Pizza Dough Recipe

Nice easy recipe for homemade pizza dough.

What You Need

• 2 cups warm water
• 1 Tbsp yeast
• 5 cups flour
• 1 Tbp salt

How You Make It
To Make Dough
1. In a stand mixer bowl combine yeast and water. Let sit 5 minutes.

2. Mix in flour a little and a time with the dough hook.

3. Add salt.

4. Knead for 10 minutes.

5. Move dough to greased bowl, cover with a wet cloth and let rise for 20 minutes.

To Make Pizza
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

2. Spray cookie sheet or pizza pan with non-stick spray.

3. Remove dough from bowl and add flour to alleviate the stickiness as needed.

4. Split dough into two balls.


5. Roll each ball to preferred thickness and place on pan.

6. Add toppings to dough. Be sure and leave a 1/2 inch space on the edge for crust.

7. Bake each pizza separately for 18-20 minutes for pizza.
Bake for 15 minutes for bread or cinnamon sticks.

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Lemon Salmon With Creamy Dill Sauce

This is a recipe that is constantly being requested in my kitchen. I use it every once and a while to bribed my sister to come over for dinner or tease her when she doesn’t. I can’t thank goodness for Cooking Classy posting this recipe! I have made a few tweaks on the ingredients to make this recipe more conveniently made. My sister found dried lemon peel in the spice section and I switched over to dried dill. There is no apparent taste difference and this makes the recipe that much more simple because the ingredients are now non-perishable. This is now a favorite of anyone who tries it; I hope you all enjoy it just as much.

What You Need

Lemon Salmon

• 4 salmon fillets
• 2 Tbsp olive oil (lemon if possible)
• 1 1/2 tsp lemon zest (I use McCormick’s California Lemon Peel)
• 2 Tbsp lemon juice
• Salt and black pepper

Creamy Dill Sauce

• 3 Tbsp mayonnaise
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• 1 tsp dried dill weed
• 1/2 tsp honey
• 1/3 cup plain Greek yogurt

How You Make It
1. Mix together ingredients for dill sauce and set aside.

2. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

3. Line a cookie sheet with foil and spray with non-stick spray.

4. On a plate combine olive oil, lemon zest and lemon juice.

5. Coat both sides of salmon with lemon-oil mixture and place on cookie sheet. Pour remaining oil mixture on top of fillets.

6. Bake for 18-20 minutes, or until just cooked through and flaky.

 I like to pair this recipe with subtle side dishes. Usually quinoa and pan cooked zucchini with gruyere cheese or Parmesan green beans.

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Bisquick Chocolate Chip Cookies

If you are low on ingredients or just don’t really feel like rummaging around this is the recipe for you. Found these on Plain Chicken; the cookies are good, although far from anything to write home about. I don’t discourage using this chocolate chip cookie recipe, but I do recommend making another. Two of my favorites are Cornstarch Chocolate Chip Cookies and Award Winning Pudding Chocolate Chip Cookies.

What You Need

• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• 2 3/4 cups Bisquick
• 1 cup chocolate chips

How You Make It
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

2. In large bowl mix butter, sugar, vanilla extract and egg.

3. Stir in Bisquick mix and chocolate chips.

4. Drop spoonfuls of dough onto cookie sheet.

5. Bake for 8-10 minutes, or until golden brown.

6. Remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack.


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Pan Cooked Zucchini With Gruyere Cheese

The vegetable portion of a meal is easy to overlook.It can be a rather big inconvenience to add on to prepping a more extravagant main dish. Thing is, that veggies are one of the most important parts of the meal; most of the time it's the healthiest. I have found the best way to overcome this is to have a few easy options that I can throw together in minutes to give me a delicious and healthy vegetable side.

What You Need

• 3 Tbsp olive oil
• 3 medium zucchini
• 1 Tbsp Herbs de Provence
• 1 block of Gruyere cheese

How You Make It

1. In a medium non-stick pan heat olive oil over medium heat.

2. Slice the zucchini in half lengthwise, then into 1/4 inch pieces.

3. Add zucchini slices into pan. Mix around zucchini to coat in oil.

4. Shred the Gruyere cheese with the smaller size grate.

5. Add in the Herbs de Provence and mix around or flip zucchini in pan to evenly spread out herbs.

6. Cook for around 5-7 minutes, or until fork inserted easily penetrates, but zucchini is not soggy.



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Pesto Sweet Potatoes

This recipe sounds absolutely ridiculous, I know. Frankly, it is. It is ridiculously delicious! I'm not 100% sure just how the idea to put the two together came about. Most likely trying to salvage an attempt at homemade sweet potato fries. One way or another the combination was found and we have never looked back.

This is a very dominating side dish, so I recommend making this with a more simple main recipe such as the Parmesan Crusted Chicken or a grilled steak.

What You Need

• Two large sweet potatoes (yams)
• 1/2 cup olive oil
• 1 cup pesto

How You Make It

1. Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees

2. Line a cookie sheet with foil and spray with non=stick spray

3. Peel the skin off the sweet potatoes

4. Slice potatoes into 1/4 inch slices. For the larger diameter pieces, cut in half lengthwise

5. In a large bowl toss the sliced potato with the olive oil. Make sure to thoroughly coat the sliced with the oil. Add oil if needed

6. Lay the oil coated potatoes on the cookie sheet in a single layer

7. Bake for 10 minutes

8. Return potatoes to bowl.

9. Add in pesto and mix until potatoes are covered.

10. Return potatoes to cookie sheet.

11. Redistribute any left-over pesto onto the potatoes.

12. Return to oven and back for 10-15 minutes.

A fork should easily go through them, without the potatoes being mushy.
Enjoy!

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