How to make ANY pizza dough recipe LIGHT & FLUFFY!

Hello my name is DaNelle and I used to be addicted to Papa John's Pizza. It's true my friends.  Before I made the switch to real food, before I knew that fake food made with chemicals was contributing to my weight gain, before I even knew what a GMO (genetically modified organism) was, I was inhaling Papa John's pizza like it was my last meal...every weekend.

I learned that restaurants made their pizza with, well, everything I didn't want in my body (at least not every single weekend)...

Pizza Dough: Bleached, enriched wheat flour (niacin, iron (reduced), 

thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), malted barley flour, clear 

filtered water, sugar, soybean oil, salt, yeast,  inactive dried yeast, 

ascorbic acid, (added as dough conditioner), enzymes. 

Pizza Sauce Mix: Fresh tomatoes, sunflower oil/extra virgin olive oil blend, 

salt, oregano, spices (pepper), citric acid, sugar, garlic, basil, soybean 

oil, pectinase. 

Cheese: Part-skim mozzarella cheese [pasteurized milk, salt, cultures, 

enzymes], modified starch [derived from corn], sodium propionate (added as a 

preservative).

I knew I had to recreate it at home.  Because I'm not a great cook and because I'm inherently lazy, I gave up after about the 3rd try.  And because my husband isn't picky and doesn't care if he's eating a brick with sauce & cheese on it for dinner, we settled for less than mediocre pizza...for about 3 years. I came to the conclusion that the reason my pizza crust was dense and thick was from of the absence of white flour. Boy, was I wrong...

Milk Showdown: Cow vs. Sheep vs. Goat - Which is best?

It's the FINAL COUNTDOWN!  dada-da-da-da! Da-dada-da! Dada-dat-dat-da-da-da. (FYI,that took me a full 5 min to figure out.)

Get ready ya'll because today we're gonna have a competition of epic proportions. That's right folks, after thousands of years of milk-drinkin', we, here at Weed 'em & Reap are going to finally FINALLY make the decision everybody's been waiting for.

Let's start with some of the pros & cons of each contenders milk...

Homemade FRUIT SNACKS!

Today I became "that Mom" you guys. I actually made homemade fruit snacks.

Fruit snacks have been a thing of the past over here on the homestead. They're like a long lost friend, one that was bad enough that we needed to leave it behind, but yummy enough that we wish we could still be BFF's.

I decided it was time to make some good 'ol fashioned fruit snacks just like our great-grandma did.  Or did she?  Well, either way these things were delish and BONUS, they provide some awesome nutrients like grass-fed gelatin, which provides the body with a complete protein and even aids with digestion too!

Recipe below, yo...

Weekly Meal Plan 5/20/2013

If you're new here, you may want to get caught up on how I do meal planning.  If you are a die-hard reader bordering on stalker, then let's just get right to it!  

It's getting hot around these parts and I am cravin' salads!

I love eating leftovers the next day because I save myself time by turning dinner cleanup into packing the next day's lunches and let's face it, life is just plain easier when you only have to worry about providing a healthy breakfast & dinner! Real food can be easy! Let's begin, shall we? 

Sunday

Spring Quiche

LEFTOVERS from Saturday dinner.

Perfect Roast Chicken

Monday

Yogurt, fruit, nuts.

LEFTOVERS from Sunday dinner.

Chicken Alfredo on spaghetti squash pasta.

Tuesday

Whole-wheat french toast, raw milk.

LEFTOVERS from Monday dinner.

Big garden salad with Buttermilk Ranch Dressing and Lavender Lemonade  

Wednesday

Scrambled eggs, sourdough toast & raw milk.

LEFTOVERS from Tuesday dinner.

Vegetarian Stuffed Peppers

Thursday

Yogurt "orange julius" smoothies

LEFTOVERS from Wednesday dinner.

Tuna & Avocado Salad 

Friday

Cream cheese cinnamon waffle sandwiches

LEFTOVERS from Thursday dinner.

Homemade Pizza Night -- here's a great dough recipe

Saturday

Grain-free muffins

LEFTOVERS from Friday dinner.

Snack choices this week:  Grain-free granola bars

Desserts this week: Chocolate Peanut Butter Mini cake, Homemade Ice Cream

How to raise Grass-fed Lamb like a boss.

I never EVER thought, in the history of the world, that I would become a PRO at raising grass-fed lamb. But alas, here I am. Like I've said before, once I got the farming-itch (not to be confused with a gross kind of itch) I couldn't stop. I'm rapidly turning into the weird goat lady. Never heard of it? It's like the new cat lady. Except for being an old-maid, there's usually a reluctant husband in the background (that secretly loves goats!) Right Kevin?  Right?...