This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for any purchases made through those links at no additional cost to you. Thank you for your support! The big day finally happened! My youngest son and his sweet fiancé were married! Everything was beautiful, and as often happens, I came home from the reception with lots of leftovers and perishable things that I didn't want to go to waste! One of those things was about a gallon of buttermilk!
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This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchases made at those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support! Most of us 3 Winks women live in Phoenix. Lindsey, Maddy and I are all jealous of Alicia during this time of year because she lives in the reasonably temperate California Bay Area while we live here, in the fiery inferno of Phoenix, Arizona. When you live in a fiery inferno, you still have to feed your family healthy meals, but you search diligently for ways to do it without turning on your oven and heating up the house. Even when we use a crock pot or other appliance, we sometimes put it outside on the patio to keep from adding any more heat to the house. The struggle is real. For years, I have used my crock pot as a great oven alternative during the summer. Now, in recent years, the Air Fryer and the Instant Pot have entered the picture. I am still in the learning curve for both of those appliances, but my girls have already embraced them as the blessing that they are. Today, I am going to share with you some of our favorite and simple recipes to make in these gadgets that truly help to keep the heat out of the house! Instant pot
Air Fryer
Crock Pot
Whelp, now I'm hungry! Luckily, recipes like these will help to feed me and keep the house from heating up! What do you use your Instant Pot, Crock Pot and Air Fryer for? I'd love to try some new recipes!
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I have told you about the wonder that is the air fryer previously. I shared this amazing chicken chimichanga recipe with you. I really love our air fryer, especially in the summer when I don't want to turn our oven on.
I know a few places got some snow last week (what?!?!?!) but here in the valley of the sun, we're getting that summer sun nice and strong, and the last thing anyone wants is their oven heating up their house and ramping up their energy bill even more. The air fryer cooks things so quickly and the house isn't hot! It is perfect!
The other day I asked my daughter what she wanted for lunch and she cheerfully announced, "PIZZA!" We didn't have any frozen pizzas, and I didn't want to order out from anywhere. Homemade pizza sounded fun, but it was lunch time already and I was working so I couldn't really take the time to make the dough. I thought to myself, "I bet I could throw it in the air fryer for a few minutes."
I improvised and used our pie crust recipe and then topped it with a little tomato paste that I thinned out a bit and seasoned, and threw some cheese on there. It was like an upgraded take on a Lunchables pizza because it wasn't a regular crust, but the sauce wasn't nasty and the cheese was nice and melted. She loved it and I thought, "I bet I could make us a real pizza in the air fryer." I mean, I love our easy, flakey, fool proof pie crust, but it isn't the same when it comes to pizza! Well as you know, my mom has shared our pizza crust recipe on here as well! I have tested it out using Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free flour blend (I get the 1 to 1 with the xantham gum included) and it still turns out really nicely for a pizza crust. You can buy Air Fryers in many different sizes, and I've linked to some at the bottom of this post. Ours isn't quite big enough for any of our pans to fit other than my 6 inch round cake pans (I ordered a pizza stone from a Pampered Chef party recently and I'm waiting for it to get here to see if it fits!) So we ended up making mini personal pizzas. It was a hit. My daughter had fun helping me "decorate" the pizzas, so we got some fun bonding time together as well. The air fryer pizzas were so fast to bake and the cheese was perfectly stretchy. Here is the recipe I used for our toppings, pretty basic but still delicious. Let me know what toppings you decide to do!
Pizza Crust
Use our pizza dough recipe found here. To make it gluten free simply use the Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free Blend and use the same flour ratio. Pizza Topping: 1 can tomato paste 1 tsp salt 1 tsp pepper 1 tsp garlic 1/2 onion powder 1 tsp italian seasoning Mozzarella cheese parmesan cheese 1/2 green bell pepper chopped pepperonis Empty out the paste into a bowl. Fill the tomato paste can with water and mix into the paste to make it thinner. Add seasoning and blend well. Spread your crust out into the bottom of your pan, making sure to leave a raised edge. Take a spoon and spread the sauce until the bottom of the crust is covered. Sprinkle with mozzarella and parmesan cheese. Top with bell peppers and pepperonis. Place pan in your air fryer and bake at 330 degrees fahrenheit for 8-10 minutes. Remove pan (it will be hot!) remove pizza from pan and place on plate. Enjoy!
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Hey everyone! Remember a couple weeks ago when my mom did this post about beets? She gave you lots of different ideas for how to eat your beets. Well, my SIL's mom's garden was still exploding with beets, so when we went to our nephew's social distancing birthday party at her house, she was giving away beets, and we took one. She also had some beet chips she had made in her air fryer. Veggie chips are all the rage these days, and they're really so easy to make! If you remember from posts like this one, we also own an air fryer. So I decided to try my hand at making my own beet chips! It was really so easy! For this recipe there are a few kitchen gadgets you will need. I've linked to them at the bottom of this post so you can get everything you need to make your own beet chips. You'll need a mandolin to slice the beets nice and thin. Then, mix together the following ingredients: 2 TBSP oil (I used olive oil) 1 tsp salt 1 tsp black pepper Toss your beet slices in the oil mix. Place in your air Fryer and cook at 320 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes. Stop every five minutes to toss the beets to make sure they're evenly cooked and they don't get burned. That's all you need! You can store your beet chips in an air tight container. Mine have kept for about a week and a half now, and they're a nice, fresh treat whenever you want something crunchy and delicious! Follow the links below to make sure you have everything you need to make your own beet chips and start enjoying them today! |
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Helen Reynolds: Mother of six children , grandmother to eleven! I love to cook, craft and create things and I especially love doing that with my family, So, when my lawyer daughter, Lindsey, my artist daughter, Madalynn, and I came up with the idea of Hot Cocoa Bombs, this blog was born. Then, one more daughter, with her technical and science skills, plus creativity has joined in to round us out! Read more about us here! Archives
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