Pizza Rolls

Like a cinnamon roll... only instead of cinnamon and sugar, it's filled with pizza!

These little delicacies are inspired by the New Glasgow Farmer's Market.

Pizza Rolls

What you'll need

Pizza dough

- 1 cup lukewarm water

- 1 Tbsp dry yeast

- 2 Tbsp olive oil

- 1/2 tsp salt

- 2 1/2 cups flour

Pizza filling

- Pizza sauce

- 1/2 cup finely diced onion

- 1/2 cup finely diced green pepper

- 1/2 cup finely diced mushroom

- 1/2 cup grated cheese

Garnish

- Pizza sauce
- Grated cheese

Pizza Roll Ingredients

How to make them

Make the dough: 

1. Combine all pizza dough ingredients. Kneed for a few minutes.

2. Allow the dough to rise for 1 hour in a greased bowl. For this step, I let my oven preheat to 200, then turn it off. I then let the dough rise in the oven. This ensures the dough stays warm, but doesn't start to cook. Also, do make sure the bowl is greased - it makes it much easier to clean. 

3. Once the dough has risen, punch it down and kneed it on a floured surface. 

4. Roll out the dough into a rectangle. Try to get the dough fairly thin so that it will hold lots of toppings and roll several times. Alternatively, you can just buy some pizza dough and roll that out instead.

Add the pizza toppings: 

5. Spread a thin layer of pizza sauce onto the dough.

6. Add your pizza toppings, spreading them out evenly.


Make the pizza rolls:

7. Starting from the long side of the rectangle, start rolling the dough away from you. Roll it tight to keep the toppings in place. Once you finish, press the end of the dough into the roll to seal it.

8. Cut the roll into ~1 inch pieces. I prefer to cut using a length of thread, as shown in this video. 

9. Place all the pizza rolls onto a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. On top of each pizza roll, add an extra spoonful of pizza sauce, followed by a little more grated cheese.

10. Bake in a 450 degree oven for 15-20 minutes.

Slow Cooker Burritos

This burrito recipe makes about 6 hearty meals. You can use black beans or kidney beans, white rice or brown rice, and use whatever burrito-friendly vegetables and toppings you have on hand. It's also amazing with a canned pepper in adobe sauce in it for an extra kick!

Slow Cooker Burritos

What you'll need

Burritos

- 2-3 chopped tomatoes

- 1 chopped bell pepper 

- 1 chopped onion

- 1 chopped jalapeno pepper

- 1 can black beans

- 1 tsp oregano

- 1 tsp basil

- 1 tsp chili powder

- 1 1/4 cups vegetable broth

- 1/2 cup rice

- Tortillas

Toppings

- Green onion

- Grated cheese

- Salsa

- Sour cream

- Guacamole

- Lime juice

- Chipotle sauce

Ingredients for Slow Cooker Burritos

How to make it

1. Combine chopped vegetables, beans, spices, and vegetable broth in the slow cooker. Cook on low for 7-8 hours or on high for 3-4 hours. 

2. Add the rice to the slow cooker and cook on high for 45 minutes.

3. Ladle burrito filling onto a tortilla and add desired toppings. Wrap up burrito and enjoy!

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Adapted from Pare, Jean. Company's Coming: Slow Cooker Dinners. Alberta, ON: Company's Coming Publishing Ltd.

Scalloped Potatoes

Or, as we call it in my family, "Potato Scallop". Whatever you call it, this is one comforting potato dish. And, trust me on the wonders that pinch of cinnamon does - these potatoes smell and taste amazing.

Scalloped Potatoes 

What you'll need

- 2 tbs butter
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 6 cups thinly sliced potatoes (if they're waxy potatoes like Yukon golds you can leave the peel on, otherwise, peel the potatoes first)
- 2 cups half-and-half
- 1 tsp cinnamon

Ingredients for Scalloped Potatoes

How to make it

1. Preheat the over to 400 degrees.

2. Melt the butter in a large saucepan and add the garlic. Once the garlic becomes fragrant, add the potatoes, half-and-half, and cinnamon. Keep stirring over medium heat for 5-10 minutes until the mixture has thickened (the starch from the potatoes is the thickener in this recipe).

3. Transfer to a large baking dish and cook for 45 min - 1 hour. The scalloped potatoes are ready when they are brown and bubbly. 

4. Let cool for a few minutes and serve.