{Kaitlin in the Kitchen}: June 2009

Did you all forget about me? I wouldn't be surprised, it's already June 23rd and I've only done 2 posts this month. We've been extremely busy around here. I was also sick all last week and some of this weekend. My 24th Birthday was last Monday, June 15th, but we didn't really celebrate until this past weekend 'cause I was too sick to care. The weekend I got sick we had my sister in-law's (Hi Angie!) baby shower. I was busy making cookies and cupcakes for that, which was super fun for me, I will post pictures at the end of the post. It was a cute shower, and they got a lot of adorable things for baby Noah, who is due August 4th (I hope I remember that right). We cannot wait to meet him! In the midst of being busy and sick I've actually still been cooking quite a bit and taking pictures of everything. I have a lot of stuff that I've set aside to blog, so hopefully I will be able to keep this more up to date with yummy recipes to share. I've seen these pizza balls floating around the food blogging community and really wanted to give them a try. They were good, well, they were okay. I know they would have been awesome if I wouldn't have used canned dough. I should have went with my gut instinct. I told myself after this that I really am completely DONE with any canned dough, biscuit, etc. I just DON'T like them, neither does my husband. I will definitely make these again, but with my own homemade dough. You can fill them with anything you'd like. Serve them with warm marinara, or whatever you'd like. They're definitely worth a try. I'll be back (hopefully) tomorrow with some more yum yum's! :)

Ingredients:

1 Batch Pizza Dough (canned or homemade, you can find my homemade one here)

1 1/2 Cups Mozzarella Cheese, shredded

1 Cup Pepperoni, diced small

1 Tablespoon Butter, melted

1 Teaspoon Garlic Powder

1 Teaspoon Dried Oregano

3 Tablespoons Parmesan Cheese, grated

Directions:

Roll your dough out onto a lightly floured surface, make it about a 9" x 14" rectangle. Use a pizza slicer to cut rows down and across. You will want to have about 30 individual squares when you're done. Fill the middle of each square with mozzarella cheese, and pepperoni. Take each corner and bring it into the middle and pinch them all together to completely close the dough around the filling. Place the balls seam side down into a pan that is lightly greased. Once your pan is full, brush on melted butter, then sprinkle on garlic powder, oregano, and parmesan cheese. Bake in a pre-heated 400 degree oven for 20-25 minutes or until they are golden brown.