My big boy is turning three next month! Where the hell did the time go?
We discussed what type of birthday party he wanted and he decided on a Superhero theme.
The other day I came home and he was chattering on and said “Star Wars birffday party.”
To which I replied “Star Wars? I thought you wanted a Superhero birthday!” Ian said “Oh yeah. Superhero birfday party. BEST PARTY EVA!”
Whew!
I have been pinning ideas on my Pinterest board for the party and have been thinking about things, but I hadn’t really started to do anything yet. Then last week I got an evite from my cousin for her daughter’s birthday (Ian and her daughter were born only a week apart) and I realized ‘HOLY CRAP! I have to send out invitations soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!’
I had an idea for the invitations and wanted to take some pictures of him, he of course didn’t want to cooperate. Since he wouldn’t do as I wished, I would have to use some pictures I already had to make his invitations. This weekend I worked on them and I am pretty pleased with the results.
Of course I am not going to show you yet.
Here are some of the pictures I took, instead of the ones I wanted to for his invitation.
As we all know Pinterest has an abundance of recipes!
Typically I don’t pin the recipes I find, I just go to the original site and save it in Plan to Eat recipe book. Lately I have felt in a cooking rut and needed some new recipes so I, of course, turned to Pinterest.
I thought about planning this weeks menu with nothing but new Pinterest recipes but it was too much chicken. So there are four out of the six cooking days that are recipes from Pinterest.
I don’t have that many recipes on there yet, in my defense it takes a long time to filter through all the dessert recipes.
I wasn’t able to eat Buffalo Sauce while I was pregnant, I got really bad heartburn, but then again I got heartburn from water….
I had something with Buffalo Sauce the other day and realized how much I missed it. No reason I can’t eat it now! So, yes there are two recipes that calls for Frank’s Red Hot Sauce!
Happy Cooking
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So the other week I was supposed to make Philly Cheese Steak Sloppy Joes, which are fantastic by the way! I don’t remember why, but I never did. I was looking on-line for some new recipes and came across this one for Bacon Cheeseburger Buns, and I thought it would be great to combine these two recipes! And I did last week.
Except to make it a little easier I thought about using the premade refrigerated pizza dough, you know the kind that comes in the tubes that pop when you open it. I got the idea from this recipe for Cheeseburger Flatbread Melts, which could be another version.
Philly Cheese Sloppy Joe Rolls
Ingredients:
1 medium onion chopped
1 medium bell pepper seeded and chopped; any color or combination
1/4 cup steak sauce
1 cup beef broth
salt and ground black pepper to taste
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon flour
1 cup milk
1 cup provolone cheese shredded
11 oz thin crust pizza dough (or other refrigerated dough)
1 lb ground beef
Directions:
Cook ground beef while breaking it up into chunks with a spatula or spoon until browned, over med-high heat. Add the bell pepper and onion and cook for 3-4 minutes, until the onions start to become tender. Drain an excess liquid. Stir in steak sauce and beef broth, season with salt and pepper. Bring to a boil and cook until the mixture is thickened and bubbly.
Melt butter in a medium skillet over medium-high heat. Stir in flour and cook for 1 minute. Whisk in milk and cook until the mixture is thickened and bubbly. Remove from heat and stir in the cheese until it is melted and incorporated into the sauce.
Roll dough into an 12-in. x 8-in. rectangle; cut into 6-8 squares. I actually used biscuits because that is what I had in the fridge.
Place 1/4 cup meat mixture in the center of each square add cheese sauce. Bring corners together in the center and pinch to seal.
Place 2 in. apart on greased baking sheets. Bake at 400° for 9-11 minutes or until lightly browned. Brush with butter. Serve with extra cheese sauce spooned over and enjoy.
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