Category Archives: not so junk food

These pizza balls are so simple, fast, and delicious. I found them on Pinterest and had to make them in all their gooey goodness. All you do is take canned biscuits, cheese, and pepperoni or your favorite toppings, roll them all together in a ball and put them in a muffin pan. I sprinkled some extra cheese on top as well.

The balls I saw on Pinterest had the ingredients and the biscuits rolled together more, so there was cheese and pepperoni on the outside and the inside. I found it easier to stretch the biscuit out, put the toppings on, then roll the biscuit so all the topping were in the center.

Put the pan in the oven for about ten or fifteen minutes or until golden brown.

Then eat them–because they are good! Jason dipped his in pizza sauce, but I’ve always found pizza sauce unnecessary. We made eight and each had two. They were surprisingly filling. We put the extras in the fridge and heated them up for lunch the next day. This would be a great thing to make during the weekend for lunches or dinners during the week when you’re short on time. One word of advice though: get the fat-free biscuits, a little healthier for regular pizza ball indulgence.

When I started cooking this summer I asked for cooking blog recommendations. I looked at several, but the only one I really fell in love with is How Sweet It Is. If you haven’t checked out this blog yet you must do so. Now. I’m pretty sure the blogger, Jessica, and I were separated at food birth because she loves cheese and buffalo sauce and a bunch of other stuff I love. But mostly cheese. I tend to change her recipes a little and here are two I tried in the past couple weeks that were amazing.

The first one is Turkey, Brie, and Cranberry Sauce Quesadillas, which I turned into Thanksgiving sandwiches. Her version is here. My version is a flatbread, not quesadilla, with brie, a big spoonful of cranberry sauce, and a bunch of apple stuffing on the flatbread. These are so good and you could get really creative with this–use any of your favorite Thanksgiving dishes. Someone I know thought she might put mashed potatoes on it. We had these several times over the last week and I’m still not sick of them. I also made the quesadillas without the turkey (just brie and cranberry sauce) and it tasted like a dessert. Too yummy.

The next recipe is frozen hot chocolate–the healthier way! This recipe is full of protein and yumminess. I’m not sure what they use in the frozen hot chocolate at Serendipity (which I went to during BEA, but I got apple pie instead of frozen hot chocolate) but this has Greek yogurt, milk, cocoa powder, chocolate syrup, protein powder and more ingredients. It definitely does not feel like a healthy drink when you’re sucking it down but it really is. I made a similar drink with strawberries but I’ll have to talk about that more another time.

I’ve cooked up a storm lately and can’t wait to show you more of my recipes! Do any of you have “healthy dessert” ideas?

I really love buffalo chicken sandwiches, however, they’re not the healthiest thing in the world. Earlier this week I was really in the mood for one and I remembered Jason got some buffalo sauce last time we were at the grocery store. I make a MorningStar Farms Chik Pattie, put it on the a wheat bun, some Muenster cheese, and then a couple of tablespoons of buffalo sauce. I realize this isn’t exactly groundbreaking cooking–but it was so good. And much healthier than the fried and soaked in buffalo sauce real chicken alternative. A little buffalo sauce goes a long ways, and this way I didn’t even need the blue cheese dressing to dip it in because it wasn’t overwhelmingly buffalo flavored. My mouth is watering just thinking about it…