Edge edibles: Sarah's supercool food column
Sarah Zeeck
Issue date: 9/2/09 Section: The Edge
Coming up with frugal ways to eat is oftentimes a taxing endeavor. Ramen can only be stretched to a certain degree before its blandness gets the best of even the most taste-impaired person. Moreover, preparing a meal can be quite time consuming and use required resources that a college kid living in his or her apartment just isn't able to access. However, those of us in that position can rest easy - there is a solution. That solution is the Jiffy brand food mixes.
These small, boxed mixes can be found in the cake and baking aisle, and they save a college student's stomach. Not only are they a mere 50-ish cents with tax - they don't taste like sodium saturated cardboard. And they come in a variety of selections. Jiffy has muffin mixes, biscuit mixes, crust mixes and corn bread mixes, to name a few, and their versatility is limitless. The muffin mix obviously can be made into muffins, but can also be made into pancakes, and the truly creative person without muffin tins can use a small loaf pan to make muffin bread.
For your gourmet pleasure, here are two tried-and-true ways (by yours truly) to spice up a Jiffy pizza crust mix to keep your stomach from grumbling, your taste buds from suffering and your wallet from emptying.
-Muffin Tin Pizza-
1 pkg. Jiffy pizza dough mix
Half can Hunt's tomato sauce (I used the Basil and Oregano variety)
Half pkg. shredded cheese
Prepare dough according to instructions on box, but instead of greasing a round flat pan, grease the insides of a couple muffin pans. Tear off two-inch balls of dough and line the tins with them. Prebake for about two minutes at 450 degrees. Top with sauce and cheese. Reduce the oven heat to 300
degrees and cook for about five minutes until crusts are baked through and the cheese is melted.
*Note: add whatever vegetable, meat or other toppings before baking.
-Cinnamon Breadsticks-
1 pkg. Jiffy pizza dough mix
2 tbsp. melted butter
1 tbsp. cinnamon
1 tbsp. sugar
Prepare dough according to instructions on box. Mix cinnamon and sugar together and put to the side. Grease a cookie sheet. Roll dough into sticks. Dip dough into melted butter and then into the cinnamon-sugar mixture. Bake at 450 degrees for
10 minutes or until golden brown.
*Note: you may run out of butter or cinnamon sugar depending on how liberally you apply either or both to the dough, so more may be needed.
These small, boxed mixes can be found in the cake and baking aisle, and they save a college student's stomach. Not only are they a mere 50-ish cents with tax - they don't taste like sodium saturated cardboard. And they come in a variety of selections. Jiffy has muffin mixes, biscuit mixes, crust mixes and corn bread mixes, to name a few, and their versatility is limitless. The muffin mix obviously can be made into muffins, but can also be made into pancakes, and the truly creative person without muffin tins can use a small loaf pan to make muffin bread.
For your gourmet pleasure, here are two tried-and-true ways (by yours truly) to spice up a Jiffy pizza crust mix to keep your stomach from grumbling, your taste buds from suffering and your wallet from emptying.
-Muffin Tin Pizza-
1 pkg. Jiffy pizza dough mix
Half can Hunt's tomato sauce (I used the Basil and Oregano variety)
Half pkg. shredded cheese
Prepare dough according to instructions on box, but instead of greasing a round flat pan, grease the insides of a couple muffin pans. Tear off two-inch balls of dough and line the tins with them. Prebake for about two minutes at 450 degrees. Top with sauce and cheese. Reduce the oven heat to 300
degrees and cook for about five minutes until crusts are baked through and the cheese is melted.
*Note: add whatever vegetable, meat or other toppings before baking.
-Cinnamon Breadsticks-
1 pkg. Jiffy pizza dough mix
2 tbsp. melted butter
1 tbsp. cinnamon
1 tbsp. sugar
Prepare dough according to instructions on box. Mix cinnamon and sugar together and put to the side. Grease a cookie sheet. Roll dough into sticks. Dip dough into melted butter and then into the cinnamon-sugar mixture. Bake at 450 degrees for
10 minutes or until golden brown.
*Note: you may run out of butter or cinnamon sugar depending on how liberally you apply either or both to the dough, so more may be needed.
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