Wednesday, 4/6/2011

Tomorrow we head off for our family vacation to Disneyland.  We will be there through Sunday, spending three days in the parks.  I can't wait!!!  We, along with Ben's brother, gave the trip to their mom, Jennifer, for her 60th birthday.  Spencer is spending the night at our house tonight so that we can leave for the airport together, bright and early tomorrow morning.  

I prepared another puff pastry pizza for our meal tonight.  I finished using the crumbled sweet Italian sausage I prepared for our last pizza and added turkey pepperoni.  My friend Hilary suggested the turkey pepperoni.  I didn't like it as much as regular pepperoni, but it wasn't half bad.  In fact, I guarantee that I will finish off the bag next week:)  

While I was trying to get the pizza prepped for the oven, our neighbor came over to get the scoop on taking care of our cats, Spencer arrived, Ben came home, and Katie needed to give me updates constantly on The Princess and The Frog, which she was watching in the front room.  Goodness, talk about a bit of chaos. With pizza consumed, it was time to start, and finish, packing for our trip. 

Friday, 4/1/2011

A friend of ours mentioned that her family was going to be "spring cleaning" their freezer.  That meant they were going to eat or toss everything in it this spring rather than continue to add to it.  Once it is cleared out, they will start adding things to it again.  It seemed like a really good idea.  I started to work on our freezer tonight and made a pizza.  

I started by defrosted one sheet of Pepperidge Farms puff pastry.  After about 40 minutes, I unfolded the pastry sheet on a lightly floured surface. I rolled the pastry into a 15 x 10-inch rectangle and place on a baking sheet. The directions said to prick the pastry thoroughly with a fork, which I did. The oven pre-heated to 400°, and then the pastry sheet baked for 10 minutes.  Even though I pricked it with a fork, it was quite puffy when I pulled it out of the oven.  I pushed it down a bit before adding zesty pizza sauce, mozzarella cheese, shredded rotisserie chicken, crumbled sweet Italian sausage, and grated parmesan.  I put it all back in the oven to bake for another 10 minutes.  The result was a delicious pizza.  The good news is that we still have some pizza sauce and another pastry sheet to use some other day!