Homemade Pizza Bites

The new kid-friendly favorite at our house is Pizza Bites!!  These pizza bites are super-easy to make, great for the kids to help, and can be made sooo many ways.

Ingredients:

 

1 large can pre-made biscuit dough.

Mozzarella Cheese

Pepperoni (or other fillings)

 

for topping:

Butter (or oil)

Parsley

Garlic Powder

 

 

To assemble, preheat your oven to 375 degrees. Chop up your pepperonis, or other fillings. Other meats or veggies would be a fun variation.

Open your package of biscuits and remove one. Using a knife or your fingers, separate the biscuit dough around the center, making two thinner circles.

Flatten out the circle, spreading out the dough. Place some chopped fillings, and some cheese in the center of the circle.

 

Make sure you leave room at the edges for folding.

Begin folding the edges into the center, keeping the fillings in the middle.

Fold until the filling is completely enclosed in the dough.

Flip your little package over and place in a lightly greased baking dish.

Mix some butter, parsley, and garlic powder together and brush the tops before baking.

 

Bake until the tops of the pizza bites are golden brown. Mine took around 17 minutes.

Serve them up with some dipping sauce, and watch them quickly disappear!!

 

Easy Microwave Cleaning {Tutorial}

To go along with my spring cleaning and reorganizing extravaganza, I needed to do a little more cleaning in my kitchen. I realized that my microwave and other appliances needed some serious love, but the idea of cleaning stuck and burnt-on food off of the inside did not sound appealing. My normal cleaners were too harsh smelling, but I didn't want to scrub for hours. So I decided to use some steam.

The results made me very very happy!

No matter how well you cover your food in the microwave, explosions will happen. In a perfect world, we would wipe them out immediately. But when we're using the microwave, it's not usually because we have extra time on our hands...so it gets, and stays, dirty.

ewwww....

 

Oh my....

 

So to make it sparkle, I made a little solution:

1 Cup Water

1/2 Cup Vinegar

Microwave for 7-10 minutes (depending on how gross your microwave is)

 

The steam will lift the grime right off. Just wipe it clean!

 

 

I used the leftover vinegar water to wipe down the rest of my kitchen too to make it sparkling clean.

Just make sure you let the water cool a little bit first!

Happy Cleaning

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Gotta Love Genetics....

When babies are born, usually the first thing the new parents are asked is "Who does he/she look like?" If we're all being honest, most babies look like a squished up pink blob of human, but they're all beautiful in their own way. Once they do start to take on their own facial shapes and colorings, it's fun to see who they actually DO look like.

 

 When Goldilocks was tiny, I always saw Hubby when I looked at her. As she has gotten older, we dare anyone to deny that she is my carbon copy. Thankfully she did get her Daddy's eyelashes...good luck saying no to those if they're batting at you!

 

Baby boy is a little more of a mystery...then we went digging for pictures.

 

I took this picture of my beautiful babies a couple of weeks ago.

 

After staring at it for a while, I thought it looked familiar. Hubby and I went to my grandmother's house to dig through some pictures...

 

And we found this little beauty from 1988. Oh the horrible primary colors...

 

Wardrobe issues aside, we agreed that there was no denying who our babies look like right now!

 

 

To save you from scrolling...here's a little side-by-side.

 

I love genetics (although we weren't quite friends in college. That class is hard people!!)

 

Curly blond hair and light colored eyes for my baby girl. I want baby boy's hair to turn auburn soooo bad like my baby brother's. It's such a pretty color. We'll wait and see once he actually grows some hair what color it will be! Hubby has lots of red in his hair and beard, so we're still holding out hope that baby boy gets his coloring.

 

 

25 years  later, I still love this "little" guy. Baby brother might be a foot taller than me, but he'll always be my little bro!

 

 

I hope both of my babies can have the relationship that Adam and I have. There's a lot of love in this family! With Hubby and Kaileigh in the mix, we both got a new brother and sister to love too!