It started with the yummiest pizza recipe! I was feeding my family, Jen and her kids, plus five of my nieces and nephews, so pizza was the natural (read: cheap and easy) choice for our late lunch! I use this recipe from Annie's Eats. (I always double the recipe, making four pizzas for my family but for this crowd I quadrupled it!) I've tried a few others, but this is just absolutely fabulous. It freezes perfectly and is just so very tasty. It was in our family's weekly rotation, but I consistently overeat when I make it so I've had to slow it down. And yes, I did eat way too much of it this weekend. We stuck to the basics for the crowd, cheese/pepperoni/three meat. Plus my favorite breadsticks, use ranch dressing as the base and then slather on mozzarella and cheddar cheese.
As a late afternoon snack, we devoured The Pioneer Woman's Cinnamon Rolls. They are so delicious, they deserve to be capitalized as the proper noun they are! I made four pans...mmmm. I limited the children to one roll each so I could have a few leftover for breakfast on Sunday and two pans to take to church for dessert. Yep, you read that correctly. They are so good you can take them to a church potluck and pass them off as dessert. I also made a pan of some of my standby rolls and added some ham for my main dish contribution.
For Monday's cookout, I was inspired by BooMama's Diptacular '11 to whip up something in the appetizer family. I found this recipe for Beer Bread (I used root beer and it was a little sweeter than I would have liked, but we still ate every crumb). I cubed up the bread and made my tried and true bacon cheese dip and a new pizza dip. It's definitely a keeper (I made a few adjustments, D doesn't care for parmesan so I used mozzarella and a little bit of cheddar, also left off the toppings--still tasty!)
And because every good weekend ends with something sweet, I made these Coconut Lime Sugar Cookies. Yep. They are very tasty. I think these would be an amazing cookie to use for ice cream sandwiches. Some good vanilla in between these, maybe rolled in toasted coconut...oh yes, that sounds divine. I wonder if I could do that and then dip them in white chocolate, like a Klondike bar...Okay I'll stop now.
And that's my weekend in recipes! We enjoyed a delightful, entertaining, and memorable weekend! Did Jen and I take a picture together this weekend? Yes, but not with our own cameras so I've got nothing...well, lookie here! I found something to use! A picture of my sweet girl after her baptism. So very proud of her!
