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Showing posts with label cookbook. Show all posts

Sunday, April 6, 2014

Breakfast Pizza (Ree Drummond)

(Reviewed by Tammy)
Man is this good! Heavy, filling and completely satisfying.  There's no way I could eat this often.  After my 1 serving all I wanted to do was go back to bed!  It would make a great dish to serve for brunch.  I made a couple of alterations to suit my family's taste.  First off, I used turkey bacon and secondly I didn't use as many eggs.  Instead I fixed a bowl of scrambled eggs to serve on the side.  They were super yummy mixed with the pizza.  Another thing, this would even be fabulous without the pizza crust.  We had leftovers that we refrigerated.  They were even better the next day!

INGREDIENTS
1 pound thick cut bacon 
3 cups frozen hash browns
2 Tablespoons vegetable oil
1 red bell pepper, diced
1 green bell pepper, sliced
1 yellow bell pepper, sliced
Pizza dough (recipe here)
1/2 cup salsa
12 ounces fresh mozzarella, sliced
8 large eggs
Salt and pepper

1.  Preheat the oven to 475.  Place the rack in the lowest position.
2.  Fry the bacon until chewy, then chop into bite size pieces.
3.  Fry the frozen hash browns in a large skillet over medium-high heat with 1 Tablespoon of the vegetable oil until they're just starting to brown ( I seasoned mine with Tony's).  Remove and set them aside on a plate.
4.In the same skillet, fry the red, green and yellow peppers over medium-high heat in the remaining 1 Tablespoon of vegetable oil for about 5 minutes or until brown.  Set aside.

5.  Roll out the pizza dough on a lightly oiled baking sheet.  Spread the salsa over the surface.
6.  Evenly distribute the sliced mozzarella over the top.

7.  Sprinkle on the hash browns, bell peppers and bacon.
8.  Crack the eggs here and there all over the surface of the pizza.

9.  Bake for 13-15 minutes or until the crust is golden and the eggs are set.  Serve immediately.



Caprese Salad (Ree Drummond)

(Reviewed by Tammy)
I LOVE Caprese Salad!  I could eat it everyday, just about every meal.  It's so refreshing, so healthy and so easy to make.  Plus it looks beautiful!  You've got to try it.

INGREDIENTS
2 cups balsamic vinegar
3 ripe tomatoes
12 ounces fresh mozzarella cheese, thickly sliced
Fresh basil leaves
Olive oil, for drizzling
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper


1.  Measure the balsamic vinegar.
2.  Pour into a saucepan.
3.  Bring it to a gentle boil over low heat.
4.  Cook for about 15 minutes or until it has reduced to a nice, thick (pourable) glaze.  Cool to room temp.
5.  Cut the tomatoes into thick slices.
6.  Arrange on a platter, alternating them with the mozzarella slices.
7.  Tuck whole basil leaves in between.
8.  Drizzle olive oil in a thin stream over the top.
9.  Drizzle on the balsamic reduction.
10.  Finally sprinkle salt and pepper on top.

Perfection!  Now tell me you don't like that!

Thursday, April 3, 2014

our goal

Hi everyone!

We are Tammy (mom) and Grace (daughter).  Both of us absolutely adore the Pioneer Woman (Ree Drummond). We love her show, recipes, giveaways...everything!  I (Grace) decided to try a few of her recipes a couple of weeks ago.  Every one that I tried was delicious.  I'm not the best cook, but her recipes were easy to follow.  We got an idea to choose 30 recipes from her  "Food From My Frontier" cookbook to go through the month of April.  We will post about the recipes we do, and whether we liked it or not.  Tonight, we are making Carnitas Pizza, along with her Caprese Salad.  We both can't wait to try it out and let you know what we think!  Pictures will be posted soon.  (:

Tammy & Grace