The day I made Pizza

 I have been collecting cook books for years but never have time to make any of the receipts that take more than an hour... but I always say "Someday...”, I even bought a new apron a few months ago that has just been begging to be used for a project worthy of its cuteness.

Yesterday I only worked half a day and I found a receipt for pizza crust and sauce, the silly part is that I found it on the internet and not in one of my many cook books, hah.

So I went to Super Fresh and bought the ingredients that I didn’t already have, and to Target for a pizza stone and spent the next 4+ hours playing in the kitchen.

I started with the sauce, I have never even made pasta sauce from scratch but I think I will now. I was finally able to use my new blender (Christmas present from my parents) to puree the plum tomatoes...


It took about 30 minutes to get all the ingredients together, and then it had to cook for an hour and a half which was almost perfect because I was able to make the crust whilst the sauce cooked.
Apparently my stove doesn't know how to simmer things, it just boils, so I had a stove top that resembled a splatter painting...that smelled good. Luckily I found the pot’s lid before it got too out of control.

I have a lovely red Kitchen Aid mixer that my Mama gave me a while ago and I used it to mix the dough. I’m pretty sure this is the first time I have made any kind of dough (including for cookies) that I didn’t make a single mistake and didn’t have to start over! I usually get distracted, but thankfully, despite the two new kitties in the house, I did well this time! haha

So they turned out well! I have to get a rolling pin next time because the crusts came out too thick but it was a fun afternoon and I felt like I concurred something! The new kitties stayed out of the kitchen, nothing burned, it tasted good annnnd the Flyers won the game last night… It was a good day!