PIZZA ROLLS

PIZZA ROLLS

Grandchildren are the best gift from God, and I am lucky to have three grandchildren, two are boys and one is a girl. My granddaughter is three years old and she lives in Toronto. My two grandsons are living with me and they both know that I love my blog and enjoy sharing my recipes and they both even know the name of my blog. They both love my cooking and they always appreciate and give the best compliments a grandmother can ever have in the world. All three of my grandchildren are artistically inclined and many a time I have enjoyed and admired their creations.

When I started my blog in 2014, my eldest grandson who was 8 years old at that time, after asking the name of my blog, suggested using spices to write the name of my blog. I really liked the idea and the three of us did a good project of writing the name of the blog with the available spices in my kitchen and they really enjoyed that project. I took the picture of that, which I used as a blog header for many months on my blog.

 

Yesterday, when I was doing some work on my laptop, the younger one who is 7 years old now came to me and told me, “Grandma I am bored, I do not know what to do”, I gave him the idea that he can do some drawing and coloring. After listening to my idea of colouring and drawing, he got some pencils and colours and sat on a chair, near my table and was busy for half an hour and I was busy too with my work.

After half an hour he came to me and showed his drawing, to my big surprise, on that paper I saw the heading was, “Herbs Spices and Tradition”, with a lot of colourful food items that were also drawn on it. I was totally impressed with his drawing, couldn't believe my eyes and gave him a big hug and told him that I will take the picture of it and post it on my blog. Then I suggested to him to write the name of the food items as well so that my readers can also enjoy his drawing and understand what he has drawn, for which I helped in spelling some words as well. Following is the picture.

Both my grandsons love these pizza rolls and they even take them in their lunch boxes to school, so they are made regularly in my kitchen. This recipe is an easy one and I have used brown flour to make it healthy.

RECIPE

INGREDIENTS

• 2 cups brown bread flour (Whole wheat flour)
• Half packet active dry yeast ( 5grams)
• 1tsp salt
• 1 tsp sugar
• 2 tbs oil
• more oil for coating

FOR PIZZA FILLING

• One medium finely chopped onion
• 3 cloves of garlic
• 2 tbs butter (preferably at room temperature)
• Salt and black pepper to taste
• 2tbs tomato ketchup
• 50 grams grated mozzarella cheese
• 2 green chili optional

METHOD

• In a cup, dissolve the yeast in 1/2 cup of warm water, add sugar and salt in it. Mix well and leave it for 5 minutes until the colour of the water changes and becomes foamy.
• In a big bowl take flour, add salt, oil and this foamy water of yeast, mix more water and make a soft dough, coat all sides of the dough with oil.
• Cover with plastic wrap to let it rise (until double the original size). Keep it in a warm place for 1-2 hours to rise.
• Finely chop onion, garlic and green chilies and mix into the butter (room temperature) and keep it aside.
• Punch the dough down and divide into two big balls, roll out the ball thin on a flat surface, spread the mixture of onion garlic and butter thinly on top of the dough.
• Now give a thin layer of ketchup and sprinkle the grated cheese evenly on top of the dough.
• Cut thin strips as shown in the picture, and roll all the way up to the end of the strip and keep them on a baking tray, leaving some distance in between the rolls.
• Bake at 350 degrees F/180 degrees C for 15-20 minutes till the cheese is melted.
• These rolls can be served hot or cold.

I am sharing this recipe for the following blog parties Cook once and eat Twice and Meatless Monday
and we are pinnable link party and Hearth and Soul blog party and with Fiesta Friday and Full plate Thursday

CHEESY JALAPENO POPPERS

CHEESY JALAPENO POPPERS

Normally, we bloggers say that blogging is not a joke because it requires a lot of work. Starting from planning, this includes the recipe selection, then making the item with the properly measured ingredients, then taking nice and presentable photographs of the process and the final product. Not only that but the real work starts after that, which is writing a post about it and then about the recipe with the detailed ingredients and list of steps to follow, which should include all the details so that readers can easily understand and reproduce the recipe and so on and so forth.

But, on the other side of the coin, blogging is a lot of fun. I get the feeling of contentment whenever I share my recipes or even when I do something for my blog. There are enormous reasons behind it, first is that cooking is my passion and when there is an intense desire to do something, a person will definitely enjoy it, the same thing is happening with me. The other reason is that blogging has opened many ventures/doors for me to learn not only new recipes but also to try new cuisines and a lot of new things about food and the food industry. The other thing which I like most about blogging is the integration with people, not only with my readers and people who come and comment on my posts but also with other bloggers. In the last three years, I have made many many new blogger friends, who are from different continents, countries, and cultures and we share the same interest in blogging.

Blogging has not only opened doors for me to learn about the culinary art but also has opened doors for me to learn so many other aspects of life and particularly to learn a lot about DIY projects because many of my blogger friends have blogs in which they share their awesome DIY projects. This recipe is my blogger friend Nikki's recipe; surprisingly her blog is not only about food but about lifestyle too, where occasionally she shares some food recipes. This is the link to the recipe.

I met Nikkki Frank-Hamilton, around 3 years ago, soon after I had started my blog. She is a beautiful lady with a beautiful heart, even apart from her busy life; she is always willing to help others. Her blog is View from in here, which is an awesome blog. She is a great writer and a very good friend of mine. Her friendship is a treasure for me which I want to save for the rest of my life. Her posts are so informative, interesting and knowledgeable that anybody would love to read them. Recently she wrote about “Life lessons learning over 50 years”, which is a must-read for everyone turning 50, every single paragraph of this post is awesome and worth reading. Here is the link-

She also has a Facebook Community group of bloggers, Way-Wow community group where we 20 bloggers help and promote each other. If you would like to join this group, please do contact her.

RECIPE

INGREDIENTS

• 8 jalapeno chili peppers
• 100 grams grated mozzarella cheese
• 100 grams cream cheese.
• 1-2 tbs of milk if required
• 2 tbs oil for greasing the chilies and the oven tray
• 100 grams chopped cilantro
• salt and black pepper to taste

METHOD

• Wash the chilies thoroughly, slice in the middle and cut them half lengthwise and de-seed them.
• Mix cream cheese and mozzarella cheese together with salt and pepper and cilantro, if the mixture is too dry, add the milk to make it smooth.
• Grease the skin of the chilies and the oven tray with oil, Stuff the mixture into the chilies.
• Heat the oven for 400 degrees F /204 degrees C.
• Place the chilies in the greased tray close together so that they do not fall over.
• Bake for 15-20 minutes, when chilies are brown on the top serve hot as a side dish and enjoy.

I am sharing this post with Sweet Inspiration Link party and Meatless Monday and Fiesta Friday

and Cook once and eat Twice and we are pinnable and Hearth and Soul Link party and with Cook blog share

ROUND-UP FOR MY LEGUME LOVE AFFAIR 112 - FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 2017

ROUND-UP FOR MY LEGUME LOVE AFFAIR 112 - FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER 2017

I am delighted to present the round-up of MLLA, which I hosted for the third time in the month of October 2017. Special thanks to Susan of 'The well-seasoned cook' who conceived this idea in 2008, and later to Lisa of Lisa's Kitchen for taking care of Susan's baby for a long period of time. Because of them, this event is still on, and I got the chance to host it again, thank you!

I would also like to thank all the bloggers who shared their recipes in this MLLA event for October 2017. And now onto some delicious recipe entries of this month: This month MLLA received seven recipes in all. All the recipes shared were amazing and it was difficult to choose which one is the best.

The first entry I got is a very interesting recipe of Sun-dried tomato Hummus, which was shared by Soul Nutrition. In this hummus recipe, she used chickpeas as the legume for this recipe. In her post, she explained some health benefits of lentils and she also added some titbits of nutritional knowledge about this particular recipe.

The second recipe I received is of black bean, corn and red pepper Tacos by Making Healthy Choices. I love tacos with corn and black beans, so I bookmarked this recipe to try soon. In her post, she also explained legumes as a nutrition-powerhouse and the health benefits of black beans.

The third recipe, I got is of Chutney chana pilaf by Recipe Grab Bag, this is a nice green coloured recipe which is also a healthy and delicious way to enjoy rice with boondi and with the flavour of green cilantro, mint chutney.

The fourth recipe is a very interesting, healthy and awesome looking recipe of Zucchini pasta with Italian lentil sauce by Taylor Life. In this recipe, you can enjoy pasta with very little carbohydrate in it because the pasta is made with zucchini ribbons. I would love to try this recipe soon.

The fifth recipe is made under the theme of Caribbean recipes and is by Mayuri Zikoni's, which looks like channa bhature from Indian cuisine. This recipe is called “Doubles”, it is a sandwich made with two baras stuffed with chickpeas curry and served with chutney. This is a famous street food from Trinidad and Tobago. Please visit her website to see this amazingly tasty recipe. I feel like grabbing a plate through my laptop!

The sixth recipe is a hummus again, by “Just tea for two” which is made with roasted beet and the legume she used is chickpeas. I can imagine the taste of roasted beetroot, with garlic, chickpeas and tahini, actually, I want to taste it now with some fresh vegetables like carrots or cucumber, as she mentions in the post that this hummus can be enjoyed with fresh vegetables.

The last recipe which is the seventh one is of peanut butter and jelly thumbprint cookies by “The mad scientist Kitchen”. This is such a lovely looking recipe of cookies, they are healthy, delicious and protein rich. I like the idea of serving with jelly on top. In her post, she also explained the difference between cookies and biscuits.

Thank you all again for participating, looking forward to more events like this in future.