Food Blog Giveaways!
By Elizabeth | January 2, 2009
Lori at My Wooden Spoon is giving away the yummiest looking English Toffee EVER, from the site English Toffee Anytime. There are three prizes to win!
Redlady’s Reading Room is giving away the cookbook Confetti Cakes For Kids: Delightful Cookies, Cakes, and Cupcakes from New York City’s Famed Bakery.
Are you a food blogger running a giveaway? Leave me a comment and let me know so I can link to it!
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Happy New Year!
By Elizabeth | January 1, 2009
Wishing you all a Happy New Year! Best wishes for a joyful and prosperous 2009!
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Pillsbury Thin Crust Pizza Dough Breadsticks
By Elizabeth | December 30, 2008
I subscribe to the Hungry Girl newsletter, and in a recent mailing, she mentioned that Pillsbury’s Thin Crust Pizza Dough was the same dough as their Reduced Fat Crescent Rolls. Which makes me wonder how many different kinds of dough they really make, you know?
So anyway, I had a can of the Thin Crust Pizza Dough in the fridge, and I was looking for a bread side to serve with tonight’s dinner. I thought about trying to cut the dough into triangles and rolling it up like Crescents, but then I had an image flash in my head of me completely mangling the dough, so I decided to cut breadstick strips instead.
I unrolled the dough onto a large nonstick baking sheet, and used a pizza cutter to cut it into eight strips. I have to brag here for a minute-I didn’t measure the dough or anything, I cut it totally freehand, and got eight completely even strips-go me.
I took each strip and twisted it a bunch of times, then pressed the ends down so it wouldn’t unroll. This is the same method you use when you make Pillsbury’s canned Breadsticks, which I’m pretty sure come from the same dough as the Thin Crust Pizza Dough! Now, after tasting the finished product, I realized that what I should have done is brush the dough with olive oil and/or softened butter and sprinkled on some garlic salt before cutting and twisting. They looked like this before baking:
and like this after 13 minutes baked at 400 degrees:
With more seasonings, these would be SO good. By themselves with no seasonings, it’s like eating plain pizza dough. Good, but not great. I definitely recommend jazzing these up if you decide to make them!
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Hey! I’m still here!
By Elizabeth | December 26, 2008
I cannot believe it has been EIGHT DAYS since I last updated this blog. You guys, I am so sorry! I promised my husband that I would take a much-needed blog break back on the 19th, and I guess I really did. I know some people write posts ahead of time and schedule them to publish, but I don’t, so I’m really sorry about the no new content situation! BAD blogger :)
In cooking news, we had an early dinner on Christmas Eve before going to my Dad and Stepmom’s for our traditional gift exchange. I had Chris pick up a rotisserie chicken and served it with Roasted Garlic (instant) mashed potatoes, herbed stuffing, steamed peas, and crescent rolls.
On Christmas morning, I made breakfast for everyone with scrambled eggs and sausages, and Pillsbury sweet rolls. My husband had braved the crowd at Meijer on Christmas Eve day and my shopping list had Grands! Cinnamon Rolls on it. Only he called me from the store and said “honey? The Pillsbury Cinnamon Roll section is completely empty”!
Instead, we had Pillsbury Orange Rolls which I LOVE, and Pillsbury’s “Flaky Cinnamon Twists with Chocolate Icing”. Which are the same dough as the cinnamon rolls, only you unroll each one and make a loop and twist. Ryan helped with all the icing:
In the afternoon on Christmas Day, Chris’ Dad, Uncle, and Grandparents came over for a cold lunch buffet and gift exchange. We did a very easy variety of deli meats and cheeses, a veggie tray, and the wonderful basket of treats that my brother and his girlfriend had dropped off earlier in the day:
I could not believe this gift basket of goodies from my brother’s girlfriend, I had no idea she could bake! I mean, she can BAKE, people. That basket you see in the background has a jar of sugar cookie mix, two loaves of quick bread (the kind you bake in a clean can, something I need to look into), and baggies of snickerdoodles, sugar cookies, two kinds of fudge, peanut butter and jam bars, these balls made with cream cheese and powdered sugar rolled in coconut, another kind of cookie ball with chocolate chips and graham cracker crumbs (SO good), some little cookie ornaments for our tree, and homemade mint patties. THIS is the kind of gift I wish I had given this year!
I’m not sure what I’ll be posting in the upcoming week, I’d like to catch up with what all of you are doing! Let me know in a comment if you have something going on that I should read about. And thanks for reading !!!
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I need your recipes! Any kind!
By Elizabeth | December 18, 2008
Hi MomCooks readers! I have a big favor to ask you! See, I teamed up with two other food bloggers and the website EmealsForYou to run a recipe contest. The three of us asked our readers to post their favorite recipes that fit one of the categories on the EmealsForYou site in our comments. Then we are going to vote on all the recipes and pick the best three. Those three recipes are going to be published on EmealsForYou!
But see, I have a problem–I didn’t get ANY recipes posted in my comments. NONE! I know I have totally awesome readers, many of whom are cooks themselves, so I’m pleading with you again- please leave me a comment with either a link to or the directions for your favorite recipe! I’ll even make it easier for you by telling you what the categories are, your recipe needs to fit into one of these:
Appetizers - Great Beginnings
Beef Entrées -Here’s the Beef
Bread - Something smells good in here
Chicken Entrées -Not the same old chicken recipes
Cooking for the Kids - Meals the kids will love
Cooking on a Budget
Desserts - Just Desserts
Diet Friendly - Good for you, balanced recipes
Easy Recipe I Can Cook - Don’t be put off by the name game!
Fish Entrées - Food for thought
Food on the Run - Grab it and Go, food on the run!
Misc - Drinks, snacks, etc.
Salad - It’s not just for rabbits anymore
Slow Cooker / Crock Pot Cooking - Busy Day Cooking
Sodium Reduced - Healthier recipes for sodium restricted diets
Soups - Comfort food with a Capital C
Starch -Stoke Up
The Other Meat Entrée - Man can’t live on Veggies alone
Vegan - For those who choose a diet based on a respect for the natural world.
Vegetables - No need to hide these in your napkin!
Vegetarian Entrée -A delicious way to get the things that are good for you.
WOW (Watching Our Waists) - Careful eating, not tasteless eating
So there you go MomCooks readers, please leave me a link to or the directions for any recipe you think is the best in one of those categories! If you could leave it by say, tomorrow, that would be super awesome!!
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