Cowabunga!

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Aw, yeah, I know how to make a damn fine pizza.



I am finding that good pizza takes a lot of practice. I keep trying different recipes--but the most successful one I've found for thin crust, like the one up there, is snagged from the back of one of those bullshit cozy mystery books I periodically shelve.* I did hit a bit of a snag when the recipe suggested that I use my portable brick pizza oven for best results. Uh, yeah. Look, I'm surprised I have a pizza stone.** But even with the recipes, it takes a lot of work.***

On the plus side, if my appetite for pizza continues, all this kneading is going to give me some serious Popeye forearms. Who'd have thought pizza could make you a badass? The Ninja Turtles were right all along.


*But didn't actually read, because cozy mysteries are Not My Thing.

**Also I have this, thanks to my brother. That's all I really need.

***Getting the darn thing from the paddle onto the stone, for example. Which is why I had the fight with the oven.

Comments

[mel-redcap.livejournal.com]

*looks suspiciously at your pizza*

Aha! I see that you are one of those strange and warped people who like OLIVES. Bleaugh. No, no, awesome pizza has no olives and requires mushrooms. :P :) (My husband, however, would love your pizza, being also strange and warped. ;D)

[westrider.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on this one. Pepperoni and Mushroom is pretty much my go-to pizza topping.

Olives are OK, but not something I'd seek out.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Not me--my DAD is the one who asked for olives. I don't understand, but I oblige.

My own pizza was straight cheese. Classic.

[mel-redcap.livejournal.com]

Ah, well, fair enough. And awesome icon! XD *snicker*

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

I'm a combo man, myself. Toss it all on there!

Those are the wrong kind of olives though. :P

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I know, right? Who wants green olives on a pizza? (Answer: my parents.)

Mom is a combo fiend. She likes to pile ALL THE FOOD on top of her sandwiches, burgers, pizzas, everything. And she narrates while she does it. "I am putting on onions, garlic, green peppers, eggplant, jalapenos, goat cheese, spinach, tomatoes, olives, basil, feta cheese ..." "THAT'S NICE, MOM." "... what else do we have in the fridge?" "THERE IS NO MORE ROOM ON THE PIZZA."

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

I must admit I'm a sucker for piling on every topping, every option, every everything. Not just on pizza. My first conlang attempt had ALL THE MOODS (at least all the ones listed in my encyclopedia at home...never mind that I didn't know how they would work).

Green olives seem wrong for a combo though. I can see using them on a "greek" combo with feta and eggplant and such (not my favorite though), but not your basic pepperoni etc. type combo.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Heh. I do that with constructed cultures. They will have ALL THE GENDER ROLES!

And yeah, I do it with the conlangs, too. There are so many entertainingly different constructions to choose from!

The funny thing is, right now I'm working on a language that has a few things in common with English--and it winds up seeming totally counter-intuitive to me to put it in a conlang. Pre-nominal modifiers (including modifying nouns)? Relative clauses marked by relative pronouns? Tense/lax vowel distinctions? A copula? IN THE SAME LANGUAGE? That's ridiculous. No language does ... oh. Right.

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

Hehe, you should join the conlang mailing list and use that last bit as your signature. ;)

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I've tried a couple of times to join, but dangit y'all talk too much. It's tough to keep up.

[gwalla.livejournal.com]

You can always set up your subscription to filter out "OT" and "TECH" ("What sort of software is available for making my own fonts?" type stuff) posts. Granted, that still leaves a lot of traffic, but you don't have to read every conversation.

[stormteller.livejournal.com]

I am just warped enough that I would love olives and mushrooms together. Mmmm.