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| First tried and true homemade pizza with honey whole wheat dough |
It's been a month of pizza.
I think we've had pizza at least once a week for the last three weeks... Between dining out, dining in, work, and home, I am still not tired of pizza. The sad reality is, I love pizza. If I had it my way, I would live in a room full of pizza, boxes and all. I would swim in the buttery garlic sauce Papa John's Pizza serves with their decadent, thick crusted pizza and garlic parmesan bread sticks. Shower in pizza sauce, and cloth myself in cheese... Not really, because that would probably get me committed, but I really do have a love and serious ache for pizza.
This month I tried, for the first time, making my own pizza dough. I have many times in the past made pizza with premade dough (best: WinCo premade dough in the refrigerated section), and with a small dusting of cornmeal and some olive oil on the bottom of the pan, always made successful pizzas. I give credit to my year as the fastest pizza maker in the Northwest (lies) at Papa Murphy's.
I typically use mushrooms, pineapple and turkey pepperoni on my homemade pizzas, but because I was feeling creative, I also made a chicken/roasted garlic/mushroom/tomato pizza... that was... ugh. Whatever pizza, make yourself. The whole wheat crust sucked. It was too thick, and would have been good as just bread. Just say NO to screwing with pizza dough, from now on i'll stick with a traditional recipe and ensure my dough (which to me, is the most important part) is as delicious as it is supposed to be. I was pleased with my topping choices, just so overwhelmingly disappointed with the crust that I actually threw part of a pizza away. I just could not classify those carbs as worth while. Fail pizza, fail.
Another pizza fail was my Mom's famous Fruit Pizza. My favorite. She usually makes it for my birthday and Easter every year, but Ma has been busy making the dough (ha) this year, so she has promised it to me for a later date. Since I had a roll of expired sugar cookie dough (shhhh!) I figured I would try to make my own on Easter, since Mom wasn't going to... Don't ever make anything Mom is supposed to make. It's never the same. Especially when it calls for Orange Marmalade and you use Oregon Marionberry jelly. Silly me, it's the same, right? Not like I didn't eat this, it was still sugar cookies smothered in cream cheese frosting and fruit, it just wasn't what Mom made. Sad day.
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| Fruit Pizza a la Kelcie |
Last night Ollie brought home some Chuck Eye steaks, which is a cut from the Chuck Eye Roast, and is typically a lot less flavorful and drier than a Ribeye, but similar. I don't know what I did right in marinading these, but I did something! They were amazing! Tender, flavorful, and mmm so perfectly cooked (thanks O). I marinaded them in truffle peelings, olive oil, seasonings, and balsamic vinegar. Kept them nice and moist while they did a quick flip flop on the BBQ and added great flavor. YUM!
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Chuck Eye Steak, Garlic Mashed potatoes, Roasted Brussels sprouts and zucchini... and of course, K's Garlic Bread |
