1) I put everything together last night for the dinner because I knew that I had an appointment after work tonight so that Ryan could just preheat, put it in the oven and walk away. So when I got home I literally just made the veggie to go with and dinner was done. Presto!
2) I doubled the recipe so not only did we have a homemade dinner ready in a flash tonight but we also have a few spares tucked away in the freezer for future meals. I love being able to make double recipes and squirreling away a few extra to be able to pull out on a night when we either don't have a lot of time or I don't have a lot of motivation.
3) They liked it, they really liked it! Naomi is going through a cute stage of saying nummy, nummy whenever she is eating something that she likes and there were nummy, nummy's a plenty with this one. Ryan liked it as well but didn't think it was very pizza-ey as the title says. The only adjustments I would make would be to add some minced garlic and a lot more herbs but it's a great base. You could also throw in whatever toppings you like on your pizza.
Kudos and a shout out to Jennifer for sharing the recipe with me from at our playdate a few weekends back. I hope you don't mind me sharing it!
Here is the recipe:
Pizza Hot Dish
1 lb. hamburger
1 large onion
8 oz penne pasta
1 can tomato sauce
1 can pizza sauce
1 can cheddar cheese soup
1 pkg. pepperoni
2 cups mozzarella cheese
Brown hamburger and onion, cook noodles according to package instructions, my suggestion would be to leave slightly more al dente than what the package says - you are going to be cooking it with lots of pasta sauce that will absorb some of the liquid. Mix the hamburger and onion with the pasta, sauces and soup and 1 1/2 cups of the mozzarella cheese - place in a pan (when I doubled the recipe it made up 3 very generous 9 x 9 pans which will allow us a couple of days of leftovers) and layer pepperoni's over the top.
Bake covered at 350 for 30 minutes, add remaning 1/2 cup of cheese and bake uncovered until bubbly - about 15 minutes. Some additions I would have made, I would have put 2-3 cloves of minced garlic with the hamburger and onions and added a handful of oregano (I am not very good with actual terms of measurement in cooking - I prefer handfuls, pinches, dashes and scoops :) ha!).
It would also be fun to throw in your favorite pizza toppings, i.e. olives, peppers, etc. Overall I was really happy with the recipe and will be making it again. Great comfort food for a family that likes pasta and cheese on a cold winter Wisco night!
On to the second portion of this post which will be about the finished sewing project to go along with the travel changing pad - I also made a bib and 2 matching burp rags to go along with the changing pad. I think that everything all tucked together and rolled up will work fabulously in your regular purse as a quick throw in on the way to run errands or when you aren't going to be out for long but don't want to lug the entire diaper bag with you.
The bib was very simple, I traced one of Naomi's bibs on the wrong side the fabric, cut it out, pinned and cut on the corresponding wrong side of the other fabric and sewed around the perimeter of the bib - I left a little space open on the bottom in order to turn the bib out then just ran a stitch very close to the edge of the big. I added velco for the closure but threw around the ideas of a button or ribbon for future bib projects...viola bib city.
The burp rags were also super easy and quick - I measured the fabric against some store bought cloth diapers to 1/3 of the width of the diaper, turned and pinned down the edges, and sewed them down. Then I pinned the fun fabric rectangle to the cloth diaper in the center and ran it through the sewing machine.
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