This one's for Kay!

Hello my fellow bloggers. I just read Kay's post and realized how much I look forward to hearing from everyone too. She commented on how the blog posts are alittle scare. I love knowing what's going on, how you are eating, what's going through you head. I get a little disappointed when I log on and there are no new blogs from our little club ( love how Kay called it our secret club...although we welcome anyone new!). My excuse is busyness. We are all so busy. I feel neglectful of things if I stop to blog when I have so many things to do.

 I also feel that if I don't have much to say, or don't have some new thought or tip, no one will care what I write. But I care what others write, so I'm just going to ramble on,and hope you care what I write!

 Last night I made a version of the recipe Jorge posted yesterday. I used this mesh screen that my mom bought me from QVC. I don't have a pizza stone, and if you saw all the kitchen stuff I do have, you would be surprised that there isn't one somewhere in a closet or something. In any event, this little screen is supposed to crisp up store bought pizza, bread, or anything you would put in the oven to crisp. It works great.

 Ready to go into the oven.One for me and one for my husband.

So I used the flat out bread, and topped it with some blue cheese crumbles, some sliced grilled chicken, some fresh mozzarella slices and a little garlic powder. It was very good, although I may have went overboard alittle on the blue cheese. In Jorge's recipe, there is the "sweet" acorn squash with the maple syrup. That probably balances out the strong blue cheese flavor. I love blue cheese, but it just seemed a little overpowering. So I will use less next time. I didn't top it with the arugula because I had some greens in the salad I made.

The mushroom salad plus some added watercress.

A great meal. That's water with lemon, but it looks funny!

Speaking of the salad, I also made the mushroom salad that Jorge posted as well, and I added some watercress to it. I thought it was delicious. It's a simple salad, but you get the lemon, olive oil, mushroom and parmesan cheese flavors coming through. Use a really good parmesan though. I grated some from a wedge using the microplane.  This one definitely wouldn't be for you Kay, as you have to be a mushroom lover. I ate the whole flat out ( my plate only shows half) and a good bit of the salad, and it was very satisfying. My nice glass of Chardonnay was a perfect addition to the meal.
Until next time!

Thought for the day: "Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save." ~Will Rogers