I Made pizza from hell for dinner. I had to because we we so short on groceries that it was that or peanut butter sandwiches on rye crackers. It suffered from one or two ingredient substitutions too many. I am the creative type and have a strong stomach.
I found out that if you use a whole glass jar of yeast from 2006 that it will make your emergency cake flour ground flax mix rise. To some extent. Of course the whole family was more regular than usual for the rest of the week thanks to the flax.
I used turkey sausage and had to make a parmesan mozarella cheddar mix as I was low on dairy too. It was a mess of a pie that any true blooded Italian would cry over. Luckily I am Irish so I didn’t waste any Kleenex as I’m am low on those too.
I ate the last of it today and went shopping to celebrate. I needed to get band aids for my son who sliced his finger in a blizzard making ice cream mixer. It slipped. And honest to God, he was making a Butterfinger one with extra finger.
God just may have as warped a sense of humor as I do.
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“if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.”
4 responses so far ↓
1 RoseBelle // Jun 22, 2010 at 6:10 pm
Well, at our sheer boredom with my 3 kids one weekend, I decided to make dinner rolls. Never made them before and we were just reading along the recipe but didn’t follow exactly and the rolls came out so hard. My kids asked if they could play catch with their rolls. At least your pizza was edible.
2 The Snee // Jun 24, 2010 at 9:19 pm
This post is so apropos given that I pledged to use everything in my freezer, fridge and pantry this summer….sort of a challenge to myself….so far I haven’t found a finger in the ice box so things must be going fairly well.
3 Penny // Jul 14, 2010 at 9:26 pm
You substitute creativity inspired me! While your pizza sounded more edible, mine accomplished 2 tasks — cleaned out my fridge and brought a touch of international to the table.
4 The cook left | So Humor Me // Jul 15, 2010 at 9:17 am
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