OSU over night party with family~

I let myself go today and really went all out.  Three different soups, a seafood pasta dish, cauliflower gratin, Italian monkey pull-apart pizza bread, the last of fresh sliced tomatoes from the garden, a salad and fresh peach cobbler with ice cream. This cider caramel vodka drink is delicious.  It and the Italian pizza bread recipes are on the previous post. So good.  Guests arrive by 2:30.

 

 

 Pizza Bread

Ingredients:

1 (12 oz) tube refrigerated flaky biscuits

1 tbsp. olive oil

16 slices pepperoni, quartered

1/4 cup shredded pizza-blend cheese

1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese

1 tsp. Italian Seasoning

t tsp. onion powder

1/4 tsp. garlic salt

pizza sauce, for dipping

Directions:

Preheat oven to 400F degrees.

Spray a bundt pan with nonstick cooking spray.

Note: The original recipe states to line your bundt pan with aluminum foil, then spray with nonstick cooking spray. I just used the nonstick spray and I did have to kind of go around the edges with a butter knife before it would release. But it did end up coming out just fine.

Cut each biscuit into 4 pieces, place in a bowl. Toss biscuit pieces with oil and set aside.

In a separate bowl, combine remaining ingredients; mix well.

Add biscuits; toss well to coat. Arrange in the prepared Bundt pan.

Bake at 400F degrees for 15 minutes (or until golden).It takes much longer than 15minutes to get this baked through in a tube pan. But, the results are delicious if you bake them on a baking sheet as shown below.

Turn bread out of pan onto a serving plate while still warm.

Serve with pizza sauce for dipping.

Makes about 2 dozen pieces.

 

 

This is the best way to do the pizza bites.

The recipe calls for a tube pan for the bites, but I could not get them done.  They were piled up and doughy.  Spread out, it bakes in just a few minutes and they are easy and delicious.

More to come. This is OSU day and the party will begin at 2:30.  Then the girls are taking me out this evening for an all girls night out. Dinner and the movie at the Fork Theater.
Note: People say the funniest things leaving a movie after the show.  The movie was Prisoners, a dark, black and white, rainy movie about the abduction of two little girls and the parents' search for them. There was nothing obviously cheerful about it.  On the way out of the movie one woman said I wish it could have been a more cheerful ending...like that's going to happen! 

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Doris Lechler

Hot Caramel Apple cider for Grown-ups

4 mugs worth of apple cider
1 mug worth of Caramel Vodka
1 T. cinnamon...
1/4 C. brown sugar

Mix all ingredients above in a large pot
Heat over med-low heat, stirring occasionally
until liquid just begins to steam
(don't over heat or else the alcohol will burn off)

While cider is warming up, take your mugs or glasses
and rim them with brown sugar

Pour cider into glass and enjoy

We made this and had it today and it is fantastic.

Angela, Johnna's sister from Florida, Tom and Chee (married), Johnna (David's wife from Fla.) Pam and George, (married)

 

Andy, married to Doris, Angela from Fla., Pam, Beth, Johnna and Chees is hidden.