Schwan’s Pizza Starter Crust Recipe Contest – Win Up to $1,000 in Gift Cards!

Posted: October 22nd, 2011 under product review, recipes

Last week we had the chance to try out a pack of Starter Crust from Schwan’s. Each box of Starter Crust comes with two crusts – enough for a bigger family or two different dinners for a smaller family. Your pizza crust comes frozen and ready to go into the oven on it’s own (disposable) baking tray!

Your job?

To add any and all ingredients that suit your fancy!

We started out with our pizza crust:

Then we added the following toppings in the following order:

:: Homemade crock pot spaghetti sauce

:: Pepperoni (the big slices – the kind you get from the deli counter!)

:: Shredded Mozzarella Cheese

:: Sliced Mushrooms

:: Broccoli

:: Onions

Ready to go into the oven!

We baked for 25 minutes and voila!

This pizza was DELISH!! Our entire fam agreed that the crust had a wonderful taste and thickness.

It’s also worth noting that this box of 2 crusts sells for $7.24 – so $3.62/crust. That’s a decent price – and I thought that this was among the best bake-at-home crusts I have tried.

Think you have a winning pizza recipe?

You can submit your recipe on Schwan’s website until 10/31.

You’ll not only be entered for a chance to win $1,000 in Schwan’s Gift Cards, but also to have your winning recipe published in the Schwan’s catalog and made into recipe cards, which will be included in each Starter Crust box!

Schwan’s provided us with the product reviewed above in order to facilitate this post. All opinions are 100% our own.

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Mama’s Picky Eater Patrol: Volume 1 (Sweet Potato Pancakes)

Posted: March 23rd, 2010 under chuck wagon, recipes

Mommy- 1

Lily Bean- 0

Remember when I told you that I refused to accept Lily Bean’s stubborn eating habits without a fight?

Well fight I did- and I won!

Last week I cracked open my copy of Deceptively Delicious by Jessica Seinfeld. I read the entire book cover to cover, and walked away with a few main ideas:

Veggie purees are the key to being a sneakster with food- they can be hidden in just about any recipe
Match purees to recipes that have similar colors (i.e. cauliflower can easily blend in with a mac and cheese dish)
Likewise, match similar tastes so that the purees can’t be detected by the wary toddler’s nose.

I settled on a recipe for sweet potato pancakes, and I’m proud to say, that I sort of took the “just wing it” approach. I used the recipe as a guideline and played around a bit with the amounts. Lily Bean LOVES her pancakes for breakfast, so this recipe was especially appealing to me. What could be better than sneaking a VEGETABLE into her innocent, unsuspecting pancake breakfast?

Here’s how simple it was!

The tasty lineup:

Oil

Pancake Mix

Cooking Spray

1 Large Sweet Potato

Water

Cinnamon (not picture).

Sweet Potato Puree Prep

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Stab sweet potato a few times with a fork. Bake sweet potato for 1 hour, or until inside is soft and mushy. Remove from oven, cut open, allow to cool.

2. Scoop sweet potato innards into a food processor or blender. Puree until smooth and fairly lump free. (This took me right back to my baby food making days!)

Pancake Prep

1. Combine in a bowl: Pancake mix (I used 2 cups), Sweet Potatoe puree (my potato yielded 1 cup), Water (I used about 1 cup, add more or less as needed to get a good batter consistency), Oil (approx 2 TBSP), and a dash of cinnamon.

2. Whisk together until ingredients are well blended and the lumps are mostly gone.

(Here is mine right before blending the cinnamon.)

3. As you finish blending your ingredients, start heating up your griddle or frying pan. Coat surface with cooking spray. Pour batter as you normally would for pancakes. Adjust the amount to suit your child’s portion size. (I made mine big enough for Lily Bean to eat 1 for breakfast with some fruit, usually a banana.)

4. Flip over when bottom starts to brown. Continue flipping a couple more times- until pancakes are cooked all the way through and aren’t runny inside.

Behold! Check out this big pile of pancakes– all secretly LOADED with sweet potato!

5. Place your pancakes in a freezer bag and use a permanent marker to label and date the bag. Freeze.

6. Make pancakes as needed- I either throw them in the toaster or pop them in the microwave for about 30 seconds.

7. The proof: a happy and oblivious eater!

Have a recipe-in-disguise of your own to share? I’d love to hear it! Send them to mamacheaps@gmail.com.

Want to snag a copy of Deceptively Delicious for yourself? Amazon has them for just $9.98 and i ships FREE with Amazon Prime!

*It’s also worth mentioning… this recipe was extremely frugal to make. My estimate for 3-4 weeks worth of breakfast: $1.35.

Illustration by Michael Klein

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Free eBook: Recipes for Love- Cute!

Posted: February 14th, 2010 under freebies, online, recipes

This is cute! Head over to Quality Health. Complete a short survey (I did it- it’s short) and download a free Recipes for Love eBook!! Perfect for your Valentine’s Day menu.

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