Special Buttercream Frosting

"Make perfect pizza pockets by wrapping pizza sauce, mozzarella, and pepperoni in crescent dough and baking until golden brown." — Pillsbury® Crescents 

Directions

Heat oven to 375 degrees F. Unroll dough on cookie sheet and separate into 4 rectangles; press each into 6x4-inch rectangle, firmly pressing perforations to seal.
Spread 1 tablespoon pizza sauce on half of each rectangle to within 1 inch of edge. Sprinkle each with 3 tablespoons cheese; top with 6 slices pepperoni. Fold dough diagonally over filling; firmly press edges with fork to seal. Sprinkle each triangle with 1/4 teaspoon grated cheese. With fork, prick top of each to allow steam to escape.
Bake 13 to 15 minutes or until deep golden brown. Serve warm.

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Mexican Tortilla Lasagna

Ingredients
1 pound ground beef
1 (1.25 ounce) package taco seasoning mix
1/2 onion
1/2 clove garlic
1 can re-fried beans
1 can diced jalapenos
1 jar salsa
5+ tortillas (enough to cover layers)
4 cups Cheddar Cheese
1 tomato chopped
2 green onions chopped
Directions
preheat oven to 375 degrees F
In a large skillet over medium heat, cook beef until browned. Drain.
In same pan saute onions and garlic until slightly brown. Add beef back to pan, add taco seasoning and re-fried beans. Stir. Heat until warm.
layer ingredients in a 9x13 inch baking dish.
salsa/tortillas/beef/jalapenos/cheese (repeat x2) top final tortilla layer with salsa until moistened.
Bake 35 minutes until heated through. Let cool for 5 minutes before serving.
Top with shredded cheese, green onions and tomatoes. Serve with sour cream.

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Jimmy's Mexican Pizza

"Jimmy's specially seasoned ground beef, refried beans, salsa and cheese layered in a deep dish style. A tasty and easy Mexican-style pizza with a flour tortilla crust I whipped up because I had the stuff to make it!!" — Jimmy Simian 

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How can big companies keep the sparks of innovation?

Market of testers
Eric Reis's views have held sway with internet companies for many years.

The chief executive of Renren, one of China's largest social networking sites, thinks that an internet company is in a strong position to bring products to market fast, and adapt accordingly.

However, while they can experiment and tweak the product, he also warns of the importance of speed.

Mr Chen also believes innovation is central to an internet company's success.

"Inventive culture is always the secret recipe for a lot of technology companies," he says.

And to this end, he believes companies needs to have a structure that enables this.

Just as large companies can be too cumbersome and slow moving to be inventive, Mr Chen thinks large teams are also not as conducive to innovation.

"You want to break people into smaller teams and make them accountable for the particular endeavour that you engage," he says.

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