Pizza!

I love pizza- pizza is the cheesy, starchy monkey on my back... and yesterday, i made it from scratch- dough, marinara, the whole nine yards- and it came out GREAT. I got the dough recipe from the very good Live For Pizza.com, although i did not use a pizza stone- i rolled the crust pretty thin, and i did oil and dust the bottoms of my pizzas with cormeal, and it took about 10-12 minutes per pizza (at 450 degrees). I would recommend watching your pizza after about 8 minutes. crust should be getting browned, cheese should be bubbly and have a little browning going on as well. when you take it out of the oven, just pick up one of the edges of the pizza, and see if it has too much give or not- if it feels too bendy, it's not done.

**[I DO like that website, but i kind of DON'T like the kind of snobby, elitist vibe, like it's a wine website or something- anyway, as they would say in a 12 step, take the best and leave the rest when you go there. if you read through the website, you kind of wonder if the whole website is some sort of pizza stone manufacturer's PONZI SCHEME or something- i found it so irritating that at this point, i'm kind of like "FUCK YOU! I will NEVER buy a pizza stone, FUCKERS! Do you HEAR ME?!?!?NEVER!!!"]**

you know, i ate half of one pizza, and i felt good, not gross and bloated. i think i'm going to try to make my own pizza from now on- it was a decadent treat without being shame-oriented, and i'm all for that. PLUS, i spent 6 dollars on ingredients (cheese, pepperoni, and 1/5 of a pound of razor thin slices of genoa salami (it has so much flavor, and you don't have to use hardly any of it) and the rest of the stuff i had at home. i used spinach, sweet/hot red yellow and orange peppers, chipotle/jalapeno chicken sausage, sliced tomatos, and um... i feel like there's more, but i'm blanking. oh, i had some marinara in the freezer from when i made that eggplant parm last month when my aunt came down for the weekend- and it didn't take very much of anything, either- 1/2 a cup of sauce, maybe, 1 10 oz bag of shredded cheese, maybe 15 pepperonis, and that was for both pizzas, so yeah. i could make another two pizzas with the leftover ingredients i bought, so it KIND OF only cost me about 3 bucks... AWESOME! i cooked 3 of those sausages, but ended up only using half of one of them- germone got sent to work with sausage sandwiches with red onion and peppers tonight as a result, and he's probably having the same thing for lunch tomorrow night, too.