The Monday Review v. 2 - Pizza is my favorite food. ever.

What a week it has been in our house. When mom is sick, things are no fun. But I am slowly on the upswing. I would write blog posts in my head but didn't have the energy to actually type anything coherent. To be honest, there is NOT a lot I want to remember about last week, except the fact that I felt so awful so that I can appreciate good health when it is here! Amazing what you take for granted.

I decided to do a review of something we have had for dinner 3x in the past week, including tonight. It's not really a new product to us, but it deserves a blog post, I think.

See that buffet table in the top left corner? PILED HIGH with papers and kajunk for weeks and weeks now. I got it mostly cleaned off, finally, except for a few random things that belong upstairs. That's about the extent of "stuff I accomplished" recently.

Back to the pizza. We discovered this little box of deliciousness about a year ago, in the freezer section at Target. I am kind of a pizza purist - meaning, the sauce must be marinara and it really should only have meat & mozzarella, and maybe veggies, otherwise, it's not REALLY pizza. But I took the plunge here and I am so glad I did.

This stuff is AMAZING. The sauce is BBQ, and it has chicken, onions, cheese, and some spices. When Brian and I first tried it, we were hooked. Neither of us are the kind to gush over food incessantly, and we kind of gushed over this pizza. It's a little more spendy than some ($5-6 depending on the store), and it's not as filling as something like DiGiorno because the crust is thin, but so worth it. They also come in personal pan sizes now. In the picture, that's one of our regular dinner plates (which is stoneware from Target, and admittedly slightly bigger than a "standard" plate.) So, the pizza is not huge - I think 12". And it only takes 11 minutes to bake.

A few weeks ago, Brian surprised me with a date to the California Pizza Kitchen restaurant. We had to order the REAL BBQ chicken pizza, and it was even better than the frozen kind (obviously!). The crust was more of a hand-tossed/regular, not thin. So, so good.

This is probably something that can easily be recreated from scratch but we haven't tried it yet. Usually we keep one or two of these in the freezer for "crazy nights", but to be honest, they never last more than a week in there. I always seem to find an excuse not to cook when we have them on back-up. Oh, and Ben loves it! On a night like tonight, he has a piece and Nate just has yogurt and a banana (he doesn't really like pizza, sometimes I wonder if he's really my child.)

Check out the linky party here at The Champ Life - thanks, Andrea, for hosting!

Now I'm off to write a paper on epidemiology for my medical sociology class that I've been putting off and that's due in 3 hours, hooray! My instructions say "pick one of the listed health problems" (in another place it uses the word "disease"), and pregnancy is an option. Funny disease there... I think I'm going to write about that since that's what I have the most experience with (over lung cancer, HIV, obesity...)