Home-made pizza - with extra cholesterol!

Howdy folks, I'm back after an absence of a few weeks, for no real reason other than laziness! If you had to see me now compared to 2 months ago you'll understand why - I've put on a haft ton of weight again. A fact which I have now realised after seeing photo's of myself at a party on Saturday night, it looks like I've been inflated to a near perfect sphere! Well from today I'm gonna do something about it, again, starting with another phase of regular gymming, less booze, and less fattening food. Though that doesn't include last night's dinner:

Before the avo.

Pizza! Glorious home-made 2-inch thick pizza loaded with grease. It was truly the most delicious pizza I've ever tasted, I'll say so myself, it was oozing with a technicolour of flavours, crispy on the outside and thick and juicy in the middle. My wife is already begging for more this morning after she had her last piece for breakfast!

With avo.

The recipe:

• Take 2 standard frozen supermarket brand pizza bases with tomato.
• Spread a generous layer of cheddar cheese, ensure the whole base is evenly covered right to the edge. Pat it down (this is necessary so the upper layers down fall off!
• Finely chop half a large onion (That Twista gadget works well, quick & noisy) and mix with half a yellow pepper, also chopped up into fairly small pieces. Spread evenly over the pizza. 
• Sprinkle some salt, pepper & oregano.
• Grate up a handfull of mild cheddar for each pizza and spread so it's a fairly thin layer of cheese over the onion & pepper.
• Sprinkle parmesan cheese liberally over the mild cheddar. Pat it all down gently.
• Slice some mushrooms and cover the pizza pretty much completely.
• Use a pack of bacon bits and spread loads over the top.
• I was going to use feta cheese too but there was already too much, it would have just fallen off the side.
• Load into a pre-heated oven and cook until it looks cooked, for me they took around half an hour in a fully heated oven. I put the pizza's on a foil base and folded the sides up around the edge of the pizza to keep the melting cheese on top of the pizza.
• Once out the oven slice up half a large avo per pizza, remove from the foil, and serve once it's cooled down sufficiently that the toppings are no longer trying to flow off the edge like volcanic lava.

The trick is to make more than you can eat in a meal so you have some for breakfast! Like any pizza it's even better the next day!

Tammy didn't have any last night because she was sleeping. The lazy bugger fell asleep in the car on the way home from the beach at around 3pm and she didn't wake up for the rest of the day. I was a little concerned because she had a bit of a cough and she'd slept in the bed with her sick granny the night before so I thought she was coming down with something so we left her to sleep. But then at 3am this morning she woke up wide eyed and bushy tailed ready to play, and talk! OMG did she talk this morning, from 3am, it's now 10.30 and she still hasn't stopped! I tried hard to sleep through it, even moving between beds and the couch, she just followed me diligently. If I turned the other way she promptly climbed over me to face me and carry on chatting. I got a foot in my face a few times in the process. All the while leaving her mom in peace, which I'd have also done the way she barked at Tammy for climbing on her. Occasionally she'd find a toy to chat to when I wasn't responding and I'd be left to doze off for a while longer until she came to tell me her new story.

But shame, the little angel was very cute and cheerful. Sleepy as I was (having been up watching movies until late) I didn't mind her too much, eventually I gave in at around 8am and took her down for breakfast, which was pizza, which she gobbled up then wanted Oatees cereal. Not surprising seeing as the poor kid hadn't eaten since about midday yesterday!

Anyway, today is Monday, and we are all enjoying a lazy day at home, being a much needed public holiday! After this I've got a few other things to do on the PC, then I need to mow the lawn and clean up the yard, clean the house, vacuum the floors, and have a go at the mountain of clean washing that has been dumped on the spare couch over the last 2 weeks. I can't afford the maid until next week (pay day).

And of course I'll spend some time with Tammy before tackling my next assignment for my Unisa course!

Oh yes, the gym needs to be squeezed in sometime too!

There's no cricket today, for a change. I've been following the cricket world cup religiously, even been watching it over the internet in the office during the week. It's weird not having cricket to watch, but the quarter finals starting Wednesday are going to be crackers!