Camerons Corn On The Cob Grilling Basket and Pizza Grilling Pan Review

I received the Camerons Corn On The Cob Grilling Basket and Pizza Grilling Pan free to facilitate this review. Affiliate links may be in this posting. Thanks for supporting my blog.

I have been having fun grilling this summer. Corn on the cob is one of my absolute favorite summertime foods. I love it different ways: seasoned just right, sweet and juicy, or just with butter. All are so delicious. There are many ways of cooking corn on the cob. My favorite way is to grill over my fire pit or on a charcoal grill. The smokey flavor can not be beat. I used to grill my corn on the cob inside their husks over the fire because I did not want the corn to burn and it held the juices in close to the kernels so they were nice and luscious, but recently Camerons gave me the opportunity to try out their Corn On The Cob Grilling Basket so a new way of grilling corn was introduced to me. They also let me try out their Pizza Grilling Pan. I had never tried pizza on the grill before, so this was something very new to me.

About the Camerons Corn On The Cob Grilling Basket:

• Evenly cooks and holds up to 4 ears of corn. 
• Secure locking basket lets you easily and safely flip the corn over on the grill.
• Has an extra-long 9-inch rosewood handle to keep you away from the heat.
• 100% nonstick grilling surface for easy clean up. Hand wash only.
• Great for grills, fire pits, and campfires. 
• MSRP: $12.99

About the Camerons Pizza Grilling Pan:

• Has perforated cooking surface to ensure even cooking.
• Great for both regular and deep dish pizza.
• Also works well with: chicken, shrimp, vegetables and more!
• Extra-high side walls prevents food from falling off.
• 100% nonstick grilling surface and dishwasher safe for easy clean up.
• Wooden handle unclips for compact, easy storage.
• MSRP: $14.99

Camerons Pizza Grilling Pan and Corn On The Cob Grilling Basket.

Grilling with Camerons Corn On The Cob Grilling Basket was super easy and the corn tasted great. First you slide the locking mechanism out of the way and open up the grilling basket. Then lay husked corn (up to 4 ears) horizontally in each of the four grooves. Trim to fit if necessary. Close up the basket and fasten with the loop at the base of the handle. Place the basket over the grill, fire pit, or campfire. Turn the corn over when side begins to brown. Once the corn is done set the basket with the corn it it aside. Be careful! The basket might be hot if you decide to open it right away. We loved how the corn tasted and it was still juicy even though it was not cooked in the husk. It was also easier to see when the corn was done using the basket and it is perfect to use with my Camerons Open-Fire Pit Grill because the corn no longer wants to roll off of it while cooking. It is such a wonderful grilling accessory and tool!

I love homemade pizza and Camerons Pizza Grilling Pan is wonderful for making pizza right at home, just how you like it topped. It is a great companion for a propane or charcoal grill with a lid. I found that if you don't use a lid while cooking the pizza it tends to want to burn on the bottom. It is even easier cooking pizza with a propane grill with this because you can set it to medium high heat for a more controlled cooking. My kids had fun helping make the pizza and it was a great family activity! Personally I love deep dish pizza, so this pan was perfect for that because of the high walls! I love that you can detach the handle for easy cooking with the grill lid on and convenient, space-saving storage after it is done being used. I am excited to try to cook other things in it besides pizza too.

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Ann McCallum Books Eat Your Science Homework Cookbook Review

My family had the privilege of trying the Eat Your Science Homework cookbook by Ann McCallum Books from the Eat Your Homework Book Series for this review to use in conjunction with our own homeschool curriculum. This is a Schoolhouse Review Crew Review. All opinions expressed are my own or those of my family.

Ann McCallum is a teacher and writer of educational books for kids. She has written a number of books about math like: Rabbits, Rabbits Everywhere: A Fibonacci Sequence, The Secret Life of Math, Beanstalk: The Measure of a Giant, and Eat Your Math Homework: Recipes for Hungry Minds. In the Eat Your Homework Book Series she has written three books: Eat Your Math Homework: Recipes For Hungry Minds, Eat Your Science Homework: Recipes For Inquiring Minds, and Eat Your US History Homework: Recipes For Revolutionary Minds. These three books are all Illustrated by Leeza Hernandez.

Have you ever tried doing homework on an empty stomach? The growling and rumbling of your tummy and hunger pains are very distracting. They sure don't help you focus on the task at hand.

The Eat Your Science Homework cookbook helps turn your kitchen into a laboratory, recipes into experiments, and food into science. It is a 48 page paperback book that teaches bits and pieces of science while making stuff to eat. The book starts off with an introduction with a page on safety in the kitchen. Then it goes into six science themed recipes for children ages 7-10 to make with adults. Recipes range from popcorn balls to lasagna that has pizza ingredients. Each recipe has a page about the science, what ingredients and equipment you will need and the directions on how to make it, and lastly a page or two of science facts and a science sampler which gives more activities and experiments to do. After the recipes there is a section in the book that is a review of the science learned, a glossary, and an index. On the website you can also download an Educators Guide to expand upon the science concepts even more and give the student extra activities to do. Not only do you get to do fun science experiments, but you get to eat them too! This edible science will get your student thinking and make their tummies less grumbly.

How We Used This and Our Thoughts:

My girls who are 5 and 7 years old made the Sedimentary Pizza Lasagna recipe from this book with me for one of our dinners. We had fun tuning our kitchen into a science lab, making this meal for our family, and learning about the science behind rocks while we baked it. My kids love helping in the kitchen and researching all things scientific, so this was the best of both worlds. We learned about sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rock properties, what a mineral is, and the Mohs Scale of hardness while making this delicious food. The recipe turned out perfect and it was super yummy as well.

Making Sedimentary Pizza Lasagna from the Eat Your Science Homework cookbook.

Eat Your Science Homework is well written and the illustrations are adorable. The approach is easy to understand, even for my 5 year old. With help from parents or other care giving adults kids can have fun in the kitchen while learning key scientific ideas.

With Eat Your Science Homework I found that my girls understood the scientific concepts better than just telling them because it is makes the learning very hands-on. Besides the science it teaches, it also shows the student how to read and decipher recipes and how to use the equipment properly in the kitchen. I believe that all children should be able to know their way around the kitchen and recipes. My girls got to mix, stir, measure, layer, pour, spread, etc. The skills involved in preparing food, cooking and baking are skills that all children should acquire so they can grow up eating homemade, healthy well-balanced meals. This is the reason I involve my kids in the kitchen as much as possible.

Sedimentary Pizza Lasagna...look at the layers!

I highly recommend the Eat Your Science Homework cookbook for anyone who wants to help teach science in a fun, positive way with something more than just a science experiment in the end. We absolutely love this book by Ann McCallum and we are planning on purchasing the rest of the series.

BUY IT
You can purchase Eat Your Science Homework for $16.95 on the Charlesbridge books website.

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Wordless Wednesday Happy 15th Birthday Delbin

Delbin turned 15 on September 5th and we threw him a pizza party at the park.

Pizza Ranch Living Hope Album Review and Giveaway

I received this CD free from FlyBy Promotions to facilitate this review and another free to giveaway below to my readers.

I just heard about a place to go and eat some really good pizza called the Pizza Ranch. I haven't tried their food yet because they are unfortunately not local to me, but everyone I have talked to that has eaten there has liked their food and service. Now I wish there was one of these restaurants closer to me so that I might be able to try them out. Here is a little bit more about them...

About Pizza Ranch:
Adrie Groeneweg had a dream that started in Hull, IA, in 1981, when he was just 19 years old. It was simple. Why does everyone have to drive out of town to get a pizza? With just six specialty and single topping pizza recipes developed by Adrie's mother, Lorraine, Pizza Ranch was born. Pizza Ranch's vision and mission is to glorify God by positively impacting the world and to give every guest a legendary experience. They have 190+ locations across 13 states including Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nebraska, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado.

From Adrie Groeneweg, President & CEO of Pizza Ranch, Inc.: "This album has a very special meaning for Pizza Ranch. Although Pizza Ranch is not in the music business, many things have been happening, conversations have been taking place and doors have been opening for this album. Through these events, I believe it was obvious that God has been behind this for His specific purpose and putting it on our hearts to collectively create this project. As such, we call this our miracle album, Living Hope."

I love Christian music! It lifts me up throughout my day, carries me through tough times, and lets me praise God through music. I love listening to new-to-me artists and the Living Hope CD from Pizza Ranch has some of these as well as familiar voices.

About Living Hope:
On June 2, 2015, Pizza Ranch released a CD called Living Hope containing twelve songs from many of their favorite Christian artists. Most of the songs are brand-new and written exclusively for this CD around the theme of Hope. Artists include Colton Dixon, Francesca Batistelli, Ellie Holcomb, Sidewalk Prophets, Kevin Max, Bart Millard, Passion Band featuring Kristian Stanfill, Michael W. Smith, and Mark Schultz.

My Thoughts:
Pizza Ranch's new album that they put together is great. I love the CD! It has a menagerie of Christian artists on it and a wide variety of different genre of Christian music. I love the diverseness of it. My favorite song is the first one on the CD, Future, by Francesca Battistelli. Blind and My All In All are both great songs with some rock behind them. Hold On To Hope is folk music with a bit of a country twang. Savior's Arms is praise music. Overcome the World is contemporary praise music. Panic Button gives me an 80's flashback because of its instrumentals and vocals. Hope of Heaven is praise music from an artist I know and love that I have reviewed about before. Till I Met You has some very pretty piano and strings from a contemporary Christian artist with a really pretty voice. A Little Hope reminds me a lot like the song by Jason Mraz in technique because of its Brazilian feel. What Are You Waiting For is contemporary Christian with a bit of a rock beat. Day One is another contemporary Christian artist I know and love and is a song you can clap along to. I also love that the CD comes with a insert that has the lyrics of each song in it so I can sing along! This is the perfect CD to worship God while in the car driving around this summer!

TRACKLISTING:

1. Future ~ Francesca Battistelli 
2. Blind ~ Colton Dixon 
3. My All In All ~ Phil Wickham 
4. Hold Onto Hope ~ Ellie Holcomb 
5. Savior's Arms ~ Passion Band featuring Kristian Stanfill
6. Overcome The World ~ Mark Schultz 
7. Panic Button ~ Kevin Max 
8. Hope of Heaven ~ Michael W. Smith 
9. Till I Met You ~ Laura Story 
10. A Little Hope ~ Bart Millard 
11. What Are You Waiting For ~ Sidewalk Prophets 
12. Day One {Acoustic Version} ~ Matthew West {Bonus Track}

SOCIAL • C O R N E R
Twitter: @PizzaRanch @PRServes
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PizzaRanchRacing
Official Website: http://www.pizzaranch.com/livinghope/
YouTube Channel (features images and videos of the artists talking about the story behind each song):  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE9lEnxuNzMyLfRyX8_tiLA

BUY IT:
The CD will be available to purchase for $5 plus tax exclusively in Pizza Ranch restaurants or for download at pizzaranch.com/livinghope through August 31. They will donate $120,000 on behalf of participating artists to the non-profit Porter’s Call.

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Prize: Win a copy of the Pizza Ranch Living Hope Album! {US & Canada Only}

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Pillsbury Artisan Pizza Crust Review and Giveaway

With our recent acquisition of a property with 5 and a half acres, two houses, a large barn, a lean-to, and a shed we have been busy. Not only are we still homeschooling our children and doing all the parenting duties one has when becoming a parent, but we are also fixing up the new property and structures so we can move in. The structures on the gorgeous land were all built in the 1920's so they definitely need a lot of TLC. I will get into this more in the upcoming weeks with more posts and some pictures.

With our busy schedules we have had little time to do home cooked meals. Thankfully I received a kit from MyBlogSpark with a:

• VIP coupon for New Pillsbury Artisan Pizza Crust with Whole Grain
• $10 gift card (for your favorite ingredients)
• Baking sheet
• Oven mitt
• Pizza cutter

This kit was just the thing I needed to make a healthy home cooked meal for my family and still have time to get everything else done that I needed to do. The Pillsbury Artisan Pizza Crust is super convenient and takes only minutes to make. As an added bonus the Pillsbury Artisan Pizza Crust has 16 grams of whole grain per serving. It was the perfect way to be creative in the kitchen and create a culinary masterpiece on the canvas of dough. The pizza possibilities are fully customizable with endless choices of toppings.

We did tomato sauce and mozzarella topped with spinach, fresh basil leaves, green pepper, tomatoes, mushrooms, artichokes, olives, ground turkey and bacon. The crust turned out so delicious we ate it all up. I am definitely buying this again!

The canister is much like other Pillsbury dough products in how you just pop it open. The dough then unrolls easily onto a rectangular baking sheet. You can then flatten it out more to a thinner crust or leave it for a thicker crust. Follow the step by step instructions on the canister and voilà: fresh, hot and delicious pizza cooked at home in your own kitchen.

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• Website
• Facebook
• Twitter

BUY IT
Download a printable coupon for $1.25 off one package of New Pillsbury Artisan Pizza Crust with Whole Grain: http://bit.ly/PCwWG today! Find it in your local grocery refrigerated section along with other Pillsbury dough products. I found it in my local Safeway store.

WIN IT
Prize: Win a Pillsbury Artisan Pizza Crust Kit

• VIP coupon for New Pillsbury Artisan Pizza Crust with Whole Grain
• $10 gift card (for your favorite ingredients)
• Baking sheet
• Oven mitt
• Pizza cutter

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Pizza Hut BOOK IT! Program

I have fond memories of the Pizza Hut http://www.pizzahut.com/ BOOK IT! Program http://www.bookitprogram.com/. I still have my purple button with the white open book and rainbow tucked away in my button box (a box full of fun pins, buttons and pretty brooches).

When I was little we rarely ate out at restaurants. My mom was a great cook and had the time to cook meals for us. Eating out was saved when we were spoiled rotten by our Grandmother when she came to visit us or we came to visit her. Those days were few and far in between.

I went to public school when I was growing up. When the teacher handed out the Book It! buttons and explained we could get a Personal Pan Pizza from Pizza Hut (what a tongue twister!)  for free if we read books I was thrilled! This free pizza would be  the bonus I needed in between Grandmother visits. I loved reading anyway so it was easy and worth it.

In order to get the pizza you also needed to get a total of 5 yellowish gold star stickers to add to the button. These stickers were kinda small and hard to apply to the button accurately. I remember them sticking more to the tips of my fingers and less to the button. I also remember loosing a few before I ended up putting a piece of tape over them to better secure them in place.

I read and read to get those stars and finally got my personal pan pizza. Those were the days...

Well little do most know, the Book IT! Program is still going strong AND it is not only offered to teachers in public or private schools, but also parents and caregivers like me that homeschool their kids. I know that it is a promotional gimmick for parents to buy more pizza while they are at Pizza Hut, but I still support it because it is a great incentive for my kids to read...not that they don't already like crazy.

All you have to do to sign up is this... Go to the enrollment form, pick which type of school you teach at and fill it out. It is that simple! Go ahead and help your child/student read their hearts out. Hurry to enroll though because you only have until Sept. 1st to sign up. The program will run from Oct. - March of the 2012/13 school year and is available for kids in grades Kindergarten through 6th grade. It is completely free and totally fun!

DISCLOSURE/DISCLAIMER: I wrote this blog post because I thought you might be interested in knowing this information and taking part of this opportunity. My thoughts are mine and my family's own opinion and have not been altered by anyone else. I did not receive any compensation for doing this post.

Freschetta Pizza Proud to Support Pink Review and Giveaway

October is National Breast Cancer awareness month and many companies are doing their part to give and support research to find a cure. Freschetta the makers of really yummy pizza are participating with their Proud to Support Pink program where from September 25th - October 31st when you purchase specially marked packages of Freschetta pizzas and Artisan pizza crusts you will be helping them reach their goal pf $50,000 donation to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. The specially marked packages have codes that you can enter at www.ProudToSupportPink.com.

Every code equals a dollar donated for breast cancer research. The website also has a place for people to share their stories about breast cancer. Each story submitted will be displayed on the website and on their Facebook page to inspire those who read them. Each week in October you can also have your hand at winning one of 50 pink iPod shuffles by entering a code or sharing the program on Facebook or Twitter. In addition 50 more iPod shuffles will be donated to 4 cancer centers around America to be given to breast cancer patients while being treated. Please help Freschetta make their goal!

I tried their wonderful pizza with my coupon and it is so tasty! They use only the finest of ingredients: real cheeses, tomato sauces made out of prime picked tomatoes and premium meats. Their pizza turned out superb in my oven and the crust was just perfect! So yummy!

WIN IT:
Freschetta has generously offered a Freschetta Proud to Support Pink prize package that includes: a coupon to try Freschetta pizza, 12 oz or larger and 2 pairs of Freschetta Proud to Support Pink earphones to giveaway to one of my readers (one pair to keep and one to give to a family member or friend to remind them of the cause).

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DISCLOSURE/DISCLAIMER: Because I am a member of the Freschetta Fresh Connection Community I received word of this program and received free headphones and a coupon for free product to review. All information about the products I received from the media kit, the products and the website. My thoughts are mine and my family's own opinion and have not been altered by anyone else. I did not receive any other compensation for doing this review.