Pizza Crust

Our pizza was BBQ chicken pineapple pizza!  One of my favorites!  Our friends gave us this crust recipe and it worked out perfectly!  Didn't take too long either!

3 cups warm water
1.5 TBS Yeast
Make sure water is as warm as it usually is to have yeast rise in it, I let it sit for 5 minutes in case it did rise, but it didn't.  Not sure if that did anything though.
1.5 TBS salt (I only used 1/2 TBS, it seemed like a little much)
5 cups flour
1.5 cups wheat flour

Mix and knead for 5 minutes in the mixer.  I let it sit as I got the rest of the ingredients ready so it rose a little bit.
Roll out and add toppings, we put corn meal on the bottom for more pizza effect.
Set oven to 450 and bake for 15 minutes

Barbeque Chicken Pizza

YUM!!! This recipe for the dough is SO GOOD!!  It can also be used to make breadsticks.  It was so simple and fast. (For dough) For the actual pizza I just cooked my chicken in the pressure cooker (10 min.) shredded it, added barbeque sauce, Mozzarella cheese, and cilantro seasoning.  Simple and so good!  This is for the dough:

1½ cups warm water

2 Tbsp. sugar

1 Tbsp. yeast

Let that sit for 5 minutes. Then add:

3½ cups flour

1 tsp Salt

Mix until smooth then let raise for 10 minutes. Roll out dough into a large square on a floured surface. Brush with melted (real) butter mixed with minced garlic and then sprinkle with kosher salt. Fold in half and cut into 1 inch strips. Twist and place on a cooking sheet. Let sit for 15 to 20 minutes to raise. Bake at 400 degrees for 20 minutes or until golden brown. Immediately after baking, brush with more garlic butter and sprinkle with kosher salt and grated parmesan cheese.

 

*Dough also makes a great pizza dough, just roll out into a large circle, add your favorite toppings, and bake at 400 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes.

Club House Chicken Squares

This was surprisingly good, I was a little nervous at first, but after tasting it, it changed my mind!  Personally I"m not a fan of thick cream cheese, but Brad loved all the thick parts  So maybe try it thinner in parts or thicker?!

Ingredients:
2 (8 oz.) pkgs. refrigerated crescent rolls
1 (8 oz.) pkg. cream cheese, softened
2 Tblspn. mayonnaise
1 sm. garlic clove, pressed
1 tsp. dill weed (opt.)
1 (10 oz.) can chunk white chicken, drained and flaked(I would probably use real chicken next time, just a              taste factor)
1/2 sm. cucumber, sliced and quartered
2 plum tomatoes, seeded and diced
1/2 c. (2 oz.) shredded cheddar cheese
6 slices bacon, crisply cooked, draned and crumbled

Directions:
Preheat oven to 375.  Unroll one package of crescent rolls across one end of cookie sheet with longest sides of dough across width of pan.  Repeat with remaining package of dough, filling pan.  Press dough to seal perforations and press up sides to form crust.  Bake 12-15 minutes or until golden brown.  Remove from oven; cool completely.  In a bowl combine cream cheese, mayonnaise, garlic and dill mix if desired; mix well.  Spread cream cheese mixture evenly over crust; top with chicken.  Thinly slice cucumber and cut slices into quarters.  Dice tomatoes and grate cheese.  Sprinkle cucumber, tomatoes, cheese and bacon over chicken.  Refrigerate 30 minutes.  Cut into squares.

Calzones

These were HUGE!  One was just normal pepperoni, bacon, and cheese, the other was Chicken, and pineapple in bbq sauce.  (my favorite)
Ingredients:
1 loaf of frozen bread dough, thawed (if you make your own dough it is even better.. but we aren't patient enough to make our own dough on a week night)

mozarella cheese, shredded
spaghetti sauce

You can use any toppings you want. Here are the ones we used tonight:
pepperoni
Chicken
Bacon
Pineapple

You can also add:
bell peppers
onion
pineapple
hamburger
italian sausage
fresh tomatoes
Directions
Make about 2 equally-sized dough balls (they should each be a little smaller than a softball). Spread each dough ball out on a lightly floured surface as if you were making a pizza (spread it out as much as you can without tearing it). Put as many toppings as you would like in the middle then mix it all together with cheese. Carefully fold the dough over the toppings and pinch the edges together. Make a couple little slits in the top of the dough, spray the top lightly with cooking spray, then bake at 350 degrees for about 15 minutes (or until golden brown). Heat the spaghetti sauce in a small pot and simmer until calzones are done. You can serve the calzones with the sauce on the side then dip the calzone into it OR you can pour the sauce over the calzones and top with cheese (thats the way we like it!). For all you meat lovers out there, you can brown some hamburger and add it to the spaghetti sauce to make it extra rich and meaty.
Favorite Family Recipes

Chicken-Bacon Stuffed Pizza Rolls

Ingredients
1 roll refrigerated pizza dough* (or make your own)
1 packet Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing mix
2 T grated Parmesan cheese
1 T olive oil or melted butter
sharp cheddar cheese (I used 75% sharp cheddar and 25% mozzarella)
8 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled
about 1 C shredded, cooked chicken.
3/4 C mayo
3/4 C milk
DirectionsFirst take 1 teaspoon of your ranch dressing mix and combine it with 1 1/2 T parmesan cheese. Set aside. Combine the remaining ranch mix with 3/4 C mayo and 3/4 C milk and place in the fridge to chill.

Preheat oven to heat specified on pizza dough package. Usually it's 400-425 degrees.

Unroll your pizza dough onto a lightly floured surface. Pat or roll the dough so it's about 12" by 8". You're going to want to cut it into 24 squares, so just eyeball it if you need to. Use a pizza cutter to slice the dough into 24 squares.

Place cheese and desired toppings on each square.

When all of your dough squares have cheese and toppings on them, carefully lift up each square and wrap the dough around the toppings.

Place your rolls in the oven. I've noticed baking time really depends on the type of dough I'm using. Whether it's different brands from the store, or homemade dough, they all take different amounts of time. Set your timer for 10 minutes and check on them after that. They may take up to 15 or 20 to be done. Take them out when they're lightly golden on top.

Serve them warm with a side of freshly made ranch dressing for dipping.