This past weekend we woke up to a beautiful sunny day (kind of rare around these parts). Walker asked if I wanted to go get a crepe. Of course I do, yes. I love when he suggests going out. We walked the couple of blocks to a coffee shop right near our place and chose a spot outside. It was kind of chilly but the parts of us in the sun were warm. I got a chai latte and Walker got a coffee and we split a delicious crepe ( blue cheese, smoked salmon, and kale). Breakfast dates are fun and it was a great start to the day.
I had a long day today. I made an appointment with a tax man and he was located about an hour away by bus. Since we don’t have a car here this was my option. I spent about an hour with the tax man and left with my taxes done but knowing I needed to send in a big ol check to the IRS-fun. Then I had to ride the bus back home. After my big day I decided I would like to unwind with some sushi. I have been wanting to try some here for a while now and today seemed like the perfect day. I couldn’t decide between two but since they were about a block apart Walker suggested we try them both. Ha! Perfect. Why didn’t I think of that? It was a nice way to end the day.
So I think next week I may write up a little post about taxes. I often see the fun side of things in the blogging/handmade business world but sometimes we have to get down to the nitty gritty. I’ll share some of what I’ve learned, what’s been helpful, what I could improve, and whatever else might be useful. Sounds exciting, right? Well no but informative, yes.
Last night I made 2 really delicious Italian style pizzas and I hardly had to do anything. The most lengthy aspect of the whole process was cutting the vegetables. All the recipes were from my Jim Lahey My Bread book.
For the dough you basically mix the ingredients and let them sit for 2 hours, separate into 2 balls, they sit for another half hour and then you spread them across the pan. I’ve seen other fast pizza crusts but they usually are not super tasty and end up pretty chewy. This crust is pretty thin and baked at 500 degrees ensures it’s crusty. Mmm perfection.
I used a combination of 3 different traditional Italian style pizzas. The first one was pizza pomodoro. The second a combination of pizza funghi and pizza radici di sedano (celery root pizza). It was hard to pick a favorite. I don’t even like mushrooms and I had a whole piece of the funghi pizza-it was that good. {I’ll admit I even had a piece for breakfast this morning}.
I might make these the next time we have guests. I think they’d be really impressed and think I worked super hard in the kitchen. Shh don’t tell!
{On a side note, I’ve been trying to cut back animal proteins from our meals so I’ve been making a lot of vegan dishes. Both of these pizzas are vegan! Yahoo!}
