Pizza Night

Alright, so as some of you may already know, I have kinda, sorta been on a diet for the past 3-4 months. I guess at some point it quits being a diet, and just becomes a lifestyle change...I'm not sure when that point was, but I'm pretty sure it already happened. So in honor of this change, I am going to include a bit about the food that I have been eating. My goal is to impart the very few cool things I have learned about being/eating healthy. Hopefully, some of you will see some cool stuff on the blog that might make you want to expand your culinary horizons. Enough about me though, let's get to the food!

So Saturday night C and I went over to our friend's place to make some pizza. (ok, her name is Alex. I know she has been patiently awaiting her first mention on the blog...so, there you go Al; in the interest of fairness, I should probably also mention Stacie, another friend of C's and mine who partook in the food as well.) We made two kinds of pizzas (see pictures. Haha, clearly we were hungry because we ate half the pizza before remembering to take a picture.) and drank some pretty decent wine while watching the two Koreans take each other out and gift Ohno a silver medal. A pretty successful night if I do say so myself.

First off, purchasing pizza dough from behind the counter at Whole Foods was definitely a good way to start the night. It's relatively cheap compared to the other options, plus none of us really want to put the time in and make our own pizza dough. On top of that, it just tastes really damn good and gets nice and crispy. In the interest of full disclosure, I should probably mention that C and Alex pretty much made the food; I just sat there and got made fun of.

The recipe for the first pizza can be found at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/health/26recipehealth.html?_r=1

Ok, ok, I know. This first pizza seems weird, and to be honest, it kind of is. I believe one of the reader comments says something like, "it's like eating pizza and salad at the same time." Probably a pretty accurate statement. I would encourage everyone to try this pizza. It tastes great, and it's simple. Just follow the instructions from the NYTimes. If there was one thing to add, it would be some carmelized onions. But, overall, a good item to impress your date with. I mean who doesn't like goat cheese, mushrooms, arugula and walnuts?

The second pizza was a Christina original. If I am remembering correctly, it had a organic pizza sauce that was pretty much what you would expect from pizza sauce. It also had mozzarella, feta, spinach, basil and tomato. I'm sure if I left out one of the ingredients, one of the ladies will kindly remind me. ;o) This pizza was great as well. I actually ate a piece last night, and it still tasted great. If you want more info about either pizza, shoot me an email.

We also had a little greek salad with the pizza, which can be seen in one of the pictures. The hairy arm in that picture is actually mine...eww, how does C put up with me? Not sure. As always, Alex's salad was great. I conveniently left out the part about the apple-zucchini crostinis...wink wink.

Well, that's all I've got to say about pizza night. I'll try to come up with some other good talking points in the next few days. Drop me an email if you have any burning blog needs that are unfulfilled.

Until next time, best to all.