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A Good Breadstick is Hard to Find

It is.  I love breadsticks.  I grew up on cheese breadsticks from Pizza Hut so I love those most of all.  In Portland, I've enjoyed the sticks at Vincente's and Sparky's.  I have not enjoyed the sticks from Rovente's, but it's Rovente's and they weren't so much sticks as they were the frozen Texas Toast you get from the grocery store.  That said, Rovente's is still the best deal in Portland (extra large cheese for $8.99? Yes!).  Just don't order the Texas Toast.

Back to my story.  Papa John's, like Pizza Hut, is a national chain.  The pizza is not that good, but it's okay for what it is (cheap).  They currently offer a two one-topping smalls for $10 special so we ordered that last night, along with cheese sticks.  The "cheese sticks" at Papa Johns is basically a sauce-less cheese pizza cut into into long rectangles.  No good.  And the marinara sauce that comes with the sticks?  The worst!  That nasty garlic sauce that magically comes with anything you order from Papa John's is somehow better.

I'm basically writing this post so that next time I feel like breadsticks and cheap pizza you can order online I will remember to not order from Papa John's.

Until the next slice...

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Pizza Trifecta

This past week I ate pizza three times in four days.  I didn't try to do this - it just happened.  I just woke up, went about my day, then felt like pizza at the end of it.  It's not my fault pizza is so crazy delicious (and easy).  For two of the pizzas I used Vicolo corn & spelt crusts and Walnut Acres tomato & basil sauce.  I haven't actually made my own sauce or crust from scratch yet, but I WILL.  Eventually.

Pizza #1: Corn & Spelt crust, sauce, mozzarella, Sicilian style olives, green pepper, white onion, sun-dried tomatoes (in oil), and corn (why not?).  Result: I was afraid my last minute addition of corn would ruin it, but corn doesn't have enough flavor to overpower anything.  

Pizza #2: Frozen.  But I really love frozen pizza, and this is one of my favorites:  Newman's Own Thin Cheese.

Pizza #3:  Again, the corn & spelt crust, sauce, olives, sun-dried tomatoes.  But I ran out of mozzarella so I improvised with a slice of pepper jack cheese.

Pizza #3: End result

Continue following your dreams, loyal readers.

'Til the next slice...

Post-Thanksgiving Hangover Pizza

Thanksgiving yesterday was great, but today is all about the pizza.  I made a pizza with mozzarella, tomato sauce, caramelized onions, green peppers, red potatoes, and dried basil.  I didn't do a very good job caramelizing the onions and I used too much sauce and overcooked the pizza a bit, but it tasted pretty good.  Before and after pictures below.

Until the next slice...

Digital Pizza

Alright!  Just ordered a pizza online from Papa John's.  Not that I haven't ordered pizza online before, but just haven't since it evolved to what it is now:  complete control over your pizza.  You can choose the amount of sauce, how you want the pizza cooked, even how you want it sliced.

Just received a pizza text.

Until the next slice...

Baby Birthday Party

Most of our friends are unmarried childless twenty/thirty-somethings like ourselves.  On the weekends we sleep in as long as we want.  It's a nice life.  The lone exception are our friends Rahul and Dil, who are not only married, but have a one-year-old daughter and their own house, which they bought. 

Yesterday they had a party to celebrate Dil's 30th and Sai's 1st.  At the end of the evening we ordered pizza from Pizza Fino.  We ordered a Queens Blvd which may or may not be an Entourage reference:  mozzarella, onions, red peppers, black olives, mushrooms on red sauce.

It's almost 11 am and I'm still in my pajamas.  The good life.

'Til the next slice