Recent Thought

Women are high school teachers. Men are college professors. Discuss.

Unique Pizza

You all know that I'm a pretty unique person. I invented this pizza after my friend Beth told me about her butternut squash pizza and after I started making a casserole with these ingredients. My pizza is topped with caramelized onions, butternut squash (slightly precooked in the microwave), blue cheese and candied walnuts on top of Trader Joe's herbed pizza dough! Delicious!

(I store this Trader Joe's product in my freezer and thaw it a day or so before I use it.)

The Numbers

This is my 100th blog post. (I love numbers.) When I made my last post, I noticed that I had 49 posts in 2008 and 49 posts in 2009. I thought that was interesting especially since the time the blog was active during both of those years is not equal. I did not post much last year. I will try to be a bit better this year, but no guarantees. The only other real number of interest from 2009 is that I ran 40 some odd more miles in 2009 than in 2008. I know, I'm crazy for keeping track of these things. But perhaps this explains the lack of blog posts?

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

I hope you all had a wonderful season! I have been meaning to post some holiday photos for quite some time. I had fun a few weekends ago. I did my traditional baking. It was snowing outside and I had the oven on all day. This year I made Cherry Shortbread Cookies, Dark Chocolate Ginger Crinkles, Russian Teacakes, and lots of Pumpkin Cranberry Bread. I took a hint from my friend Kyle and re-purposed some of the large cookie tubs I get from Trader Joe's. The only problem is that they had labels on the side that are impossible to remove. I covered them with wrapping paper. This is the finished product.
I decorated my tree, too. I think it looks great. The only thing missing is garland of some sort. I saw a fun one yesterday - it was fake popcorn and cranberry strings. I only wish it had been slightly more realistic. Might get something next year. Here's the shot with the flash:
I also had lots of fun going through all of my ornaments. Here are a few that I selected to put at the top of the tree. Some of you might know the symbolism to these. I have several that are like the kangaroo - a gold fish, a small blue dove and a white cat (with blue and purple sequins). I asked my mom about these because I know they are some of the oldest ones, but didn't remember where they came from. My mom remembers them being from a store that my grandma shopped at near the town where my mom grew up. It sounded a bit like the ornaments were tied to wrapped packages - a different one each year. The unicorn and bell are both more symbolic. I really enjoyed having all of the ornaments this year!