So on Thursday my husband and I came up with an idea. Well, I actually came up with it first. I suggested that in order to save money on all the convenience foods we like to buy (like frozen pizzas and granola bars and candies), we should just learn to make our own in order to save some money. So on Friday we bought all the necessary ingredients to make bread, pizza, granola bars and a type of candy made partly from potatoes. Today we got cooking!
First we did a bunch of cleaning because our kitchen counters have sort of become shelves instead of counters. I guess that’s what happens when you live in a house with no shelves or table! That and you eat on the floor in front of the internet.
DH made bread first and while that was rising I tried my hand at potato candy. I used two potatoes because they seemed really small. I forget what kind of potatoes they were, but they were about 4 inches in length. I should have used one because I ended up needing the entire two pound bag of powdered sugar to turn them into dough. Also I didn’t let them cook quite all the way through, so there were some small hard potato chunks in the dough stuff. Then when I went to roll it out so I could spread peanut butter on top and roll it all up together, all the moisture sank to the bottom and it got stuck. So I put them in the fridge on paper towels to set, hoping the paper towels would soak up some of that moisture. It worked, but I don’t know if I’ll make that candy again. It’s super rich. Two pounds of powdered sugar rich.
DH’s bread came out perfect. I had him make two batches of dough so I could make one batch into pizzas. He rolled the dough out and put sauce on, I oiled the baking pans and put on the cheese. We decided to skip extra toppings for now. Then I covered them in tin foil and put them in the freezer (in the pans unbaked) for later. We had enough for four pizzas but we only have three pans so DH decided to make one double decker pizza. Also, we cooked one of the others. I will have to remember to mention how well the pizzas freeze and how the double decker turns out in a later post.
We had a tiny bit of dough left and DH told me I could do whatever I wanted with it. So I made it into a bunny bun and cooked it. I didn’t take a picture before I ate it though. It didn’t cook into the bunny shape very well anyway.
Now it is 9:00 and were done for the night I’m going to try and make the granola bars tomorrow morning before we have a baby shower to attend. I’ll have to post about those later, too. Here are links to the recipes we used, except for the pizza which we improvised on.
