Step-by-step: Pizza Pizza!

In the first of what I hope to be many of its kind, here is a step-by-step (mostly) process of how I make pizza.

Sushi night

My best friend Rachael and her daughter Ellie came over to have sushi with us last night. Ellie was such a great helper, keeping the rice fluffed and getting it cooled nicely.

As usual, we had salmon and crispy shrimp sushi. Accompanied by cucumber and avocado.

I made a lop-sided sushi-rice snowman for Ellie, to go with her chicken-fried rice. She didn't want to eat the snowman this time, and took him home. I think the dog will happily chow down on that.

The spoils of war are delicious.

Dinner from my lovely wife

Tuesday night is climbing night, so I get home too late to cook a good dinner. Lucky for me, my lovely wife cooks dinner on Tuesdays!

Today it was chicken and pasta with mushroom and asparagus alfredo. Yum!

Oh, and I got new glasses! $25 shipped, from zennioptical.com! awesome.

More adventures in bread baking (or, "dinner and a potluck!")

Have I mentioned how much I love the "Artisan Bread in 5 minutes" technique? I may have, but I'll just say it again. It is awesome!

Anyway, I made some more bread for dinner the other night, and while it came out great, I forgot to slash it before putting it in the oven. Slashing the top gives the bread a weak point from which to expand. So I think it turned out a little denser than it could have. It still tasted great though.

It looks a little phallic.

We had this bread for dinner with some chicken and broccoli.

This is how I typically make chicken when I'm not inspired to do something fancy. I just coat it in panko breadcrumbs, and pan fry it in a little olive oil. The broccoli is just boiled in salted water for 5 minutes or so, till it's slightly too mushy (Angie likes it mushy, not "al dente").

Today we had a potluck at work, so I brought some bread. Well, I made some bread. I woke up early (well, I woke up at my normal time and actually got up instead of snuggling up), went downstairs and took some dough out of the fridge and formed some oddly shaped loaves.

What's left of my fridge dough.

30 minutes later, and I had some awesome bread to take to work!