Cooking with Lily

Pizza Dough

2009-01-14T10:25:00.001-08:00

I prefer Jiffy pizza dough as it only involves a little kneading and 1/2 cup water... but Lily sure likes to play with the flour aka "white stuff". Yes, she is obviously moving quickly... or I have super bad photography skills.

We just added tomato sauce, mozzarella and parmesan. Lily prefers parmesan and Cam prefers mozzarella. I roasted some garlic and threw on some italian herbs.

Orchiette Bolgnese

2009-01-11T07:30:00.000-08:00

Lily can now add all ingredients, grate cheese, and above all... tell me when the water is boiling.

1/2 pound ground beef
1/2 pound ground pork
1/2 pound ground veal * i know, but it was just calling to me at Smith's!
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 chopped onion
1 diced carrot
1 diced celery
Salt and Pepper

Saute onion and vegetables until translucent. Add meat mixture and brown until no longer pink.

Add 1 cup milk and simmer until most liquid is absorbed

Add 1 cup wine (we used dry white) and simmer until most liquid is absorbed

Add 1 26 oz. can of tomatoes and let simmer 1.5 hours.

Boil salted water and and add 1 pound pasta (we used little ears but sticks will do)

Add a handful of parmesan reggiano and fresh flat leaf parsley.

Dinner out!

2008-12-08T09:11:00.000-08:00

We went to Macaroni Grill last week with Dad and Maestra.

Lily shares her macaroni with her brother...

Fettucini Alfredo

2008-11-24T10:24:00.000-08:00

This is the day we stopped eating cheesy noodles and pronounced "Fettucini Alfredo".
1 lb fettucini
6-8 TBSP Butter (melted)
1 1/2 cups Half and Half (stir into butter)
1 cup shredded Parmesan Reggiano (stir into milk)
light salt
fresh cracked pepper

Tada

sometimes it's not quite up to code

2008-11-24T10:20:00.000-08:00

Jiffy corn muffins

Sometimes you need to sort through your priorities.

So Lily is making muffins on crazy KT's floor.

They were delicious.

Pumpkin Bread

2008-11-03T07:58:00.000-08:00

Lily loves the Kitchen Aid. What to do with the extra pumpkin you didn't carve? Well, it was a fight between the pumpkin soup and pumpkin pie - but pumpkin chocolate chip bread won.

Preheat oven to 400
In a medium bowl mix in:
1 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon baking power
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves

In the Kitchen Aid Bowl add and Beat until creamy:
6 Tbsp softened butter
1 1/3 cup sugar
Add one at a time:
2 eggs (Let the kids break them into separate bowl - they love it! Lily has been doing this since she was 2!)
1 cup cooked pumpkin (canned is fine but recipe follows)
Mix in:
2 or 3 little handfuls of chocolate chips

Pour into a greased loaf pan (I use olive oil spray - Lily loves to spray this all over the place). Bake for 40-50 minutes until toothpick comes out clean.