I’d only eat this if….

This is what my husband said about dinner last night, “This is something you would eat if you were starving in a barren wasteland and you needed something to eat to generate saliva”

I giggle every single time I read that. Seriously I do. And I was the chef! You know that dinner was bad when your husband says something like that about the food you made and all you can do is burst into hysteric giggles.

This post is a true testament to the fact that almost every recipe you see on here is a creation of my own mind inspired by something I heard about or saw. Sometimes the creations are epic failures.

Last night I tried to make Sweet Potato Gnocchi. We have made Gnocchi before with regular potatoes and it was good, delicious, great and wonderful. One day I’ll post a recipe for it. I decided to try using the same recipe for sweet potato gnocchi. I should work the same right? Potato=potato I thought. NOT TRUE. I added more and more and more flour to the sweet potatoes and they were just not turning into dough. Finally we decided to try to just drop balls of the sticky “dough” into the boiling water and maybe we could have Sweet Potato Gnocchi Balls. ha

We covered them in a yummy butter sauce and started eating. Then we started talking about them. I was trying VERY HARD to decide they were good. I had spent so much time making them. I wanted them to be good. I was even telling my husband they were good. And then all at once my hubby was like these are just not good. It is like eating raw dough with butter sauce. I finally admitted that I agreed. He laughed at how I was trying to make them sound good. Even our baby agreed that they were gross. His high chair was full of spit out “gnocchi”.

We threw it away. We ate the asparagus it was super good. A while later we had homemade Orange Julius and muffins for post dinner dinner.

Tips from Kj:

Don’t ever make these.

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Smore’s Birthday Cake

So I have some pretty excellent baking help sometimes. My mom and Mark were in on this one and it turned out awesome! It was my dad’s birthday. We had no idea what kind of cake to make him but we had all of the ingredients for smore’s so we decided to invent a cake. It was so much fun!

Here is how to make this smore’s cake:
You need-
1 chocolate cake mix
1 1/2 cups melted chocolate chips
10 crushed graham crackers
1 Recipe marshmallow chocolate glaze (recipe below)
Bag of Small Marshmallows
1. Bake a chocolate cake. Flip out of the pan when finished baking and let cool.
2. Take your melted chocolate chips and spread over the cooled cake.
3. Sprinkle 2/3 of the crushed graham cracker over the top of the chocolate chips
4. Make the marshmallow glaze frosting stuff (below…and a total invention but it was so good!) and pour over the cake.

Glaze Ingredients
2 cups powdered sugar
1/2 cup cocoa powder
6 large marshmallows
4 tablespoons butter
1/3 cup plus
1 teaspoon vanilla
Mix the powdered sugar and cocoa powder together in a bowl. Then place the marshmallows, butter, and milk in a medium-size pan over low heat. Stir until the marshmallows are melted remove the pan from the heat. Pour the powdered sugar and cocoa mixture over the marshmallow mixture. Add the vanilla and stir until the frosting is smooth and shiny….and yummy!! :)
After we had finished the above steps making the chocolate cake even more chocolaty and delicious than it started out as we added one more thing:
MARSHMALLOWS!

We stuck them under the broiler so they could get nice and toasty!

We ended up calling it the Chocolate Smore’s cake.

DELICIOUS! :) (if you like chocolate anyways…Mark helped create this but it was not his favorite because it was a chocolate dream and he doesn’t really like chocolate) My dad on the other hand loved it because he loves chocolate and doesn’t like frosting so the chocolate glaze was just what he needed!

Tips from Kj:
Add some melted marshmallows or marshmallow fluff to the melted chocolate chip layer in step #2 to make it more Smore Like

Adding caramel to step 2 is also delicious!

Instead of chocolate chips use chunks of your favorite candy bar. Sprinkle them on top too!













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Stuffed Crust Pizza

We love love love pizza here in our home. We especially like making our own pizza because we like being able to load it with as much cheese as we want and as many toppings as our hearts desire. I’m sure some of you can relate with me when I say, “Sometimes you get your nice delivery pizza and it is a sad disappointment when you open the box and can still see the red sauce or there is like one olive” haha I don’t think pizza should be disappointing so…you should make this one and I promise you will be so happy you didn’t call pizza hut!

First Make some  Pizza Sauce:

(This is how I make pizza sauce EVERY TIME…we love it especially because you can use extra for English muffin pizzas)

2 tablespoons oil
1/2of an Onion diced
3 cloves garlic diced
2- 14 oz cans of petite diced tomatoes

I used our pizza seasoning for a while until we ran out now I use Thyme, Basil, and Oregano to taste…Just shake some of each in…taste it and add more if you feel like it needs it.

2 pinches of salt-or more to taste
A couple of shakes of pepper

Simmer this while you prepare the rest of your pizza (for about 10 minutes)

Next Make THIS pizza dough recipe. I loved it! It rose so nicely and tasted delicious! The only thing we changed was to do 1/2 wheat flour (we’re trying to be healthy)

Now you are ready to assemble your pizza. You need:

Spinach Leaves
Basil Leaves
Mozzarella Cheese
Mushrooms
Pepperoni
Sliced Tomatoes
(Or whatever you want)

Roll your dough out about 1 inch bigger than the pan you are using. Cut Mozzarella cheese into pieces as thick as you want…and lay them all around the edges. (Aww look at my cute hubby helping me)

Then fold the dough over the cheese and press it together.

Now you are ready to add your ingredients. I love to put the sauce down and then everything else and THEN the cheese! We put more pepperoni on top of the cheese for dramatic effect. I just love having the cheese on top and all of the other toppings hidden like a surprise underneath.

Bake at 450 for 15 minutes or until the crust is golden brown and delicious :) Eat and Enjoy!

Tips from Kj:

The ingredients I listed were just what we like on our pizza. Other ideas are:
Artichokes, Peppers, Onions, Olives, Ham, Pineapple, Sausage….etc. You know Pizza Stuff!

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