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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...