Pizza Crescents

Well, hello again!  I hope this finds you all recovering from a wonderful holiday, with tons of food, fun, family, friends, and joy!  It was the Christmas of my dreams this year.  After almost 7 years I got to spend Christmas with my son and his family.  The best gift I received was to be able to watch them open gifts and share happiness and love.  What better way to celebrate the birth of my Savior!  Bliss, it was pure bliss.

After taking the week off from blogging, I wanted to jump back in with something perfect for your New Years parties or just if you are at home alone.  These are so easy, one of my sisters made them for our family Christmas a few weeks ago and I thought, I had to share them, they were so easy yet so good.  I did add a couple of extra steps, because, that is just how I roll.  It is the only thing I thought could make them better!  She had eaten them at a work party and had no idea what they were called, so I am calling them simply "Pizza Crescents".

These really couldn't be easier to make.  Just pick up a few ingredients and get to assembling.  They are addictive, you might want to double the recipe, because honestly, I think they would freeze like a dream for lunches, school, or adults, or snacks.  So just keep that in mind.  Bake them off as per the instructions, let cool and bag them up maybe 2 in a bag, my son would have loved these in his school lunch!!

This recipe yields 16 pizza crescents:

2 rolls of  refrigerator crescent rolls (8 per roll)
sliced pepperoni (I used 3 per roll so you will need 48 slices)
8 mozzarella string cheese sticks
3 tbsp. butter, melted
Italian seasoning

Preheat your oven to the recommended temperature on your crescent rolls.  Line a baking sheet with parchment or spray with nonstick cooking spray.  Cut all of your string cheese in half, and get your pepperoni ready to go.  Unroll the crescent dough and work with one at a time.  Lay the pepperoni at the wide end, and lay the cheese on top, and roll that baby up, nice and easy!

This is kind of a "rinse and repeat" situation.  Get them all filled and rolled and line them up on your tray.  Now, sprinkle with a little Italian seasoning on top.  You will bake them for the recommended time on the package.  I found that using the longest recommended time works best.  If it says 11-13 minutes, go with 13. 

 

While they are baking, melt your butter.  When they come out of the oven, immediately brush on a little melted butter and then sprinkle on some more Italian seasoning.  Let cool just a couple of minutes and dip in!  Make sure to serve with some pizza sauce or marinara sauce. DO NOT be tempted to add the sauce into the pizza roll.  I mean you can, but it is a hot mess friends.  Ask me how I know.  If you add enough for it to make a difference, that is!

Enjoy these as an appetizer, light lunch, kids lunch, or anytime.  I mean let's be honest with each other, there is never a BAD time for pizza!!

ENJOY!

Panzarotti Sticks

Hey friends!  Glad to have you stop by for a visit!  This recipe must have tickled your curiosity, eh??  I am glad it did, it is AMAZING and another recipe of my husbands!  I don't know that it is really a recipe per say, more of an idea, turned reality, turned awesomeness!

We have always been fond of the panzarotti.  We always fry them.  I say "always" like we eat them all the time.  Let me rephrase, "The 3 times in 10 years we have made them, we fry them".  If you are wondering if these can be baked, the answer is, I believe they can.  We intended on baking some, seriously and we got so ridiculously excited that NO cheese leaked out, we forgot and fried them all. Mwawaaahahahha!  True story by the way.

You can make a few or a lot of these.  Not really much more work.  I will give you the ingredients for one batch.

This is the perfect recipe to use my Homemade Pizza Seasoning in!  You could use pizza dough, but this is intended to be a convenient recipe, that is quick and easy to make!

1 roll of refrigerated crescent rolls
Pizza seasoning
8 string cheese sticks
beaten egg or water for sealing
oil for frying

Unwrap all of your cheese sticks.  Separate your crescent rolls and roll them out to maneuver getting your string cheese to fit.  You can roll these however you need to so don't worry so much about the form or looks.  Place your cheese inside, sprinkle on some pizza seasoning, and brush water or egg wash all around the edges.  Roll that baby up however you must to get the cheese all enclosed.  I brushed over all seams again with egg wash.  You can roll it on a smooth surface to smooth it out and make it look nicer.  Then brush over the seems again.  You just don't want cheese leaking out!

 

Preheat your vegetable or peanut (or any frying oil you choose) to 340 degrees F.  Put 2 in at a time, if your oil is to hot, they will get VERY dark on the outside very quickly and yucko!  So make sure to adjust your oil temp according to how they are frying up for you.  As long as they are sizzling a bit, they are fine.  To cold of oil will make them soak up all that nasty stuff and be horrid!

 

If you want to bake these, I would simply place in the oven on the temp the crescent rolls call for and bake  until done.  They won't take as long because the dough is rolled thinner. 

 

Serve with your best pizza sauce!

 

Thanks to my darling  hubby for this tasty treat of a recipe!