Pizza Dough

Hey Everyone,

Boy, has it been a slow week since we got back from Charlottesville. It's been quiet here at work -- not a lot going on with most people on vacation. Makes me wish we could have stayed longer in Charlottesville, because there was NO reason to come back, at least for my work. Jamie's been busier though.

We don't have huge plans for the weekend -- we're taking advantage of most of our friends being out of town -- therefore we're going to spend a nice quiet weekend together. Jamie has a couple of recipes that he wants to try, one being John's pizza dough recipe from the Cooking for Engineers website. When I went to print it off yesterday, the "printer-friendly" version was 14 pages! It looks a bit daunting.

I think we're going to use Granny and Papa's money to buy the Bosch machine and Grain mill from Phyllis Stanley, so we're now in the market for a good bread cookbook. Any recommendations? Our friends, Matt and Janelle, who live near Philadelphia, stayed with us Wednesday night and told us about an Amish market near their house where you can buy 55 lb. sacks of organic grains (wheats, kamut, spelt, etc.) pretty cheaply, so I'm excited to stock up.

Not to make this blog posting completely food related, but I got a book called "Real Food: What to Eat and Why" from Amazon. The author makes the case for natural food vs "synthetic" foods (i.e. using butter instead of margarine). I'll let you know how it is.

Hope you all have a very happy New Year's!