Pizza!

Tonight, while Mom and Dad were at Nick's game, Will and I made stuffed-crust, Rackers-specialty pizza with Mom's specialty dough. Since I could not find the roller, I decided to toss the dough. Hint: never toss the dough after putting the cornmeal on. So, I wound up with a messy kitchen, an oblong oval of dough, and a search for the roller. Will and I forgot the peppers. :( But we did remember tomatoes, even though we were out of them. We discovered that since people can never make up their minds as to whether a tomato is a fruit or not, they compromise. They call it a vegetable and put it in the fruit bowl.

I present the super onion chopper WILLiam RACKers!

He also cuts up his nemesis: the mushroom.

Some of the spices decided to give us some trouble and stick to the top.

And someone always has to have way too much fun.

Cheese-alicous art.

And... the FINISHED RESULT (minus the peppers)

Mom's Pizza Dough

1 package of yeast
1c warm water
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp olive (or vegetable) oil
2 1/2m - 3 1/2 c flour
Dissolve yeast in bowl, add salt and oil and 2 1/2 c flour. mix speed: 2 for 1 minute. Add flour 1/2 c at a time, mix until dough clings to hook? cleans sides (about 2 min) knead on 2 for 2 more minutes. Placed in greased bowl let rise 1 hr. Roll out, top, take at 450 for 15-20 minutes. (8 minutes, switch racks, another 8 min.)

I hope you can understand it. Mom write her recipes in such a way that it is hard for any but herself to understand easily.

We have a family name for pizza: zzzzzzzip. I will work it from the beginning: When I was little, Mom and Dad would spell out the word to each other so that I would not go screaming around the house because we were getting pizza. When I learned to read, that no longer worked. For some time they would spell it backwards. A few years later, we suddenly began to say p-i-z-z-a rather than pizza. Then we turned it around: a-z-z-i-p (if you ask me to spell pizza, this will always be the first spelling to come into my mind. We used it for years.) William, I think, was the first to realise that this said "a zipper". Which got shortened to "a zip". Which gets blurred to "zzzzzip". And that is why we call pizza a zipper.

And here I found a video on my camera of the Fourth's fireworks. You can easily see the streetlight in the way. :)