Recipe Share - Pizza, Pizza!

As I was making dinner tonight, it struck me that I should share the recipe with all of you, as well as a variation that I have found works with even the most picky of our friends.  You can be all fancy and make your own crusts, but I usually buy the Pillsbury thin crust, especially when I have a coupon for it.  For the cooked chicken, we usually grill ours, seasoned with salt, pepper and garlic, or you could go the easiest route and buy a roasted chicken from the grocery store.     Here they are!

BBQ Chicken Pizza:

1 pizza crust

1/2 cup BBQ sauce

2 cups mozzarella cheese

2 pieces of cooked chicken, cut into pieces

1/2 pound of bacon, chopped -  see below for how I cook mine

1/3 cup red onion, sliced thin

Prebake crust for 5 minutes according to package directions or crust recipe.  After baking, brush crust with BBQ sauce.  Top with cheese.  Add chicken, bacon and red onion.  Continue baking according to package or recipe directions.  Mine looked like this:

Pesto Chicken Pizza

1 pizza crust

1/2 jar of pesto sauce

2 cups mozzarella cheese

2 pieces of cooked chicken, cut into pieces

Prebake crust for 5 minutes according to package directions or crust recipe.  After baking, brush crust with pesto sauce.  Top with cheese.  Add chicken.  Continue baking according to package or recipe directions.

Cooking Bacon – I used to fry bacon, which lead to a huge mess and left a smell in the house all day.  I ended up finding this method, and I haven’t fried bacon since!  Just take a cookie sheet and cover with foil, place bacon on foil and place into a cold oven.  Turn oven to 400 and bake 15 minutes or until bacon reaches desired crispiness.

5 Months Old!

Looking back, I realize that I have been rather sparse with my postings.  Between keeping up with the house and dealing with a 5 month old that seemingly never sleeps, I just have not had much time to maintain the blog.  I hope when I get back to work and get into a routine, I will hopefully be able to keep everyone a little more updated on how our little lady is doing, as well as how our family continues to adjust to our new “normal”.  This past weekend, we had Aubrey’s 5 month birthday party.  We had family over for some dinner and of course some cake! 

Uncle Josh brought over 5 daises for Baby Girl. 

She was very excited about the cake she didn’t get to eat.

In regards to development this month, Baby Girl is starting to recognize faces, and will tend to lean in to get Mama and Daddy to hold her if someone else is holding her.  She is very generous now with smiles and laughs, and the dog can always crack her up.  Although she has now rolled in both directions, she really doesn’t do it that much.  I think she just did to see if she could do it, and now she’s good.  She still has trouble at night when Mama and Daddy go out, so we have been usually been staying close to home.

We started her on solids this month, and she has really taken to peas, carrots and apples, as well as oatmeal.  She’s not a fan of sweet potatoes or avocados.  She will eat prunes, but not without making a funny face, so we don’t force those on her often.  We are doing a combination of jar food and homemade purees, which will hopefully save us a little bit of money.

Bathtime is now playtime, and she has really been making efforts to sit up.  She’s really working on being able to sit up by herself.  You would think with all that work to sit up and look around, she would be sleeping more, but she usually just takes small naps during the day.  She went on a bit of a sleep strike this month, and still has her bad nights.  On those nights she usually ends up in bed with us, that way, everyone gets some sleep.

It’s so hard to believe that next month with be six months for my Baby Girl!  Her half birthday and my birthday fall on the same day, so we will definitely be having a big celebration!