Update: Giveaway is over but please check out the app!  Thanks!

Truett is finally getting to the age where he can help in the kitchen more and with the help of an iPad food app and some kid friendly recipes, we are sure to create some memories!

Celebrity Chef Marcus Samuelsson has added to the already large selection of recipes by creating exclusive recipe content for the fantastic iPad app, Big Fork Little Fork. It’s an Apple iPad app that provides tools for kids to get them excited about food and help create family meals. I personally love every single thing about this app. They did a great job with it and not only does it capture my eye, my son loves the photos and game. He likes to pick different recipes and just look at them and he loves the game.

I created a video to give you a quick look at it but some of the things that I love are:

• Big photos
• Clear, bold steps and ingredient list
• Fun games to engage the kiddo and learn about food
• Shopping List
• Search
• Extremely user friendly
• Cool menu with photo icons
• EASY recipes with nutritional information
• Very cool videos (love the peeling vegetables one!!)

WIN AN IPAD!

To celebrate his efforts in creating these fabulous recipes, I’m giving away an iPad!  Thanks to Kraft Foods, I get to give you the chance to own one of the coolest gadgets around!  One winner will receive an Apple iPad 16GB, Wifi.

One lucky winner will win this fabulous iPad. I love mine and have no doubt that you will too!

TO ENTER:

Main Entry - Leave a comment below telling me what your ideal recipe/food app would be like?

Additional, optional entries, leaving each one in separate comment to count:

• What is your favorite thing about this Big Fork Little Fork food/recipe iPad app?  Leave a comment telling me below.
• Share on a social network like Twitter or Facebook and leave a comment telling me where, preferably with the link to it.  **DAILY ENTRY**
• Follow and/or “Like” Kraft Foods on Twitter and Kraft Foods on Facebook. come back here and tell me which one you did. If you did both, leave each one in a separate comment. (if you’re up to it, feel free to follow me on twitter and like My Wooden Spoon on Facebook)
• finally, go check out my recipe I submitted and if you like it, click “Like” it!  Thanks!  DAILY ENTRY

Giveaways ends on December 14th at about 10pm CST.   Good luck!

Pizza is like the best ever food invention. You can eat it cold, hot, with meats, vegetables, and even as a dessert.  When I was asked if I wanted to try the new Fleischmann’s Pizza Crust Yeast,  I was like heck yeah! Any excuse to make pizza!  We were supposed to have family night but there were ranch duties that needed tended too. Luckily, I was able to spend pizza time with my 13 year old which was exciting because he’s at the age where he doesn’t want to be around his mom so much you know?

Anyways, he agreed and not only did we make some great pizza, we had a lot of fun.  I was cracking up at the “do I just pour?” and “is this how to do it?”.  We decided to make Pepperoni pizza first, then a dessert pizza.  This post will focus on the pizza dough and the dessert pizza but if you need a simple quick pepperoni pizza, all you need is the pizza dough recipe I’ll be posting, some pizza or spagetti sauce and your choice of toppings. It can be made to eat in 30 minutes.

Also, because I took A LOT of photos, I made a slide show for you so that the page doesn’t take FOREVER to load! Just scroll down towards the bottom for that.

30-MINUTE PIZZA CRUST DOUGH (can be found on the back of the Fleischmann’s Yeast package)

INGREDIENTS

• 1 3/4 – 2 1/4 cups of flour
• 1 envelope Fleischmann’s Pizza Yeast
• 1 1/2 teaspoons sugar
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 2/3 cup of very warm water (120° to 130° F)
• 3 tablespoons oil

PIZZA CRUST DIRECTIONS

Combine 1 cup flour, undissolved yeast, sugar, and salt in a large bowl. Add water and oil.  Mix together until well blended; about 1 minute.  Add ½ cup flour gradually until dough forms a ball. Add additional flour, if needed, to handle.  Spoon dough out of bowl onto floured surface. Dough will be slightly sticky.  Knead on floured surface.  Knead until dough is smooth and elastic; about 4 minutes.  You can either press dough out to fill greased pizza pan or roll dough to a 12-inch circle and transfer to greased pizza pan.  Top as desired with pizza sauce, cheese and toppings.
Bake on bottom oven rack at 425° for 12 to 15 minutes until cheese is bubbly and crust is brown.

The Pizza Yeast from Fleschmann’s is new and I could definitely tell a difference in it. I think anyone who uses yeast a lot will be able to see the fabulous difference!  I thought I’d give you a close up of the ingredient that makes the whole recipe work!

APPLE CRUMB DESSERT PIZZA PIE

INGREDIENTS

• # 1 cups brown sugar, packed
• # 1 cups all-purpose flour
• # 2 ounces butter, cold, cut in pieces (1/2 stick of butter)
• # 1/4 cup of sugar
• # 2 cans of Apple Pie Filling

ICING INGREDIENTS

• Powdered Sugar
• Milk

DIRECTIONS

Preheat oven to 400′.  Combine brown sugar, flour, and sugar in a mixing bowl; cut in butter until the mixture is like coarse crumbs.  Pour and spread Apple Pie filling all over Pizza Dough Crust; top with crumb mixture.  Bake for about 12-15 minutes. While pizza is baking, combine 1-2 cups of powdered sugar with a few tablespoons of milk to desired consistency.  You don’t want it too thick but not too runny either.  When dessert pizza is done, drizzle icing all over pizza pie!

To see my son doing all the work, check out the slide show made via whrrl!

One lucky winner will receive a $100 gift card!  WOOHOO!

HOW TO ENTER

Leave a comment answering this question–What is your favorite pizza topping? Maybe like us, you love pepperoni or mushrooms. Maybe you love dessert pizza and have your own favorite fruity topping! Share your ideal pizza with us!

Additional methods of entry, leaving each one in a separate comment, are:

• Share on a social networking site like Twitter or Facebook.
• If you’ve got some of Fleischmann’s Pizza Yeast at home, create a pizza and share it via whrrl! (this gives you 10 extra entries)

Giveaway ends on Nov. 1st.  Good luck and enjoy!

Disclosure: Post is sponsored by ACH Foods, maker of Fleischmann’s Pizza Yeast , however, my opinion of the product remains authentic as always.

Just bringing you easy and affordable recipes these days huh!  To make these Apple Turnovers from scratch would be divine but since many of us don’t have the time, I found a shortcut from the coolest cookbook ever, 101 Things to Do with Canned Biscuits!  These only take a few minutes to prepare and about the same amount of time to cook.

I love cookbooks like this and if you’re into this stuff, check out the whole line of 101 things cookbooks for fun and easy recipes.

INGREDIENTS

• 1 can (16.3oz) biscuits
• 1 can apple pie filling
• 1 tablespoon cinnamon
• 4 tablespoons sugar

DIRECTIONS

Preheat oven to 400′.  Flatten each biscuit into a 6″ round.  Place 2 heaping tablespoons of pie filling on each biscuit.  Moisten edges of dough with water.  Fold over and press edges firmly with a fork to seal.  Place on a lightly greased baking sheet.

Mix cinnamon and sugar and then sprinkly over top of biscuits.  USE IT ALL.  It might seem like a lot but it’s really not.  Bake for 15-20 minutes or until golden brown.  YUMMY!

OVER!Who wants to win an iPod Touch? Well if you do, I happen to have one to give way and it’s valued at over $200 bucks!

You do realize that you must have one of these right?  And just think what your sweetie would say if you won this for them!  You might even get a big ol’ smooch on the kisser for it!  To be honest, around here we don’t celebrate Valentine’s very often but I admit that I would love to be surprised with something romantic, like my favorite love songs playing on my new iPod Touch…LOL.

Before I get to the giveaway, you MUST check out the cool stuff happening at Walmart for Valentine’s Day!  You can create a sweetheart list, send and eValentine, and even download a super fun iPhone app where you actually blow into the phone to send a kiss!  So much fun!!  I would love for someone, well my hubby of course, to blow me a kiss…SA-WEET!

Okay, so I know all you care about is the giveaway so without further ado……..

THE PRIZE

Apple iPod Touch 2nd Generation 8GB with a $10 Walmart Gift Card which will come in handy to download some cool new songs!

Key Features:

• * New contoured design
• * Revolutionary Multi-Touch touchscreen interface
• * Brilliant 3.5″ widescreen display
• * Ambient light sensor and accelerometer
• * Built-in volume controls and speaker
• * Built-in Wi-Fi and Nike + iPod support
• * Buy music on the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store
• * Rent movies from iTunes to watch on iPod touch
• * Download games and applications from the App Store via Wi-Fi
• * For Mac and Windows

HOW TO ENTER: PLEASE READ THE RULES COMPLETELY!

In order to be entered for this giveaway, you’ll have to create a love poem! You can create one from the traditional Roses are Red classic or make up one. Leave your poem in the comments section.

Additional entries available by doing the following!  Leave each one you do in a separate comment please.

• *Leave a comment with a love song. (can be done daily!!)
• *Stumble this post.
• *Blog it!
• Visit Amy at Mom Advice and check out what she’s giving away. Come back and tell me!
• *Visit Mixin’ it Up with My Wooden Spoon, listen to any of the shows I’ve done and come back here leaving a comment with the first sentence of the show you listened to!
• *Twitter it using the #embrace hashtag and including me @ACowboysWife in your tweet. Or you can just copy and paste the paragraph if you’re lazy like me!

iPod Touch giveaway @ACowboysWife http://bit.ly/AWD5 !  #Embrace the ones you love this Valentine’s Day! #11moms

• *For  10 bonus entries, pick one of the songs from the little chocolates, create a video with you singing some or all of it and upload it.  Leave the url link here in the comments!!

Giveaway ends on Feb. 13th.  Winner will be announced on Feb. 14th!! Good luck! Thanks to Nestle, Mars–M&M, Russell Stover, and Walmart for this great giveaway!  Check out the other Eleven moms if you get the chance.

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