Sunday, May 29, 2011

Pizza Night

Memorial Day weekend is supposed to consist of BBQs, kids with chalk, fun cocktails for the parents, and all around, lounge in the sun, lazy days.  I'm pretty sure it didn't make it past 55 degrees today.  Boooooo.

The Dad headed out this morning for his grilling paraphernalia.  He came home with a bubble machine, (totally random), corn on the cob and rib-eyes.  Yum.  Except, as I mentioned, it was cloudy.  And cold.  And neither one of us could get motivated enough to bundle up and stand around a grill.

So after watching two hours of cooking shows on PBS, (no, we don't have cable - it was cut out of the budget when I got pregnant with The Kid - which means no HGTV and no Food Network - tragic, I know), it was 5:00 and I needed to come up with something that wasn't drive-thru.

After standing with the fridge and freezer open, staring as if the universe would suddenly speak to me, I pulled out leftover Greek salad,  cheese, meat, a half a jar of spaghetti sauce and three different kinds of bread.

Yep, pizza it is.

For both of the kids, I used a whole wheat pita flat bread.  The Girl's got marinara, pepperoni, tomato, white cheddar and feta. 


The Kid's was the same, minus the feta.

For The Dad, I used two mini pizza crusts, similar to Boboli, and added marinara, pepperoni, tomato and white cheddar on one. 


On the other I did marinara, salami, tomato and feta.


 
For mine, I used two pieces of naan bread, tomato and feta.  I put fresh basil and a drizzle of olive oil on once it was cooked.




 Here it is on my plate.





Maybe the sun gods will win the arm wresting match and we'll get to those steaks tomorrow.


I'm linking up to Tasty Tuesdays.

 

Garden Fever

Yesterday, I was looking out the dining room window and noticed the first bloom on my yellow iris.  You should know by now what happens when I head outside with my camera.  Yep, I get a little trigger happy.  BUT, I found a fun new toy.  Instead of 500 individual photos, I made collages!  And you can still click on them to see them larger.  Can't wait to play with food pics!  You can thank me later.


 Yellow Japanese Iris



Blue Japanese Iris


'Nelly Moser' Clematis


Woolly Lamb's Ear


Spiderwort


Mushrooms

Purple Rhododendron


Fern


False Solomon's Seal


And a few stragglers.

Lupine


 White Bearded Iris


 Marjoram


Zinnia


Windmill Palm AKA The Beast



 "The love of gardening is a seed once sown that never dies." -- Gertrude Jekyll





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