Freedom for Diplomacy: Pita Pizza

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Pita Pizza

Sara and

I made Pita Pizzas tonight for dinner. We bought some whole wheat pitas a while ago, and kind of forgot about them, so we've been trying to use them up before they completely dry out. (Left - me spreading my homemade pizza sauce on our pitas for pizza).
We've made Pita sandwiches, we made pizza one time before, and used them for burritos. Tonight we decided to make pizzas. I made the pizza sauce (and it turned out superb, might I add?) So in the first picture here, you see me spreading my secret sauce on the pitas.

After the sauce, we added cheddar cheese, cubed chicken, black olives, and mandarin oranges. We used mandarin oranges because Sara and I both like pineapple on our pizza, but we didn't have any pineapple, so we decided to try mandarin oranges. (Right - Sara cutting the mandarin oranges for our pizzas. If you notice, she is talking on the phone while cutting . . .) Its not too bad, but pineapple is much better. I think that mandarin oranges are just too sweet for pizza.
Anyway, it was really good. Its kind of funny because I didn't used to cook, meaning both that I didn't like to cook and that I had no idea how to cook without a recipe. Though I wouldn't say that I love to cook, I don't mind it now and I've discovered that I hate to cook with recipes. I usually will look up a recipe for something to get ideas on what to put in something, but I never measure, and I tend to experiment with spices. I never used to be like that before. I really don't know where it all came from.
But anyway, now when I get

ready for dinner, I decide what I want to have and then I figure out how to do it with what we have. Its kind of nice to be able to improvise. (Left - the finished pizza) I made pumpkin cobbler a couple of weeks ago (I'm not brave enough to bake without a recipe since I don't understand how all the elements work together) but was missing some of the spices. Instead, I used what I had, and it turned out really tasty. That has helped me to build my confidence it making substitutions in baking if I need to.
Oh, and HAPPY WOMEN'S DAY!!

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