Sunday, August 2, 2009
this and such
I am not sure if I have entirely mastered the purpose of a blog. I do write in it and often share some very random stuff but I always go about in a wary manner. I have some secret fear that someone will find my work original and use it for themselves that is why probably the most rich or creative of my writings remain in my mind. I sometimes share them with other people in a oral version but that is the extent of it. I love being creative it does not matter all that much how but as long as I am using it. I feel like I have this large orb of creativity and passion hidden away next to my heart. I say near my heart because I cannot determine the exact location only that it is in there somewhere and feels as intense as an explosion right before its climax. It has to come out somehow or I risk an eruption. Sometimes it comes out in writing, other times drawing, painting, ceramics, language studies, cooking, family history, chemistry, or solving problems. I like mysteries I like puzzles. So there it is this intense passion of creativity inside of me. I do not know completely its origin but it is always there. I guess it is really a matter of using that creativity although I cannot understand that anyone possessing such a gift could manange to go without using it. Wouldn't they die inside somehow due to giving it up?
Friday, July 24, 2009
great homemade pizza
I decided to share some recipes on my blog.Why not I think. Perhaps you shall like them. If you try them out let me know post a comment.
So I stumbled across a great recipe for whole wheat crust I would suggest using hard red winter wheat flour. I prefer the Montana Wheat brand. They have a website. I found their product first in the local grocery store. Hands down it is the best whole wheat I have ever tasted. I bought another brand and it turned out really sticky. This flour is not sticky at all be makes a fluffy light loaf of bread and a flavorful pizza crust. Some whole wheat I have tried has a green smell to it. This does not at all. I think the pizza crust recipe I am sharing will still turn out good with other whole wheat brands.
This recipe takes a lot less time perhaps 20 mins to make and pre-bake the crust
This is for a 9 x 14 cookie tray size pizza- It is for a thin crust
for larger pizzas simply double or triple until appropriate size
2/3 cup whole wheat flour
1/4 to 1/8 teaspoon baking soda
two squirts of honey (1-1.5 tablespoons)
abt 2 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon sweet basil
mix flour basil, baking soda and salt well
add honey and oil mix while adding water until you get a moist dough not too wet but not dry it should be a little sticky.
roll out dough on floured surface and with floured rolling pen.
roll out very thin like the consistency of a tortilla or those nice healthy vegetable wraps you buy in the store.
place in a the oiled and floured pan. press until it covers entire baking pan. if extra dough falls over the edges cut with a butter knife and cover spots the dough does not fill the whole sheet
take a fork and make holes over the entire surface of the crust.
bake in a preheated oven at 400 for five minutes.
pull out pizza crust and put on sauce and toppings and cheese bake for 15-20 mins or until crust is crispy brown and cheese is baked. Note the more toppings the closer to 20 mins it will be less toppings and meats only take 15. Basically just keep an eye on it
NOTE : REMEMBER TO COOK ALL MEATS PRIOR TO BAKING!!
Healthy sausage pizza
put a thin layer of pasta sauce onto the pizza crust or more if you are a sauce person but not too much to prevent sogginess. sprinkle with with gradulated or powered garlic and a touch of grated parminsian cheeese. The spread with cooked sasuage ..(see below). Then add grated cheese mixed with sweet basil.. just a touch. colby jack works well. I added a little bit of swiss to it though and grated parmisian.
two Italian sausage turkey links ( uncooked kind).
If you cook it prior to making the pizza crust it saves time
defrost sausage in microwave for a few minutes until you can peel off the coating that holds the sausage together in a link. crumble into a same frying pan cook until cooked completely through. make sure it to break it into small pieces as you cook it. drain off extra oil if desired.
put back in to a 400 degree over cook for 15 min middle cooking rack best for cooking for a longer cook time put the cooking rack higher than the middle.
Veggie Pizza
Mix cut red, yellow or green peppers, mushrooms, onions and freshly cut parsley with a dash of olive oil so they are lightly coated.
put thin layer of pasta sauce on pizza sprinkle and garlic powder to preference
cut fresh tomatoes in thin layers and place on bottom of the crust. sprinkle sweet basil over it all.
add the vegetables and then cover with cheese to your liking. It can work with Monterey Jack , Mozzarella, and Parisian or all of those together. I used Monterey Jack because that is what I had.
Well I will keep you posted on my pizza ideas. I hope they turn out as amazing for you as they did for me.
So I stumbled across a great recipe for whole wheat crust I would suggest using hard red winter wheat flour. I prefer the Montana Wheat brand. They have a website. I found their product first in the local grocery store. Hands down it is the best whole wheat I have ever tasted. I bought another brand and it turned out really sticky. This flour is not sticky at all be makes a fluffy light loaf of bread and a flavorful pizza crust. Some whole wheat I have tried has a green smell to it. This does not at all. I think the pizza crust recipe I am sharing will still turn out good with other whole wheat brands.
This recipe takes a lot less time perhaps 20 mins to make and pre-bake the crust
This is for a 9 x 14 cookie tray size pizza- It is for a thin crust
for larger pizzas simply double or triple until appropriate size
2/3 cup whole wheat flour
1/4 to 1/8 teaspoon baking soda
two squirts of honey (1-1.5 tablespoons)
abt 2 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon sweet basil
mix flour basil, baking soda and salt well
add honey and oil mix while adding water until you get a moist dough not too wet but not dry it should be a little sticky.
roll out dough on floured surface and with floured rolling pen.
roll out very thin like the consistency of a tortilla or those nice healthy vegetable wraps you buy in the store.
place in a the oiled and floured pan. press until it covers entire baking pan. if extra dough falls over the edges cut with a butter knife and cover spots the dough does not fill the whole sheet
take a fork and make holes over the entire surface of the crust.
bake in a preheated oven at 400 for five minutes.
pull out pizza crust and put on sauce and toppings and cheese bake for 15-20 mins or until crust is crispy brown and cheese is baked. Note the more toppings the closer to 20 mins it will be less toppings and meats only take 15. Basically just keep an eye on it
NOTE : REMEMBER TO COOK ALL MEATS PRIOR TO BAKING!!
Healthy sausage pizza
put a thin layer of pasta sauce onto the pizza crust or more if you are a sauce person but not too much to prevent sogginess. sprinkle with with gradulated or powered garlic and a touch of grated parminsian cheeese. The spread with cooked sasuage ..(see below). Then add grated cheese mixed with sweet basil.. just a touch. colby jack works well. I added a little bit of swiss to it though and grated parmisian.
two Italian sausage turkey links ( uncooked kind).
If you cook it prior to making the pizza crust it saves time
defrost sausage in microwave for a few minutes until you can peel off the coating that holds the sausage together in a link. crumble into a same frying pan cook until cooked completely through. make sure it to break it into small pieces as you cook it. drain off extra oil if desired.
put back in to a 400 degree over cook for 15 min middle cooking rack best for cooking for a longer cook time put the cooking rack higher than the middle.
Veggie Pizza
Mix cut red, yellow or green peppers, mushrooms, onions and freshly cut parsley with a dash of olive oil so they are lightly coated.
put thin layer of pasta sauce on pizza sprinkle and garlic powder to preference
cut fresh tomatoes in thin layers and place on bottom of the crust. sprinkle sweet basil over it all.
add the vegetables and then cover with cheese to your liking. It can work with Monterey Jack , Mozzarella, and Parisian or all of those together. I used Monterey Jack because that is what I had.
Well I will keep you posted on my pizza ideas. I hope they turn out as amazing for you as they did for me.
Monday, January 19, 2009
mansion house
I awoke this morning with the remnants of a strange dream in my head. I was visiting my family but now they lived in a large house and wanted for nothing. I was only there for a short visit I think but my mother approached me and asked if I want to help out with a trip to the ocean at first I thought she meant the east coast but no she said it was a spot up near Canada. TheI began to walk and explore the house. It had various bedrooms and then I started finding the dinning halls. They where everywhere large kitchens sometimes apart and sometimes attached. The tables where decorated in splendor with all the finery one could image with large crystal chandeliers. There were bathrooms too some with looked like ones for the public and in the halls I passed people with visitor passes in small or large groups. There were people leading something like a tour and people of the household doing errands. I was lost in the large maze of rooms they just did not end at all so I asked a guard fellow and he explained how to get back to the part of the house I was seeking. I went into a larger room and at the far end people dressed finely where eating a meal it was closely connected to a large living room with a Christmas tree and fireplace. Children of various ages where running around.I tried to calm them because of the guests. It seemed there must be various families not just one in the big mansion house. The outside of the house had brick driveways and many garrages. Now either before or atfter my dream switched to where I was putting on a movie for a bunch of children I was babysiting or something it was a strange movie a musical mix. The girl in the story lived in our time and such but is awakened by people dancing and having fun. She goes out to join them but has two sisters that follow out of jelously or couriousity. Then it switches back and forth to showing the whole group in modern cloths to showing them in more brightly colored dress from the past. When she is in the past part she meets a prince but he is only in the past. He speaks to her in love type terms and so they sing a song. It is very playful though and constanltly switching back between the times. It has a jovial feel and even the sisters are not that mean. It is very obivous that is it a play yet at the same time sort of real. Not much happens and it continues like that.
So there you have it probably one of the first times I have posted one of my dreams online at anytime. haha. Well I am out of here.
So there you have it probably one of the first times I have posted one of my dreams online at anytime. haha. Well I am out of here.
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Variations and such
I spent the break away from the computer but continuing to stay away from it is not a new years resolution. It is a new year that is all which means I have a lot to do, yeah. Lets see I left my new journal somewhere which bothers me a lot and I am planning on going to sleep new I feel very tired. I have so much to do. Well really that is all my motivation to write more just left perhaps it will return after I rest and recover from a 24 hour trip
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