Halfway Homemade Pizza!

Who doesn't love pizza? That's right, nobody.  Kaeley and I had our friend Cat over and made some amazing pizzas.  We bought the dough because A) we were lazy, and B) we were so hungry we couldn't have enough patience to make it ourselves.

We had three pizzas in the end.

The top: mushroom and pepper, the middle: bacon, spinach, avocado, and the bottom: BBQ chicken, onion and bacon.

We used our crockpot to cook chicken strips in BBQ sauce while Kaeley prepared the bacon, onions and sauces.

Then we chopped up all of our toppings and tried to stretch out the pizza dough, which isn't as easy as people who work in pizza places make it look.

We used regular tomato sauce on the veggie pizzas but used BBQ sauce as the base for our BBQ chicken pizza.  They take about 10 minutes in the oven at 350 degrees.  My favorite was the spinach avocado and the BBQ chicken pizza.  Definitely making more of these in the near future!

Home Made Coffee Syrups!

Hey everyone!  This project was probably the easiest thing in the world if you can use a stove top.  AND, it's less than the cost of two medium coffees from Dunkin Donuts.  It's a win-win situation.

Ingredients/Tools You Need:

• Small Sauce Pan
• 2 Cups Sugar
• 2 Cups Water

That recipe is for plain liquid sugar for coffee is you're like me and HATE granulated sugar at the bottom of the cup.  As for flavors, you could add in:

• 1/2 of a cup of caramel syrup 
• 1/2 tsp. of vanilla extract (preferably clear, but I used the cheap stuff from Stop & Shop) 

Or, if you would like to experiment further, you could add in half of a cup of any berries/fruits to infuse the flavor into the syrups.  I suggest mashing the fruits/berries before adding them to the liquid and strain out any of the seeds and remnants before pouring the syrups into the bottles.  

(Apologies for the crummy phone picture.)

Personally, I didn't want to spend a fortune on fancy bottles (although they are very nice to look at) and I bought them at this Etsy shop.  I gave them as a gift, so I dressed them up a little.  

If you test these out, please leave a comment and let me know how it worked out for you!