Pizza Time

Hey, y’all. 🙂

Sorry for the longer than norm absence.  I just haven’t felt like blogging.  Lupus fatigue and other stuff.

Shall we catch up? 😉

First though, Happy Birthday, Mama B.  I love you so much. 🙂

I say this all the time but in the grand parental lottery we hit the supper dupper jackpot with ours. 🙂  Mama B, you.are.everything and I know I can speak for Sister B and even Papa B when I say none of us would be half the people we are without your constant unconditional love, compassion and support.  I love you. 🙂

Made up the dough and balls the night before. One thing I’ve noticed when using gjJules flour with cookies…they turn out and hold together so much better if you chill the dough over night.

She wanted her usual batch of B-Day chocolate chip cookies instead of a cake so I made our fam fav Neiman’s cookies using gfJules flour.  As you can see it worked perfectly in yet another recipe.  🙂

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What in the expletive is this supposed to be?  I wouldn’t wear this if they paid me the $155.

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Ran out of my beloved Hawaiian Mac Oil.  Thank you, CA for replacing my stash. Love you. 🙂

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Y’all supporters are so…well mostly sad but also funny.  Throwing your support behind this failure just because he’s as racist as you are.  Sad…but still funny.

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Can somebody explain those Hadid model people to me…twitter style in 140 characters or less?  Like what do they do?  Are they like Kardashians…talentless semi pretty people famous for basically doing nothing but looking semi pretty?

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Now…about that pizza. 🙂

Overnight icebox rise.  That looks weird.  I had tucked the dough all up in a ball and that’s how it opened up as it rose.

6 inch pans.  The little specs you see are spices in the dough.

Bottom didn’t get quite crisp enough for me so I did the skillet crisping trick for about 2 minutes. Perfecti.

So remember when I ordered all those gfJules mixes after Christmas? Well this was one of them.  Now before I say anything else let me say that I’m sure the recipe on the box works great but I’m far too much of a pizza snob to ever put egg whites in my pizza dough.  Again this is my preference.  You do you and don’t worry about me. 😉

Most of my new readers lately end up here by searching for Jules flour so I’m sharing this to show that it even works doing something different with it.  If you read the old blog you know my fav homemade pizza dough is the mock Pizza Hut pan pizza dough.  I know.  I just said I’m a pizza snob and I love Pizza Hut dough.  That’s right.  Shoot me.  On second thought all these pieces of human garbage running around shooting people…no don’t do that.  😉

If you’re not familiar with that dough recipe it’s been going around since the mid 80’s…although when I went to find a link for it here I found several fairly new blogs posting it like it was something the blogger just created themselves yesterday.  Whatever.  Plenty of us have been making it since the 80’s and know y’all are lying.

Anyway…if you’re not famil with it it’s just flour, dry milk, yeast, sugar, salt, oil, water and then PAM type spray for the edges.

I’m gonna add what I did in recipe form at the end of the post but I just used 1 pizza pack (each box has 2) for the flour, sugar and salt. Added my own milk powder (I use Peak dry whole milk powder), yeast and water.

Side note…Jules has some sort of dairy free powder included in the mix but we’re not dairy free and I mean really have we not met? I don’t do dairy free. 😉

It turned out fantastic.  Her pizza mix has spices already in it (like garlic and oregano) and it smelled so strong when I mixed it up.  I was honestly a little worried about it…but it’s perfectly seasoned.  Even Mama B was able to eat it and she’s super sensitive to overly seasoned stuff.

If you’re looking at the Jules mixes and have to pick one or 2 to try I say go with the pizza and pancake mixes.  You won’t be sorry.  🙂

That’s all for now. 🙂  Y’all have a good weekend and I’ll see you soon. 🙂

Music for Mama, B. She loved(loves) this song and to this day every single time I hear it I think about her, Neelie, Marsha.  🙂

Pan Pizza Dough Using gfJules Pizza Dough Mix

1 pack of gfJules Pizza Dough Mix

2 tbsp dry Milk Powder

1 tsp dry Yeast

1 tbsp Oil

1/2 cup warm Water

3 tbsp Oil (for pans split between each pan)

PAM type spray for edges

Directions

This made 2 six inch pan pizzas.

I mixed everything up with my hand mixer with dough hooks for 5 minutes.

Let rise on the counter til it almost doubled then into the icebox overnight.

Dived dough and shaped.

Transferred shaped pizza dough to pans.

Sprayed all around the dough edges with Crisco butter spray.

Didn’t do a rise at all.

Baked at 375* in the convection oven without toppings for 10 minutes then with toppings about 15 additional minutes.

Bottom wasn’t as crispy as I like (because I used regular pans instead of cast iron) so I heated a skillet to med-high and heated the pizza for about 2 minutes.

Road Trippin’

Hey, y’all.  🙂

So we took a little road trip with the fam. 🙂

Radio blaring and feet on the dash of course. 😉

Can y’all believe the bluebonnets are already blooming?

Went to my beloved Gruene, TX.  It’s this little tiny Texas town on the Guadalupe River with one of the oldest dance halls in TX.  Oh Gruene hall, we had some nights back in the day. 😉  It’s where George Strait started and where the back cover pic of his first album was shot.

Ate at the Grist.  Because of some health stuff that I’ve been talking around here on the blog I couldn’t get my usual sausage plate so I settled on some tortilla soup and queso (didn’t get a pic).  Plus a shared sundae.

Besides the dance hall and restaurants there are a few little craft / antique type shops plus some wine shops.  Couldn’t resist the Aggie wind chime and immediately found it a home in the back yard. 😉

Also seen…do y’all see that sign, my five fav dallas-ites?  Life is too short.  Y’all come join us down here in the land of the living. 😉

Some home food pics from last week…

Another cheeseburger roll.  Unlike the last one I am happy with these pics so I have to share.  🙂

And then it was…

Gluten – free Pizzookie time. 🙂   I used my fav brown butter chocolate chip cookie recipe from the old blog.  Using gfJules flour instead of the other flour.  I made up half the recipe and then used 12 oz of that for the pizzookie…baked in a 6 inch cast iron at 375* for 13 minutes. It was so good and everyone keeps asking to have it again.  Soon, y’all.  Soon. 🙂

Made some cute little gluten – free grilled cheese ‘sliders’ with the do it all dough I’ve been working on.

And finally…

and listen to some classic George while you’re doing all of that. 😉

Ok that’s all for today.  Y’all have a great week and I’ll see you soon. 🙂

 

Ice Cream Bread

Hey, y’all. 🙂

I wasn’t feeling well last week but hopefully this week will be better.

Early voted even though I wasn’t feeling well.

Just a couple of reminders during this election period.  🙂

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Gathered up a couple of loads of clothes to donate…in my case to the women and children’s shelter.  Sharing this just as a reminder that now is a great time of year to go thru your stuff and see what you and your children can share with someone less fortunate. 🙂

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Started watching 11.22.63.  If you’re not familiar it’s a new hulu original produced by Stephen King and JJ Abrams where crazy James Franco’s character travels back in time via a diner pantry to the early 60’s in order to try to stop Oswald from allegedly 😉 killing Kennedy.  Just the kinda crazy you’d expect from James Franco. 😉  The premier ep was pretty good.  Not digging the rollout though, hulu. If this is gonna be weekly eps instead of releasing them all at once like Amazon and Netflix do then we’re  just gonna wait til all the eps are out in few weeks. Get with it, hulu.  If we want to watch traditional style TV we’d just watch regular TV.

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RIP, Harper Lee.  🙁

Over the last 2 days I’ve seen or heard some of the most hateful racist people referencing To Kill A Mockingbird / posting meme’s…ect in a positive way.  Makes me wanna scream.  Some of y’all need to reread the book because y’all ARE the horrible people from the book.

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Do y’all like Annie’s Gluten – Free mac and cheese ?  I really like the deluxe one in the blue box with the squeeze packet of cheese.  The purple box?  Not so much.  Mama B likes the shells shape the best though but always wants me to make homemade cheese sauce for her.  So I end up with a bunch of left over powdered cheese packets.

What should I do with them?

 

Make cheesy bread of course. 🙂

Look at that.  No holes.  Just soft chewy stretchy buttery bread. 🙂

The dough I’ve been playing around with.  For this batch I mixed in the Annie’s cheese packet plus some parm.  I’m running out of words to express how good the gfJules flour is working for well everything but esp this dough.  Made some of it into garlic toast to go with gluten – free shrimp alfredo for Lent Friday…over rice because I didn’t feel like messing with boiling pasta.  And guess what? The whole fam loved it over rice.  That made me really happy because sometimes I just absolutely hate messing with boiling gluten – free pasta.

Ignore the writing on the Saran wrap…it was for something else.

I’m not happy with these pics but I’m sticking them in to show how versatile the dough was.  The next day I used the rest of that batch to make a cheeseburger roll.

Now to the title of this post…Ice Cream Bread.

Have y’all made this?  I’m probably way late to this one but when I saw it last week I had to give it a try.

1 1/2 cups Self Rising Flour**

2 cups melt-y Ice Cream any flavor I used vanilla

Sprinkles I used a spring mix

**I used 1 1/2 cups gfJules flour plus 1 1/2 tsp baking powder and 1/4 tsp salt per cup to make homemade self rising flour.

so for this particular recipe

1 1/2 cups flour

2 1/4 tsp Baking Powder

1/4 plus 1/8 tsp Salt

It’s kinda like banana bread consistency.

Ok I’m only posting this to show that it can be done gluten – free…but having made it and tasted it…I’m honestly not sure why anyone would want to do this.  It was interesting and looked pretty but it was also pretty blah.  Maybe if I’d used a stronger flavored ice cream and different add ins it might have been better but I really can’t imagine ever making this again to test it out.  I can’t be wasting my Blue Bell like that.  😉

Hope y’all have a great week…if you’re in Texas go early vote…and I’ll see ya soon. 🙂

Strawberry Filled Brownies

Hey, Y’all.  🙂

I’m gonna just randoms this today…recipe at the end as always. 🙂

A little bit of V-Day advice…

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So let’s do the serious topic first. I got a couple email about the Johnny Manziel domestic abuse story.  Basically wanting to know if I was going to defend him given our A&M allegience.  Uhm…hell no.  I defended his college drinking and partying all the time and always will.  He was a college kid.  That’s what they do. This? No way. He has a history of domestic violence so no benefit of the doubt on this one. And to the media and fans trying to paint him as ‘troubled’ or a drunk / addict.  Yeah he’s troubled and probably both but ya know what? He can take a seat in jail and dry out / do AA or whatever in there.

I won’t throw him in the human garbage pile til there are pics and / or court transcripts / a conviction.  But defend him on this…never ever ever.

Those of you who know me in person know that I’m always screaming patience (let’s see the evidence first) but see with this he already got away with hitting her once.  Which is 100% sad /ridic and a million other things.  One of those things being his wake up to get himself in check.  He chose not to do that.  Not his dad.  Not his team.  Not the girlfriend.  Him.  So whether he hit her or not this time he and only he put himself in the position for any of this to happen.  I don’t care if she seems like a mess too.  He put himself in the room with her.

Now if it comes out she put a gun to his head…forced him to the room…then forced him to hit her…I’ll apologize.  Pretty sure that’s never gonna happen.  So you just go right ahead and take a seat in jail, JM where you belong.

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Staying with the sports theme…

Former A&M QB’s Kyler and Kyle…y’all know what?   The succesful / talented players who leave here never have anything bad to say.  Interesting. 😉

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This Beyoncé stuff is ridiculous.  Doubtful they’ve actually listened to the song at all.  Protesting over someone with a powerful voice wanting those who protect and serve to stop MURDERING young black men is dumber than usual for these fools.  A badge is not a license to kill.  Keep on screaming it loud, Queen Bey. 🙂

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Well y’all definitely picked the right doofuses for that one. 😉  Screen shot from a Windows live News tile today.

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Look what came this week. 🙂 31 pounds of gfJules flour. It cost a little more but instead of buying 3 ten pound bags I got a bunch of smaller bags.  Because of the 100* + temps in the summertime here (meaning even hotter while stuck on a delivery truck all day) I always order a big batch of flour to last between now (while it’s cooler) and like November when it’s cools off again.  Jules says that her flour does best when stored out of the super cold (icebox / freezer) so this way I can keep the flour in the coolest room of the house all summer and then just have one smaller bag opened at a time.

Recipe time…

Have y’all ever tried this brownie recipe?

You take any brownie mix (or even your own recipe) and mix it up according to directions.  I used the gfjules brownie mix I ordered after Christmas and used butter instead of oil.  Jules has to cook dairy free (I think) but I don’t and just like butter and chocolate better.

Rough spread half of it in a brownie pan.

I can’t get this to rotate correctly but it’s Ghirardelli Valentine’s Strawberry filled squares.

Place 12 of them on top like this.  Did this in halves to show the next step better.

A little trick for helping top when recipes call for half on the bottom half on the top.  Spray a piece of Saran really well.  Plop the required amount of batter / dough in the center. Obviously only do this if your batter / dough is thick enough for it. 🙂  Fold Saran over on top and them press out in between to the needed size.

Then just plop the dough on top. Peel off the Saran and no mess or fuss. You don’t lose any batter to your hands and it’s just so much less mess and frustration trying to get it even.

After it’s all layered follow the temp and time on your mix or recipe and bake til done.  I used my convection oven at 325* for about 14 minutes.

Let it cool and then you have a little gooey strawberry filling in each piece.

Only the good china for this girl. 😉

I always try to give my reviews on the new gluten – free stuff I try.  Since I like to read reviews myself before trying stuff so I know what to expect. I adore the gfJules flour and the mixes I’ve tried have all turned out exactly as I expected them to.  The only issue I have with them at all…including this brownie mix is they’re not sweet enough for me.  This is 100% my issue and nothing on them at all as we all have different sugar preferences.  As y’all know mine lean more toward freebasing it 😉 …and the mixes are more light handed. 🙂   Just my opinion though and I’ll still order my favs when they’re on sale and just add additional sweetness.  No biggie but I still like to share for the next person looking for reviews.  🙂

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Happy Valentine’s Day.  🙂

See y’all soon. 🙂

Watched Top Gun the other night. Even though Tom C turned out to be more than a little cray…it still totally took me back to 1oth grade.  🙂

Individual King Cakes

Hey, y’all. 🙂

It’s little Friday.  AKA Thursday.  🙂

Do y’all have big super bowl plans this weekend?

No health news this week.   Trying to fight thru the pain while I get my insurance situation settled.  I might write about the insurance drama soon.

 

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Did y’all watch the OJ show this week?  I was addicted to the OJ drama / trial when it was happening.  I think the casting for this new tv show is pretty spot on except for Travolta playing Shapiro.  I can’t buy that at all.  I also think it’s a sign I’ve been watching too much Roku content when I can’t stand the thought of having to wait 10 weeks of watching to get to the end of the series. Instead of being able to binge it all in a few days.

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All the talk about the new Barbie lead me to an article about this other body positive doll, Lammily.  100% cool with her but the pic above?  You can order a “Period Party” kit for her. A booklet about periods plus period underwear with sticker ‘pads’.  What?  I get the whole point of the doll is to give girls a realistic body image and I’m all for open body talk with kids but I mean wouldn’t the kids playing with these dolls be a little young for period pad stickers?

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Watched this docu, Iris. About quirky stylist Iris Apfel.

This lady.  She’s just as quirky as you’d imagine her to be.

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My latest coloring book creation.  Coloring really does zen you out.  🙂

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So next Tuesday is Mardi Gras and of course King Cake time.  I decided to make individual King Cakes this year.

After rolling up I had a few busted spots…

…which were easily covered with the icing and sprinkles.  For size context that’s a square salad or side sized plate.

Y’all know how I feel about tightly / multiple rolls King Cakes…it’s not a King Cake if it’s not flatter / loosely rolled. 😉

This was the best gluten – free King Cake I’ve ever made (or eaten).  I used half of my usual recipe which is just the Southern Living recipe which calls for sour cream.  I used gfJules flour and instead of sour cream I used vanilla yogurt because I’ve been playing around with a base / do it all type dough for a while and I’ve been using plain yogurt in it and really loving the results.

I still can’t say enough good stuff about gfJules flour.  I just ordered 32 pounds. Of course about 5 hours after I placed my order she sent out a 15% off everything coupon so I missed out on that but I think it’s still going on if y’all want to check out her store.  I’m not sure but you might have to subscribe to her daily email to get the discount.  If you’re at all interested in ordering some you should sign up anyway.  She sends out a recipe each day and the email has different sales / discounts each week.

That’s all for today.  Thanks so much for reading. See ya soon. 🙂