Pizza Pie

PIZZA DOUGH
p. 176 GOV
Prepared 1/25/2010

This is some good, basic pizza dough. It was very straightforward to make. If you have an afternoon and you are kicking around for a couple of hours, then make this. Pizza is so good. Isn't it like magic? You put a little flour and yeast and water together and then it gets all doughy and bigger and then you stick a bunch of veggies on it and maybe a gooey topping and then put it in the oven and then your kid pulls up a chair and sits in front of the oven and watches it and comments all the while about what veggies are "looking juicy on the outside" and how high the dough is rising...its some sort of crazy alchemy.

Poppin' Cranberry Sauce

CRANBERRY SAUCE

p. 298 LDV

Prepared 11/25/2009

What says I Love Cooking Bright Red Berries Til They Pop And Are Soft like cranberry sauce? Nothing. Right. You can read my oh-so-professional notes in the photo above. We took this to our family of omnivores for Thanksgiving and received some nice complements. Its very nicely spiced and I threw in some orange zest.

Biscuit Deeeeeliciousness

SAVORY ONION & PEPPER BISCUITS

p. 174 GOV

Prepared 12/03/2009

We had soup, but it needed a little more. Enter: biscuits.

These were SO good, full of Earth Balance-y, herb-y, vegetable-y goodness. If you have soup and want to accessorize your meal up a little, or if you are a fan of delicious, savory biscuits warm from the oven, then go bake some of these little gems up.

In The Season Of Nog

WOLFFIE'S EGGNOG MUFFINS

p. 273 LDV

Prepared 12/4/2009

We had some rice nog, we had a recipe, we had time before the town's tree-lighting and so my son and I whipped these up.

They are easy and yummy and perfect for grabbing fresh from the oven and snacking on together as you walk hand in hand down your street to the center of town on a chilly December evening.

Muffins!!

ALMOND COCONUT MUFFINS

p. 176 GOV

Prepared 12/12/2009

A delicious and straightforward muffin. I feel like this would be the perfect kind of thing to bring to a pot-luck brunch.

I had a tough time making these-- the fire alarm wentoff, I knicked myself while zesting the orange, I didn't have enough coconut because

Pre-Schooler Daddy used it up earlier in the day without telling me...so while these should have been very straightforward, they weren't. For me. But they were yummy and the batter made more than the recipe said it would (the serving size is 6 - we made 8 gigantic muffins and you could easily make 12 if more reasonable amounts of batter were used in your muffin

tins. This would likely be most effectively accomplished by not giving a five year old complete control over the batter distribution).

Scone-foolery

ENGLISH SCONES

p. 173 GOV

Prepared 01/24/2010

These were oft-discussed but slow to manifest in our kitchen due to colds, visitors, ennui etc. so it felt underwhelming to finally be getting to baking them. My son and I did everything wrong in making theses- didn't blend the (1/2 cup!) of Earth Balance in well, mixed too much, didn't defrost our frozen fruit...but the results were so scrumptious (1/2 cup of Earth Balance, right?) that no picture exists of them. They were eaten that quickly.

They baked up sort of flat, I'd say (see above for potential explanations) and we omitted the currants and added frozen raspberries and just a few chocolate chips. We shook some of our favorite baking sugar on top as well...that extra bit of blue sweetness in no way hurt the look or the taste of these.