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Monday, February 7, 2011

Kind-of Homemade Margherita Pizza

First of all, I must apologize that I don't have a photo for this one. BUT, I figured this recipe was worth sharing. Also, I don't have the exact measurements for things, so you'll have to use your own discretion.

Ingredients:
1 pack of fresh pizza dough (I love the kind from Fresh & Easy)
3 Tbs(?) Olive Oil
2 cloves minced garlic
mozzarella cheese
2 Tbs(?) romano or parmesan cheese
2 sliced tomatoes
fresh basil cut coarsely chopped
*chicken apple sausage from Fresh and Easy is awesome too!

Pre-heat your oven to 450.
1. Put some flour down and roll out your dough.
2. Put olive oil in a pan and saute garlic until just turning golden.
3. Use pastry brush (or whatever you got!) to spread olive oil over the crust.
4. sprinkle with just a tiny bit of sea salt if you want to.
5. Add the delicious cheeses and tomato and sausage (if you want).. but don't add the basil just yet.
6. You can add a bit more cheese on top of your toppings if you'd like
7. put it in the oven for 10 minutes or so.
8. When it looks almost done, pull it out and add the fresh basil.
9. Put it back in the oven, and take it out when the cheese is nice and bubbly, and the bottom starts to get a little bit golden.

Let me know if you try it out. This one has been a big hit around my house!

Thursday, July 17, 2008

If You Like Thai Food

I made this recipe (one of my favorites... can you tell by all my scribbles?) last night when we had dinner with our friends Jeremy and Kierstin. It was SO yummy. Dave and I are looking forward to left-overs tonight :).

Make sure to double the recipe if more than 3 people are eating (you'll be thankful for the extra). AND make sure to salt and pepper the chicken and the sauce several times throughout the cooking process. You can also used bagged carrot "chips" and just toss them in to save some cutting time. Delicious!

Monday, April 7, 2008

Denver Pie

Jess and I HAD to figure out how to use the second frozen pie shell that we bought from the store, so we decided to make a chocolate banana pie that we found on Rachael Ray's website.

Here's Jessi cutting... again.

This photo courtesy of David Heller.

Is whipped cream supposed to be this messy?

It sprayed ALL OVER.

It was supposed to look like this:

But turned out like this :)

It was surprisingly delicious, though. Who knew that chocolate pudding, bananas and whipped cream could be so wonderful?

Monday, March 31, 2008

Today in Denver...

Jess and I decided it would be fun to make quiche for breakfast. It was SO delicious! Besides eggs and cheese, we added bacon, onions, spinach and broccoli. It took about 25 minutes longer to bake than the directions said it would, but it was worth the wait.

Here's Jess chopping up all the ingredients... don't worry... she didn't cut off her fingers (even though it kinda looks like it).

Voila!

After breakfast we went to a wonderful little fabric/yarn store called the Fancy Tiger.

I couldn't leave without taking a little something with me. I bought a stack of 3 fat quarters, and a half yard of delightful Japanese fabric. I'm envisioning using these for little pockets either on aprons or dresses.

And here's Dave wearing my beanie and women's sunglasses.

We drove downtown, walked around the Brown Palace Hotel...

... and then we walked over to the GAP and we each bought something :).... which made us hungry for Thai food! Dave and Jess might play soccer tonight (inside of course.. it snowed a little today), and I might read or listen to the ipod. What a day.

Monday, March 17, 2008

Anniversary Recap

We ate dinner at this really great place in Old Town San Diego called Zocalo. We've eaten there before, so it was a sure bet that we would like it. (The green stuff looks scary, but it's actually really good).