Recipe: Eggroll Pizza Log

Recipe: Eggroll Pizza Log
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If you buy some egg rolls from the freezer section of the grocery you can spend some time with your kids letting them make single serving crisp eggroll pizza.

I don’t normally eat egg rolls.  I hate the ones with cabbage in them.  However, these egg rolls taste pretty good. Its also something I can let the kid do.

It really isn’t hard to make.

Ingredients:

  • Egg Roll Wrappers
  • Pepperoni Slices
  • String Cheese
  • Pizza Sauce
  • Olive Oil

Procedure:

  1. Lay out the wrappers
  2. Layer the sauce, pepperoni, and cheese on the wrapper taking care not to go overboard.  Less is more.
  3. Wrap the egg roll up
  4. Lightly coat with oil
  5. Bake our little pizza sticks at 400 degrees for about 12 minutes.

Egg roll pizza could not be any easier.  They are even easier than my fridge bread pizza.

My son liked the eggroll pizza, but since he loves all pizza of any type – it wasn’t a stretch.  Pizza is a good meal to do with your kids.

My boy has more fun making the different types of pizza than he does eating them.  We recently did a really cool one using canned biscuit dough to make a whomp biscuit pizza.

Collecting Yeast

Kitchen DIY: Collecting Yeast

Collecting Yeast
Collecting Yeast
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Yeast is one essential product for food preparation, you need it to make bread rise and to make alcohol.

Even if you do not drink, you need alcohol to make vinegar)

Yeast is generally store-bought, but if you run out you will need to be able to capture your own wild yeast.

Besides the resiliency aspects of being able to start collecting yeast, there are some culinary reasons for capturing your own.

Different yeasts flavor your food differently, and if you capture your own you can control these flavorings to some extent.

To collect yeast you will need some plastic wrap and a clean non-reactive bowl (glass works best, but plastic is okay)

Ingredients:

  • Flour
  • Water

Procedure: (this is a multi-day process)

  1. Mix flour with water.
  2. Mix with a wooden spoon and add enough water until the mix is a thick batter.
  3. Keep it covered with plastic wrap and let it sit at room temperature for 3 days.
  4. Three days later check your flour and water mixture for any activity.
  5. If there is a pool of water on the top of the flour mixture, dump or some out and mix the flour and water together. You should see small bubbles and smell a sour smell. If you don’t observe these things, let your mix sit for a day or two more.
  6. Within 5 days bubbles should be formed and the mix should be smelling sweeter, (like very ripe fruit). At this point, the starter is active.

If you have observed these things your fermented mixture contains yeasts and is ready to begin being “fed” regularly (daily)

To feed it:

  1. Discard a little more than half of the mix (or separate it to give away or use) and mix in equal proportion of water and flour.
  2. The starter should begin to bubble after feeding (it may take a couple hours), this means the yeast is active and feeding.
  3. Repeat this process everyday or every other day (don’t neglect this for a long period or your yeast will die – you can cheat a little and put it in the fridge which will slow the yeast down and make it last longer between feedings)

You can use this in baking just as you would use other types of store-bought yeast

How to Make Egg Sunshine

 

Recipe: Eggs Sunshine
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As you can guess, my wife thinks I experiment too much in the kitchen, she may appreciate THAT I cook, but she has a hard time appreciating WHAT I cook.

However, every once in a while I will hold my mouth right and make something she rules fit to make again.

Eggs Sunshine is one of those maker again recipes.

This recipe is a very basic breakfast meal that is easy enough to allow kids to cook (with supervision), and while it is not a “food storage meal” per se, it uses ingredients that are easily made from food storage ingredients (the bread), and/or easily produced or traded for (eggs).

In this recipe your simply pan toasting a slice of bread in a skillet. The bread has the center cut out to hold a raw egg.

As the bread toasts the egg fries and it is a novel way of making breakfast.

I used to butter the bread, and always made a mess buttering the second side. Now I normally use a small amount of oil to get the same effect.

I also use a shot glass to punch out the center (after letting it fry a second) – which is both prettier and easier than my old method of cutting out a square with a knife.

We would probably fight over the toasted centers of bread, except whenever I am home early enough to make breakfast, it is Genny’s day off so she is asleep and I don’t share….

Magic Mix

Kitchen DIY: Magic Mix

Magic Mix

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Today we are going to talk about a food storage tip that is both frugal and useful. We are going to show how to make (and to some extent use) Magic Mix.

The majority of convenience mixes you buy at the store are just flavored magic mix – The cheese flavored powder in mac&cheese, ranch dressing powder, white gravy powder, cream of anything soup is (well we will save that for a later post)…

If you know how to make magic mix and have access to spices you can make a multitude of foods for pennies on the dollar.

So what is this Stuff? Magic Mix is a mix made from powdered milk, butter and flour.

Procedure

  1. Combine 2 1/3 cup of powdered milk, 1 cup ALL PURPOSE flour, 1 Cup (2 sticks) of room temperature Margarine or Butter (must be one of those two – NOT SPREAD)
  2. Mix until it reaches the consistency of corn meal
  3. Store tightly covered in your refrigerator
  4. To use your Magic Mix to make a White Sauce (1 cup)
  5. Combine 2/3 cup Mix and 1 cup water in a saucepan
  6. Stir rapidly over medium heat until it begins to bubble

That’s it – and you can use this sauce in any recipe that calls for a white or cream sauce.

Recipe: Whomp Biscuit Pizza

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Whomp Biscuit Pizza is an easy recipe for those nights when you don’t want to cook and the kids are hungry.  It is based on canned biscuits that you “whomp” up against the counter top to open.

Making Whomp Biscuit Pizza is Simple:

  • Preheat your oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit
  • Open the canned biscuits and cut the individual biscuits into quarters
  • Spread the cut biscuits equally across a greased cast iron skillet. Alternatively you can use a casserole dish.
  • Spread pizza sauce and all desired topping other than cheese over your biscuit bits.
  • Bake at 400 20 to 25 minutes
  • Remove and add cheese
  • Bake again for another 10 to 15 minutes

Enjoy.  I don’t male this whomp biscuit pizza often as packaged dough is cheaper, and make your own dough is even cheaper.  However, it is a good recipe to do with children to teach them how to cook and follow simple instructors so I see myself making this more as little WT gets older.  Now that he is 4 he is capable of doing this, but when I shot this video you can hear that he has a hard time asking for his toy truck much less baking a pizza.