make a total of 32 triangles. Stretch or press 1 triangle slightly, being careful not to tear it.








4. Spoon 1 Tbsp. spinach mixture onto center of triangle; pull doug around nixture into a ball. Press edges to seal. Repeat with remaining triangles.








5. Roll each ball in butter mixture; layer in pan. Bake 35-40 minutes or until golden brown. Cool 5 minutes. Place heatproof serving plate upside down over pan; turn plate and pan over. Remove pan. Cool 10 minutes longer. Serve warm with marinara sauce.






After I inverted my pull-apart I sprinkled more cheese on top. Found a dish the right size for the center (pictured at beginning of post). Here I pulled one apart and not one oozed or exploded. I had to open one up for the picture so you could see the cheesy spinach inside.

Not Monkey Bread more like Bunny Bread since it is full of spinach. Your Super Bowl party-goers will love it!


Enjoy!

YAY! National Sticky Bun Day!!

This is a fun and easy recipe that my 6th graders use in class. So if they can do it, your kids can and for you....it's easy peasy when you get a hankering for "sumpin' schickie"!


Let's get started by preheating your oven to 400 degrees.....First, I highly suggest you get some of these new non-stick glass dishes... awesome!

Put in your dish 2 Tbsp. of butter, melt in microwave for about 30 sec.

Add 1/4 cup of dark brown sugar and 1-1/2 tsp. cinnamon.

Next, add a 1/4 cup of maple syrup or dark brown corn syrup, BUT first spray your measuring cup with some nonstick cooking spray...

LOOK, it all slides right out!

Stir all together

So it looks like this....

I love nuts on my stickies! About 1/4 cup of your favorite nut or whatever you have on hand.

Arrange your 10 canned biscuits in your dish. It's okay if they don't fit or expect them to be roomy. Squish them in there!

Bake in your preheated 400 degree oven for 10-12 minutes or until golden...

Now for the tricky part. Place your plate on top of your baked buns, with a potholder in each hand quickly invert them onto your plate. It helps if the plate/platter is basically the same shape as your baking pan.

OH MAN, look at that stickie goodness!!!



.....and so fluffy on the inside....








TA-DA! That is some food styling mastery! hahahaha. Well I am getting better but I do notice this....pictures are always better during the day....at night....certain sites...ahem.....reject my night pictures, even though I 'fix' them on 'picnik'.....oh well. Sometimes that makes me sad....K-man always reassures me..."don't let those idiots make you feel bad about something like a picture, everything tastes great honey!" Awwwwwww.

Anyway....here's the recipe....

Quickie Stickies

PREHEAT OVEN: 400 degrees

Combine:
2 Tbsp. melted butter
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/4 c. maple or dark corn syrup
1 -1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 c. chopped nuts (optional)


-Pour mixture into cake or pie pan.

-Top with 10 refrigerator biscuits.

-Bake for 10-12 minutes.

-Turn upside down onto plate ....ENJOY!

For more easy recipes that a 6th grader can do....click EAT ME

OH, BTW, here is that nonstick glass dish after I flipped out the sticky buns....

Pretty cool, huh?....Now go buy some!!!

Baker to Customer: Yes, I have sticky buns.
Customer to Baker: Well you better not sit down then!

Foods that roll

Hahahahahaha! As I am making some of the biscuit recipes today, I am thinking.....geez, everything I chose is circular tonight.

Hey K-man!!! don't TILT your plate....LOL

Here are 3 recipes for you to drool over...

Cheese Balls

1 can (12 ounces) Biscuits (10 count)
6 ounces cheddar cheese, cut into 40 cubes
1/4 c. crushed cornflakes (I had a new product of Ground Tortilla chips that I wanted to try)
1/4 c. grated Parmesan cheese
1/4 tsp. garlic powder
1/3 c. butter, melted

Preheat oven to 400F. cut each biscuit into fourths. (1/4 of a biscuit was too small, these were"popping" when cooking in oven, so I made some that were 1/2 a biscuit and they did much better.) Flatten each piece and place a cheese cube in center. Wrap dough around cheese and seal with a pinch. Shape into a ball.

Combine cornflakes(the ground tortilla chips product was good too), cheese and garlic powder. Roll each ball in butter then in cornflake mixture. Place on a lightly greased baking sheet or one lined with parchment paper. Bake for 7-9 minutes or until golden brown. Serve hot. Make 40 balls.

Meatball Bites

1 can (12 ounces) flaky biscuits
10 frozen, cooked Italian style meatballs, thawed and cut in half
2 stick string cheese, each cut into 10 pieces.
2 Tbsp. Parmesan cheese.
1 tsp Italian seasoning
1/4 tsp. garlic powder
1 cup pizza sauce, warmed

Preheat oven to 375F.

Cut each biscuit in half horizontally. Flatten each half into a 3-inch round. Place one meatball half and one string cheese piece in center of round. Wrap dough around meatball and press edges to seal. Place seam side down on an ungreased baking sheet. Once all balls have been placed on sheet, sprinkle evenly with Parmesan cheese, italian seasoning and garlic powder mixture made prior. Bake for 20 or until golden brown and biscuits are no longer doughy in the center. Serve with warmed pizza sauce for dipping. Makes 20.

BTW: These were K-man voted BEST of Tonight's 3 recipes.

Tasty Flowers

1/4 c. preserves, flavor your choice (I had orange on hand)
1/4 c. cream cheese
1 can (12 ounces) biscuits (10 count)

Preheat oven according to package directions.

In a medium bowl blend preserves and cream cheese. Place biscuits on a lightly greased baking sheet. Make five slashes on each biscuit to form 'petals'. Make an indentation in the center of the biscuit and drop in a teaspoon of cream cheese mixture. Bake according to package directions. Makes 10

JennyMac Note: These were good. They'd be prettier if you took egg wash and did the 'petals'...but I was too tired at that point. K-man liked these and said they reminded him of the Orange Rolls that Pillsbury used to make(we can't get them here anymore). Although, the orange tasted nice, I am sure the berry preserves would probably look better in pix.

Until next biscuit creation.....

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Are those my treats you are putting in those biscuits Mommy?

Ode to the Biscuit

I think one of my most favorite types of bread is the biscuit. It all started with my Me-mom. That is all she made for bread. (I grew up eating a lot of southern food and Arlington VA where I grew up isn't the south but it's my roots.) She took pride in her biscuits yet was the most self-deprecating about them. Each visit she had biscuits for our meal...(breakfast, lunch or dinner) and then she always had something bad to say about them..."oh these aren't very good....these didn't rise much...I think my baking powder is old..." And then she'd send the huge bag of them with us to take home. We thought they were great tasting....it was all in her head....she was way too critical of her cooking.

I can hardly control myself after baking homemade biscuits and immediately I have to take one HOT off the pan, slice it in half and put a hefty hunk of butter on each half. The butter is salty and the inside is almost creamy yet fluffy and the outside is crunchy. OMG...and leftover ham is the best in a homemade biscuit....ok I have to stop...LOL.

Well in keeping with my promise for the new year to go through all these cookbooks I have and highlight WHAT made me buy them in the first place....AND an homage to my Me-mom I am going to showcase a few recipes using biscuits from one of my more recent cookbooks....

101 Things to do with Canned Biscuits

For a couple of days I am going to highlight a recipe or two using this cookbook. One of the most popular recipes I am aware of is Monkey Bread which I have made a million times. Warning: I will NOT be making ALL 101 of these recipes....but I am going to be smart about this and try to stretch out the use of these biscuits and try to get two recipes out of each can by making cutting the recipe in half (hoping to get more bang out of my BUCK!!!). I also have some other recipes I've made before that were *NOT in this cookbook...so I will be including those.

Be on the look out for these delectable delights:

Tasty Flowers
Cheese Balls
*Goof Balls
Meatball Bites
*Bacon and Egg Cups
"Bake-in" Bread (a different twist on the monkey bread)
*Mushroom and Chicken Dumplings
Chocolate Oatmeal Bars
And for an added bonus:
Me-mom's Traditional Southern Biscuits (not canned)

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Is this a real kitty or one of those home decor statues?