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Pizza Dough Now!

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I bought a gynormo jar of green olive salad from the olive lady at Sweetwater.  I knew within seconds of exchanging dollars for jar I’d be dolloping this spread all over homemade pizza as soon as possible.

I googled ‘pizza dough recipe’ in the grocery store, knowing I’d be able to find a familiar blog on the first page.  Sure enough 101 cookbooks appeared.  I confirmed I already had all of the necessary ingredients and moved on to the produce department to buy a boat load of roma tomatoes.

When I got home, I noticed that the 101 Cookbooks recipe required the dough to refrigerate overnight.  That was not a part of my plan!  I ran to my computer and without a second thought searched Eat Live Run.  Surely Jenna wouldn’t have me wait twenty four hours for pizza I wanted now!

I whipped up some FoodFash marinara while the dough was rising.

Then I rolled out the dough, opting for a “rustic” shape requiring little patience and even less skill.  I spread the marinara and olive salad over the dough and used some of the oil from the olive salad to coat the exposed dough/future crust.

The crust was PERFECT!!  It’s always a gamble whether or not a hearty portion of marinara will create soggy crust, but there was no sog in sight tonight.  As far as the rest of the pizza goes, it was exactly what I had imagined earlier in the day at checkout.

Feeling Saucy, In Pictures

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Breakfast: Sprouted Wheat English Muffins with Fried Eggs & Hot Sauce

Lunch: Lemon Red Pepper Edamame with Chung’s Veggie Spring Rolls & Ponzu

Dinner: Buffalo Tofu & Brussels Sprouts

Ever had one of those days where you just can’t help but smother everything you eat in hot sauce?  Apparently… I do.  Even my non-hot sauced lunch was spice-ified with red pepper flakes.  And all that spice left me with a massive dessert craving.

What to do, what to do!

 

Hipper, Hotter Artichoke

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I’ve been off the blogging rocker for the past couple days.  Yesterday I showed up at Cassis in St. Pete to meet up with Greg & Grant of SippitySup and Gina of Zest Foodie and her husband with a dead camera.  So you are correct in assuming that I have zero documentation of meeting one of my very first blog crushes.  I’m still kicking myself in the toosh.

And tonight as I sat down to eat a whole choke, I realized that I didn’t have any pictures to document this meal either.  I was so focused on footage for the next FoodFash Mash…

Luckily you can take screen captures of videos in Picasa.

Fuzzy, non-DSLR screen captures.

FoodFash’s Hipper, Hotter Artichokes

1 Large Artichoke, Trimmed

2 TBSP Earth Balance

3 Cloves Garlic, Crushed

2 TBSP Lemon Juice

1/2 TBSP Red Pepper Flakes

Salt To Taste

Boil the artichoke for 30 minutes or until you can easily pull a leaf from the stem. While the artichoke is cooling, simmer Earth Balance and garlic until the garlic is slightly browned.  Mix in the lemon juice, red pepper flakes, and salt.  Peel the leaves from the stem, toss the leaves in the Earth Balance mix, and enjoy!