Birthday Feasting

Yes it was a FEAST!  I cooked and baked and rolled and stirred and whisked and floured and let rise and painted and spread and sprinkled and diced and chopped and squeezed and stirred and served! It was a day filled with verbs...

First we sat and ate guacamole at our new picnic table, and then had Anya's homemade pizza (I mean really really homemade... pizza sauce, dough.... OK, OK I did not make the cheese or the pepperoni but even I have my limits OK?)... and then of course,  blueberry pie for dessert.  Let's just look at the food OK?!

Guacamole secret ingredient?  SOUR CREAM! Shhhhh!  Also in there: minced garlic, jalepeno, cilantro, lime, salt, cayenne...

The picnic table (... Brandon is just sitting down... I think...?)

And then the pizza...

The dough was really really good!  I tried a new recipe I found at allrecipes.com and makes a crust that is crunchy on the outside but still soft and chewy in the middle... it made enough dough for 2 good size pizzas.  The recipe is available here.

Now for a variety of toppings... (yes that is homemade pizza sauce!)

Building pizza numero uno...

A little oil...

Spreading some homemade super spicy pizza sauce...

Cheese please...

Pepperoni...

Some black olives...

Funghi... my fav...

Jalepenos... (this was some spicy pizza!)

Slid it onto the preheated pizza stone...

15 minutes later...

A piece for me please?

YUM.  That was the b'day boy's pizza.

But we had enough dough for another one... (although not quite enough sauce... :(... )

We had some leftover grilled chicken from Saratoga... it was smoky and delicious... I threw it on there...

Cheeeeeeseee

Peppers and shrooms...

Jalepenos and some leftover proscuitto...

Cooked it up..

Yes... let's eat this too...

A happy chef...

OK so we couldn't really do that much damage... but we tried... and we have more than a whole pizza to eat another night... not too shabby!

Wait! Let's look at the pie real quick...

Mmmm blueberries... sugar... flour...

Yes... that is butter...

Pretty!

YUM.

OK so we vegged out.... a bit... I took pains not to think about (or mention) the calories... I hit the gym hard today... and I am resisting pie as we speak... that will last about 5 more minutes... literally... Rachel Maddow is telling us about the health care decision... I think this is all the more reason for PIE!

Find my pizza sauce recipe and the blueberry pie recipe under my recipes page... they will be there soon!

I will leave you with this family pic... a bed for each of our kids...

They. are. ridiculous.

-- Anya