A Bookworm Creates

Pretzel Rolls! I seem to have a back log on my entries.  I shall endure until everything is posted.  Anyway...on to the next item.  Homemade Pretzels.  Wait?  What?  I don't have to go to the mall or to a grocery store to buy pretzels?  No, you don't.  You can make them.  They were something from another blogger (Knucklehead Salad) that made me think...I want to make that.  So I went to Food Network (Love Food Network and the fact that Justin whats-his-name won The Next Food Network Star!) and entered 'pretzel' into the search engine and there were a  lot of results.  Naturally I picked Alton Brown's recipe.  1. It was the first entry and 2. It was the highest ranked entry.  I also thought that playing with yeast would be a good experiment for my niece, who was staying the night.  Regardless, she became interested in a movie and I ended up working solo.  This is an easy recipe but patience is neces...

No much to look at but delicious It has occurred to me that I have not posted anything in a while.  My sewing projects just need photos and I have one of two ideas on my phone, also in need of photos.  I also find myself on Pinterest pinning way too many pins to try at some point in my life. Tonight it is Pepperoni Pizza Puffs , or Pizza Bite Biscuits as I want to call them.  It was made for Megan as we prepared to watch the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics (awesome opening show by the way). For starters, I did make a few adjustments to the recipe.  I did a half a cup of ham and a half a cup of pepperoni.  I was also out of Italian Seasoning and did not use salt. Megan comments that she wondered if some pizza sauce could be added into the mix (she used ranch as a dip instead of the pizza sauce and I opted for no sauce.) and that it needed more cheese. Let me also point out that I used a regular muffin/cupcake pan instead of a mini pan, not because I ...