Busia's Fruit Pizza Recipe

Busia's Fruit Pizza Recipe

July 8, 2019

Summertime is a perfect time to find a dessert that everyone in the family enjoys. 

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This recipe is Jax's Busia's (Grandma in Polish) fruit pizza recipe that my husband can never get enough of...and now Jax of course loves it as well. My husband has a summertime birthday and always asks for a fruit pizza instead of cake. It really is a perfect summertime recipe--It's light, cold, refreshing and uses all the summertime fruits! We just made it for the 4th of July and we'll be making it again in a couple of weeks for his birthday. 

Fruit Pizza 

Ingredients 

1-2 16.05oz tubes of Pillsbury Sugar Cookie dough (or your favorite sugar cookie recipe)

13.5oz tub of Strawberry Glaze (won't use whole thing, so if you can find a smaller one use it)

8 oz block of Cream Cheese

1/2 cup Cool Whip

1/4 cup Powdered Sugar

1 tsp Almond Extract (or Vanilla Extract)

2-3 Bananas

1 tub of Strawberries

1 tub of Blueberries

Pizza pan (large or small--depends on if you want a thicker or thinner dough for your pizza)

Directions

1. Preheat oven to temperature that sugar cookie dough calls for. 

2. Pick your favorite sugar cookie recipe, or cheat and use the refrigerator tubes of cookie dough. One tube of dough usually covers the pizza pan. I personally just get the Pillsbury Sugar Cookie dough in the tube. 

3. Pam or butter the pan if you plan on taking it off of the pizza pan to serve on another plate. Spread cookie dough evenly over a 10-12" pizza pan.  For a thicker dough use a smaller pan. You can even use a pie pan for a "deep dish" pizza. For a thinner dough use the larger pizza pan.

4. Bake the cookie on the pan according to the recipe. Set aside and let cool.

5. In a mixing bowl or with a kitchen aid mixer, whip together 8 oz of cream cheese, about 1/2 cup of cool whip and about 1/4 cup of powdered sugar.  Add about a tsp of almond extract if you like a more cherry flavor, or vanilla if you prefer that flavoring. Adjust according to your own taste preference.  Whip together until smooth.  Spread evenly over thoroughly cooled pizza cookie.

6. Pour boiling water over bananas to keep them from browning. It will make the outside of the banana look gross and dark but trust me this works! Peel bananas and slice 2-3 bananas thin. Layer the slices over the cookie until it is completely covered.

7. Cover the layer of bananas with strawberry glaze (you can also use blueberry glaze).

8. Use sliced strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, sliced kiwi, etc. to cover the top of the glaze. My husband likes just the blueberries and strawberries so that's all I usually use! You can randomly scatter the fruits around or make patterns like a flag for the 4th of July, a college logo for a graduation party, an initial, a birthday number, etc.

9. Refrigerate until ready to serve. 

Cut into pizza slices and enjoy!

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Game of Thrones Dragon Eggs

Game of Thrones Dragon Eggs

April 28, 2019

It's Sunday again and you know what that means! Winter is here.

GAME OF THRONES TONIGHT!

If you couldn't tell I love the show. My in-laws do as well and because of this we've had a few little Game of Thrones food parties. My father-in-law is the mastermind behind all of this and gives each of us a recipe to work on for our GOT parties. We've gone through quite a few different types of recipes in the past, but the three that I will be posting are our favorite three that we have made!

Daenerys Dragon Scotch Eggs

I'll start my three GOT posts with the Scotch Eggs. My father-in-law made these for us before we had any of our little GOT parties, but we figured these would be the perfect "dragon-like eggs" to recreate. They are super tasty and can be eaten with any meal as a nice side. 

Ingredients

8 large eggs

1 lb ground sausage

1 bunch of green onions (chopped)

2 cloves of garlic (minced)

1 tbsp mustard

1 1/2 tsp pepper

1 1/2 tsp salt

Flour, as needed for the eggs

Seasoned bread crumbs, as needed for the eggs

Olive oil for frying

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 400.

2. Bring pot of water to a boil and add 6 shelled eggs, boil for about six minutes. 

3. Combine 1lb ground sausage, chopped green onions, 2 cloves minced garlic, 1 tbsp mustard, 1 1/2 tsp pepper and 1 1/2 tsp salt. Mix well. 

4. Press out sausage mixture into 6 different patties to eventually place the eggs in. 

5. Place flour in bowl and set aside. Whisk the two extra eggs together in a separate bowl for an egg wash and set aside. Place bread crumbs in another bowl and set aside. 

6. Remove eggs from water and put into ice bath to cool immediately-you do not want hard boiled eggs for this, just soft boiled. 

7. Peel the eggs and roll in the flour until fully covered. Wrap the sausage patties around each of the floured eggs.

8. Roll each sausage wrapped egg in flour, then egg wash and finish by rolling in the seasoned bread crumbs. 

9. Heat olive oil to 300 degrees and fry each egg for about 3 minutes. Make sure to rotate and brown each side.

10. Place fried eggs on a foil lined baking tray and finish cooking for 5 minutes at 400 degrees. 

Enjoy your Daenerys dragon eggs!

And episode 3 tonight!

Comment below with your favorite GOT episode

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Elote Recipe-Mexican Street Corn

Elote Recipe-Mexican Street Corn

April 26, 2019

The weather is warm and we've been eating out on the porch almost every night.

I love these types of days when it's the perfect temperature to do yard work comfortably and sit outside at sunset without getting eaten alive by bugs. I appreciate Spring so much more after living in a few states that have REAL seasons! When it starts to get warm I love breaking out the corn on the cob recipes. And one of my favorite recipes is Mexican Street Corn, also known as Elote. If you haven't tried it, YOU NEED TO MAKE THIS RECIPE ASAP! It is commonly sold on the street in Mexico by street vendors and it is sooo addictive! 

ELOTE

Ingredients

4 ears of corn-shucked
1/4 cup sour cream (or Mexican crema)
1/4 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup cotija cheese, or feta (plus a tbsp or 2 more for serving)
1/4 cup chopped cilantro (plus tbsp more for serving)
1 lime, half juiced, other half sliced for serving
1 tbsp melted butter
1 tbsp minced garlic
1 tbsp Tajín seasoning

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 400.
2. Place shucked corn on foil-lined baking sheet and roast for 30-40 minutes. Rotate occasionally to lightly "brown" the corn. (You can cook the corn on the grill as well if you prefer that)
3. Mix the 1/4c sour cream, 1/4 c mayo, 1/4c cotija cheese, 1/4c chopped cilantro, juice of half of a lime, 1 tbsp melted butter and the 1 tbsp minced garlic.
4. Take corn out and brush generously and evenly with the mixture. Sprinkle tbsp of cheese over the corn, sprinkle the tbsp of cilantro and the tbsp of Tajín seasoning.

Plate and serve! 

(Optional to squeeze the extra lime slices on the corn if you love lime flavoring)

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Hi there and welcome to my new blog!

Hi there and welcome to my new blog!

April 1, 2019

Here goes nothing!

As a fairly recent newcomer to motherhood, I have realized that it is hard almost impossible to find REAL moms out there who are down to earth, honest, relatable, and who drop a few F* bombs here and there (oops 😬) . 

Being a HUGE extrovert myself and having a love of socializing, sometimes it's hard being stuck at home with only a tiny human being who can't talk yet. Two years into motherhood, with being a mom as my only career, I wanted to have a place of comfort that other moms can come to. I don't want other moms feeling like I have at times--of sometimes having that feeling of needing to do more and feeling inadequate, because at times everyone feels like this. This is just me being raw and sharing parts of my life that only my husband knows about. I will talk about mom stuff, let you know what life is ACTUALLY like being a military wife (and advice on how to survive), post some yummy recipes, help you with how to survive travel with a baby, give you some fun crafts to do with your little ones, and tell you about the products I recommend to help out motherhood. If that interests you at all, take a look around and see if there is anything you like!

Fair warning: I have a foul mouth, I love living in places that have REAL seasons, I can never have too many iced caramel macchiatos, I can eat avocado on almost everything, I absolutely love my family more than anything in this world, and I am obsessed with the color yellow. 

No mom is perfect and neither am I.

 He's really 2, not 5...But ya know he looked super cute in this pic so I didn't care that the balloon was backwards. Cuz ya know, Mom Life 💁

Comment below with future post suggestions!

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