Cooking: Pizza w/ Homemade Dough

One of my favorite meals of all time is pizza. Specifically, brick oven thin crust mushroom, pepperoni, and Italian sausage pizza. What better combination in the world is there than meat, bread, cheese, and tomato sauce? In my basic cooking boot camp class, we learned how to make challah bread as part of our "dessert" class. The instructor gave us an easy alteration to the recipe to make pizza dough. Considering I love pizza and am loving learning to make things from scratch, I thought this recipe would be a fun and satisfying challenge! I have made it a few times, and my coworker also tried it and loved it (grilling the pizza versus cooking it and an oven - an interesting twist I would love to try). The crust is relatively thin and a bit sweeter (which makes sense considering it was originally a sweet bread recipe).  

One word of caution is that you have to let the dough rise for an hour or two once you have made it, so unless you want to eat at 9 (mistake #1) either start early, or make it the day before & let it rise in the fridge overnight. 

Let's get cooking!

Cooking: Meaty Lasagna

In my BBQ chili post, I mentioned that I had spent that weekend making three good-to-freeze meals. Boy am I glad I did! I got back from an awesome adventure vacation this weekend (blog post to come) and just was not in the mood to cook this weekend (shocking!). This week, I have dipped into my reserves in order to avoid having to eat out for a second week in a row to supplement what cooking I have been able to do mid-week. This is the second of the three meals I made: A delicious meaty lasagna!

Since I was trying to make three big meals in one weekend, simple was the name of the game. This recipe is also really cheap per serving, which I also appreciate. And what I saved in money and time, I did not sacrifice in flavor! Last night as I was stuck late at work, I was extremely grateful to have such a delicious home cooked meal while everyone else was eating their unhealthy take out food (especially after a week of indulging on all things huckleberry!). 

Let's get cooking!