Brad and I decided to make pizza this week.
I forgot to start the dough on Wednesday like I was supposed to. So I started it in the bread machine on Thursday night instead.
And promptly forgot that it was there.
Posts tagged dinner
Herbed Baked Potatoes
Before sitting down to our crappy reality shows and usual tape cover-folding, we had to have dinner. 
Speaking of staples, potatoes are one of ours (sour cream too!).
Normally, baked potatoes aren’t experi-mental in our home, but I noticed some leftover fresh sage while getting our other usual additions out of the refrigerator and decided to add it to my potato.
Mid-Week Tex-Mex Veggie Quesadillas
When you work three jobs and/or are a student and want to eat food that won’t drive you to a triple bypass by the time you’re 40, 
like Brad and I have been for the past 3 years, you have to learn to come up with fast, nutritious meals. Savory baking is awesome for people like us because all you really have to do is a few preparations to get it together, stick it in the oven, and come back to check on it. In the meantime, you can write emails and essays and blogposts, take a break long enough to play a few songs on Guitar Hero, shower, or any of the other millions of little things that prevent you from standing at the stove keeping your fried-whatever from burning.
Homemade Baked French Fries
The sleet is falling, the roads are icy, our thermostat is at a chilly 70 degrees to keep the electric bill from ballooning, and Brad and I needed some comfort food to keep us warm. So we had chicken nuggets (real ones from Whole Foods) and french fries.
A few years ago, when we realized how horribly fattening most restaurant food is – especially our favorite, chicken nuggets and deep-fried french fries – we thought we could never have french fries again. We found some baked ones in bags at Whole Foods but with the $6 chicken nuggets and a $4 bag of french fries, it was one expensive meal.
I’m cheating a little here again, but this recipe started as an experiment to see if we could make the meal cheaper without making ourselves fatter. It became a fixture, something that I make at least once a week.
Experiments in Pizza Dough
This was originally posted on my other blog, What If. I’m moving it – and all of my baking posts – here in the next few weeks.
One of the things that I find so wonderful about baking is that I get to have tasty treats without paying huge amounts of money. It really started about two years ago, when ManPants and I researched a bunch of fast food restaurants (which is almost all of the restaurants around here) and realized that eating at them almost every day was not only hard on our bank account but not healthy in the slightest. Consuming more than a day’s recommended serving of fat in one meal was more rip-off than convenience. So we decided to cook a lot more often and I started to bake bread.
I didn’t attempt pizza dough until I’d learned a lot about break-baking, but pizza dough is in some ways far more forgiving.
Experiments in Savory Pancakes
This was originally posted on my other blog, What If. I’m moving it – and all of my baking posts – here in the next few weeks.
ManPants and I were lying in bed [back in August], trying to figure out what to make for dinner for the week. I was also trying to figure out something that I could bake on Sunday morning like I usually do, so we had Beth Hensperger’s Bread Bible (which I can’t recommend enough for its wealth of general baking knowledge and delicious recipes) with us.
