Pizza Night

Those of you who know me would find it pretty odd that I posted a picture of a pizza with zucchini and tomatoes and no meat at all. But don't fret, my friends, because the meat pizza is in the background of the photo. I just thought the veggie one was pretty. 

We had Dawn and Justin over for pizza last night, and Justin likes to make crazy pizzas. In the past, he's made a pizza with canned tuna and corn. The veggie pizza was his creation (I sliced the veggies though). 

The one in the background has chicken and olives on one half, and sausage and ricotta on the other side. And a crapload of mozzarella. 

Dessert was homemade cookies and french vanilla ice cream.

More Man Food

Fending for myself again, I decided to go a little crazy. I had bought some ground beef the other day (wife doesn't eat red meat all that often), so I figured I'd make a burger.

The asparagus is there to be healthy. The beer is for carbs.

But a regular burger isn't interesting enough, of course. First, I made my own bread for the bun. I also decided to mix in a little ground sausage for flavor. About 20% ground sausage, all mixed up with the 80/20 ground beef. YUM.

But wait, there's more.

I also stuffed it with blue cheese. When it cooked, it got all melty and awesome. Then I threw a slice of cheddar on top (but really, it didn't need it). The bun was delicious right out of the oven, but a little too crusty. The burger was pretty soft, so it fell apart when I bit into it. In a delicious way.

Here are some bonus pictures from the past few nights:

chicken wings with hot sauce and blue cheese

I made the hot wings the day after the corn dogs. This was another "fend for yourself" meal. Hence the beer. And the spicy. And the no-vegetables. Does the green/blue stuff in the blue cheese count as a vegetable? It grows! And yes, I know the placemat is dirty. Must be crumbs from the corndog. Yeah, definitely not crumbs from a week ago.

Anchovy pizza

We had never had anchovy pizza before, so I decided to give it a try. I did overcook it a little, but overall it wasn't horrible. The anchovies were a lot saltier and fishier tasting than we expected though, and Angie pulled them off her slice. If we do this again, I will try rinsing the anchovies a little to remove some of the salt.

I also made some awesome French Vanilla Ice cream. 1 cup heavy cream, 2 cups half & half, some sugar, and 3 egg yolks. Oh, and the most important part, 1 whole vanilla bean, split and scraped. I think this may be the best ice cream I've made yet. Maybe next time I'll let it churn a little longer though, to get a tiny bit more air into it.

YUM!

Man Food

When I have to fend for myself, I tend to make stuff that my wife won't eat. Except she eats pretty much everything. So I end up just making things that are really unhealthy, and having beer with it.

Last night I made corndogs, but with brats instead of hotdogs. I used the Jiffy corn-bread mix, which is pretty tasty.

Make sure you cook the brats first before deep frying it with the corn bread, because you'll burn the cornbread before the brat even gets warm. I think next time, I would make the corn bread batter a little thinner, because it was difficult to evenly distribute on the dog.

They were a little bland though. What should I have had with it, besides beer?