Cook Monkeys

Today, R.B. and I made pizza for everyone. After a trip to the supermarket, R.B. started making the dough from four “just add water” packets. He threw in some seasonings and let the dough rise under a towel on the stovetop.

For the sauce, we used a number 10 can of tomato sauce that R.B’s dad had given us for free and added italian seasoning, salt, black pepper, and garlic powder to it. He then had the brilliant idea to use some of the liquid oregano. Apparently liquid oregano is really concentrated stuff—like everything else his dad gives us—so when he added a portion of a teaspoon to six cups of sauce it went from tasting like tomato sauce to tasting like chunky oregano sauce. Yuck. He had to cut it so heavily with plain tomato sauce that there was almost no unmolested sauce left over.

Next on the list was spreading the dough on the pizza pans and applying sauce and letting it bake a bit to stiffen up the crust. Meat, bake, veggies, bake, cheese, bake, cool, cut. Everyone in the house had their own half a pizza with their own toppings. That pizza was pretty filling. I almost didn’t have to eat anything for a week (seriously).

One other thing: this is our first post from our Flickr account. There is a link on the sidebar called “Photos” if you haven’t noticed recently. We’ll be posting all of our pictures there to cut down on webspace and bandwidth issues on R.B.’s server account.