pizza heaven

I made this amazing buffalo chicken pizza that I just had to share. I bought all of my ingredients from my local whole foods. Even though I could have ordered a takeout cheaper, it was completely worth every penny. As always, I had to make it half fake chicken and the other half real chicken. I used the recipe from Rachel Ray but I didn't use the Worcestershire sauce only because I didn't have any available. The fresh pizza dough was amazing!

* chicken or fake chicken!!! i used one small breast that covered half the pizza
* Extra-virgin olive oil, for drizzling
* 2 teaspoons grill seasoning, (recommended: McCormick Montreal Seasoning)
* 1 pizza dough, store bought or from your favorite pizzeria
* Cornmeal or flour, to handle dough
* 2 tablespoons butter
* 1 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce, eyeball it
* 2 to 3 tablespoons hot sauce, medium to spicy heat
* 1/2 cup tomato sauce
* 1 cup shredded Monterey Jack cheese, a few generous handfuls
* 1/2 cup blue cheese crumbles (i used fresh blue cheese and crumbled it, creamier texture makes all the difference.
* 3 scallions, thinly sliced

Directions
This wasn't on the directions but I rolled out my pizza dough and put it in the oven at 450 for about 8 or so minutes to pre-cook the crust. Place chicken (or fake chicken) on a plate and drizzle extra-virgin olive oil over the chicken then season with grill seasoning. When grill is hot, add chicken and cook about 3 minutes on each side (I just pan fried since I have no grill).

Stretch dough to form pizza using cornmeal or flour to help you handle it. If you let it rest and warm up a few minutes it will handle even easier.

In a medium skillet over medium heat, melt butter and stir in Worcestershire, hot sauce, and tomato sauce. Remove the chicken from grill and thinly slice it. Add chicken to sauce and coat. Cover the pizza dough with the saucy Buffalo chicken, cheeses, and scallions. Bake 18 minutes or until crisp.

my little basil.

So, I bought a growing egg and I feel like such a proud mom! But, now I feel bad that I'm going to eat it soon! The glass vase I made in college and the sculpture is made by my grandma b.

my friend katie! woo woo!

hey everyone. katie is a friend who makes beautiful fashion drawings. i just love them and you should check her out!

http://paperfashion.wordpress.com/

..where have i been..

so i started my new job and it is keeping me very busy. i havent even had time to check my email some days. i am hopefully going to be jumping back on the wagon of doing extra things.

...magnet me...

so, i did a mini magnet project this weekend. i have all of these silkscreened paper scraps that i have no idea what to do with. i found this brownish black outline of birds and such in the pile and water color penciled in the negative areas. i attached it to a big chunk of magnet, cut it into strips and put a little gloss medium on it so they shine, shine, shine! it's fairly large for a magnet, probably close to a 7" x 11" rectangle, but it gives a little drama to a drab refrigerator!

...birds of peanuts...

so the place I am working at is collecting the cutest peanuts shaped like birds. a little abstract but sooo cute!

..i love swearing + design..

i found this link today and i love it! besides a little shout out to michigan, it tells a story of what design is coming to these days. sad, sad story. go check it out and tell me how much you love it.

http://www.vimeo.com/1465284

.obama backwards.

so i will have to take a better picture but this is from the inside of my apt. a little shout out for all those voters who think they want to vote republican in november.

.pillows are great.

Ok so here is the first of many sewing projects that i hope to create in the near future. Now, I know that these aren't one of a kind ideas but I haven't sewn in about a year or so. I need some warm up on simple things. I was using fabric that I already had laying around so I could keep this a low cost project.

.my own laziness is killing me.

so, i am pretty well known for talking the talk of creating all these projects. im wondering how i ever survived in the ccs mindset of staying up all night doing 4-5 projects at once and still finding the time to have a social life -since i cannot even do one creative thing within my wide open week nights.

i have decided to whip myself back into shape. i am getting some fabric needs at the trusty joann fabric store down the street to first complete my pillow making project that i promised to the bf.

this weekend im also planning on beginning my project on the "expected life markers" for women in their 20s. i feel as though there is so much pressure to keep up with the tradition of meeting a man, getting an education, getting married, creating a home and then children. i know lots of people who do these steps in different orders or skip some all together, but there is a pressure that they should be completed sometime in your 20s. If you live with a person of the opposite sex its a new flash to the world that you should be getting engaged soon. things like this have become humorous to me. im just becoming me. the time has changed and people should be doing things when they are comfortable with it, not on a timeline in your 20s. This is an article that i find hilarious. check it out!

click here for the article