I like to cook.  Its not a secret.  Buffalo Chicken Dip (started making that years ago).  Vegetable stew from scratch.  Baking cookies, cinnamon muffins, and other goodies.  Recently I’ve started making pizza from scratch (including dough) as well as pretzels from scratch.  I even experimented with a bunch of Mac n Cheese variations.

This last weekend I got a craving for Pizza Logs.  I haven’t ever seen pizza logs outside of Buffalo.  I first started eating them when I was in college, and then later when I lived in Buffalo.  You could order them just about anywhere.  They looked like a really thing dough pizza slice rolled up.  An order came with maybe four of them and a thing of marinara sauce for dipping.  When I became a vegetarian it became even harder to find them.  They usually came with pepperoni in them.  Occasional I could find a store that sold them, but the majority of the time I had to order them from fast food places.

So on Saturday I decided I would make some.  After looking up recipes online I went with one made from Egg Roll shells.  I ran out to the store with Sam and picked up Egg Roll Shells, mozzarella cheese ( a big hunk), and some pizza sauce.  Thawed out the Egg Roll shells when we got home and we got started.  You place the Egg Roll shell diamond ways, put some sauce, cheese and whatever else you like to add in the middle (Sam and I experimented with crushed red peppers, spicy sea salt, blackened cajun spice, honey and hot sauce; as well as adding different cheeses with the mozzarella.  Not all at once, but on alternating wraps).  Fold the wrap almost in half (not quite triangle shaped), fold the two corners inand then roll up the shell.  Use water (like we did) or use a beaten egg to seal the Egg Wrap shut (a little moisture locks it in place).  Now in my greasiest memories Pizza Logs were definitely deep fried, but we baked them on a greased cookie sheet in the oven at 400 for about ten minutes (turning once).  I used the rest of the pizza sauce as dipping sauce.

It was pretty amazing.  Both the honey and the hot sauce turned out really well.  We did decided that instead of spicing up the pizza log itself, it would be better to spice up the dipping sauce.  But really, they were fantastic.  And really easy and fast to make.

Tonight after a light dinner (buffalo chicken wrap: diced chicken, lettuce, tomato, cheddar cheese on a big burrito shell with hot sauce and blue cheese dressing) I wanted a little something more.  I took four 6 inch flour taco shells and cut them up with a pizza slicer.  I then heated up some vegetable oil in a skillet and lined a cookie sheet with paper towels.  I fried the tortilla shells in the oil for about 20 seconds on each side and then threw them on the cookie sheet.  Sprinkles them with some sea salt and a little bit of lemon juice (I didn’t have any lime juice) and bam; I’ve got myself some tortilla chips.  They were a little bit thicker and just a slight bit softer than store bought, but really tastey and filling.

So yeah, quite enjoying cooking.  I’ll keep at it I do believe.