Pizza and Plans

When making home made pizza today, I was reminded of "back in the day" at my first job working at Little Caesars. I even had a black shirt on that was being covered in flour. I always got more messy covered in sauce, butter and flour that anyone else, I have no idea how it happens. I am just a messy lady I guess.

 A lot has changed from that point in my life though. Not only was I nineteen, unmarried and not pregnant, but I have grown so much since then. Life has turned out so much better than I planned.

There's your plan,

and then there is God's plan ya know?

Good in Pairs

I don't want to start off on a negative note here, but it's a good introduction to my week so far. Everything in our house this week has been happening in 2's. Such as this pizza pan that we use all the time, which is now broken in two. Rest in pieces little pizza pan. My mom said she had an extra, that makes 2 pizza pans.

 I am not sure what this style of art is called but it always catches my eye and has been popping up all over the place lately. But maybe it's that new car awareness syndrome? Once you buy a black Jeep suddenly everyone and their mother has a black Jeep. Or if you dye your hair red instantly you notice, red hair is not such a rare thing? Maybe that kind of thing?  Either way, I have a few birds like this but not an even number. Jared found this at a thrift store and wanted it. I begged him to buy it (maybe secretly for me too) because then we would finally have an even number of these little guys! Jared, king of random raps and rhymes called this a psychedelic snail with a quail, but we soon learned it was not a quail and were pretty bummed that didn't apply anymore. Hehehe

 This was us on our 1st anniversary. I feel like we make quite the pair. <3 

 If you take a closer look at these two boring looking landscape photos you can see there are 2 very strange clouds just sitting in the sky. They were there for a very long time, we even drove about 20 miles away and took another photo from a totally different angle. These photos don't show how interesting it looked but these are the 2 very lazy clouds all snuggled together that we saw this week.

 Jared's cat in-scent holder and my make shift ash catcher, always sitting on the entertainment center waiting for a lighter or a match to wander by and light up a in-scent with a interesting name like, "Vanilla Summer".

I bought these two owls and they were separated in my house forever. One was being used as a door stop. Well, I would not want to be the door stop owl, so I found something else and put him back with his brother. I am over thinking it but hey, that is what I do. 

We found this really amazing looking tree art at a second hand store. I thought it was really cool that it was a different take on a tree, I would have never thought about that! Now all I have to do is find a place to put it.

 

 My favorite find this week. It reminds me of Joseph's coat of many colors. I am going to wear thing thing out. I am sure of it, after all it is so cool

 how could I not wear it ALL THE TIME!!!!???

Lastly my little couple of babies. Map's is getting so big, I hope she does not pull our entire Christmas tree down. I have already heard a few bulbs fall and her batting them around against the floor. (Yipes!) Who knows though? Maybe MerDock will teach his ways, and by "ways" as you can see down below, I mean chilling out in the sun light not getting into anything and everything. One can only dream. :)

Spontaneous Pizza Bake Off

Problem: It's 9:00 pm and here we are with 4 different options for
late night left overs but I can't honestly say I want any of them.
Solution: I want pizza and I wont accept any less.
Problem: We don't even have half of the ingredients for crust or for
toppings and all the stores are closed.
Solution:      Wing it. 


We did not have yeast for one, but that was not going to stop me. I went to Allrecipes.com, (which I love by the way) because there is a section where you can type all the ingredients you would like to add and all the  ingredients  you would NOT like to add -OR- You could type "No yeast pizza crust" and a ton of real people's recipes pop up. It is a bonus that these are real people's recipes because there are a ton of people who comment on how they changed it to suit their taste, what could have been used as alternatives and because it is given a simple five star rating scale.

So we begin.

 

This is Jared already busy at work. We were torn between two kinds of pizza dough so this is what sparked the "competition"  I chose one with eggs, since I thought it would be interesting. Also, this picture was edited in Photobucket and I really do enjoy that site but I am getting pretty run down from the same editing features, if anyone has a good editing program let me know! I'd like to try something different :)

Where is Maps? It has been too quiet....

Figures! Why does she prefer bags and boxes over fancy toys?

So at this point I am already nervous. I know I can not bake, so what am I doing?! Jared's already looks like dough and mine looks like pancake batter. I read and re-read the intructions 100x

I am just going to call him lucky!

 Okay. So I admit, my egg-y pizza dough was failing miserably. I added way more flour to try and cancel out the thin, soup like texture... not helping one bit. And of course my husband was looking like he was making pizza straight from Italy and I was stuck making breakfast batter. Ugh! I just could not accept defeat, no way! Not that early on! Time for another plan...

 So here was my plan, I was basing this entirely off my first job at Little Caesars. They have really good cheesy bread and I thought I would go that route. I buttered up the pan and... just sort of *plopped* my unattractive dough into the baking pan and spread it out.  (seriously this was the best picture I could take. It looked awful)

 And here is Jared's. He made his own sauce and used the breakfast pizza idea using turk'y bacon, 2 raw eggs, mushrooms, red bell pepper and onion. I was proud of him but I still wanted a decent pizza on my end.

 Here was mine all done. I baked the crust for 10 minutes then added my Mexican inspired toppings. Refried bean sauce, cheese, jalapenos, chopped onions, tomatoes and chips on the side. It was edible but not AWESOME. However...

 Jared's was awesome and won hands down. The egg cooked perfectly and the crust and all toppings went together harmoniously. He did a really amazing job. :) I'll get you next time Jared!!!!!!!!