November in Kentucky…
Archive for November, 2011
Almost Wordless Wednesday
Posted in Home, Photography, tagged Farm, Home, Kentucky, Wordless Wednesday on November 9, 2011| 1 Comment »
Bubble Up Pizza
Posted in Cooking, tagged Biscuits, Casserole, Cooking, Italian sausage, Main, Pizza on November 5, 2011| 22 Comments »
I found this recipe and a great new blog on Pinterest. I had never heard of this blog before but now I am hooked! The name is Plain Chicken and there is a funny story behind the name so go check it out as soon as you can!. She is a fellow Southerner and the food on her site looks so good.
Bubble Up Pizza is easy, good, and the recipe makes a huge pan. In fact, there was enough for two suppers for C and I and 2 lunches for me. That is a lot of food from one pan. The original recipe says to use the pizza toppings of your choice so I chose ground beef, Italian sausage, onions and green peppers, but the there are many, many combinations you can try. Have fun with it and see what you can come up with.
2 cans (12oz. each) golden layer buttermilk biscuits
1 jar (15 oz.) pizza sauce
2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
1/2 lb. lean ground beef
1/2 lb. Italian sausage
1 bell pepper, diced
1/2 medium onion, diced
Cook the ground beef, sausage, pepper and onion until the meat in thoroughly cooked and the veggies are soft.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees and spray a 9×13 inch baking pan with non-stick spray. Cut the biscuits into quarters and place in a large bowl. Toss the biscuits with the sauce. Add the pizza toppings and half of the cheese. Toss until well blended.
Pour the mixture into the prepared baking dish and top with remaining cheese. Bake for 25-30 minutes or until biscuits are done. This is enough for a whole meal so I just served mine with some fresh chopped veggies on the side.
Join me and some other wonderful cooks over at Miz Helen’s Full Plate Thursday.
Book Beginnings
Posted in Books, tagged Book Beginnings, Books on November 4, 2011| 5 Comments »
Join me and other bloggers today at A Few More Pages for the Friday Book Beginnings link party. Here’s the deal…pick up the book you are reading right now and leave the first few lines here, then describe how that makes you feel about the book. Do the words make you want to jump right in and read it all in one sitting or do they give you pause? I have really enjoyed doing this and reading the other blogger’s "first lines". It has opened up some new books and authors to me that I might not have heard of otherwise.
The Harry Potter series, as you all know, is an extremely popular book and movie series for young adults. I really liked the movies and had wanted to read the books, but had never taken the time to start them. Now I have, and I have been pleasantly surprised. Most Young Adult fiction, in my opinion, is truly written for teens and tweens so it usually does not appeal to me much. I tried to read "Twilight" and was bored stiff by it. The writing just seemed simple and flat to me, but that is just my humble opinion. I don’t want to put down anyone who liked it; it just wasn’t for me.
Here is the first line in "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone":
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you’d expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn’t hold with such nonsense."
This first line says to me that the Durnsley are very proud of their "normalcy", but it probably is not going to last much longer. I am about halfway through this book and it is enjoyable. Hopefully, the rest of the series is just as good.
Picture Perfect Cooking 