THUNDERSTORM DAMAGE VIDEO - HOMEMADE PIZZA, FRIED OKRA, SUSHI - TRY THAT IN A SMALL TOWN - JUST BECAUSE - LIGHTENING STRIKE

 

THUNDERSTORM DAMAGE VIDEO HERE

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Homemade Pizza        having fun in the kitchen this week.

Pepperoni, black and cheese. Our son turned us on to this simple mix. I stretch and work the dough and my wife does the sauce and toppings. This pizza is exactly what we want when we order at any pizza joint.

Those photos you often see of cheese dripping down from a fresh slice of pizzeria pizza. Yea, homemade can do exactly that!!

 

Bubbling sauce, meat and cheese.

Fried Okra 

 

The bride's third batch. Add a little salt. Finger food and the first to go at dinner last night.

West neighbor grew okra this season and has bucketfuls to gift away. 

His wife taught my wife how to prepare and fry. A lesson in her kitchen a week or so ago. A recipe passed down through generations and now in our kitchen. 

Lightly-salted flavor and crunch. 

Sushi 

 

The bride has also been playing with new Sushi making tools. Photo above also a third batch.

All of above has been a way to help pass time while we endure the Texas heat. Upside of the time spent are new meals we can add to liven up meal times. Just add wasabi...

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AND JUST BECAUSE

Try That in A Small Town  You may be like me and not have heard this song until recently. Also this song is a current hit with other bloggers posts.

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A TURBINE RACE CAR. Fun video. Historical, successful.

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There are a few of you that will enjoy this photo shared by neighbor.

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I am losing bragging rights about bad weather to my son, living in middle NH. He reports that a lightening strike hit 3 ninety-foot trees just 25 yards east of his home. Melted rock near the roots of the trees. 

The trees are still standing, but splintered from the trunks to their tops. He says he is has no desire to try to take them down himself. "I can see the trees raining down splinters just as I touch the base of one of those trees with a chainsaw." "Blew the top off of the transformer down the driveway." 

 As for weather here in east Texas: its hot!

Thanks for the visit. Keep on keeping on and and have a blessed week.

 

(Lasts minute solution this morning for a spider bite problem on my big toe). Works great. Wife says I look like a hobo.  Function trumps looks!!

 

 

HOMEMADE PIZZA - SETTING SWELL ANCHOR - NEW PLANTINGS

 

 

My wife found fresh pre-made pizza dough while shopping at a new market this past week. She said it looked and felt good picking it up from the cooler. Buck and a half.

The "feel" of the dough in the package was the first thing I noticed.

Last Sunday afternoon, I shaped the dough for the pizza pan noticing air bubbles roll out of the dough roll on the floured counter. She took on all the toppings responsibility. The dough was a little thicker than we prefer, but this pizza was a test case. 

Baked low in the oven at 450 degrees for 16 minutes. It was bubbling when we took it out of the oven. We waited the longest 5 minutes before slicing. 

I remarked that this may be the very best pizza I have had since my first slice of pizza when I was 16 years old at original Casa Mia in Aberdeen. Early 1960's.

"Her" put toppings all the way to the edge of the crust. Plenty of pepperoni, sliced olives and 2 layers of Mozzarella cheese.  Cheese fell from the first slice just like the photographs show in pizzeria photo covers.

The dough had chew and flavor. Slices held firm in our hands as opposed to ugly drooping. Two slices each filled us up. Leftover pizza Monday morning clicked all of the leftover pizza requirements.

Short version: no more searching for a good pizza joint. It is right here in our own Texas kitchen.

Pizza #2 last night

Dough stretched larger and edges rolled in. We prefer thin crust. A work in progress!! Not a "chunklet" of pizza #2 was left over.

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Sailing Airspeed   Setting a Swell Anchor   Video

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 Cabbage one of six

 

Peppers two of six

It appears that there will not be a "last frost" before Easter this year. 

Potatoes coming on and it appears there will be a fine crop when they mature. Waiting on squash to sprout, if they do. We'll see. There is plenty of time for starts and planting.

Promised Texas rain has yet to arrive. The day is still young.

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Appreciate your visit. Have a blessed week. And yes, keep on keeping on!!