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Homemade crescent rolls stuffed with broccoli, cheese, ham

broccoli, cheese, ham, pastry, pork, recipes, tips | June 3, 2013 | By Jessi

Broccoli and ham cheese stuffed crescent rolls are one of the earliest recipes I remember learning how to make.

We would’ve used canned crescent rolls, so as a kid, it was pretty easy for me to cut the packaged ham into tiny squares, shred the cheese, and mix the broccoli in with my hands.

Unfortunately, it’s also another one that I don’t have a real recipe for either. (Kinda funny how this one involves broccoli, too.)

The basic breakdown?

A head of broccoli with florets chopped and boiled or steamed to be tender
A couple packages of cheap ham – In terms of ham bought from the deli, I’d call it about an inch stack, diced, give or take several bites
A half a block of cheese (about 4 oz?), shredded
A very large squirt of mustard….plus a couple small squirts after you taste-test and realize you still want it a little tangier

Mix it all together and pile onto 8 croissant rolls, canned or homemade. If the broccoli is still a bit warm, all the better because it’ll melt the cheese some and help it stick together.

Bake at 375F for whatever the standard package says. If you want to make your own, I used a recipe similar to this one, I’m sure.

Tip – My choice of using a pizza stone that you see in the first picture is not by chance. When working with pastries, it’s often key to keep the fat cold while working with it in order to create a flaky texture. That’s why it’s always best to chill pie crust before you use it.

With these croissants, I put the pizza stone in the fridge while I prepared the rest of the ingredients and then worked directly on the cold surface as much as possible before putting everything in the oven.

7 Up wasn’t always so easy to remember (Fun Facts about Food)

facts about food, faf, faff, fun facts, kids, obesity, soda | May 31, 2013 | By Jessi

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Facts about Food Friday

Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda

That’s about what the original developer thought would be an appropriate name for people to have to say every time they wanted his lemon-lime drink.

Until 1950, like a lot of other sodas that weren’t purely sweet drinks, it also had a mood stabilizing drug (lithium citrate) in it. Given the obesity epidemic, maybe we should go back to the time where sodas were considered medications instead of constant kid drinks. ;)