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The Santa Fe Pizza You Don’t Get to See (But Here’s the Recipe)

food, friendship

It’s like this, see.  The pizza looked so incredibly delicious that I forgot all about the camera.

Sorry about that.  I guess you’ll have to use your imagination.

Our counters were filled with glass bowls containing chopped garlic, cilantro, Serrano peppers, cheese, artichoke hearts, roasted red peppers, kalamata olive paste, kalamata olives, tomatoes, mestiza (chipotle) sauce, mozzarella, and feta.  Flour dusted our island, the perfect place for rolling out the crust.

Our glasses were filled with red wine and Pavarotti serenaded us in the background.

If you’ve never had my husband’s pizza, you’ve missed out on something.  He made 4 this weekend.  Here’s the recipe for the newest one:

Sante Fe Pizza Recipe

Your crust, uncooked (We can’t give all our secrets away!)

  • 2 cups of Mexican-style shredded cheese
  • mestiza sauce w/ roasted tomatillo, chipotle and tomato (medium heat)
  • 2 links spicy chicken sausage, sliced
  • 2 serrano peppers, seeded, cored  & sliced
  • 1 green onion, diced (greens, too)
  • 1 slice red onion, finely diced
  • 1/3 c of fresh cilantro, chopped (or more to taste)
  • handful of corn kernels

Put pizza stone in oven & preheat to 500°.
Spread crust with chipotle sauce.  Sprinkle cheese over pizza.  Follow with sausage.  Spread rest of ingredients evenly over pizza.

Bake on preheated pizza stone at 500° for 8-10 minutes.

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Bibliophile Friday: Little Bee, by Chris Cleave

Bibliophile Friday, books
“It can be argued that no writer had a clearer insight than Shakespeare, and he managed to achieve this in a world without refrigeration, Darwin, Freud, Bill Gates, emails, television or the mobile phone.” 
-Sir John Mortimer
Two Basic Rules for Bibliophile Friday:  Read a book.  Write about it.
You can write as little as two words (Thumbs up! or Thumbs down!), you can write a short blurb, or you can go all out and give a summary and review. It all depends on how you’re feeling and how much time you have.  Add your blog to Mr. Linky, below, and please leave a comment after you link.
Books suggestions or reviews are welcome for both kids’ and grown-ups’ books.
Keep it clean.  Be honest.
Bibliophile Friday is the 4th Friday of every month, so get reading!

My book selection:  Little Bee, by Chris Cleave
Recommendation:  Harumph.  It’s intriguing, it begs you to keep reading, and then it leaves you alone at the end, unsatisfied.
Summary:
Little Bee is the pseudonym of a 16-year old orphan from Nigeria who has witnessed brutality of the highest order.  As we learn her story, it’s impossible to really imagine ourselves there; it’s more than disheartening to think that these things really happen.   Through a strange set of circumstances, Little Bee ends up in England clutching the business card of Andrew, one-half of a British couple who’d taken an ill-fated vacation to Nigeria.  Little Bee’s life intertwines with Andrew’s and his wife Sarah’s and the story expands and deepens with each turn of the page.  Eventually, Sarah, a publisher, accompanies Little Bee back to Nigeria in hopes of exposing the horrors taking place there.  It doesn’t end well.

My thoughts:
After such an intense story, I expected, and still long for, a more intense ending.  Cleave wrapped this one up a little too conveniently for me after dragging me through such agony with Little Bee.  It’s heart-wrenching, I’ll give him that.  I’m often drawn to books with difficult themes but this one left me feeling a bit bereft at the end.  I wanted more.

How about you?  What are you reading?

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Jennifer Love Hewitt: Single Handedly Bringing Back Disco

celebrities

I am just young enough to have missed the glory days of disco.  I know, right.  Life isn’t fair.  But I am also just old enough to remember my aunt and uncle taking disco lessons.  And practicing in their living room.  Mmm, hmmm, yep.  And I remember it.

And who among us isn’t familiar with the Disco Ball.

Although many trends return, I must admit, I didn’t see this one coming.

I know about Swarvoski.

And I’ve seen some bedazzling.

But, wow, vagazzling?  “It looks like a disco ball down there.”  Jennifer Love Hewitt. Who knew?

(The vagazzling part starts around 2:40.)

That is umm, some weird stuff, my friends.

photos by dichohecho, kyz, and photos by Mavis.

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