Recipe Wednesday: Mexican Pizza

I made this a few weeks ago because I wanted pizza for dinner, but we'd had our normal version of pizza the night before and since the experiment turned out well and we all liked it, I added it to our list of possible meals. The first time I made it, I didn't use meat, so it's easy to make this a meat free meal, if your family also does meat free meals.

MEXICAN PIZZA
Ingredients
Pizza Dough
2 ¹/₂ Cup all-purpose flour
2 ³/₄ tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 tbsp canola oil
A generous sprinkle of taco seasoning
A generous sprinkle of yellow cornmeal
1 cup warm water
Toppings
Corn and black bean salsa
Black beans
Corn
Taco seasoned ground beef
Mexican cheese blend

Directions
1. Mix dry ingredients; add water and oil.
2. Stir until it forms a ball. If dough is stiff, add more water.
3. The dough will be soft, not sticky. If too sticky, sprinkle a little flour and mix some more.
4. Use the salsa as you would pizza sauce, then add the toppings, followed by the cheese.
5. Bake at 400°F for 15-20 minutes.

Dry ingredients

Pizza dough all rolled out

Salsa and toppings

Oops! Forgot about the ground beef!

Fresh outta the oven!

I forgot that I had browned and seasoned ground beef, so it ended up on top of the cheese while the rest of the toppings were under the cheese. What toppings would you add to your Mexican pizza? 

#happyhandmade week 99: my favorites

Every Wednesday on the Daft Crafts blog, there is a #happyhandmade link up where handmade shop owners can share up to three product links and are asked to share at least three of the other products on social media with the hashtag "#happyhandmade."

In no particular order, here are my favorites from this week:

How pretty is this lace and tulle headband? You can view it here.

My husband recently decided that he wanted to watch all 7 seasons of "Doctor Who" that Netflix has available for Instant Streaming, so when I saw this print, it made me think of him.  You can view the listing here.

These heart button earrings are sweet and conjure up thoughts of Valentine's Day so perfectly. You can view them here.

Another dainty and perfect item for thoughts of love. You can find it here.

If you're a fan of green items, this reusable tote is for you! Find it here.

You've seen my favorites. No head on over to the Daft Crafts post, check out the handmade goodness and share your favorites! Or better yet: buy your favorites before someone else does!

Recipe Wednesday: Pancake Muffins

My soon to be three year old loves pancakes. My husband loves pancakes. I love pancakes. Neither my husband nor I like to eat cold pancakes. The compromise: pancake muffins! They're such a super easy, yummy breakfast and you can change them up to what you crave each time. We mostly stick to maple syrup and cinnamon sugar though.

PANCAKE MUFFINS

Ingredients

Pancake mix of your choice

Add-ins of your choice

Supplies

Muffin pan or silicone baking cups

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F.

2. Prepare muffin pan. - I use coconut oil to grease the muffin cups, but you could use silicone baking cups or the paper ones to like the muffin pan.

3. Mix up your pancake batter as directed. - Depending on the brand of pancake mix, I need to use the second or third measurements given.

My mix-ins of the day

The highly precise method of swirl until it looks good 　

Optional 3.1 - Add in your mix-ins. - Normally, I only mix in maple syrup, but the day I made them for this post, I also added in strawberry jam.

4. Bake for 13-15 minutes, or until golden brown and a toothpick inserted comes out clean. - With the Krusteaz brand mix, I have to bake them for 15 minutes, but the store brand that I used to buy, it was only needed to leave them in the oven for 13 minutes.

Optional 5. Lightly spread butter on the still warm muffins.

6. Serve and enjoy!

My son loves these and asks for more until the whole pan is gone! He doesn't care if they're cold and it's dinnertime, he'll ask for pancake muffins. lol