Change of dinner plans for tonight
I was going to try to make a new chili tonight, but instead made homemade pizza for sixteen people–including us. I made the dough in the early afternoon, and had that split into 6 equal parts by late afternoon. I then made the tomato sauce, cut up peppers and onions, chopped up mushrooms and shredded cheese. By the time it was time to cook, I just needed to pull my stuff out of the fridge and shape the dough. I only have one pizza stone, so I can only cook one at a time. It only takes 8 minutes to cook, so people had to eat in waves. I ate two slices as I fixed up the later pizzas. It was such a flurry of pizza, I’m not completely sure if I’m remembering all I made: pepperoni and mozzarella; Italian sausage, red bell peppers and provolone; red bell peppers, red onions and mushrooms; ricotta, grilled chicken, feta and red bell peppers (no tomato sauce and I forgot the artichokes for this one); Italian sausage, pepperoni, red bell peppers, red onions and provolone; mushrooms, pepperoni, red bell peppers and mozzarella (I think). Having everything prepared and cleaned up before I started the pizza assembly and cooking helped keep my kitchen from being too chaotically dirty.
Mac pulled out the chocolate fountain with some fruits, pretzels and such. I later pulled out some dried cherries to try with it. Really good!
I haven’t made my dinner list for next week yet, but one night will include the new chili, and one night will be baked potato soup because I bought a thing of milk when I already had one in the downstairs fridge.
