Tweetle Dee Design Co.: National Food on a Stick Day

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National Food on a Stick Day

There is a holiday for everything and today is National Food on a Stick Day! when the producers of KUTV's Fresh Living asked me to come up with something to celebrate this fun day, I knew it had to have our family's favorite pizza and salad! We love pizza of all kinds, but for our picky little ones it has to be fun. So, we decided to make them like we do our cinnamon rolls and add a stick. This recipe is so quick, simple, and easy. You can whip it up on the busiest of nights and feel like a hero!

All you need to gather is a can or two of Pillsbury Refrigerated Pizza Dough, your favorite sauce, some cheese and chopped toppings. I love this dough. It is soft and super easy to work with and best of all, it tastes as good as my own homemade dough.

Pillsbury Refrigerator Pizza Dough

Roll the dough out on a floured surface and square the edges. Spread your favorite sauce on lightly. If you use too much sauce or toppings they will cook out of the roll when baking. Spread to the outside short edge and leave a quarter inch naked on both long ends so your dough roll will stick together.

Spread Marinara Sauce to outside short edge. Leave long edge naked.

Lightly spread on cheese and toppings that have been chopped small. This is a key need so that you can cut the rolls and not loose any of the goodness.

Add cheese and chopped toppings.

Roll the dough towards you to make a big pizza dough log. Using waxed or unwaxed non-flavored dental floss to cut the rolls. Take a piece a couple of feet long and slide under the log. Lift up the ends of the floss, cross over and pull down. This "cuts" the dough into nice chunks.

Roll lengthwise like a cinnamon roll. Squeeze long edge together.

When you are done cutting your pieces, place them on a parchment lined tray and lightly press down on the rolls to flaten them out a little. Pinch the ends that may come loose in cutting, or tuck them under the roll.

Cut 1.5" lengths with a unflavored dental floss. Place on parchment lined baking sheet.

Bake at 400 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes until everything is bubbly and the dough is lightly golden brown. Let cool slightly before sticking the sticks in.

Bake for 10 to 12 minutes at 400 degrees. Let cool slightly.

The sticks I use for my rolls or pies on a stick I get in the hardware section of my local shop. I cut them to 10 inches and use a pencil sharpener to make a point on one end. This allows me to slide it into pastry perfectly. They can be washed with hot soapy water and used again and again.

Stick wooden dowels into each roll.

For the Salad on a Stick, I used iceberg lettuce, cherry tomatoes and chunks of mozzarella cheese. For these sticks I used wood skewers that you can get at any grocery store. Soak them in water for a few minutes and slide your fixings on. To serve, drizzle a little dressing on or have a dipping dressing on the side. These are so yummy and make eating salad so fun!

Finish off dinner with Salad on a Stick.

We made several different types of pizza rolls. One was a Chicken Bacon Alfredo which had Alfredo sauce, Chopped Rotisserie Chicken Breast, Fresh Parsley, Hormel Real Bacon Bits, Chopped Olives, and Mozzarella Cheese. Oh, man was it good!
Our favorite though was the Chicken BBQ Pizza Roll which we used BBQ Sauce, Chopped Rotisserie Chicken Breast, Chopped Red Onion, Chopped Green Pepper and Mixed Cheddar and Mozzarella Cheese. The red onion was amazing in this pizza roll.

Catch the segment on KUTV Fresh Living!

So, whether you add a stick to these pizza rolls or eat them without, they are our favorite way to eat pizza now! You can catch the segment on KUTV Fresh Living. We hope you enjoy this crazy fun holiday and use this recipe for brunches, dinners, and late night snacks throughout the year!