Halloween Ghost Pizza with Recipe

Any pizza lovers out there? My hubby and Nikolai love pizza and they can eat them served hot or cold. We baked a batch and saved some for the next day's lunch.

Ingredients:

• One tube refrigerated Pillsbury biscuit dough
• 1 bottle of organic pasta sauce
• 2 slices part skim mozzarella cheese (for the ghosts)
• Sliced olives

Directions:

1. Pre-heat oven to 400°.
2. Roll or pat biscuits into 2-1/2 in. circles. Place on greased baking sheet or non-stick sheet. I love our baking sheet which has wide handles!
3. Add pasta sauce on top of biscuits.
4. Bake for 8-10 minutes or until edges are lightly browned and remove.
5. Using a small ghost-shape cookie cutter, cut a ghost out of each cheese slice.
6. Immediately place a ghost over each pizza; add pieces of olives for faces.
7. Pack in his Laptop Lunches after the pizzas cool down.

You can recreate something similar with different cheese cut outs for sure. I've also made Pizza Mummy and Jack-O-Lantern Pizza with English muffins that you can find here.

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Ghost Halloween Lunch and Ghost Pizza with Recipe

I made a stop at Trader Joe's during the weekend and got carried away with all the yummy fall foods, purchased a couple of carts full of them and shared some with friends. They have those cute ghost and bat shaped potato crisps and they are so cute and very yummy! Their pumpkin cookies are delicious, as is their pumpkin pancake mix, from which hubby made pumpkin pancakes yesterday. I especially like the pumpkin tea, pumpkin cream cheese, pumpkin coffee, and pretty much everything pumpkin. It all has that 'Fall has arrived' flavor which taste so good.

I've created several ghost themed lunches over the years that are easy and fun. Cutting the string cheese to look like ghosts is my favorite part. I'll be sharing with you the method I used for the string cheese as well as my favorite mini pizza recipe.

The photo below shows an example of one ghost themed lunch that is quite easy.

You can make some cute ghosts similar to these quite easily.

You will need:

• String cheese
• Paring knife
• Toothpick, food safe marker or sunflower seeds

Method:

1. Cut the string cheese into half.
2. Using a knife, make a slit in the middle and almost 3/4 way down.
3. Make a few more additional slits till you get 8 legs or less.
4. I used a toothpick for this particular face accents. Just poke the toothpick on the cheese to create the eyes and mouth. I've used food safe marker before and I've seen sunflower seeds being used. Just some ideas.

In this bento lunch (packed in a Planetbox): I used a ghost shaped cookie cutter for the sandwich and raisins for the facial details. Honey was used as glue for the raisins. Sides were dye free choc sunflower seeds, Annie's organic crackers topped with a couple of ghost string cheese, seedless green grapes with a ghost cupcake pick, organic baby carrots, organic granola bar and seedless red grapes.

Any pizza lovers out there? My hubby and Nikolai love pizza and they can eat it served hot or cold! I've made this fun Halloween themed pizza for lunch a while back. I plan to make it again soon but I'm afraid I'll not have enough time to post the new lunch and recipe. Here is the older lunch with recipe. You can recreate something similar with different cheese cut outs for sure.

Ingredients:

1. One tube refrigerated Pillsbury biscuit dough
2. 1 bottle of organic pasta sauce
3. 2 slices part skim mozzarella cheese (for the ghosts)
4. Sliced olives

Directions:

1. Pre-heat oven to 400°.
2. Roll or pat biscuits into 2-1/2 in. circles. Place on greased baking sheet or non-stick sheet. I love our baking sheet which has wide handles!
3. Add pasta sauce on top of biscuits.  
4. Bake for 8-10 minutes or until edges are lightly browned.
5. Using a small ghost-shape cookie cutter, cut a ghost out of each cheese slice. 
6. Immediately place a ghost over each pizza; add pieces of olives for faces. 
7. Pack in his Laptop Lunches after the pizzas cool down.

In this bento lunch:

• A couple of ghostly pizzas made with Pillsbury biscuit dough, tomato and basil organic pasta sauce topped after removing from oven with mozzarella cheese cut to ghost shape and black olive accents.
• Top Left - Organic peas with a ghost pick.
• Top Right - Peach slices topped with mozzarella cheese mini ghosts.
• Far Right - Fork wrapped in cloth napkin. 

It's easy and tasty, bake a batch and save some for the next day's lunch.

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6 Fun and Easy Lunchbox Ideas

Happy New Year 2016! I wish you all a New Year filled with Happiness, Health and Prosperity!
We have had a fantastic Christmas and enjoyed our long holidays very much. They have been great fun with lots of food, the company of our wonderful family and visiting with great friends. Now, however, it's back to basics time and I'll start by posting some fun and easy lunches which Nikolai enjoyed months ago. All of these lunches were packed in our Easylunchboxes. For this week, I'll begin by packing something similar to these, which are simple, quick and easy.

Here are 6 Fun and Easy Lunchbox Ideas.

Bento lunch 1: DIY Lunchables. Main compartment of ham roll-ups in a square silicone cup, crackers, seedless green grapes, string cheese slices and organic granola bar. Top left are some organic baby carrots and top right are slices of organic apple.

Bento lunch 2: This was a cute lunch which I packed for Nikolai's field trip. I used my new bear cutter/stamper for the sandwiches. He also had an organic granola bar along with baby carrots, some dip in the small container and seedless red and green grapes with a cute bear pick.

Bento lunch 3: Leftover ham and Annie's organic mac & cheese. He had this lunch warm and I packed it in my Warm&Tote lunch-bag which kept this lunch warm till his lunch time. His sides were some fruits and veggies (not pictured)  as I packed them in a snack box with an ice pack.

Bento lunch 4: Freezer pizza bites which I baked in the morning while we were having breakfast. His sides were organic granola bar, a Babybel cheese, organic baby carrots, seedless red and green grapes.

Bento lunch 5: Stamped sandwich. This was an easy one, I stamped the top of the bread with my Mickey stamper, ranch in the Mickey container, organic apple slices and cucumber slices and their Mickey picks completed this lunch.

Bento lunch 6: Annie's organic mac & cheese in a silicone cup are along with whole grain all natural chicken nuggets in the main section with some music note picks. Baby carrots and grapes are in the smaller sections.

Here are the supplies that I used to create and pack these lunches.

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Ghost Halloween Lunches

I thought I'll combine these two ghost themed lunches in one post. We will be on a long weekend since Monday and Tuesday there will be no school and I am expecting to only post one or two more Halloween themed lunches next week.

I love creating these ghosts with my Japanese octopus cutter, I think they look cute and are not such scary ghosts. Nikolai had pizza bites and I topped it with ghost Mozzarella cheese. First, I baked the mini pizza bagel bites which I found in the freezer section of the grocery store and when they were done, I topped with the ghost shaped cheese. I started cutting the ghosts while I was waiting for the pizzas to be done in the oven.

In this bento lunch: Pizza bites topped with ghost shaped Mozzarella cheese slices, ghost shaped veggie chips which I purchased from Target, organic pear pieces with a ghost cupcake pick and the far right is a string cheese for which I used a marker on the outside wrapper of the cheese to make it ghostly. This lunch was packed in a Bentology living bentobox.

The next lunch was ghosts Halloween pasta. I purchased the Halloween pasta at World Market and cooked it in the morning with some leftover diced chicken and Italian seasoning. I topped the pasta with ghosts shaped Mozzarella cheese. His sides were organic baby carrots with an eyeball cupcake ring, Annie's organic fruit snacks, apple slices and seedless grapes. This lunch was packet in a leak-proof Yumbox Panino.

Have a wonderful weekend, everyone!

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Pizza Mummy and Jack-O-Lantern Pizza with Recipe

Pizza is always popular with Nikolai, he doesn't mind eating them either hot or cold. These pizzas are made from English muffins and the result was very tasty indeed, but I've also made some out of Pillsbury biscuit dough which you can find here. As often is the case, we doubled up the recipe and decided to experiment a little creating different themes.

Nikolai helped with the pizza faces and I think this is a great way to get kids involved in the kitchen. Often times I get him to help in the kitchen with activities from whisking and cutting to cooking and baking. It's also a great time and opportunity to teach him valuable skills for his future. His favorite question to me is usually, "Mom, what is your secret ingredient?" LOL.

In this bento lunch: English muffin pizzas. The one on the left is Jack -O-Lantern with mozzarella cheese cut with my Jack-O-Lantern cutter. The other is a mummy pizza for which I used strips of string cheese and a couple slices of a black olive. Above and to the left are some organic baby carrots and to the right is a container of apple sauce decorated with a mummy cupcake ring. This lunch was packed in a Bentology living lunchbox. You can find the recipe below.

Ingredients:

• 2 english muffins, cut in half
• 8 teaspoons pizza sauce
• 2 mozzarella cheese sticks
• 1 slice of mozzarella cheese
• Black olives

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 400℉.
2. Place the English muffin halves on a baking sheet and bake for 5 minutes.
3. Remove muffins from oven and spread 2 teaspoons of the pizza sauce onto each English muffin half.
4. For the Mummy: Peel the mozzarella sticks into strings and decoratively arrange them on top of each English muffin. Place the sliced olives on top of the cheese to create eyes.
5. The one on the left is Jack -O-Lantern with mozzarella cheese cut with my Jack-O-Lantern cutter.
6. Bake them for 3 more minutes, or until the cheese is melted.
7. Enjoy!

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