Home made Pizza

Here I am again, I am doing good, second day of 14 (I can totally do this). So today I thought I would like to share my favourite quick pizza dough recipe!
I make this quite often, I even used it for calzones!

Ingredients for pizza dough*
With this recipe I am usually able to make 2 pizzas.
2 1/2 cup flour
2 3/4 tsp. baking powder (you can substitute with baking soda, only use half that amount and don't use salt)
1 tsp. salt
1 tbsp. oil
1 cup water

Warm oven at 400
Mix all dry ingredients, then add the water and oil. Stir until it forms a balls. If you are having a hard time and it's flaky just add more water (I find that most of the time I am adding a little bit more). The dough shouldn't be sticky, knead for a few minutes (3 or 4 minutes) and then roll.

Top with your favourite toppings and put in oven for 15 minutes for a softer crust, up to 25 minutes.

I promise that once you start using this pizza dough recipe, you will never again buy that pre-made one!

And just in case you ever want to make me pizza, I love putting mushrooms, olives and lots of cheese and of course pepperoni!

*I took this recipe straight from this link, I didn't even change one ingredient http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,2341,157183-233201,00.html 

Twisted Mac and Cheese

Seeing as November is coming around and the weather is slowly changing, I was looking for comfort foods! Yummy! I love mac and cheese but I get tired of the normal one. So I found this recipe and I played with it a   little and it came out oh so good! And bonus, it's easy and fast.

Ingredients

Macaroni
Mushrooms (I used about two 8 oz container, but use as much or as little as you want)
2 tbsp butter
1 can (28 oz) crushed tomatoes
12 oz feta cheese
spices (I used rosemary, thyme, salt and pepper)
2 big cloves of garlic crushed (or as much as you want)
1 cup of 35% cream (I used my 1% milk and I added corn starch to thicken it)

Heat oven to 500.
While your noodles are cooking, melt the butter, I use my big Wok, and cook the mushrooms until soft, about 5 minutes. Add the spices and the garlic, cook for 1 to 2 minutes. Add the tomatoes and the cream, bring a to simmer. (At this point if you have used milk you would add your corn starch, I usually mix mine with a little bit of water to make it more liquid and therefore it is distributed evenly in my dish). Add half the feta cheese and simmer for about 2 to 3 minutes.

In an oven proof dish, mix the sauce and the noodles together, top with remaining feta cheese. If you want to add more you could add some parmesan, It would be very good!  Put in the oven for 5 minutes, let is set for a minute or two and serve!

This picture is from my lunch the next day and it was just as tasty!

Enjoy!