Lunch Box Chronicles: Day One-Hundred and Six (Three Times Two is Six - Hexagon Heaven: Spelt Right Dessert Fitayers)

Hexagon Heaven - I love these triangles and six of them make a heavenly hexagon.  We had a wonderful Spelt Right Pizza Party with our neighbors and friends.  It was a relaxing time after a very hectic holiday season.  After making about 8 pizzas, we had one dough ball left....so we got creative.  Inside those beautiful triangles are ingredients ranging from sweet to savory.  Some are typical pizza ingredients folded into a triangle.  Two of those geometric shapes contain none other than my favorite combinations - chocolate with something special!  

Ingredients:   One Spelt Right pizza dough, Ghiradelli semi sweet and white chocolate chunks, raspberry jelly fresh pear, sliced thinly.    After eating a real meal of Spelt Right pizza with sauce and cheese and meat and veggies, give your belly and little break, drink some more wine, and then make Spelt Right dessert fitayers!

Instructions:  Preheat oven to 400-450.   Use a pizza stone if you know how to.  If not, use a lightly oiled  stainless steel baking pan.   Cut the dough into eight even balls, stretch out, fill center with chocolates and fruit of choice, make triangles (here are the directions for making triangles), and bake for about 10 minutes or until golden brown.   Let cool a bit before digging in because you will get singed by the very hot melted chocolate.  Yum, yum, and yum, says the triangle.  Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum says the hexagon.

Lunch Box Chronicles: Day One-Hundred Five: New Year's Resolution: "Give PEACE-ZA LaChance"

It's been a month since I have posted on Lunch Box Chronicles.  So goes my attempt to post a recipe a day.   The reality is that LIFE is just too busy; sometimes self imposed craziness; sometimes just random craziness.  But the beauty of this blog is that I make up the rules!  So, I am still going to post 365 Recipes or Rants, but it is definitely going to take more than a year.  Be patient!  Some great recipes and recipe ideas are yet to come.

Speaking of which....holidays are always a fun time to try something new and celebrating New Year's with friends is a good time to explore some great food combinations.....like mixing spelt pizza making with fondue creating.   My favorite of the evening was a chocolate strawberry raspberry fondue cheese cinnamon and hot pepper flakes fitaya pizza thing.  OMG!  The flavors were amazing.

Steve's face says it all.  Our New Year's Resolution?  "Give Peace-za LaChance"

Ingredients:
Spelt Right Pizza Dough - fully thawed and risen.  A dough ball can make 8 fitaya triangles or flat pizzas
Freshly cut strawberries
A few fresh raspberries
Milk chocolate Guittard all natural chips (with REAL...as opposed to FAKE vanilla)
Ground Cinnamon
Red Hot Pepper Flakes
Fondue Cheese (Swiss and Gruyere) - buy it premixed


Instructions:


Divide the dough into 8 equal sized balls. Stretch or roll out pizza dough to about 1/4 inch thick on a lightly oiled baking sheet, place about 8-10 chocolate chips on dough, about two sliced strawberries, two or three raspberries, sprinkle with cinnamon and hot pepper, and add a small amount of cheese.  Form into a triangle.  Here's a link for specific triangle making instructions.  Repeat until all doughs are filled.   Place on lightly oiled stainless steal baking pan.  Bake at 400-450 until golden brown, about 10 minutes.  Let cool a little before eating!!  Enjoy the bursts of flavor!!!  And, GIVE PEACE-ZA LACHANCE.

Lunch Box Chronicles: Day One-Hundred and Four (Meatloaf with Spelt Right Bread Crumbs)

Life is very hectic in our world.  But, I shouldn't complain because it is all self imposed.  People say to me, "I don't know how you do it all."  I respond with a shrug and simply that I don't do it all.  I have great partners in this venture - my spouse being one.  Also, we are pretty good at throwing together quick meals and the kids do pitch in.   Here is a meal based upon some left overs and a little creativity.  Meatloaf with spelt stuffing. 

Ingredients:  One pound ground beef (we prefer local grass fed), one onion chopped finely, 2 eggs, 1 cup of bread crumbs (we made by food processing non-seeded Spelt Right bagels that were a few  days old and then baking them in 400 degree oven for about 15 minutes), minced garlic, salt and pepper to taste.   Mix all ingredients together.   Press into small oven proof dish that has been lightly covered with olive oil.   Cut meat loaf in triangles.  Drizzle with oil or pat with real butter.  Bake at 400 for 20-30 minutes.

Serve with applesauce and salad or side of your choice.

Rating: EVERYONE gave it a two thumbs up!

Lunch Box Chronicles: Day One-Hundred and Four (Halloween Spelt Right)

You say, "Pray tell, what in the world is that picture?"

That picture sums up the story of our lives over the past few years.  We HAD to remove junk from our diet - all the artificial colors, flavors, and preservatives, not to mention the industrial wheat and funky modern foods.  But, what's a family with kids to do at Halloween? KIDS HAVE TO GO TRICK OR TREATING or else they will just explode. 

Our Spelt Right Solution:  Make some pretty cool jack-o-lanterns with a pretty cool dad, AND, go trick or treating and try not to sneak any pieces while mom concocts some homemade all natural candy at home (sorry no recipe today....I make it on on the go.)  AND, then take out the cardboard and hot glue guns and make your very own Candy Land with all that junky candy.  The real trick is trying not to sneak a piece....(most of it tastes a bit like plastic)

To the right is Olivia's creation.  She created a complete amusement park for her Littlest Pet Shop creatures.  This activity lasts for about a week until we can't stand the mess any more.

Oh yeah, and dinner on Halloween?  Spelt Right Pizza, of course.

Moooohaaahaaaahaaaa

Lunch Box Chronicles: Day One-Hundred and Three (Spelt Right Focaccia Crisps)

Crispy Spelt Right Focaccia Strips.

These are so YUM.  You can make them at home. 

All you have to do is stop by the Spelt Right Bakery, 81 Bridge Street, Yarmouth, Maine.  Hours M-F 8am-1pm. 

Pick up a bag of sliced Spelt Right Rosemary Focaccia, don't eat all of them before you get home (maybe you should buy two bags and keep one in the trunk). 

When you get home, heat oven to 450, place focaccia strips on stainless steel baking pan, drizzle strips with Extra Virgin Olive Oil and maybe a little extra sea salt or Kosher salt.  Flip over when one side is crisp.  Ready when both sides are crisp.  Let cool....Eat as a snack, with cheese or dip, or in soup. 

Lunch Box Chronicles: Day One-Hundred and Two (Chicken Pot Pie with Spelt Crust)

Yum!  A perfect meal for a fall day.  Life has gotten very busy here with school and business happenings.  It feels like there is no time to make a good meal...except when you use the barter system and train your kids to cook!  Look what we made after a very busy day. 

Chicken Pot Pie made with Mainely Poultry Chicken - (received from a bread trade), onions, garlic, carrots, potatoes, mushrooms, green beans, garlic and olive oil, all sauteed together, added water, white wine, salt and pepper to taste.   Thickened with a roux of butter and spelt flour. 

Olivia came up with the idea for the meal, Spencer started the chopping of the vegetables while I was on my way home, Spencer and I finished up the sauteing and making of the inside, and Olivia got her hands into the dough to help make the spelt pie crust with Vita Spelt, Olive Oil, Safflower Oil, Water, and Salt.   If you want the step-by-step directions, let me know.  BTW, the meal was PERFECT!!! 

Lunch Box Chronicles: Day One-Hundred-One (The Good Egg Rocks!)

 We have been so busy growing Spelt Right that we have little time to make creative foods with our own meals.  Thank goodness for class act restaurants like the Pepper Club/Good Egg...and good friends like Mary.  Each time I drop off bagels, Mary and I have a nice chat about the workings of business...the joys, the challenges...you know the scoop.   We also sometimes discuss JUST FOOD.  On one trip, Mary and I were discussing ways to serve our wonderful Spelt Right Rosemary Focaccia with a Good Egg Special Breakfast.  Mary came up with the perfect combination:

Pepperclub/Good Egg Cafe Special: Scrambled eggs with red onion and Romesco (roasted red pepper, garlic, almond and smoked paprika and olive oil) AND a split and toasted SPELT RIGHT Focaccia! 

More focaccia will be delivered on Wednesday.....Special to start again on Thursday.... 


Picture to follow......in the meantime, here is a link to the Pepper Club/Good Egg Cafe