Food Thoughts

I have a confession to make. I am Canadian, the metric system has been around since I was in grade six but when it comes to cooking, I prefer to use the American measures. That's why when I share a recipe it will be in cups not mL. I do understand the metric system well enough to grocery shop but I'm just an old fashioned woman when it comes to my baking.

These are great to snack on while watching the CCMA award show, hockey playoffs or to wrap in paper towel lined tinfoil to take to a tailgate picnic:

Pizza Biscuits

2 cups all purpose flour or 1 cup whole wheat, 1 cup all purpose
4 teaspoons baking powder
1 tablespoon granulated sugar
3/4 teaspoon salt

1 cup Mozzarella cheese
Half a package or 9 ounces assorted pizza meat circles, quartered (these usually come with ham, salami and pepperoni)

1/3 cup cooking or olive oil
3/4 cup pizza sauce

Pizza sauce to heat for dipping (optional)

Measure first four ingredients together in bowl. Stir. Add cheese and meat; stir until meat is well coated.

Add oil and pizza sauce. Stir or use your hands to form a ball of dough. Lift dough ball out of bowl, lightly flour bowl, put ball back in and knead gently 8-10 times, adding more flour if necessary. Divide ball into quarters, divide quarters into thirds, pat into circles about ¾-1 inch thick. Place on ungreased cookie sheet close together for moist sides or further apart for crisp sides.

Bake in 425 oven for about 20 minutes or until tops are browned. Once these are cooked, you can either top them with pizza sauce or put it in individual containers for dipping. If you are feeling ultra healthy, you can cut up some carrot and celery sticks as well as tomato wedges for vegetable side dishes.

Bigg Lug and Kidlet like their pizza biscuits plain, I like mine with pizza sauce. This is also a favourite when we are watching a NASCAR race in the afternoon and had a big Sunday brunch. For us the Sunday routine is usually a pre-race Sunday brunch because the race doesn’t start until noon and some sort of light lunch during the race.

I created the Pizza Biscuit recipe by combining two different biscuit recipes and a pizza recipe. I used to feel like I was wasting my brains by being so creative with cooking. Being a child of the 70’s, I felt sort of guilty taking pleasure in the womanly art of cooking. When I started not just reading but studying the book of Proverbs in the Bible, I noticed wisdom and knowledge tended to get referred to as feminine traits, not as masculine traits. I started to take delight in the culinary arts, even if it was just a simple biscuit recipe.

Proverbs 3:13, 15 Happy is the person that finds wisdom, and the person that gets understanding. She is more precious than rubies: and all the things you can desire are not to be compared to her.