Noteworthy food, part 3: homemade pizza and birthday cakes

Continuing the documentation of deliciousness: this one's not so unusual, but it sure is yummy.

Step 1: make the crust. Not too hard. We like to use a combination of all purpose, whole wheat, and semolina flours.

Top with sauce, slices of tomato and rings of onion.

Step 2: add a bunch of chopped fresh basil.

Step 3: lots of mozzarella and feta cheeses.

Enjoy.

And for dessert: birthday cake. Sometimes it's a gloopy gloppy chocolate cake, like when Little One turned 4.





Sometimes it's a platter of ice cream sandwiches topped with frozen whipped cream and peanut M&Ms with a Simpsons-like portrait of the birthday boy. With decorative mauled dolls' heads.





Either way, it's delicious.

 

 

 

We Eat, part 2

More deliciousness from the past few months, for your viewing pleasure (and I hope culinary inspiration).

Exhibit C: Multinational Vegetarian Sushi

These were Italian rolls:

• sushi rice inside
• a bit of mozzarella in the middle
• a topping of sundried tomatoes and capers. 

In a traditional nori roll of course.

And these ones are the same vinegared sushi rice with veggies inside a rice paper wrapper. Fillings included

• pan fried and salted strips of tempeh
• red bell peppers
• pickled ginger
• spinach leaves
• tofu
• cream cheese
• zucchini

We did some research, largely because 4 out of 5 of us are vegetarian and wanted to come up with as many filling options as possible. First info: "sushi" means vinegared rice (no mention of raw fish in there at all). Second info: nori wraps taste good, but rice paper is flavor neutral and therefore lens itself nicely to a huge variety of ingredients. We tried Mexican, Italian, more traditional Japanese, and sort of Pacific Rim Fusion.
Yum.