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Pizza Rolls and our Menu Plan

CupcakeLady — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:19:55 +0000

We are really enjoying this time of year, all the yummy baking there is to be done, and the fun decorating too. Doug and I spent the afternoon Sunday finishing the outside decorating, be sure to stop back on Wednesday to see what we made with this pile of sticks…

You may JUST be amazed

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Now, back to our recipe…Pizza Rolls are a family favorite, they can be made many different ways. Here is how I make ours…

Pizza Rolls

Make pizza rolls for your family tonight! Recipe from HoosierHomemade.com.

Ingredients

Pizza Rolls Recipe:

1 batch of bread machine pizza dough with some Italian seasoning added (recipe below)
1 jar of Ragu Sauce (I used spaghetti, because that’s what I had on hand, and it worked fine)
1 package of pepperoni (Aldi’s has it for about $2)
Italian or Mozzerella cheese, shredded

Bread Machine Pizza Dough Recipe: (adapted from All Recipes )

2 1/2 cups flour (I use all-purpose)
2 teaspoons sugar
2 teaspoons active dry yeast
3/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons oil
7/8 cup warm water
2 tablespoons Italian seasoning (optional)

Instructions

Add ingredients to your bread machine, according to your manufacturer and set to the machine to the dough cycle. This usually takes about 1 1/2 hours (on mine). When the machine beeps, remove the dough.
Roll dough out onto a floured surface,(you may need to kneed it some) into a rectangle. Cover with sauce, then pepperoni and then cheese.
Roll up dough, jelly roll style (long end) and slice into pieces about 1 inch thick. Place onto greased cookie sheet or pizza stone.
Bake at 350 degrees for about 10 minutes or until golden brown.

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Our Menu Plan for this week:

Monday ~ Breakfast for Dinner – Homemade McGriddles, Fried Potatoes

Tuesday ~Baked Potato Bar and Sausage Cheese Balls

Wednesday ~ Taco Ring, Rice, Chips and Salsa

Thursday ~ Ravioli, Salad, Garlic Bread

Friday ~ Pizza Rolls, Salad

Saturday – Corn Doggies (What’s Cookin’ recipe)

Sunday ~ Lasagna, Salad, Garlic Toast

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Weekly Menu Plan ~ Meatballs in Gravy

CupcakeLady — Mon, 10 May 2010 11:58:39 +0000

Welcome to another great week of Menu Planning! I hope you all had a wonderful Mother’s Day Mine was especially nice. We had planned on going to a Minor League Baseball Game, but the weather was too cold, so we opted to go to my favorite garden center and then out to eat. Doug bought me a new computer last week that I desperately needed, it’s making my online time much easier, cutting my time down alot. Andrew bought me a tripod for my camera and Flip Video camera, I’m really excited about that too.

This Spring is just flying by, my boys only have 18 days of school left. Andrew will graduate from High School on June 6th. Wow! I can hardly believe it!

Well, I’ll have to admit, our meals last week didn’t go quite as planned. I was so SUPER busy preparing for the Mother’s Day Extravaganza, we just had leftovers a couple nights and on Friday, we ordered pizza. Between baseball games, practice and preparing for the awesome day of giveaways on Thursday, dinners kind of took a back seat. Anyway, we all survived, and my house is pretty much back in order. Come Wednesday, I was really wishing that I had taken time for a Make-Ahead Meals Cooking Day. I’m keeping my fingers crossed it will work out this week.

Have you entered all the amazing giveaways that I have for you?!? Hurry! They end tonight

I have another great Make-Ahead Meal for you, from the Make-Ahead Meals for Busy Moms cookbook, to share with you today. I’m sorry, I don’t have a picture yet, but I will add one after I cook the dinner.

Meatballs in Gravy

Cook Time: 1 hour, 25 minutes

Yield: This recipe makes approximately 76 meatballs. Depending on your family size, you should have enough for 2-3 meals.

Make-ahead Meatballs and Gravy recipe from HoosierHomemade.com

Ingredients

2 1/2 lbs. ground turkey
2 lbs. ground beef
2 large eggs
1 1/2 cups Italian-style bread crumbs
3 garlic cloves, minced
1 medium onion, finely chopped
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground pepper
1/3 cup Parmesan cheese, grated
1/3 cup milk
2 (10 3/4 oz) cans Cream of Mushroom soup
2 cups water
2 envelopes (0.87 oz each) turkey gravy mix
12 oz. fresh mushrooms, sliced

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a large mixing bowl, combine the ground turkey and beef, eggs, bread crumbs, garlic, onion, salt, pepper, cheese and milk.
Mix well and form into balls.
Place on a large, cookie sheet and cook for 25 minutes.
Mix soup, water, gravy mix and mushrooms in the Crockpot.
Add the meatballs and mix well. Cook on High for 1 hour.

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Here is what we will be eating this week…

Monday ~ Meatballs and Gravy, Mashed Potato Casserole

Tuesday ~ Southwestern Salad and Cheesy Chili Dip

Wednesday ~ Breakfast for Dinner ~ IHop French Toast, fruit

Thursday ~ Chicken Pot Pie

Friday ~ Sausage Calzones

Saturday ~ Mostacolli, Garlic Bread, Salad

Sunday ~ Honey Sauced Chicken Wings, Potato Wedges

I’m looking forward to seeing you on Tuesday for another fun Cupcake Tuesday, where you can share your cupcake and muffin creations with everyone.

Be sure to enter the Mother’s Day Extravaganza Giveaways! And the giveaway for the What’s New, Cupcake? book ends tonight too.

This post linked to:

~I’m An Organizing Junkie

~$5 Dinner Challenge

Meals~March 8-14~Cheeseburger Mac

CupcakeLady — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:12:13 +0000

Welcome to another great week of meal planning! I’m always glad come Sunday afternoon, when I get ready to post my meals for the upcoming week and I have the meals planned already because I did my Monthly Meal.

Our meals last week went pretty well, the Bobby Dean Goulash was a big hit and I had enough left to freeze for another meal. Another of our new recipes last week was the Cheeseburger Mac, although it was similiar to the Goulash, it was still very good. My family thought it was very much like Hamburger Helper, but of course, homemade, without all the preservatives that Hamburger Helper has in it. It was a quick, easy meal, and also very frugal.

Cheeseburger Mac

Cheeseburger Mac is a budget friendly recipe served up by HoosierHomemade.com.

Ingredients

1 pound Hamburger, cooked & drained (I buy Hamburger in bulk, cook it and freeze it)
2 3/4 cups Water (I added about 1/4 cup more because it seemed dry)
1/3 cup Ketchup
1 teaspoon Onion Powder
1/4 teaspoon Garlic Powder
2 cups macaroni, uncooked
8 ounces cheddar cheese, shredded

Instructions

Brown hamburger and drain.
Return to skillet or large saucepan.
Add water, ketchup and spices, mix well.
Bring to boil, stir in macaroni, cover and simmer on medium-low heat 8-10 minutes or until macaroni is tender.
While the macaroni is cooking, shred cheese.
After macaroni is tender, stir in cheese, cook until melted, stirring occasionally.

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I served this with Honey Bread, that I made in the bread machine.

Another great meal for under $5!

Tomorrow on Cupcake Tuesday, I’m helping our local Girl Scout troup, for every link I’m donating. So, if you have a cupcake or muffin recipe, please come and link up, all posts are welcome, old or new, as long as you haven’t shared it before on Cupcake Tuesday! Oh, and if you don’t have a recipe to share, come visit anyway, I baked some yummy Girl Scout cupcakes!

Now, onto what we are having this week…

Monday ~ Breakfast for Dinner - Homemade McGriddles, Fried Potatoes & Smoothies

Tuesday ~ Chicken in a Haystack

Wednesday ~ Taco Ring and Spanish Rice

Thursday ~ Mostacolli, Garlic Bread and Salad

Friday ~ Chicken Fajitas, Rice

Saturday ~ Stuffed Crust Pizza

Sunday ~ Taco Soup and Cheesy Chili Dip

What’s on your menu plan this week?

This post linked to:

~Tempt My Tummy Tuesday hosted by Blessed with Grace

~Tuesdays at the Table hosted by All the Small Stuff

-$5 Dinner Challenge hosted by $5 Dinners

~I’m An Organizing Junkie

~Chive Talkin’