Cooking with The Pioneer Woman: Weekly Update

Maybe this should be a bi-weekly update now?  The last two weeks have been slow.  I’ve been recycling a lot of recipes and scraping by on other things we already had.  Chicken pot pie and tomato soup have become weekly favorites.  A few new recipes of note I did try were:

Angel Sugar Cookies

I’m a chocolate chip cookie fan.  Usually sugar cookies are kind of dry, tasteless a nd just, blah.  The sugar cookies were one of the last desserts I picked to make out of the cookbook.  But man, I’m sorry I made the wait.  These were yummy!  The cookies had a nice kind of after-taste, almost lemon-y.  I’m supposing it’s the cream of tartar.  While the cookies were crumby they weren’t dry.  The only suggestion I would say is don’t skip on the refrigerating the dough.  It helps it set up and makes them nice and thick and helps hold their shape.

Tomato Basil Pizza

I’d made her pizza crust no less than 5 times but for the first time this week, I made the tomato basil variation (we added red onions too).  It was yummy, yummy, yummy.  Scott said it was the best pizza he ever ate…even better than Mellow Mushroom.  We ended up making it again two days later.  The biggest difference I think is we use the expensive mozzarella..the kind in the fancy cheese section.  I really can’t stress enough what a difference it makes.  The pizza is going to end up costing you as much as a Pizza Hut pizza but let me tell you, WAY WORTH IT. 

Twice Baked Potatoes

Have to be honest on this one…the only thing I did was put the potatoes in the oven.  We made these when Kaitlin was visiting and she and Scott whipped them up while I made Ranch Chicken.  I DID eat them though and they were fantastic.  PW also mentions they were freezer-friendly so when we had a good 8-10 left, I was happy to individually wrap them and freeze them.  I pulled them out when I made fish the other night.  Perfect side with almost no work!

All of these are on my make-again list!  Go  buy her cookbook!