Pizza Rolls…To Be or Not To Be? (What The H?)

Today's guest post from Middle Daughter reveals she's the only person I know who actually pre-heats the oven.

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Why is it that when I come home from work staring and when I try to make pizza rolls they always self destroy themselves and make my oven look like dawn of the dead?

Why?

I think that pizza rolls are one of the world’s greatest inventions, apart from mint chocolate chip ice cream and really soft socks.



Anywho, so after a very long day of work all I want to do is come home and make something to eat and relax a little while catching up on my television shows. But no, it does not work out that way because life does not work out that way.

So this is how it turns out….

I walk in the door and change into some comfy clothes

Then I walk into my kitchen and go into my freezer and take out the pizza rolls

I preheat the oven to what the package says

I spray a baking pan with non stick spray then gently lay the rolls onto it

When the oven is preheated I slide the pan containing the rolls into the oven

Everything seems to be going well until….

HUGE EXPLOSION!!!!!!!!!

And Taylor does not get to consume her delicious pizza rolls because I left them in there just one second too long…

That is how it is though because if they are left in the oven just one minute too long they explode, but if you take them out too soon then they are too doughy and not even hot.

OR…..

They are perfectly done but when you bite into one it is like a volcano inside and you freak out because you just bit into a fireball so then you drop the pizza roll in your lap and the inside continues to ooze out and burn whatever part of your body it is touching at that time.

So let me know what your thoughts are on Pizza Rolls….

Yay or Nay?

The "Say Merry Christmas to Mateo and McHale Shaw Giveaway".

Over to the right are Mateo and McHale Shaw (and their grandpa, and brother Maddux). Mateo and McHale were born conjoined and have defied all odds and have gone on surviving and thriving through dozens of surgeries. Their parents, Ryan and Angie Shaw, not only are raising these two boys (and their little brother Maddux) but are great people in their own right.

I'm trying to get everyone who reads one of these SUPERXmas posts to go to the Shaws' website and wish McHale and Mateo a Merry Christmas, and to urge you on, I'm going to give away a a $20 Amazon Gift Card.

Here's the rules:

1. Visit Mateo and McHale Shaw's Caring Bridge site; you can get to it here. You'll have to sign in, but that's not so hard, right?

2. Leave them a comment in the guest book wishing them "Merry Christmas," (or happy holidays, or whatever nice greeting you want.)

3. Post on your blog a link to that site and tell people why you did it.

4. Leave a comment on this blog and tell me where to find your link.

Once I get that comment here and verify your link, I'll put your name in a drawing and on December 26, the winner will get named and will have a little post-Christmas reward to look forward to.

Already commented, and therefore eligible for the $20:

Author Michael Offutt; Go click "to-read" on his upcoming sci-fi book "Slipstream."

Author Patrick Dilloway. Go buy his awesome book "Where You Belong," and give it to someone as a gift. And buy one for yourself.

Confidential to Andrew Leon: If you don't want the $20 for yourself, donate it to a good cause.

More Texts From Sweetie (Thinking the Lions)

In order today, they were:

Sweetie: My mom is making u fruitcake. Lucky u!!!

Me: Yay! That was a Superxmas think I was going to do.

Sweetie: Good, then, but I can't promise what will be in it. Plus, she's making it today to give u on the 17th.

Me: I don't think that matters with fruitcake.

Sweetie: I know. U will probably have salmon and Dentyne in your fruitcake.

Sweetie is not big on fruitcake, or her mom's cooking. I'm skeptical of her mom's cooking, but I will never not love fruitcake.