Pizza Scone Recipe (Great Lunch Idea)

Here is the Pizza Scone recipe I promised last week. I've had a bit of an insane week and have spent barely anytime in the kitchen.

This is a great idea for lunches. The kids love it. You can change it up and add ham and cheddar cheese instead of mozza/pepperoni/pizza sauce. It's quick and easy to make and takes less than half an hour start to finish. I often make this first thing in the morning when we realize that #2 son has forgotten to make bread the night before.

The kids loved this one so much my oldest son's football team requested a few of them for practise one day.

Pizza Scones
1 1/2 cup whole wheat flour

1/2 cup white flour

1 tablespoon baking powder

2 teaspoons sugar

3 tablespoons margarine/butter

3/4 cup buttermilk

2 large egg whites

1 cup or so of cut up pepperoni, not in slices but cubed from the slices

1 cup (approx) shredded mozzarella cheese

pizza sauce

Mix all the dry ingredients together. Add the butter and mix it so it's kinda cornmealish Combine the buttermilk and egg whites together and add it to the dry mixture Add the pepperoni and cheese and mix again.

On a pastry board or whatever. Put down some flour, take the dough out and knead it a couple of times (about 4 times). Make sure it's lightly covered in flour. Shape it into a flat round circle and cut it into triangles but don't seperate the pieces (bake it as a circle)

Spray a cookie sheet with Pam and slide it onto sheet or cut it into triangles on the sheet) Brush pizza sauce over the top (not too much) and bake at 400 degrees for 20 min.

The one pictured above I sprinkled some extra mozza cheese on the top.

Back to School Lunch Ideas

With four kids and a husband to pack lunches for everyday you try to keep things fresh, easy, and fast. You also don't want to run into the monotany of a salami sandwich daily so we try to keep things varied, but easy daily. Given we have two in elementary and now two in highschool there are also issues with the older two "looking cool" for school. Fortunately the wide and varied lunches we prepare have gotten envious looks from my oldest's highschool football team so I think we are doing alright. (I even had a request to make pizza scones for the team at one point).

Now that school is back I'm spending the day getting prepared for the weekly lunches. Spending part of a weekend day prepping everything makes whipping together lunches in the morning a snap. Things to always have on hand

Cut celery

Carrot sticks

Broccoli heads

Lettuce

Salad dressings

Bacon bits

Treats.

We try to keep our lunch waste to a minimum so rarely do we have prepared foods and we use these fantastic starfrit containers with snap down lids that never come off until intended. No smelly bags from inadvertant food spillage!!

Standard things we put in the lunches.

A small container with fresh veggies. Be they carrot/celery, broccoli, peppers. A side small starfrit container with some salad dressing for dipping.

Mixing is up is important. We also cut up fresh fruit ahead of time so we can have a container of that available if they want it.

Treats for lunches include, homemade chocolate chip cookies which can be seen In this post

Cupcakes (any number of the ones posted and those to come)

A slice of cake if we've made one.

Drinks are all done in refillable containers. Often we'll put the drinks in the freezer the night before so they are semi frozen in time for school and thaw out as the day goes on but they still have a nice cool drink. Lemonade, juice, etc.

Now for the fun part. Main course with lunch. Sunday nights I usually have a tray full of chicken breasts cooking in the oven. Used to make chicken salad sandwiches or buns. Cut up into wraps for something different with peppers, lettuce, and some cheese. This makes life so much easier.

Salads: Caesar, garden, whatever, the lettuce is already washed and ready to go. Rip it up, toss it into containers and add whatever you want to it. We already have all the veggies washed, cut up in containers in the fridge so the choice is endless. Cut up some chicken for protein and good to go!

Rice: Make some rice balls of white/brown rice, throw in some cut up chicken or pork, or beef, some veggies on the side and instant bento box.

Pizza scones...this is always a favorite. I'll make some later this week to show you how it's done. I usually just make these in the morning if I feel like it. 20 minutes and they are prepped and ready to go.

Tomorrow's lunch will consist of Chicken Salad on a homemade bun, carrot and celery sticks, chocolate chip cookies with lemonade drinks.

Wednesday will be Caesar's salads, rice balls, Amaretto cupcakes, apple and banana slices and a drink.

I also try to stay away from deli meats as they have so much sodium and nitrites in them I think too much of that is a little harmful. Other thinks we do is cook a beef roast on Sunday to use in sandwiches, pork roast, etc. Spice up the sandwich with some cut peppers, or make a wrap, add a little salsa and cheese and new ideas come out.

My chicken salad sandwich is a little different than the standard fare.

First I use shredded cooked chicken breast

Add shredded carrot and celery

Toss in a handful or two of bacon bits, some mayonaisse, a pinch of salt, and it's good to go. The bacon adds some nice little zest to it.

Chicken shredded

Chicken with shredded carrots, celery, and bacon bits added.

Now on the homemade buns with lettuce

Sandwich all Packed up in the nifty Starfrit containers. 

 

Pizza Scones, for lunch variety

Pizza scones are awesome!! the kids love them in lunches. Sometimes I change it up and use ham and cheese. Pizza scone recipe. (any scone...add your own meats/cheeses)

Easy and low fat
1 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup white flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
2 teaspoons sugar
3 tablespoons margarine/butter
3/4 cup buttermilk
2 large egg whites
about 1 cup or so of cut up pepperoni, not in slices but cubed from the slices
about the same of shredded mozzarella cheese
pizza sauce
So..mix all the dry ingredients together. Add the butter and mix it so it's kinda cornmealish. Combine the buttermilk and egg whites together and add it to the dry mixture. Add the pepperoni and cheese and mix again. On a pastry board or whatever, Put down some flour, take the dough out and knead it a couple of times (about 4 times). Make sure it's lightly covered in dough.

Shape it into a flat round circle and cut it into triangles but don't seperate the pieces (bake it as a circle)
Spray a cookie sheet with Pam and slide it onto sheet (or cut it into triangles on the sheet)Brush pizza sauce over the top (not too much) and bake at 400 degrees for 20 minutes.
Yummy, moist.
When you pull it out of the oven, cool it on a cooling rack and seperate the pieces. I just bag em up when they are cooled toss them in the fridge and they are ready to grab for lunches. I usually make a couple of batches and freeze some too for emergencies.
Takes about 1/2 hour from start to finish and I'll often whip up some in the morning as the masses are showering for school.

You can mix it up a bit by omitting the pizza sauce and using ham and cheese, or other ingredients to your liking.