Saturday, October 1, 2011

Halloween Pocket Sandwiches

I purchased some frozen bread dough as a back-up on one of my other experiments, but it ended up coming out alright - so I had these sitting in the freezer, collecting crystals.

You just need to defrost this bag and even though the pieces are sectioned off for you already - feel free to use more or less, depending on your sandwich.


Once its nice and soft, stretch it out to a thin square and then begin pressing into the mold. Don't worry about filling in every crevice - as it bakes it will shape perfectly.  Pinch away the excess as necessary.  If you are happy with it, then take some of your deli meat (and if you are using cheese) and roll it up to fit in the center.  For this, I used deli ham and white cheddar - rolling up together. 




Take another piece of the bread dough - again making a thin square and place over the mold.

 Finally, pinch everything in sealing it up the best that you can.  Bake at 350, for about 12 min. I noticed that if I left a little escape hole when pinching it together, some of the oils would drip down in the mold making the shape nice and brown.  Therefore, you may consider brushing the inside of the shape with a little butter.





Ta-da! The end result. 

The fun thing about this is that you don't have to fill them with anything!  You could actually take the dough and push in whole to make some fun themed dinner rolls!  But, the list is endless for fillings - you could do pizza sauce and cheese, any dessert pie filling, cookie dough - maybe?  Oh, I'm just going to get myself into trouble with these.  Guess I will need all of the seasonal baking pans!

So if you have other ideas on what to do with these, please leave a comment! Don't be shy! We are all here to learn, right?

Monday, August 29, 2011

Yay - I'm a stay at home mommy!

Well, it's official.  I left my job two weeks ago and have moved to the east coast.  My husband just started his 1 year school program and so I get to stay at home with our children.  It's been fun ...will take some more adjusting of schedules, routines, making sure I get out of the house, etc...but for the most part wonderful.

Tonight, I made my husband some yummy granola bars to take with him to class.  I got the recipe from this fabulous blog:
http://www.gwens-nest.com/family-favorite-recipes/granola-bar-recipe

I'm also getting into Bento Boxes.  But I need more practice in my artistic design, so more pictures later.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Nesting

In my days leading up to childbirth, it appears that I was experiencing nesting.  And although I mostly knew that, I had no idea how much.  I did successfully plan out approximately 3 months worth of menus and saved my family a significant amount of money because of cooking dinner at home and bringing lunch to work everyday.  However, I am now off on maternity leave and all of my pre-plan cooking has been to our advantage.  But it has also occurred to me that starting this blog was probably due to part of that nesting. Strange that they say if you do something for 21 days it'll become a habit. ...clearly I dropped off though.
 
My husband is still home with me on "paternity" leave for one more week.  That being said....it's time to get back on the horse and menu plan again.
more to come...

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally...

Remember that from school days with mathematics?

Anyways, in the slightest reference I can make towards math - where 3+1=4, I had baby recently...so I've been absent from the blog world. I promise to come back soon with more menus, and lessons learned on preparational (word?) cooking...that is to say, I prepared meals while I was feeling good in the last week before having baby and we've been eating on those since. Comes in very handy.

Anyhow, patience please and I'll be back soon.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Menu for week of March 21

I completely missed the boat last week, as I was trying to get my house in order, baby clothes washed and preparing for my mom to visit. I'm just down to a waiting game for new baby to arrive, so please forgive me for lack of posts.  I also haven't been as busy in the kitchen lately because the weather is nicer and I want to be outside more.  Plus, I don't like being on my feet so much these days.

I invested in a new iPad, which I thought would help my blogging, but come to find out that it doesn't like the features that help you compose posts, and so everything has to be done in HTML. I do know HTML, but I'm trying to keep it simple...trying to find alternatives. 

THIS IS LUNCH:


Monday
Grilled Cheese with Bacon and Tomato Slices, Potato Chips
Tuesday
Cheddar Bacon Quiche with mixed greens salad and crasins.
Wednesday
Chicken Salad Sandwiches, Pringles, Yogurt, Jello
Thursday
Eating Out for Lunch
Friday
Cheese Quesadillas with Pico and Guacamole, Chips
Saturday
Chicken Salad Sandwiches
Sunday
FFY/Leftovers


THIS IS DINNER:

Monday
Meatloaf, Mashed Potatoes and Whole Wheat Roll
Tuesday
Breakfast for dinner? French Toast, Sausage, Cereal, etc.
Wednesday
Pork Chops, Macaroni and Cheese with side of Mixed Vegetables
Thursday
Breaded Chicken Strips, Sweet Potatoes, Vegetable/Salad
Friday
Shrimp with Angel Hair in Garlic Butter Sauce (It's Lent season, but I am already burnt out on Pizza *gasp*)
Saturday
Cheeseburgers and French Fries
Sunday
Our night for Family Dinner - Tacos or Enchilladas

Thanks for stopping by!

Monday, March 14, 2011

Help, Help! I'm drowning from non-existent time management

Ok, so I'm a little disorganized this week.  Baby coming soon, house is crazy, job is busy, and life has just gotten in the way. More posted on Tuesday...I promise.

Monday, March 7, 2011

Menu for the week of March 7

Busy, busy, busy.  My husband started trial this week...err...let me say that different - My husband, an attorney, is on the defendant's side for his first trial this week.  Very nervewracking!  He's been able to settle or win on Motion to Dismiss on every other lawsuit for the past 5 years.  We were in bed last night by 10pm; whoa, does that feel strange. Our normal bedtime is usually 12/12:30AM

So many things on my to do list this week. I've been reading a lot about bloggers that have 15 minutes scheduled within their day to "plan" or "write down their to dos"  This seems impossible for me. I get writer's block - can't think of anything...yet I know I have things to do. I think of things on the fly and when I'm laying down in bed at night decompressing (that's when they come to me), but I fall asleep writing them down. Then I spend all night with ink on my sheets - or sleeping on a pencil...which is most uncomfortable. Will need to research more work-arounds on how to accomplish this task, because my life needs more planning and organizing.

Thoughts? Tips & tricks?  Please do share!

THIS IS LUNCH:


Monday
Eating out - Trial
Tuesday
Eating out - Trial
Wednesday
Hopefully Trial is over today:  Maybe I'll bring a salad - spinach with pears is sounding very yummy.
Thursday
Left Overs from dinner
Friday
Day off work - yay!  Grilled Cheese or BLTs
Saturday
Cheeseburgers - with the weather being nice hopefully we can grill outside and eat too!
Sunday
FFY
THIS IS DINNER:

Monday
Left over Pasta and Spaghetti Sauce
Tuesday
Chicken Sauteed with Bell Peppers Fajita style; tortillas; Mexi-Corn
Wednesday
Spinach Ricotta Cheese stuffed Manicotti - Homemade Alfredo Sauce
Thursday
Chicken Caesar Salads with Garlic Bread; small side of fruit
Friday
Pizza Night - possibly out because we'll celebrate victory from Wednesday
Saturday
Southwest Veggie Quesadillas (still have mix left over in the freezer)
Sunday
Family Dinner - at in-laws

Thanks for stopping by!