As of yesterday I have been married to my best friend (cliche) for five months.
We still always have to have a classic (okay maybe that's just me and really as a safety precaution it's a good idea when you're making a new kind of pizza to know you have a good pizza being made)
It has been the best 5 months of my life, even though it is not always sunshine and lollipops I wouldn't have it any other way.
When we were dating one of my favorite things to do was cook dinner together. Generally the work was split about 35-65. I am kind of controlling when it comes to cooking so I would usually do most of the cooking but Dan always helped out when I would let him. Dan really is a good cook and the things he does when we cook together are absolutely essential. For example when we make orange chicken I usually ask Dan to thaw the chicken and make the orange sauce which he learned how to do on his mission. It's delicious to say the least. He'll also sometimes be in charge of breading the chicken or flipping the chicken while it's frying. All completely necessary things, especially the orange sauce. I could make it without him but it wouldn't be the same and it would be a lot more work.
The one thing though that I think we are both completely equal in our cooking efforts is making pizza. My favorite food. We have been making pizza for about a 18 months now.
Our first attempt was fine but it was also kind of a disaster. Edible but... well... here's a picture.
You can't really tell but there's like 3/4ths of a inch of crust under the toppings. It was tasty but not quite right...
We now have a very specific way of making pizza. Dan is the dough maker- I don't touch it. That's how it goes. My only job is to dress the pizza. Sauce, cheese, toppings, seasonings. Dan doesn't touch those unless he's grating cheese for which I am always grateful. Together we make a darned good pizza.
We tried a new recipe the next time we made pizza and that was a true success. This recipe made two full sized pizzas (in retrospect I think the other recipe did too... oops) so we were able to experiment with toppings. Our classic pizza was always a classic pepperoni (tomato sauce, cheddar cheese, pepperoni (extra), parsley, oregano, and red pepper flakes). Our first experimental pizza was a Jdawgs pizza. For those of you who don't know what Jdawgs is it is a delicious hot dog place here in Provo, UT. They make a delicious sauce that's kind of like a sweet and spicy light BBQ sauce. That's really the only way I can describe it other than delicious. This pizza used the Jdawgs sauce as the pizza sauce, pepper jack and cheddar cheese, polish sausage, pepperoni, and red pepper flakes. It was so so so good!
At first I was a bit nervous basing a pizza off of a hot dog but it really is delicious.
We stuck with those two over the last 18 months but we decided to make pizza tonight and we didn't have any Jdawgs sauce. We decided on another favorite of ours- chicken bacon ranch (but we substituted bacon for pepperoni). We mainly just didn't want to leave our apartment so it was our lazy man's pizza. Again, I was a bit nervous trying something new but neither of us were disappointed- it was delicious. Dan near perfected the pizza dough and the toppings were also amazing!
We still always have to have a classic (okay maybe that's just me and really as a safety precaution it's a good idea when you're making a new kind of pizza to know you have a good pizza being made)
This was the face Dan did when I asked him to show me how he felt about the pizza. I think it was a winner.
Definitely love pizza and I even more definitely love this husband of mine. I think I'll keep him.
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