Bread Machine Pizza Dough

Normally, my DH has always made the homemade pizza in our house.  But, I just found this recipe earlier this week.  He thought it tasted really good and "homemade," far better than the french bread pizza I made earlier this week.   Either way, it's a win-win!  The recipe is adapted from Salad in a Jar.  There were very little leftovers with my family of six; bummer!

Ingredients:
1 cup warm water
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp salt
4 tsp olive oil
2 tsp honey
3 cups flour
2 1/4 tsp yeast (1 pkg)

Directions:
In the bread machine, add the ingredients in order, and select the dough cycle option.  Once the dough has completed rising, punch it down to get rid of any air bubbles.  Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 450 degrees, and spray 2 9x13 pans or pizza pans with some canola oil. (I don't have a pizza pan; the 9x13 pan worked wonderfully.)

When ready, pull the dough out of the machine, and separate into two sections.  Roll out the dough to the desired shape.  If the dough is too elastic, let it rest a minute, and relax.  Place in desired pan, and spray dough with some more of the canola oil.  Then, apply a thin layer of sauce, cheese, and toppings.

Bake in oven for about 15-20 minutes, or more if too much sauce was applied to dough.  ( I checked mine at 10 minutes to check for doneness.)  Slice with a pizza cutter and serve.  (I did not have a problem taking the pizza out of the 9x13 pan and placing on a cookie sheet for easier cutting.)

Easy Dried Egg Noodle Pasta

Making homemade noodles is what my husband's Mom and Grandma used to do for every holiday meal.  While my budget was really tight last year, I was NOT going to fork out $3 for a bag of frozen pasta that I could make myself.  These are thinner than last year, but will be just fine.

The recipe is adapted from Hillbilly Housewife.

Ingredients:
2 eggs
1/4 cup water
2 cups flour
1/4 tsp salt

In my bread machine, I added the eggs, water, flour, and salt, using the dough cycle.

Preheat oven to 250 degrees.  After the full cycle ended, I portioned them into smaller portions to roll out thinner.

Place on cookie sheet, and cut into thin strips using a pizza cutter.

Depending on the thickness of the dough slices, bake in oven for 10-20 minutes, until lightly crisp or crisp like a chip. 

Place in boiling water and cook until done.

For our dried noodles made at a fraction of the cost, my husband will be putting together the sauce with the cooked noodles for our holiday meal.   Meanwhile, my boys keep asking me for a small piece to eat; that's dried pasta....?

Sweet Sausage Calzones

You need two hands to eat these Sweet Sausage Calzones!  They are so soft, and sturdy; they won't fall apart on you.  I grew up on this bread recipe.  I love it!  I was on a hunt for a new recipe to use up some thawed sausage from the freezer; I am very happy with these.  You can do a different filling like with seasoned hamburger and shredded cabbage, if you'd like.  I have a feeling I'll be making more of these to fill my family for dinner and/or snacks!

Ingredients:

Dough
2 eggs
1/2 cup shortening
3/4 cup water
1/2 cup milk
41/2 - 5 cups flour
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp salt
2 packages of yeast

Filling
1 roll of ground sausage
1 diced onion
1 large red bell pepper diced
1/2 large green pepper diced
4 cups mozzarella cheese
oil
marinara sauce (optional)


Put wet ingredients into bread machine on dough cycle, followed by the dry.  Follow bread machine instructions, for order.  (I had to kinda help mix mine together at first, with all the flour involved.)  Let it rest only for 30 minutes, not for the full cycle duration, once the kneading is done.  Or the dough may explode on you! (Oh, no!)

Brown your sausage, onion, and peppers until fully cooked and browned.  Drain grease.

Preheat oven to 450 degrees.  Once your dough is done, portion into 8 sections.  Roll out a section at a time, on a floured wax paper, for each calzone to fill.

Portion 1/3 cup of filling on 1/2 side of rolled-out dough.

Top with 1/2 cup mozzarella cheese.

Fold other half of dough over the toppings.  Fold ends up, and then crease with a fork.  Place on parchment paper lined cookie sheet.  Prick each calzone to ventilate.  With a tablespoon, smear some oil over the top of each calzone.  

Bake in oven for about 9-10 minutes, until nice and brown.

Serve with your favorite marinara sauce or plain.

Bread Machine Crescent Rolls

Crescent rolls are one of my most favorites breads, but I don't eat them often.  Was going to buy some to save some time.  But, had some sticker shock when I saw $1.79/8 rolls for store brand!  Decided to make some instead.  I am really glad I did, too.  Got 24 rolls from this one recipe!  That feels good.  Plan to use this recipe for any future recipes calling for crescent roll dough.  The recipe is adapted from Better Homes & Gardens.

Ingredients:
1/3 cup water (warm)
1/3 cup milk (warm)
2 eggs (slightly beaten)
1/3 cup margarine
3 3/4 cup flour
1/4 cup sugar
1 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp yeast
3 tbs melted margarine

Set your bread machine to the "dough" cycyle.  In your bread machine, add both the warm water and milk, eggs, margarine, flour, sugar, salt, and yeast. Add more flour or water, if needed, to get a soft dough.   Once cycle is complete (about 1 1/2 hours later), punch down dough and let rest for 10 minutes; it may rise more if you wait longer than 10 minutes...no worries.

Divide the dough into thirds.  Roll the ball out on wax paper and some flour to about 12" in diameter.   Smear a tablespoon of melted butter/margarine over the dough.  Use a pizza cutter to get 8 slices.  Roll from the end to the middle for each piece.  Continue with the remaining two balls of dough.

Preheat oven to 170 degrees.  Place the crescent rolls on parchment paper lined cookie sheet in a warm oven.  

Let sit covered with wax paper over for about 20-30 minutes, until doubled in size.  

Remove rolls from oven.  Preheat oven to 375 degrees.  Bake uncovered for about 7-8 minutes.

Homemade Flour Tortilla Recipe In a Bread Machine

The taste of these flour tortillas is amazing!  My boys love the flavor of these versus others I have made in the past.  There is NO lard in this recipe.   I doubled the recipe for a recipe I needed.  Try to roll them as thin as possible, as the baking powder will make them expand.  I rolled the rest in wax paper & stored in the fridge.  The leftovers tasted just fine, when I reheated them inside the wax paper.  They tasted very good.  (Note, the pictures are of the recipe doubled.  While the recipe is NOT doubled.)

This recipe is from Easy Frugal Living.

Ingredients:
3/4 cup warm milk
2 tsp veg oil
2 cups flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp sugar
1 tsp salt


In the bread machine, use the dough cycle.  Apply all the wet ingredients first & then the dry.  

Let it keep mixing until a nice ball, add more flour or water if needed.

Allow the dough to rise for about 30 minutes, keeping the lid closed; do not turn off the machine.  When done, take dough out of machine & place on floured counter top.  Divide ball in half & in half, & in half & in half, until you have 8 sections.

Flatten each ball. Roll out ball from the middle out in one direction, dusting with flour to keep from sticking.  Turn 1/4. Roll again from the middle out in one direction. Turn 1/4. Continue in this manner, until you've reached the desired thickness, about 8" in diameter.

Place tortilla on a warmed dry skillet.

Heat until dough starts puffing up, a little & flip.  (I use tongs to do this.)  Cooking time is for about 3 minutes total, for the two sides.  While one is cooking, I am rolling out another. (Just remember to flip the tortilla on the stove while rolling out a new one.) By the time one tortilla is rolled out, the tortilla on the stove is done.  Keep tortillas warm until ready to use.  Store tortillas in fridge rolled in wax paper to reheat in microwave or aluminum foil to reheat in oven.  Makes 8 tortillas.

I've heard that a tortilla press makes the rolling out process easier....opinions?

I think these are best in a casserole vs rolled up as a burrito or a wrap....