Saturday, April 5, 2008

Pizza Night!

Sometimes, just gotta have pizza....

Actually some interesting trivia is that I've never ordered pizza delivery in my life! In a way I feel like I'm missing out... and almost did order pizza last weekend, but realized that with the Zurich prices for pizza (20-30.- per pizza if you get any toppings on it, and then with getting two to satisfy our monstrous appetites, then also another 10- for delivery charges, that's talking a minimum of 50.- bucks, which kind of ruins the whole "cheap-dinner" philosophy of ordering two $6 medium pizzas on special from Papa John's or something... and not to mention the swiss franc is about equivalent in value to the USD now, so there's not an exchange-rate advantage here :P) So, once again, we made our own, but it is a darn good substitute to load it up with everything we could dream of on a pizza! And in that way we do make them healthier, too-- can use whole wheat crusts, 1/2-fat mozzarella cheese, and loads and loads of onions, bell peppers, mushrooms, sauteed chicken, etc etc on top.. And I really like making my own pizza sauce! Minced up one hot pepper on John's this time (these hot peppers are the hottest I've ever dealt with! one pepper the size of a dime made the pizza one damn hot tamale for sure!) Once again our gigantic pizza night was delicious! Smashed them both probably a bit too fast! haha

Thursday, April 3, 2008

A classic easy dessert....

Not more from the Einweihungsparty, but this is just a classic any-random-evening dessert that we have.... fresh cut fruit, and a bowl of chocolate sauce ( chocolate melted into some hot cream), and a second dipping bowl of half mascarpone/ half milk with a spoon of sugar whipped up until nearly whipped-cream consistency, and a flavorful dash of Amaretto liquor or just vanilla extract added at teh end...
simple but darn, 'simple' is sometimes most delicious!

Einweihungsparty Desserts!

MMmmmm here's just a pre-view of some of the food pics from my Einweihungsparty last Sunday! I don't have all the pics on my camara, so will look around for some others. Here are some of the desserts out on a side-table, including a lemon-merengue pie, a scrumptuous coconut cream pie, John's killer Tiramisu, and my mom's great recipe for a frozen chocolate mousse cake, with raspberry sauce.... my serving suggestion for that one below, too.... I do love food pictures!