Pepperoni & Mozzarella Pull Aparts

Thanks for WebChef Ari for finding this one!
Ingredients
1/3 cup favorite flavored dipping oil
2 teaspoons garlic powder
2 (16 ounce) pkgs pre-made pizza dough or homemade pizza dough
1 (7 oz) pkg sliced pepperoni
1 (8 oz) pkg shredded mozzarella cheese

Directions
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F
2. Separate pizza dough into small bite sized pieces.
3. In a bowl add your favorite flavored dipping oil. Toss dough pieces in dipping oil to lightly coat.
4. Layer dough pieces in bottom of bundt or fluted tube pan, next layer sliced pepperoni, shredded cheese and sprinkle with garlic powder. Repeat all three layers again in the same order, and then end with final layer of dough pieces.

5. Bake in the preheated oven until the bread is browned and cooked through in the center, 30-40 min
6. Remove from oven, and invert the pan on a cutting board; the bread will fall out of the pan in one piece.

7. Serve by pulling the bread apart into individual servings with optional marinara dipping sauce on the side.
I usually layer until about 2/3 of the pan is full. When I make this bread I definitely plan for it to feed a hungry crowd. You can scale down the ingredients if you choose to feed a smaller crowd. You can serve it hot or room temperature, which makes it a great option if you are tailgating at the game or heading ove to a friend’s house. And if you do decide to make the larger version, don’t worry. It’s pretty tasty leftover too, so you can be sure it won’t be around for long.

Flatout Multi-Grain with Flax Flatbread Thin Crust Buffalo Chicken Pizza

Thin Crust Buffalo Chicken Pizza

 

This is a fantastic lunch or lite dinner meal.  Quick to throw together and a wonderful use of left over roasted chicken (also works great with shrimp). 

1 Flatout Multi-Grain with Flax Flatbread 

½ cup cooked and shredded chicken breast
1/2 wedge Laughing Cow Queso Fresco & Chipotle

2 tbsp. hot sauce
1 tbsp. blue cheese dressing
thin slices of red onion
black olives
½ cup shredded Mozzarella cheese
fresh spinach and arugula blend

Oven Method: Place Flatout Flatbread on a cookie sheet or pizza sheet. Bake at 350 for two minutes. 

Remove from oven. Spread on the laughing cow cheese.  Add onion, black olives, and chicken. Drizzle with blue cheese dressing. Top with mozzarella cheese. Return to oven and bake 4 more minutes.

Pull from oven and top with spinach and arugula.  Dash with the hot sauce.  

Eat standing up right from the pan because you are too hungry to waste time finding a chair! 

The best iced coffee mocha banana drink you can make at home!

Just so you know - Dunkin Donuts is my favorite coffee.  It was close to 90 degrees yesterday and I was trying to get some of my gardening done.  Lunch time rolled around and while I was hungry, I didn't want anything hot or heavy.  And I really needed some coffee.  I had brewed some DD french vanilla coffee that I had in the fridge and was nice and cold.  And I had some frozen banana so I decided to experiment.  Let me tell you - this frozen coffee drink is AWESOME!   

This drink does take some prep work.  Make your coffee and put in in the fridge to cool. 

Slice up a banana (hint, sprinkle the slices with a packet of Splenda -  not only is this the sweetner you will use, but it helps keep the slices separated so you don't end up with a frozen blob of banana slices.) Now put those slices in the freezer. 

I used my reusable DD cup for this.  I put crushed ice up the the bottom pink line on the cup.  Then I added about 2 Tbls. of Hersheys Lite Chocolate Syrup.  Then I added my cold coffee and frozen banana slices. 

I then poured in unsweetened vanilla Almond Breeze milk to fill and using my stick blender, turned the whole thing into a smoothie-like coffee dream!  

Of course I had to add one more swirl of chocolate syrup!  This was the perfect lite lunch and probably the BEST frozen coffee drink I have ever had.  This could easily be sugar free by using sugar free chocolate syrup.  A wonderful summer drink.  I am already prepping another for tomorrow's lunch!