Pizza...

[dazie]

I made pizza dough tonight- from scratch.

Not bad if I do say so myself, I'd never made it before.  I took a few liberties with the recipe, and I think it turned out well. 

Ursus brought stuff from the salad bar to put on top.  yum.

[BigDun]

Thin or thick crust? Did you bake the crust before putting the toppings on? Do you like a lot of sauce or a thin layer of sauce?

[dazie]

Thin crust, with oregano mixed in.  One crust was white flour and oat flour, the other crust was white flour, oat flour and semolina.

I didn't prebake, they were too thin.  The two batches of dough I made turned out 4 10" pizzas.

I like a thin smear of sauce with lots of toppings.  (Unless I can get my hands on some good greasy NYC style 'zza)

[manosax]

yuumy.  I'm comin' to your house.  I made bread today. 

[Jessie]

I made these today.  Yum!

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Chocolate-Crinkles-II/Detail.aspx

[dazie]

Those look really good.

I just can't seem to get the hang of making Christmas cookies now that I have my own kitchen.  It was always much easier in my mom's kitchen.

Probably because she didn't have a bunch of crap laying around.

[Jessie]

All the kids are coming over Sunday to make cookies at my apartment.  It's going to be insane.  Me, five kids, and two other adults in my tiny little apartment and even tinier kitchen. 

I figure I'll sit the kids around the kitchen table with all the ingredients and bowls and whatnot and let them go at making the dough, and I'll do the baking part. 

It should be fun.

Any cookie suggestions?  I'm thinking the chocolate crinkles we made yesterday, snickerdoodles, chocolate chip, and peanut butter.

I wanted to make some sort of cookie bars or brownie bars or something, but I don't know. 

[Alice]

You know what's really fun and easy for kids?  Get those circle pretzels and put a Hershey's Kiss in the middle and bake.

[Jessie]

You know what's really fun and easy for kids?  Get those circle pretzels and put a Hershey's Kiss in the middle and bake.

Someone on fark yesterday suggested doing that with a Rolo and a pecan on top.

How good does THAT sound?

[Alice]

Oh, I just found out from Kate the best way to do that.

Put the pretzels on waxed paper and put them in the oven.   Then take it out and immediately put the Hershey's Kisses in and they'll melt.  But if you put the kisses in the oven, they melt too much, leak out, and burn.  So there's that.

[dazie]

Make People Chow.  My kids love it.

[Gamplayerx]

What is people chow?

You should make the cookies that my grandma makes.  They're incredible.  I don't know the recipe, though. 

[dazie]

http://www.juntoonline.com/forum/index.php?topic=5963.0

[Gamplayerx]

Oh.  I've had something similar to people chow.  Only it was corn flakes.

[Alice]

Oh.  I've had something similar to people chow.  Only it was corn flakes.

We do it with Chex.  But we call it puppy chow.

[Beefy]

Make People Chow.  My kids love it.

Cannibalism makes the holiday season feel a little more festive, doesn't it?

[Infobahn]

We have a new member of the family this weekend.

We call her Mixie.

Cookies are first.

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[Jessie]

We have a new member of the family this weekend.

We call her Mixie.

Cookies are first.

Oooh I'm jealous.

[Alice]

We have a new member of the family this weekend.

We call her Mixie.

Cookies are first.

Oooh I'm jealous.

But you get Sewphie today!

[dazie]

We have a new member of the family this weekend.

We call her Mixie.

Cookies are first.

Oooh I'm jealous.

Oh man.  Me too.  Except I want a red one.

[Jessie]

We have a new member of the family this weekend.

We call her Mixie.

Cookies are first.

Oooh I'm jealous.

But you get Sewphie today!

I am expecting 3 packages in the next couple of days.  One of them came at lunch today, so I didn't get it.  BOO.

[Alice]

I am expecting 3 packages in the next couple of days.  One of them came at lunch today, so I didn't get it.  BOO.

It's English, but I don't quite understand what you're saying.

[manosax]

We have a new member of the family this weekend.

We call her Mixie.

Cookies are first.

Oooh I'm jealous.

Oh man. Me too. Except I want a red one.

My parents somehow blew the main gear on the Kitchen Aid that they got in the 80's.  Somehow I thought that these things were supposed to be bulletproof...

[Jessie]

I am expecting 3 packages in the next couple of days.  One of them came at lunch today, so I didn't get it.  BOO.

It's English, but I don't quite understand what you're saying.

I am expecting three packages in the mail.  The postperson attempted to deliver one today, but we were out of the office for lunch, so I did not receive it yet.  I will have to pick it up at the post office tomorrow.

[Alice]

I am expecting three packages in the mail.  The postperson attempted to deliver one today, but we were out of the office for lunch, so I did not receive it yet.  I will have to pick it up at the post office tomorrow.

Ohhh, gotcha.  I didn't realize they wouldn't leave a package in your office.  I take it you don't make the receptionist stay behind.  We used to do that at my old job... always felt badly for her.