The Miracle of Pizza
- Posted by Melissa on November 30th, 2007 filed in daily life, food
We were going to have meatloaf for supper tonight, but I forgot to take the meat out to thaw until this morning. I told my boyfriend to pull it out to sit on the counter when he got home, but even so, it wasn’t ready when I came home from work. So we decided to go to the grocery store and get something else. A couple weeks ago I got this California Pizza Kitchen book from the library, since California Pizza Kitchen is practically my favorite thing in the whole world. As in, when I went to the Baltimore inner harbor this summer with my coworker friend, we ate at California Pizza Kitchen instead of sampling the local cuisine. I have no regrets. I ate crab cakes literally every day on that trip.
Last night I was reading the CPK book before bed, so it was the first thing I thought of for our new, revised dinner. My boyfriend and I flipped through the book quickly and since we were low on time and he is low on wanting to try weird shit, we settled on a simple Hawaiian pizza. We went to Target and used his birthday gift card to purchase a pizza stone thing and frankly, it was awesome. You preheat it in the oven and then you slap the crust on it and it starts to cook your crust while you put the toppings on!!!
This pizza, though ugly and asymmetrical, is one of the greatest achievements of my adult life. Somewhere between “new car” and “bachelor’s degree”.
December 2nd, 2007 at 2:28 pm
Heh, isn’t it vaguely ironic to say your boyfriend wasn’t wanting to try ‘weird shit’ and then put pineapple and ham on your pizza? I love a good Hawaiian pizza myself, but other than perhaps 2 other people everyone looks at me like I’m on crack when I tell them I like pineapple on my pizza.
Oh, and those pizza cooking stones are bad-ass. My wife has a rectangular one and she does these really sweet no sauce pizzas from her Pampered Chef cookbooks. My acid reflux can cause me to react to heavy pizza sauce, but the ones she makes don’t ever give me any issues.
December 2nd, 2007 at 3:21 pm
Must be an Arkansas thing. Nobody here acts like it’s weird.
December 4th, 2007 at 12:38 am
OMG that pizza looks so awesome. I’m proud… truly proud.
December 6th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
We’ve made two more since then and neither has been as good. We made one with prosciutto tonight and frankly it kind of sucked. Not that I will abandon my decision to have amazing pizza adventures, but maybe that’s an adventure we won’t repeat.