Update! Veggie Tart recipe from the motha!

Enjoy - I don't know where she got it from, but it's amazing!  I can't wait to make it A LOT this summer!

SUMMER VEGETABLE TART

Olive oil spray
Ready to bake pie crust, or home made 9" crust.
1 tomato
1 zucchini, sliced
1 summer squash, sliced
mushrooms
Sliced carrots
Sliced onions
1 cup goat cheese
1/4 tsp dried thyme
1/4 tsp dried basil
1/4 tsp dried rosemary
1/4 tsp salt, or to taste
1/8 tsp black pepper, or to taste

In a 9" tart pan, bake crust, unfilled, according to pkg directions.  Let cool.

Preheat oven to 375.  Lightly coat a baking sheet with cooking spray.
Place zucchini, squash, mushrooms, sliced carrots, & sliced onions on baking sheet and lightly coat with cooking spray.  Bake until tender, about 20 minutes.  Remove & let cool.

Mix together goat cheese, herbs, salt & pepper in a small bowl.  Spread evenly over tart crust.

Starting at center of crust and working outward, arrange slightly overlapping, alternating rings of vegetables until crust is completely covered.  Add a few slices of tomato at this point.  Return to oven until heated through, 5-10 minutes.  I also sprinkle a little goat cheese over the top of all the vegetables.


Oh, and if you're wondering, we celebrated our fave team, the Red Sox, tonight with steamed hotdogs - fancy dinner huh?;)  Hey, we were celebrating the Sox, Fenway, everything we love about baseball, etc.  Can't wait until we go to our first game of the season next Friday!


Any other Sox fans out there??

Halloween, a little late;)

Hey everyone, it will be a quick post tonight as today was my first day back at work and I'm wiped (and also coming down with a cold/throat thing I think - lots of tea, and I slept 2 hours this afternoon). Anyways, on "real" Halloween, the husband had homecoming at his college and I spent the day with Melissa, Angela, Chandrea, and Jess having our own Halloween lunch (I made dirt and worms, otherwise known as trifle;)), so yesterday we found time to have our Halloween meal:) I spent alot of time on my island couch finding cute recipes that would be good, enjoyable, funny, and easy. I was in luck, as there were plenty! They took about an hour total, and are totally kid friendly help-wise. I hope you enjoy the descriptions and pics!!

Mummy Hotdogs:

Preheat oven to 375
I used 4 hotdogs, and boiled them until cooked
1 pkg of Pillsbury breadsticks - I took 4 of the breadstick dough things and wrapped them around the hotdogs, leaving room for eyeballs, to look like mummys:)
Baked in the oven about 12 minutes, or until breadsticks start to turn golden. When removed from the oven, use whatever you would like for eyeballs (I used just mustard drops). My husband then went onto bloody them up with more mustard and ketchup;) So yum with the breadsticks - much lighter than a hotdog roll!

Jack-o-lantern Pizza:

Preheat oven to 450
I bought dough in the deli section of the grocery store, so I made one dough package into a circle and placed it onto a greased (with Pam spray) pizza pan.
Place as much sauce and toppings as you'd like - I used sauce and then alot of pepperoni
Use any type of pizza cheese on top of that layer and make sure that sauce/pepperoni layer is completely covered - I used a mix of italian shredded cheese and sharp cheddar.
Cut a green pepper into thin slices to use to make the outline of the jack-o-lantern; cut one thicker for the stem you can put on after it comes out of the oven. Cut pepperoni or anything else into the shapes for eyes/nose/mouth as you prefer:)
Bake for about 13 minutes (that's when my crust was done to how we prefer) and enjoy!

Let me tell you, the husband loved both, and loved the look of the pizza, but I know my husband, and I know he likes pepperoni on his pizza. I knew he'd be "disappointed" looking at it and seeing only minimal pepperoni for the facial features. When he bit in and realized there was a whole layer of pepperoni underneath the cheese, he was in heaven:)

Just making some good ole healthy salmon tonight, so going to go start that now and have some more tea. Fingers crossed for me! Don't worry, I haven't forgotten about the pumpkin pie/crust/whipped cream recipe, that will come probably tomorrow:) Have a great and beautiful evening, everyone (the weather in MA is fab - very disappointed I couldn't get out and enjoy today b/c I was so tired:(