Cooking Challenge Day 8

Fresh Veggie French Bread Pizza: Ok I admit I love just about anything that relates to pizza in anyway so I was quite looking forward to this one. Yes, Pizza is its own special food group. I picked up a French Begat and thought this would make a great lunch or afternoon snack. Then I had a series of days in which I was never home for lunchtime and would end up grabbing something while I was out and get home for dinner. I didn’t want the Begat to go bad (because letting a loaf of bread go bad is blasphemy)  and I still did want to make the pizzas. So I adapted the recipe to fit my schedule and made it a breakfast pizza by topping it off with eggs and ham. It was quite tasty and also helped solve my breakfast dilemma. As some of you may know because I have touched on it before. My usual idea of breakfast is to eat a bread like substance (bagel, toast, muffin etc..) or maybe a bowl of cereal. But my partner likes to have an actual meal for breakfast and I get stuck trying to figure out different things to serve for breakfast sine I am not a huge fan breakfast as a whole. So I was able to make my pizzas and had an idea for what to make for breakfast.

Apple Crisp Tarts: These are addictive, just like eating little mini bites of apples pie and great for anyone who does like the idea of apple pie but perhaps lacks the time or patience to actually make a pie. (I admit though I love to bake I hate making pie dough). With the holidays coming up they are also great either if you need to make desert for a crowed or you need some sort of Hours d’Oeurves like desert.  If you do happen to enjoy making your own pie dough than you can use home made or you can use store bought pie dough (just not the pie crust that comes already in the “> pie plate). You roll your pie dough out cut 2 inch circles and drop them into a muffin pan, than you make up a mixture of diced apples, sugar, cinnamon, lemon juice and corn starch, and let it simmer for about . Add spoonfuls of the apple filling to your muffin tins and top with a crumble topping than bake for about 20 minutes.

Cooking Challenge Day 7

I have had a bit going on that took me away from my challenge for a bit but I am trying to get back into it again.

So for my next one I made Italian Naan Nachos which I thought was an interesting concept. For those who are not familiar with Naan it is an Indian style flat bread. So for this recipe you use the Naan in place of chips, and cut them up into little triangle pieces. I did make some adaptions. The recipe called for banana peppers and pepperoncini neither of which am I huge fan of the flavor of. So instead I just did jalapeno and bell peppers. In addition it is chicken, olives, onion, mozzarella cheese and Alfredo sauce. All in all it is a rather easy dish to put together. There is of course the prep work in cutting everything and pre-cooking the chicken but than it is basically throw it all into a skillet and stick in oven.  It was quite tasty.