Air Fryer French Bread Pizza

I've learned some things from Six Sisters' Stuff over the years. Because of them, I am not scared of using my Instant Pot. Instant Pot Honey Garlic Chicken with rice is one of my go to recipes when I'm in a hurry.

I don't have a lot of experience with my air fryer but thanks to Six Sisters' Stuff again, I got to try out another new recipe. Air Fryer French Bread Pizza.

Simple and I like the result. Great crunch. And pizza's my favorite food anyway. I look forward to trying other types of pizza besides pepperoni now that I know this is a thing. 

Catching Up March 2025 part 3

March 16 was Artichoke Hearts Day. We used it as an excuse to make a yummy alfredo pizza.

March 17 was St. Patrick's Day. I made two recipes from Sarah M. Eden from The Fiction Kitchen Trio Cookbook. Dublin Coddle and Katie's Irish Soda Bread. 

For dessert we had Oreo Mint Truffles.

 

March 18 was Sloppy Joe Day. We had open faced sloppy joes. It was also Forgive Mom and Dad Day. I kept asking the kids to forgive me for silly reasons. 

Lucky, Jeremy, and I went to see one of Jr.'s orchestra concerts that day. I love that he enjoys orchestra so much because music is very important to me.

See Lucky hiding behind that book? The elementary school read-a-thon was going on during that time so Lucky wanted to get as many minutes in as possible. He ended up being one of the top readers in the school and got a prize for it. The read-a-thon was Roald Dahl themed this year. One morning, Jeremy, Jet, and I were able to go to Parents and Pastries with Lucky.

March 19 was Poultry Day. We ate chicken that day. 

It was also Chocolate Caramel Day. I may have celebrated that observed the next day by making Olloch the Glutton's Caramel Biscuit Bars to go with our Vernal Equinox (March 20) food, Easy Fairy Folk Tortilla Pizzas, both from The Fablehaven Cookbook.

 

March 21 was Fragrance Day and French Bread Day. We took some of those artichoke hearts and made Cheesy Artichoke Bread from the Six Sisters' Stuff cookbook, A Year With Six Sisters' Stuff.

March 22 was World Water Day. It rained. 

I got a little break from the rain when I went out to the water of the lake. I was just going to take a quick jaunt out to look at the pelicans on the lake then I kept going and going and going. There were plenty of birds to see. What else was I supposed to do? I ended up making a complete loop around the Geneva Ponds between Vineyard Beach and Lindon Boat Harbor.

I finally got some sun... but it was in my eyes. Did I mention that March 22 was also National Goof Off Day?

After my morning off, my ministering sister invited me to her house for lunch with my other ministering sister to celebrate Nauryz, a celebration of the new year and Spring and a renewal of nature. We enjoyed some traditional foods from Kazakhstan. 

What a wonderful day for that.

Later I went for a nice little drive up the canyon. Beautiful on that rainy day.

Fish Sticks and Cabbages

February 16 was Tartar Sauce Day so we had fish sticks with tartar sauce.

February 17 was National Cabbage Day. We made something I had been wanting to for a while- Hungarian stuffed cabbage. It's been a few years since we made any. Yumm. Because my cooking ability has improved so much in the last few years (thanks to all those food bloggers and shows, etc.), stuffed cabbage seemed pretty simple. I used the same recipe I did before and it was simple enough, just a little time consuming with taking individual leaves off in boiling water, etc. 

But the end result was yummy. I made some French bread to go with it and we had Fanta. Jeremy drank a lot of Fanta on his mission in Hungary.

Jalapeno Dinner

January 29 was National Corn Chip Day. We don't fill the stock pot to the top any more with a seven times batch of taco soup. This year we made a double batch, though. 

The recipe calls for a can of pinto beans with jalapenos. We never do that. This year, however, we had some cans of diced tomatoes with jalapenos. I put in one of those cans and three regular cans.

I asked Jr. Jr. to pick out a bag of Fritos from the pantry to go with the taco soup. He picked Spicy Jalapeno Fritos.

Jeremy stopped by the grocery store on his way home from work to pick up some sale items and picked up a loaf of jalapeno French bread while he was there.

Ha Ha Ha Ha. So we had a jalapeno dinner.

Celebrating Holidays in March

Started this post back in April but you know... chaos... then Jr. Jr. and Lucky like to "help" with my blog posts.

 

Bear with me as I have a whole month of holidays to talk about so I won't remember all of them especially if I didn't take pictures.

March 1: Share a Smile Day. I already posted the picture I took that day of Jet, Lucky, and I sharing a smile. I posted it on March 26, 2023.

March 2: Dr. Seuss' Birthday. We had green shelled eggs from neighbors' chickens. We also had ham. We ate breakfast burritos.

March 3: I Want You To Be Happy Day. Going to the library makes Nichole happy. Running around the library makes Jet happy.

March 6: Birthday of the Oreo cookie.

March 7: National Cereal Day. Some of us had cereal. Some of us had cheese and pickle sandwiches.

March 8: Kenneth Grahame's Birthday. We had The Reluctant Dragon checked out of the library for this.

Also National Proofreading Day. Nichole wrote.

March 9: Popcorn Lover's Day.

March 14: Pi Day and National Potato Chip Day and Learn About Butterflies Day.

March 15: Ides of March. Lucky was quite happy we had Chicken Caesar Salad Wraps.

March 16: National Panda Day. "Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See?"

Also Artichoke Hearts Day. We may or may not have had alfredo pizza with artichoke hearts. I'm leaning toward we did.

March 17: St. Patrick's Day. We wore green.

March 18: Sloppy Joe Day. Jeremy made us sloppy joes and onion roasted potatoes while the kids and I were out. I tried to get a picture of all of us. It wasn't easy so I made the comment that the picture was horrible so I needed to try again. Lucky commented, "Why is the picture horrible? Oh, because of your face?" Don't exactly know how to take that.

March 19: Poultry Day. Cooked chicken drumsticks and made some Indian food to go with them because we had ingredients we needed to use up.

Also Chocolate Caramel Day. 

Also Let's Laugh Day. Have you met my family? Of course there was laughing.

March 20: Vernal Equinox/First Day of Spring and National Snowman Burning Day. Jr. Jr.'s Family Home Evening activity- making paper snowmen and burning them. We started with a jar and ended on a pie plate which worked better. 

I was going to make snowman sandwiches for dinner. Grilled cheese snowman sandwiches. We had had grilled cheese and grilled pb&j but forgot the raisins so they weren't snowman sandwiches.

March 21: French Bread Day. These loaves turned out gorgeous if I do say so myself.

March 24: National Cheesesteak Day. We made Chilly Pheesesteaks. 

March 28: Something on a Stick Day. I made pizza muffins and ham and cheese muffins and we ate them on toothpicks. 

March 29: Manatee Appreciation Day. I went around singing "Barbara Manatee" most of the day.

There. I did it. Blogged about holidays in March. Phew.

National Dog Day 2022

Wow. A lot of people were celebrating National Dog Day on August 26. I saw several pictures of people's dogs online. Way to celebrate, people.

Since I don't have a dog, I celebrated by eating them... dogs... hot dogs... in squid pup form.

It is a very unattractive picture because I tore my piece of french bread into pieces and put jam on all the pieces and they kind of took over the plate. But I don't care. I celebrated National Dog Day. Yumm.

Excuses for New Recipes

I love excuses for trying new recipes. And things that I wouldn't just try on my own without the excuse. For example, August 23 was Cuban Sandwich Day. I'd never heard of a Cuban sandwich before. So I looked it up and figured out how to make it. 

Normally it would use Cuban bread, but I don't know how to make that so I made French bread to use.

I cut a loaf into 7 pieces for each of us to have one. The pieces were cut so there would be the top crust and bottom crust if that makes sense. Even if it doesn't makes sense, that's how I cut them. Tee Hee.

Each sandwich had variations of the following fillings (some of us had it all, and some don't like certain things on their sandwiches): mustard, shredded pork, ham, swiss cheese, and pickles. I put the sandwiches in our sandwich maker, which wasn't too easy because of the thickness of the fillings and the French bread but they turned out fun and yummy.

So that was our version of a Cuban sandwich. I rounded out my plate with some corn and yet another new recipe, Mexican Rice, from shelfcooking.com

You know I love finding reasons to celebrate. We'll have to celebrate this again next year. 

P.S. August 23 is also Gene Kelly's birthday so there was some dancing around and singing happening.

French Mac & Cheese

July 14 is Mac & Cheese Day.

Jeremy came home and made mac and cheese for us.

It was also Bastille Day. I didn't have time to make French bread but I had French bread rolls I took out of the freezer. I think Jr. Jr. had one. 

And that's about all the celebrating we did on that day.

French Bread Day 2022

March 21 was French Bread Day. As always, I used the easy homemade French bread recipe from Mel's Kitchen Cafe. Then to go with dinner, I made instant pot apple crisp from my Six Sisters' Stuff book, "Instant Cooking."

We finally put Jet in our rotation for Family Home Evening so that night he gave us the lesson. I showed a picture from the Friend magazine and he repeated me as I read it to everyone. So cute.

We opened up our crackers/meat/cheese box thing that neighbors gave us for our treat. Yumm.