Making Hot Pockets

While mom is here we made 2 batches for the freezer. A Meat & Veggies and a Pastrami & Cheese

 These take a couple of hours from start to finish to make, but they can be frozen and will a quick easy meal to have on hand

Make sure you use at least a 5qt bowl as it will make a huge batch of dough. I use my big Kitchen Aid mixer with the bowl lift. When making these I roughly get about 30-35 good size hot pockets out it.
Dough Ingredients:
9 cups flour
4 eggs
1/2 cup sugar
4 1/2 tsp. yeast
1 1/2 cup milk
1 1/2 cup water
1 tsp. salt
2 sticks melted butter

Put 9 cups flour in a large bowl, make a well in the center.

In a separate bowl beat 4 eggs, than add 1/2 cup sugar and 4 1/2 tsp. yeast.

In another bowl, scald 1 1/2 cups milk in microwave for 3 minutes. Then
add 1 1/2 cups water. Add this mixture to the egg mixture. Stir in 1
tsp. salt. Mix all ingredients well

Pour this mixture into the well of flour in the large bowl. Do not stir. Put lid on and let sit for 45 minutes.

After 45 minutes, add 2 sticks of melted butter and mix well.

Cover and let sit for 1 hour.

Now that your dough is made you are ready to make hot pockets.

This is what the dough looks like when it is ready 

Here is a step by step with the Pastrami & Cheese

Ingredients are

Pastrami cubed up

Shredded Cheese

Ragu Cheese Sauce

Flour your surface you are going to use. I use a cutting board

Pull off the size of a base ball and roll in flour

Roll out and fill with ingredients. I make sure to put the sauce on top of all ingredients then put shredded cheese on top. This prevents to bottom from getting soggy

Fill onto one side so you can fold it over

 Fold to one side to get ready for the oven

Bake for 20 min at 350 when done cool on rack then place in a quart freezer ziploc bag

Here is what we made today

 Meats & Veggies

Mushrooms $1.79

Green Pepper $1.09

Pepperoni 2 pkgs @ $1.49

1 lb ground sausage @1.99

Spaghetti Sauce $2.00

Pastrami & Cheese

Pastrami 1.5lb loaf I diced $2.86

Cheese Sauce $1.49

2.5lb shredded cheese from Costco $5.99

Total for 75 Hot Pockets was $20.16

Makes you really think.

I was working on a project for school and came across this. It hits home so well that I want to share

Your life doesn't just "happen." Whether you know it or not, it is carefully designed by you. The choices, after all, are yours. You choose happiness. You choose sadness. You choose decisiveness. You choose ambivalence. You choose success. You choose failure. You choose courage. You choose fear. Just remember that every moment, every situation, provides a new choice. And in doing so, it gives you a perfect opportunity to do things differently to produce more positive results.

https://www.stephencovey.com/7habits/7habits-habit1.php

Where I have I been you might have wondered

Learning to make me a priority.

Some might read that and think ok she is crazy or getting there very quickly. She has 2 yr old twins how in the world is that going to happen??

I spend 4 days a week sitting in a hospital waiting room while the kids have therapy. Combine it with several dr appts a week, getting Gabby's glasses adjusted, and going back to school. I don't know when or how it popped into my head that I needed to be me first. But it just clicked oneday.

I am back to walking everday and will eventually get to running and complete my personal goal of a Half Marathon.

Cooking bas become a great passion again. For those that are having a hard time with that statement. Yes I went on a strike and didn't prepare or think out many meals we just went with whatever was quick and easy.

The kids are my world and while I know I will bend over backwards to do anything for them. I can't very well do that if I am not taking care of me. Taking care of me means so many things. But I have learned that first and foremost a

Happy, engerized, feeling good mommy is much better than a Mean, fustrated tired mommy.