This is a tried a true recipe. I make it all the time, with lots of different toppings. We all love it because it is super easy and tastes great.
Pizza Dough
Dissolve:
1 T yeast (1 package)
1 C warm water
Stir into yeast mixture and let sit for 5 mins:
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp salt
2 T oil
2 1/2 c flour
Bake 400 for 20 mins.
Pizza Sauce
Mix:
16 oz tomato sauce
8 oz tomato paste
2 tsp oregano
1 tsp pepper
3/4 tsp salt
1 tsp garlic powder
3-4 big, heaping tsp parmesan cheese
1 pinch basil
JUNE: Recipe challenge!
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Friday, June 8, 2012
Roasted Red Pepper Soup
I always crave this soup, but it's especially delicious when red peppers are in season (and cheaper). It's surprisingly simple and still very tasty. Sit outside in the summer air and enjoy.
Roasted Red Pepper Soup
3 red bell peppers
1 yellow bell pepper
1 onion, chopped
1 garlic clove, crushed
3 cups stock (veggie, chicken, etc…)
1 Tbls flour
black pepper, salt
- Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil (If you don’t you’ll have black marks from the peppers that don’t go away). Cut peppers in half and clean out seeds. Lay cut edge down on baking sheet. Broil until skins black and blistered.
- Place the peppers in a plastic and a close it with a tie or zip lock. Let it sit and cool off. When cool peel off skins and discard. Roughly chop peppers.
- Put onion, garlic, and 2/3 cup stock in a large saucepan. Boil until stock reduces in volume. Lower heat and stir until onion and garlic soft and just beginning to color.
- Sprinkle flour over onions. Gradually stir in the rest of the stock.
- Add chopped roasted peppers. Bring to a boil. Cover the saucepan and simmer 5 minutes.
- Let soup cool slightly. Puree in food processor or blender. Return to saucepan. Season with pepper and salt. Reheat.
Makes about 4 servings
- Another version: cook the onions and garlic and butter with rosemary sprigs. After cooked remove rosemary. Add roasted peppers and stock. Boil add a few Tbls of tomato puree, cook it all together, let cool and then puree. Add a little paprika and ¼ c. cream.
- Another version: chop up 1 or 2 sweet potatoes and cook with onions and garlic in the stock. Then after adding the red peppers cook together, let cool, puree, then put back in pan on the burner. Add salt, pepper, and hot pepper sauce to taste.
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
COLORFUL COLESLAW
1/3 medium head red cabbage thinly sliced
2 large carrots coarsely grated
1 medium onion thinly sliced (red or sweet white)
DRESSING
1 1/2 T mustard
1 T honey
1 T fresh lime juice (more to taste)
1 T cider vinegar
1 T olive oil
1/2 tsp salt (more to taste)
1/4 tsp pepper (more to taste)
1/4 c fresh chopped cilantro (optional)
1 tsp poppy seeds (optional)
I saw this recipe in USA Weedkend May 25. I have made it twice. The second time I cut the dressing proportions in half since it thought it was too watery. The "Cut" version appears above. I didn't put cilantro in either time because I didn't have any. I keeps for days in the fridge. It can be used in place of lettuce on a sandwitch which is how we use it the most.
Mom/Gayle
Thursday, March 22, 2012
One to watch
Don't judge it by the cover. This movie is sooooo good. For real. And totally inspiring. The whole thing is true which makes it even better. And the only "bad" thing about it are the bikini's.
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Running Socks
Just wanted to pass along that I have just discovered the ultimate running sock: the Balega Womens Enduro Sock. You have to try it if you like to jog. They are so comfortable! So don the sock and let's get in shape!


Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Love Post (late)
Person that I love: ALL OF MY NIECES AND NEPHEWS. Cath and I were recently talking about how we used to think it was weird when people were obsessed with their nieces/nephews. Now I'm one of those people. I love kids in general, but there is something special about being an aunt. I love them so much! (Note: just because I have a picture of Allyson, Spencer does not mean they are my favorite and I love them more than my other nieces and nephews. No snarky comments, Ang)
Place I love: Quiet places. Everywhere I live, I always have an outlet, a nature-y place where I go to escape the noise and people and just think. I have made some of my biggest life decisions in these places. In Provo, it was the Provo River Trail/Utah Lake:
In North Carolina, it's a close call between the Duke Trails or the American Tobacco Trail:
Thing that I love: Technology. No, really. And not just because there was that one song on Napoleon Dynamite that was really catchy about technology. I really do love it. Embarrassing as it is to admit it, I can not remember how society ran smoothly without it. Unlimited knowledge at my fingertips. Access to all of the talks I can want from Conferences all the way back to when I didn't exist. Podcasts. Music to listen to while I run. Ways to connect and spread love/build friendships. Ways to stay connected. Really, technology is awesome.
Activity that I love: Bananagrams. And scrabble. Yes, they are my favorite favorite. They are even better when you make cookies to eat while playing (although I can't say I ever crave cookies these days)...
Place I love: Quiet places. Everywhere I live, I always have an outlet, a nature-y place where I go to escape the noise and people and just think. I have made some of my biggest life decisions in these places. In Provo, it was the Provo River Trail/Utah Lake:
In North Carolina, it's a close call between the Duke Trails or the American Tobacco Trail:
Thing that I love: Technology. No, really. And not just because there was that one song on Napoleon Dynamite that was really catchy about technology. I really do love it. Embarrassing as it is to admit it, I can not remember how society ran smoothly without it. Unlimited knowledge at my fingertips. Access to all of the talks I can want from Conferences all the way back to when I didn't exist. Podcasts. Music to listen to while I run. Ways to connect and spread love/build friendships. Ways to stay connected. Really, technology is awesome.
Activity that I love: Bananagrams. And scrabble. Yes, they are my favorite favorite. They are even better when you make cookies to eat while playing (although I can't say I ever crave cookies these days)...
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Things I Love - Emily
Person I love: The nice person. For instance, I love the lady who saw me struggling with a screaming, non-cooperative two year old in a Wal-mart parking and instead of judging my mothering, quietly asked permission to give my son an orea. Or the manager at the grocery store who helped an 8-month pregnant woman with two small children find the Easter hams hidden in the corner of the store. Or the mother who spent five hours on a Saturday on the telephone asking numerous bridal stores across the country if they had bridal gown # 3214 for her engaged daughter (and yes, she found the dress), or the husband who sees his exhausted wife and sends her off to the bedroom for a break and fixes dinner instead (even though he's exhausted himself). I think nice people who see beyond themselves make the world a brighter, better, happier place - and I love them!
Place I love: Historical sites. Pictured above is Independence Hall in Philadelphia, PA. It is in that building that our nation's founding fathers gathered to debate, and eventually adopt, the Declaration of Independence and later the Constitution. I have visited this site repeatedly and always feel inspired by the courage, strength, and faith in God that those brave men exhibited. They lived through difficult, uncertain times, but they rose above their times and they paved the way for our bright future. I love visiting historical sites because there is something powerful about standing were previous men and women have stood (and sometimes fought) and learning their stories. They is much to be learned from the past and visiting these important places opens the windows of the past.
Thing that I love: Owning my own washer and dryer. It took seven years of marriage and two children (the younger of which was 16 months) before we bought our first washer and dryer. I still get giddy every time I throw a load of laundry in at 8:00 pm on a Tuesday night without inserting quarters.
Place I love: Historical sites. Pictured above is Independence Hall in Philadelphia, PA. It is in that building that our nation's founding fathers gathered to debate, and eventually adopt, the Declaration of Independence and later the Constitution. I have visited this site repeatedly and always feel inspired by the courage, strength, and faith in God that those brave men exhibited. They lived through difficult, uncertain times, but they rose above their times and they paved the way for our bright future. I love visiting historical sites because there is something powerful about standing were previous men and women have stood (and sometimes fought) and learning their stories. They is much to be learned from the past and visiting these important places opens the windows of the past.
Thing that I love: Owning my own washer and dryer. It took seven years of marriage and two children (the younger of which was 16 months) before we bought our first washer and dryer. I still get giddy every time I throw a load of laundry in at 8:00 pm on a Tuesday night without inserting quarters.
Sound that I love: Laughing children. It makes me smile every time I hear it!
Quote that I love: "Perhaps the greatest charity comes when we are kind to each other, when we don’t judge or categorize someone else, when we simply give each other the benefit of the doubt or remain quiet. Charity is accepting someone’s differences, weaknesses, and shortcomings; having patience with someone who has let us down; or resisting the impulse to become offended when someone doesn’t handle something the way we might have hoped. Charity is refusing to take advantage of another’s weakness and being willing to forgive someone who has hurt us. Charity is expecting the best of each other” - Marvin J. Ashton
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