Veggies for Dinner

So far most of the goals are going well. We're doing pull-ups like crazy (with a little help from various gravity-beaters, like my legs), the cuisinart blade has been washed and dried several times, I gave blood and found out I'd be a good platelet donor (which you can do every one to two weeks! Who knew?) and we have eaten out exactly zero times unless you count the 3 lunches we've had on the way home from the pool over the past 2 weeks. But those we forgive ourselves because we use only calories to get to the pool (i.e. no money spent on gas) and because I'm usually so hungry after we swim that pizza just sounds sooo good.

And in an effort to make our own food, I looked up a pizza dough recipe for the first time and found out, as I know Mom has told me several times, that it is super easy. A little flour, a little yeast, 20 minutes... and voila. And the best part is, you can make a gorgeous pizza these days, what with it being September in the Pacific Northwest. This one was so pretty, in fact, that I was convinced I should take a picture of it.



If anyone is looking for pizza topping recommendations, I highly suggest the following (all thinly sliced):
- orange/red/yellow tomatoes
- beets
- bell peppers
- red onion
- zucchini

Add on some delicious splatters of soft ricotta cheese mixed with a little salt and pepper, and mmmm. Too bad there were no leftovers.