Peanut Life Adventures

Monday, June 17, 2013

Homemade Pizza

Without a doubt, M's favorite food of all time is pizza. I think before we were married, he probably at pizza a few times a week in one form or another. I am also a big fan of pizza (although I am a plain cheese girl). Pizza has become part of our regular dinner rotation appearing every week, almost always on Friday nights, which is when M would have pizza night as a kid.
Often times, I will make pizza rolls for us (recipe coming soon!). One night though, I wanted to be a bit different (or was feeling lazy) and decided to make homemade pizza on the pizza stone instead. I was really impressed with myself and pleased with how it turned out (minus the setting off the fire alarm when warming up the stone! Note to self, make sure the stone is 100% cleaned off and there is not a crumb on it before putting it in the oven to warm up)
Enjoy this recipe for homemade pizza!

Homemade Pizza
Recipe Adapted from Annie's Eats

Ingredients:

1/2 cup warm water
2 1/4 tsp instant yeast
4 cups flour
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 1/4 cup room temperature water
2 TBSP olive oil
3/4 cup pizza sauce
2 cups mozzarella cheese (or whatever type you like best)
Toppings as desired

Directions:

Put the warm water in a 2 cup glass measuring cup and sprinkle the yeast over the top. In a stand mixer, combine the flour and salt. Add in the room temperature water to the glass measuring cup. Turn on the mixer to low speed and slowly add in the water/yeast mixture and olive oil. Switch to dough hook once the mixture is combined and knead until smooth (about five minutes). Transfer to a lightly oiled boil and cover with plastic wrap and let rise until double in size about 1 1/2 to 2 hours.

Preheat over to 500 degrees and put in pizza stone to warm for 30 minutes.

Press down dough and deflate it. Divide dough into to equal pieces and form each into a ball. You may freeze one ball if only making one pizza.

Carefully shape the dough on the pizza stone (don't burn yourself). Top as desired.

Bake until the crust is a golden brown, and cheese is bubbling - 8-12 minutes.

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Saturday, June 15, 2013

Save me some Saturday #4

I'm back! This last week has been really crazy for me since it was the last week of school. I'm finally finally finally on summer vacation! Wheee! I am so ready for some down time and some time to decompress.

Anyways.... back to blog land I go :)

Can you believe we are halfway through June and tomorrow is Father's day?

Here's some coupons you can use to help you celebrate :) I hope you find something useful. Have a great weekend!

Breakfast in Bed (made by the kids)

Special Father's Day Cake (or cookies)!

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Draw a picture for your dad, or sit down for a board game...

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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Summer bucket list

Ahhhh today is finally the last day with students for the school I work at. It certainly has been quite the crazy up and down year! (More on that later)
To celebrate the start of summer, I wanted to share with you the literal summer"bucket" list I made for my husband and myself.

Cute and easy to make. All you need is some clothepins and some type of can/bucket/round container.
Write the things you want to do on the clothespins. As you complete them, drop them in the bucket. It's a fun way to make the most of summer and make sure you get to all those fun activities!

Here's what's on my clothespins this year

Go to a Twins game
Play Sand Volleyball
Go for a Bike Ride
Noah's Ark
Six Flags or other amusement park
Have a movie night
Bonfire
Badmiton tournament in the backyard
Learn to Kyak
Go Canoeing
Beach Swimming

What's on your bucket list for the summer? I'm sure my husband and I will be adding a few things this weekend!

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Monday, June 3, 2013

Oatmeal and White Chocolate Chip Cookies

I know I am a strange girl. I don't really like chocolate that much. Or at least not most things with chocolate - no chocolate chip cookies, brownies or fudge, or candy bars or things like that. Pretty much the only chocolate I do like is plain Hershey bars and M&Ms. However, I do like white chocolate chips. Weird I know, but that's what I like. When I saw this recipe on Pinterest, I was like - those look good - and made them the very next day - go me! Why don't you give them a try! I highly recommend them :)

Oatmeal and White Chocolate Chip Cookies
Recipe adapted from Six Sisters

Ingredients:

1 cup softened butter
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup white sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extra
3 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups old fashioned rolled oats
2 cups white chocolate chips

Directions:
Cream together the butter and sugars. Add in eggs, one at a time, and the vanilla and beat well. Stir in the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt and beat well until thoroughly mixed. Slowly add in the oats and white chocolate chips. Using a cookie scoop, drop onto a greased cookies sheet. Bake for 9-12 minutes at 350 degrees. Let cool for two minutes on cookie sheet before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.

Enjoy!

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