Pizza Rolls

I love restaurant food. I love my food to be covered in cheese and grease and contain magic-restaurant calories and be made by someone else and brought out to me. Increasingly, I’m less interested in the part where it’s made by someone else. I really enjoy being at home, and I really want to know what’s in my food (even if it’s cheese and grease). I want to save money by making things at home. All sorts of reasons. Sometimes this leads to frustration, though, as the stuff at home tends to be “healthier”, and doesn’t always satisfy me when I have a craving for junk food.

The other night, I was hungering for something restaurant-y, but I didn’t want to head out to an actual restaurant to get it. I opened up my Better Homes and Gardens cookbook determined to make myself something yummy. I don’t have very much experience cooking, but I was sure I could find something. The very first item in the very first section (appetizers) was pizza rolls. Ah ha! Cheese! Meat! Bread! Hard to go wrong.

The recipe called for using refrigerated store-bought biscuit rolls. Nope! I turned to another section of the cookbook to turn up a biscuit recipe before I could get started on the pizza rolls.

I used Joshua‘s trick of shredding frozen butter to simplify adding butter to the dry ingredients:

The insides are simply pizza sauce, shredded mozzerella cheese (I used a “pizza” mix), and shredded pepperoni.

I used the 3 inch dough circle thingie to make the rolls. They were big enough, I think, but I might not have had the dough thin enough. It was very tricky to get enough pizza stuff in there and make it STAY!

A lot of the pizza insides cooked out in the baking. It wasn’t lost, though. I simply scraped up that baked pizza stuff and piled it on top of the rolls.

The bottom line: I didn’t like these all that much. They tasted like random pizza stuff in a biscuit, which is what they were, but which is not exactly what I want from a pizza roll. Still, it was a perfectly satisfying snack in the moment, and I’m so glad I didn’t go out to a restaurant! It’s very fun and very rewarding to try to make stuff that I really like at home!

Tags: Cooking, Food