Pretty Good Pizza

The plan yesterday was to trot off to an auction house for a leisurely day of looking at "stuff."
The forecast indicated snow would start around 4:00, and we thought we would get into a rush hour mess unless we left early, and besides, it looked like snow already at 9:00 a.m., so we bagged the auction.

At 11:00 the snow started and didn't stop until 9:00 p.m. The commute began after lunch, and I don't even want to think of the mess and the aggravation we would have encountered.

This morning, all is plowed and cleared--even the walk and the front porch. The cat gazed out the kitchen window from her kitty perch, amazed at the first white world of the season. Cats may remember trips to the vet in the carrier but they appear to have no memory for snow.

So today we're going to see "Atonement" and take a gander at the Natick Collection formerly known at the Natick Mall. It has become upscale and we'll see what God and commerce hath wrought.

Yesterday I thawed out my store bought pizza dough and fitted it into the round pan. Turned on the oven nice and high. I made some garlic oil with evoo and fresh garlic and brushed the crust with that, added a skidload of pre-grated mozzarella from the supermarket, placed the pepperoni nicely and then put 3 thinly sliced tomatoes on all and covered that with a bit more pepperoni and the rest of the oil and the garlic (cooked in the microwave), too. Bake for 18 minutes. Yum! Nothing beats fresh tomatoes on pizza, none of this sauce business.

We have half for lunch today. Tonight, a bitter chill night we'll have pot roast. It's hard to beat a long-simmered pot roast with carrots, onions, potato and a bit of garlic. Yum! A soupcon of red wine, perhaps?

Last night nothing on TV, but we found Little Miss Sunshine and what a good movie that was. I liked it even better the 2nd time around.

So, upstairs for my breakfast of no-salt-no-sugar-high-fiber cereal with blackberries and banana and vanilla yogurt. This is a first class healthy breakfast to counter-act any pizza or pot roast we may injest.

I'm sending my novels off to the editors. Wish me luck.

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