Love anchovies; but SWMBO won’t let me order a pizza with them, or make a pizza with them. She says that even if they’re only on half the pizza, she can taste them on the non-anchovy half.
I like a thin crust pizza with red peppers, black olives, mushrooms and onions the best. There are a lot of pizzas that I’ll eat, but very darn few that include pepperoni (Jet’s chops and renders pepperoni so that it’s much like bacon on a pizza, so that’s acceptable). I do enjoy the occasional Hawaiin, some anchovis or a white spinach pizza too.
Up, caffeinating, breakfasted, a load of clothes in the dryer and fixing to go pick up my new glasses and some groceries. After that, I’ll do breakfast / lunch prep for the work week and generally wind down my weekend (yeah, I count today as weekend since I took it off).
Stay safe and healthy y’all!
Neat, I never heard of it! Love the concept.
Sorry, I lost track; are you temporarily babysitting “your” plants, or have they been returned to the mother ship?
Me too, but as a skillet hash type of thing. Roasted potatoes on a pizza?
… I’m learning all kinds of stuff!
I admire your style: methodical and orderly.
On my best days, I can most charitably be described as “chaotic neutral.”
I haz a sad for you.
Took myself to the local Ye Olde Farte Diner to keep on this whole “eating every day” bullshit, by treating myself to breakfast that someone else cooked & cleaned up after.
(I luuuurve diner food.)
Listened to four geezers (total age approx. 8,000) at the next table shooting the breeze about the road construction that’s spitting distance from my job.
Interesting perspective. (I WORK right where I can watch what you’re speculating about, you retired drains on society!)
I was the youngest person in there by decades, so I tried to fit in by doing some stitching, and bringing home the last of my toast in my purse, wrapped in a napkin. If that ain’t “old lady” I don’t know what is.
I have a few little vignettes from last night’s shift, to the point where I started scribbling notes on the last of a roll of receipt paper that I’d just replaced just so I could remember to share with my Mumper friends.
But for now, I hafta nap off this rather enormous (for me) breakfast. Bacon, hash browns, an egg, sourdough toast w/ strawberry jam, and hot tea.
Sorry for the teaser. The receipt roll is on my coffee table; I won’t forget.
ETA: I was super proud of myself for thinking to put laundry into the wash before I headed out AND moving it to the dryer upon waddling my utterly full self back into the house.
If I retrieve it, bonus points. Fold and put it away, within the next coupla days? Virtually unthinkable, but I suppose stranger things have occasionally happened. Not likely, tho.
Taking a break from weeding to un-sweat and give my back a break. I did the weedier of the 2 beds first, so a smaller task remains. FCD just got back with a drink for me, so I’ll rehydrate then go finish weeding. I need to decide what else I can plant out there. I’ll put pics on FB and entertain suggestions.
But for now, a wee bit of chillage, then work work work!
Cactus?
Fake cactus?
Couple of pink flamingos?
That is indeed a tall order, considering spiky things (yucca, agave) are I’m assuming off the table for safety reasons … ?
What’s the soil like? (Sandy, clay, nicely amended with compost, compacted all to hell, etc.)
Water?
Pineapple does not belong on pizza. I like pretty much everything else on the pie, usually at once. But a good sausage/mushroom/black olive pizza is simple goodness. Heaving was more normal today. Spot was pitifully yowling earlier, suffering a painful death from Banana Scurvy, since I cruelly put things away, and showered before breakfast. But I have revived him.
Yes, it does.
Of course since I’m watching my carbohydrate intake, pizzas are a rare treat nowadays. So we get pepperoni & sausage.
I claim “chaos central”.
If I’m ordering delivery pizza, then it’s either a New York/Brooklyn style crust with pepperoni and pineapple, or a super-thin crust with pepperoni, tomatoes and onions.
If I make a pizza at home, it’s probably going to be pepperoni, onion, mushroom, black olive and banana peppers.
In either case, I’m going to shake on a bunch of Aleppo pepper flakes.
Yeah, I was skeptical the first time. A place in Anchorage made a pizza called “Rosemary Rustica”, with roasted spuds and rosemary.
It often (but not always) seems to me that the sausage that is used on pizza is so overly-seasoned that it completely wipes out all the other flavors of all the other ingredients, in a very unpleasant way. The sausage becomes the only thing that I can taste, and it tastes really gross.
But you have no issue with breakfast sausage or with pepperoni, and let’s not discuss your thing for hot sauce. 
OMG, I love this idea!!!
No clue. Our county is notorious for lots of clay in the soil, but it’s not that way everywhere. Just mostly at my house. 
The beds at the school have landscape cloth covered by mulch. Most of the grass/weeds was growing in the mulch, so it was easy to remove. Not sure what’s under it. And water depends on how much it rains. I think it drains well, tho. Irrigation isn’t really an option unless I go there and hook up a hose.
Anyway, pics are on FB.
And I’m home. I just finished lunch and I’m trying to decide whether to shower or do some grubby chores while I’m grubby. Think I’ll read a while first.
Daughter arranged a play date at the Sprayground with one of Roxy’s former classmates, so Wednesday afternoon is planned. Not sure what the rest of the week will hold. Too tired to care at the moment. I hear my recliner calling!!
Hi all! I got a late start today, the weekend made me tired. I went to a lake house party. I think I mentioned it in the last MMP. Between that and an all day text conversation with a woman I dated 30+ years ago…I was tired.
Pizza, when I make it at home (which reminds me I must get the pizza steel out of the oven, it’s been in there for 2 weeks) is usually pepperoni, feta, sundried tomatoes, and pineapple. But the last pizza was pesto sauce, fresh tomatoes and speck. It was delicious. I make the dough and let it ferment in the fridge for a day or 2 before building pizzas. May move the steel to the grill for the next one.
I’m trying to broaden my horizons and accept that basically anything on a crust is “pizza,” at least to non-Italians. I can still see my mother’s shudder and queasy expression when someone mentioned pineapple on pizza. My ex loved ham and pineapple on pizza, so I’ve made it while saying an Act of Contrition to my ancestors. My son and his wife (half-Italian) inherited the pro-pineapple gene; hence my struggle to broaden my mind. Pineapple is probably a lost cause, but I’m trying to let go of my other pizza prejudices.
Mom’s homemade pizza had sausage, sometimes mushrooms, and, of course, red sauce and mozzarella. I like sausage, mushrooms and peppers. I won’t brush off onions but don’t put them on pizza when I make it. And I like the slight crunch from the light dusting of cornmeal on the pan to keep the pizza from sticking. Mom had a Sicilian friend, so even though Mom’s pizza had a fairly thin crust, she liked Sicilian (deep dish) pizza, too.
A side note: My mother used to say, “The Southern Italians look down on the northern Italians. The northern Italians look down on the southern Italians, and they both look down on the Sicilians.” She wasn’t like that, though. Her Sicilian friend was the first friend Mom made in the US, and they remained fast friends for 80 years, until Mom passed. Her friend died exactly three months later. Just a couple of Italian good girls…
It’s shot day, so I’ll be leaving soon for the biweekly adventure.
cookie, I think the phase of recovery you’re in now must be the toughest in some ways. Of course, I’m going by my experience with other surgeries. The knee replacement thing might be different.
Whoops! Just saw that it’s time to leave NOW! More later.
I’m not overly picky on my pizza. I prefer either thin crust or Sicilian to any other kind, but I’ll eat any of it. I prefer sweeter tomato sauces to spicier ones, but again, I’ll eat it. Most thing on a pizza are ok with me (except pepperoni or anything super spicy) but my two favorites are either bacon and pineapple or meatball where meatballs have actually been sliced thing and cover the top of the pizza. I haven’t had one of those for years.
metal mouse, safe travels home!
FCM, take advantage of the no plans and laze! After everything you post that you do, you certainly deserve it!
taters, I’m glad that your visit went well, though sad that it was good-bye for now. I hope you all do get the chance to go out and visit.
wet one, can you have her send a bunch of that house-buying luck my partner’s way? He’s sold his house but hasn’t been able to find one that fits his needs. Most of them need either a) a lot of work to get it to a livable condition, b) are located in weird place, c) someone else beat them to the big, or d) they want too damn much money. Though, interestingly, he’s been showing me so many houses on Zillow that Zillow thinks that I’m the one house hunting in NY. SMDH
cookie, Here’s hoping the intake eval goes the way that you want it! Fingers crossed.
carnut, that sounds like the most sensible way to do it. Of course, I should talk. We moved in almost a year ago and I still have some unpacked boxes. Good luck with the gradual unpacking!
shoe, I still have a load of laundry that’s been sitting in a basket to be folded and put away from last week. I’m with you on the laundry struggles.
Went in for story time today, ended up helping with a double session. Fire code only lets us have 40 people in. If there’s enough interest, we will usually do a second one right after the first. Today, there was interest. I spent most of the first story time outside the door, telling people that we couldn’t let anyone in, but there should be another one starting in 30 to 45 minutes. But I did get to listen through all of the second story time, so that was good.
Hubby and I got up early to vote this morning. It’s a local election, yet still an important one. Justin Jones was up for being put back in by vote to the TN House. You’d better believe I wasn’t waiting on others to make it happen! We also were voting for mayor, vice-mayor, the councilman for my district and 5 counselor-at-large positions. I did some research beforehand and I’m pretty confident about my picks.
Tomorrow, I need to go to the doctor to see about this numbness thing. I’m really hoping that it’s nothing much and I won’t need surgery to fix it. But all I can do is what I can do.
A lot of this week is going to be spent packing as much as I can into a small-ish purse/bag so I don’t have to pay to bring anything with me to NY. I need to measure the bag also to make sure it fits their requirements Absolute worst comes to worst, I wear any of the clothes I was planning on bringing and find a smaller purse to put the things I CAN’T wear. I’m grateful that it’s just a long weekend trip instead of a week long one!
I keep bouncing between excitement and nervousness, as one has a tendency to do when meeting new people and wanting things to go well. I think excitement is winning though.
Now I’m off to consider some lunch and finish writing up my planner for this week/next week/next month. So much to do, so little motivation to do it! Have a great rest of your day, all!
I can barely gag down canned tuna. Icky herring and anchovies are not an option, though I do like fish sauce where called for in Vietnamese cooking. I prefer a crispy thin crust, but find none of that out here at thousands of miles from NYC.
I discovered a ground bee/wasp nest a few days ago. My hand still itches, though I got away with only one sting (or bite? didn’t see it well enough to know).
My lovely wife conducted a driving trial last night, and today has driven herself to PT. I’m about to finish my coffee while catching up in my journal. It’s intermittently overcast here, good for yard work. Only going up to 82F, but at least there’s a chance of precipitation tonight, possibly at least humidifying the air in a good way.
Realfish they bought new construction so no real estate agent, no price haggling, just move in August 25.
wet one, that sounds really good! Congrats to them! Sadly, not an option for my partner. Most of the new construction is out of his price range, if there even is any where he’s at.
I like a thin crust pizza cooked in one of those fancy wood-burning ovens. My fave toppings are sweet Italian sausage, mushrooms, and basil leaves.
In other foodie news, we’ve been making our own homemade beef jerky for the past month or two. I found Alton Brown’s recipe online, and the flavor profile is perfect. We’re lucky that two things make it easy for us: local carnicerias sell beef already sliced thin for carne asada, and there’s a “dehydrate” setting on my oven which will keep the heat at a steady 150 degrees all day. Not having to struggle to slice the meat thin is a huge advantage.
Maybe I’ll try the same recipe and make some salmon jerky, which is something I haven’t had in years.