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Garden Harvest 2.
Harvest 1 yielded about a dozen tomatoes, a few jalapenos, and two large green peppers I cannot name, a good chunk of which went into an adaptation of Jo's Texas Caviar (it ended up being, due to cabinet contents, three cans of various beans, half an onion, some tomatoes and a couple of hot peppers from the garden, garlic and red wine vinegar....blended in the food processor into a dip. Definitely a thumbs up).

Sadly, I think those might be the only three green beans I get. I had about a dozen flourishing plants Sunday with little seedlings. Now I have three and a bunch of, effectively, sticks. I have a feeling its the rabbit that's been taunting Bailey in the yard in the mornings...

But, in positive garden things, I had my first ripe blueberry off our new bush today, and that was pretty sweet!

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Dear Wednesday,

A melted pizza is a close competitor to Tuesday's pinkie sized hornet in my living room, but Monday is still in the lead. We'll see how Thursday and Friday do before we declare a winner for the week.

Regards,
Cinderella



I hate to cook for just myself (actually, I don't really like cooking for 2 either - I prefer 4+ so I can justify a semi-gourmet meal). So, since I'm home alone a lot in the evenings, I eat a lot of leftovers. We were out though, so I went for the frozen pizza.
Apparently rising crust pizza needs to be on a cookie sheet when you put it in the oven frozen. I am 99% sure the ones we normally buy don't (my mom brought this one over and left it). It is remarkably hard to remove melted dough from an oven rack. I ended up pulling out the rack and dumping it, then pulling off the stuck parts.

Still though, with a little reshaping and the addition of some shredded mozzarella, it turned out OK. As evident from the chunk missing from below (after that taste of crust, I decided it needed to cool a bit before I took my piece half).


So, F.reschetta, good job making a pizza that can recover from failure to read directions (who needs directions for frozen pizza?).