White Bean Provencial Soup

We are trying very hard to eat healthy, so we tried something new.

I'm not a big fan of beans, really. Or mixes. But I'll try anything once, so..




Here's the start- garlic and olive oil.

+ celery, onion and white wine.

+ chicken stock.

+ spice packet and raw chicken. Very green!

+ beans, brought to a boil.

Reduce heat, simmer for a loooong time.

Two hours later.... ta-da! We have soup!

I was shocked to find that is was very tasty!!
I think we'll be having stuff like this more often.

Spicy Thai Chicken Pizza

One of the local pizza places has a great thai pizza but it's a little skimpy on the chicken, and too expensive for us to have as often as we'd like... so we decided to try and recreate it at home.

This was our first attempt:


Chopped green onions and peanuts.

Chicken breast marinated and cooked in spicy Thai peanut sauce and sweet chili sauce.

The above ingredients mixed together.



Giant cookie sheet dusted with corn meal.




Pizza dough stretched into place and
covered with yummy spicy sweet chili sauce.



+ mozzarella cheese, chicken, more cheese, and extra green onion and peanuts.

20 minutes in the oven and... ta-da!

Oooh, isn't is gorgeous??
It tastes even better than the restaurant pizza.

Yay, me.

A little obsessed?

July has been Pizza Month.

Homemade pizza dough.
It's super quick and easy.

Homemade sauce.

Mmmmmm such a pretty perfect crust.

Chicken, garlic, bacon, mozzarella and smoked cheddar.

Heart-ish pepperoni pizza.



Spicy turkey sausage sharp cheddar and fresh mozerella.



Spicy oily fresh braided mozzarella.

Cheeseburger pizza - ground beef, onions, tomato sauce, cheddar & mozzarella cheese.



Abstract shape again.
1/2 sausage & pepperoni, 1/2 cheese.