Okay, been a POOR blogger lately. But, here I am NOW….and you’re in for some totally random stuff.
First off. Received a gazillion emails (and even two comments, WOW!) about grilled pizza. I’m no expert. Here’s what we do.
1. Buy pre-made dough at the grocery store because we’re lazy all about easy meals.
2. Pre-cut all veggies and whatever else you may want to throw on your pizza because it cooks pretty fast.
3. Head out to grill with cut up veggies, pre-made pizza dough, and sauce if you want it. Sweet Peter is a sauce person, Oliver and I are olive(r) oil and LOTS of garlic kind of people. I put some herbs on mine too, but Oliver is strictly a beige-diet kind of boy. No green on his pizza!
4. Brush grill with Olive oil. (seriously, I cannot type Olive without having to delete the “R”. Oliver. That’s just what comes out. Please excuse. Anyway….
5. Take dough out of bag and break it down into smaller sections. Pull, toss, whatever you do to make pizzas. For some reason, I find that long skinny pizzas work out better on the grill than round. My round ones always shrink and end up skinny in the middle with lots of tough crust around the edge. My oval ones tend to stay the whole thickness and cook better. But whatever your preference. I typically make 3 pizzas out of one dough.
6. let cook until top gets SLIGHTLY crusty (this is pretty much by the time I have the other two pizzas pulled into shape.) It is NOT COOKED at this point.
7. Turn it over and immediately add sauce or Olive(r) oil, herbs, veggies, cheese, whatever else.
8. Close top for a minute or two to let crust, cheese, veggies cook.
9. MMmmmmmmmmmmmm.
Okay, think that’s it. Now, on to today’s news. Or this week’s anyway.
Actually got to see one of Andy’s lacrosse games this week.
I much preferred the wrestling schedule. Same time every week. And, actually, accessible to people who work. All these 4pm games an hour away just don’t work out so well for the 9-5ers.
This week’s been busy. I’ve been wanting to do some worm composting (vermicomposting) for quite some time now. FINALLY got my rear in gear and ordered some things to do it. Wouldn’t you know? The worms arrived BEFORE the container, so we were running around on Friday trying to get stuff together for the worms so they wouldn’t die in their shipping box.
Oliver is *SO* excited. “We’re going to have worms as pets! We’re going to start a WORMERY!” I can’t get that name out of my head. So we have a wormery at our house now. Oliver was a riot setting it up. I had to quick run and get my camera he was so funny. Course ALL the pictures are blurry because, in his excitement, he was moving a mile a minute. I sort of like blurry photos though, for that reason. They show him moving a mile a minute.
Wormery is doing well — they aren’t eating as much as I expected, but thinking that they’re still recovering from their cross-country trek. And celery probably wasn’t the best first thing to throw in there. Kind of tough. Anyone do this? Would love helpful hints and tips if you do.
Last night at 2am I finally finished up the wedding things for my friend. 450 little donation cards (in lieu of jordan almonds in tulle — GOOD CALL!), 45 table numbers, 250 thank you cards….it was quite a bit of work. LOTS of printing, cutting, folding, pasting. I feel relieved to have that off my plate. Love doing work for friends — no pay means I can use all those fabulous “for your own personal use” files instead of having to create my own in my “spare” time. If you’d like the lovely swirls below, go here: Rhonna Farrer Feathahz.
And FINALLY we’re on to today. Oh, what a happy Mother’s Day. First off, mine started yesterday. Oliver was so excited, I got a couple “Happy Mother’s Day Eve!”s. He and Peter made me an orange smoothie (my favorite!) and just had a lovely day. Soccer game in the morning, Andy’s lacrosse afterwords. Home for a play-day afternoon. This morning, Oliver jumped on the bed around 6am to sing me a happy Mother’s Day song. Apparently they had learned one at school, but he had forgotten the words, so made them up as he went along. It was pretty funny. Wish I wasn’t so groggy and could remember. Then he said “It’s mother’s day so you should get to sleep in, so I had another hour (actually TWO!) of sleep. Then I was awakened again with breakfast in bed. A first for me. And a lovely breakfast it was. Oliver wanted to share my strawberries and whipped cream, of course. Glad to share. Loved my little faces on my english muffin. AND that he thought to use the “special day” plate.
After a lovely shower (which Oliver turned on for me! What a nice little boy I have!), we played legos for a short bit, then Oliver helped me pack up the two billion wedding things so I could drop them off tomorrow. Oliver and I ate a delicious lunch while Peter mowed the lawn, then headed out to clean up my jeep. It was a disaster. I stacked no less than 25 books in the back, 6 or 7 various toys, three tape measures for all that measuring he needs to do en-route, two sets of colored pencils and five pads/notebooks for random art he needs to do in the car, and I vacuumed out a sandbox worth of playground. By the time I was done with the inside and ready to wash it, Oliver decided he liked washing the truck better — it was dirtier. Mostly, he just wanted to spray the hose I think.
We watered our garden, and it was time to visit Mimi’s for our mother’s day celebration. She got these gorgeous flowers from Oliver’s pretend friends (my dad helped…).
Seriously, I think I should hibernate for the winter. I just am so relieved when spring comes. And it’s been such a GORGEOUS spring. I have to do another one of those flower mosaics because we have all sorts of new and lovely flowers in our yard. Oliver and I picked out some flowers for Mimi as well — they’re not quite so gorgeous, but will keep blooming throughout the year, so….. And we potted them. The ones from the pretend friends are NOT potted properly, so they’ll either be coming my way, or dying within the week.
Ate some yummy yummy grilled veggies for dinner. One of my favorite dinners. Grilled veggies are another one of those fabulous grill things that gets shut down over the winter. Hibernate. YEAH SPRING!
Oliver was a RIOT today. Cannot think of one thing he said, but he had me rolling on the floor all day today. We had selected a cake to bring to Mimi’s for today’s celebration. When we took it out to have dessert, Oliver rain to my mum’s cupboard, pulled out the candles, and started decorating the cake. This is another of those horrid shots because I’m doing something and had to run and get the camera for the blurry, awful shot. Oh well, it’s still funny. We were serenaded with some rendition of Happy Birthday Mother’s Day.
This is my favorite cake ever. Yellow cake, buttercream frosting, raspberry lemon filling. Uh, so so good. And Peter made Chocolate Fondue as if that wasn’t enough. Well, hello extra ten pounds to my middle. Go see Kal’s Tiny Art Lady and feel better about yourself.
My mum is an eye-closer, sadly, so this is the best picture I had of them today. sigh. I so want a nice picture of my mum and Oliver together. I think I want it too badly for it to actually happen. poop.
Oh, and because I’m so far behind in MY post, I have to make you guys read way back to earlier this week in Paolo’s post, here, for some serious inspiration. The man’s brilliant!
So I’m off to finish up a project that I need to drop off for my class next week or I won’t have anyone in it! And I was hoping to get to bed early tonight. HA! And I’m rethinking that hibernating idea…that would mean I would actually have to sleep. What a waste of time. GO GO GO!
