
Tiffani Thiessen. TIFFANI THIESSEN PHOTO COURTESY OF MEGAN WELKER
Tiffani Thiessen has your recreation day menu lined with leftover-friendly pull-apart pigs in a quilt recipe.
“It is a enjoyable tackle pigs in a blanket, however to me … rather more pleasing to the attention and yummier within the tummy,” the actress, 49, completely shares within the newest challenge of Us Weekly. The dish is one among many leftover-inspired recipes featured in her new cookbook, Right here We Go Once more: Recipes and Inspiration to Degree Up Your Leftovers, which hit cabinets earlier this month.
When placing the recipe collectively, Thiessen discovered herself impressed by scorching canine’ versatility and week-long fridge life. “Sizzling canine hold within the fridge and reheat very simply,” she defined. “So, I assumed creating a brand new spin on a basic [would be] a enjoyable option to repurpose [them].”
She added: “There’s not one individual in our home who doesn’t love this — our 4 canine even love the fallen scraps!” (Thiessen shares her daughter Harper, 13, and son Holt, 8, together with her husband, Brady Smith.)
The pigs in a quilt recipe options a number of substances present in most individuals’s pantries, together with scorching canine, crescent rolls, ketchup, mustard and different dressings. The dish’s flower-shaped design makes it the right shareable snack for events, sporting occasions and extra occasions.
Whereas most individuals know Thiessen for her roles on exhibits in Saved By the Bell, Beverly Hills, 90210, White Collar and extra, she can also be fairly the chef. The Alexa & Katie alum has appeared on and hosted a number of cooking exhibits through the years, together with Dinner at Tiffani’s and Deliciousness. She launched her first cookbook, Pull Up a Chair: Recipes from My Household to Yours, in 2018.
Thiessen handed down her love for cooking to her daughter as she beforehand joked that the 2 of them baked “a couple of hundred” banana breads through the COVID-19 pandemic. “[Harper] simply made one other one the opposite evening,” she completely instructed Us in July 2020. “She actually likes to prepare dinner with me.”
Banana bread apart, Thiessen mentioned she and her children prepare dinner “numerous issues” collectively, typically utilizing fruit and veggies grown of their backyard. “We’ve made tomato tarts and grilled pizzas … we’re at all times continually making one thing,” she shared on the time. “It’s been numerous enjoyable to have them at house and concerned in that.”
Maintain scrolling to take a look at Thiessen’s pull-apart pigs in a quilt recipe:

Pull-Aside Pigs in a Quilt
Components
- 4 tbsp unsalted butter
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 tbsp roughly chopped recent parsley
- ¼ tsp kosher salt
- All-purpose flour, for dusting
- 2 (8-oz) packages crescent rolls
- 5 scorching canine, every lower into 4 even items
- Dressing, ketchup or mustard, for serving (non-compulsory)
Directions
1. Preheat the oven to 375 levels. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and put aside.
2. Soften the butter in a small sauté pan over medium warmth. When the butter begins to foam, add the garlic, parsley and salt and prepare dinner for 1 minute whereas gently swirling the pan. Take away the pan from the warmth and put aside.
3. Unfold out one tube of the crescent rolls on a frivolously floured work floor. Separate the dough on the perforated traces to kind 4 squares. Stack the squares on prime of each other and use a rolling pin to roll the dough into 10 x 12-inch rectangle. Frivolously flour your rolling pin if it begins sticking to the dough.
4. Trim the perimeters of the rectangle so the road are as straight and whilst doable. Working alongside the 10-inch aspect of the rectangle, slice the dough into 5 (2-inch-wide) strips. (A ruler turns out to be useful right here.) Then, lower these strips into 4 (3-inch) items. You need to now have 20 squares of dough.
5. Add a chunk of scorching canine to every sq. in order that the flat fringe of the new canine traces up within the prime nook of a chunk of dough. Roll the new canine so it’s lined in dough and use a bit of little bit of water to kind a seal. Pinch the underside extra dough up towards the new canine to seal that aspect. You need to have a bit of bundle of dough at one finish and the new canine peeking out the opposite aspect. Set the pic within the blanket on the ready baking sheet, seal aspect down, and repeat with the remaining items of dough and scorching canine.
6. Organize 12 of the pigs in a blanket in a hoop, with the new canine aspect dealing with out. Shingle the remaining eight scorching canine within the heart of the ring, in order that they relaxation on the again fringe of the pigs in a blanket on the underside ring (The ultimate form ought to appear to be a flower.) Brush all the dough with the ready garlic butter and bake for about 40 minutes. The dough must be golden brown and cooked via. Serve instantly with any desired dipping choices.


