One of my favorite things to do with my family is make homemade pizza and have a movie night. We had a mini version of one on Sunday night and I loved it. I say a mini version because I pulled the pizza dough out of the freezer (thanks to my awesome mom!) I wish I could tell you how to make this homemade pizza dough because it is wonderful but alas I text my mom almost every time we make it for the ingredients. I'm not quit sure what I am going to do when we move to England (Yes we are moving across the ocean!) and I'm not able to text my mom at a moments notice for help. I will at some point figure out this recipe and write it down so I don't have to text her every time we have a pizza & movie night. Anyways R & my favorite pizza is BLT, people from Texas have no idea what a BLT pizza is well let me tell you its delicious! You cook your bacon and put it on your dough put that in your 500* oven for 10 minutes then pull out and top with cheddar cheese (Shredded) and cook for another 10 minutes. After its done cooking take it out and top with mayonnaise, chopped lettuce, and tomatoes. The kids like their own type of pizza A1 would prefer pineapple on his, A2 just likes cheese and A3 will eat just about anything on his pizza :) For the kids pizza all you have to do is put the sauce on the dough cook for 10 minutes and then add the toppings and cook an additional 10 minutes.
Now my kids are ranch FREAKS (they take after their mom!!) Of course we make our own ranch but I cheat and just use the hidden valley buttermilk ranch packets, I love the taste of it and we always have the ingredients on hand so it isn't a problem when we run out :)
Of course you have to have a snack after dinner and what wouldn't be better than our homemade granola bars....these are to dye for!!! I make 3 batches of these for 1 week in our house. The kids and R eat them up!
Here's how we make them......
What you need
2 cups of rice krispies
2 cups of quick oatmeal
1/2 cup of Karo syrup
1/2 brown sugar
1/2 peanut butter
vanilla (I just do a splash)
Mix in treats ;)
Mix together the rice krispies & oatmeal, set aside in a bowl. In a sauce pan heat the syrup & brown sugar together until smooth. Once it is smooth add your peanut butter and vanilla. Once all of that is mixed together add to your cereal/oatmeal mixture. I use my hands for 2 of the batches I make. Its very messy but pretty easy. Now is when you can add treats if you would like R likes me to add cranberries to his, A2 has me add mini M&M's or chocolate chips. Now A1 thinks I make him special chocolate granola bars, all I do is put the cereal/oatmeal mixture with the peanut butter mixture in my Ninja (which I LOVE by the way!) and blend it together with chocolate chips. The blender chops up the chips and makes them look like they are just chocolate.
Once everything is mixed together press it into a 9X13 pan, I let them cool for about 10 minutes before we cut them up to eat them. I used to put them in a zip lock bag for the week but I found they hardened a lot faster (If they made it a whole week) the batch I made on Sunday have been sitting in the 9X13 pan still and they are as soft as when I made them.
Be careful when you start to eat these because I guarantee you wont be able to eat one!
