Grilled Pizza

Kate and I had a great time learning how to grill pizza. I prepped the dough in my bread machine and let Kate pick out all her own toppings. She chose apples, cheese, olive oil and chicken. I did a much heavier on the vegetable pizza. Then we tossed and stretched the dough. She even managed to throw it up in the air once AND it didn't land on the floor. Out to the grill with a can of "soda-pop" each, and we stood and watched it turn golden, melty and fragrant. She was so proud of her effort. She cut her pizza in 5 pieces and gave one to Daddy, one to Mommy and the rest for herself.

We tried to go to a spray park yesterday, but it was just too cold. The high was only 85, so instead the girls played on the swings and swung on monkey bars. We did get to go to a small groups meeting last night. I made sushi. It didn't turn out the way my mom's turn out. I wonder if there is some ancient "secret ingredient" that I'm missing, or it could be the rice. They don't sell Homai Rice here. The closest I've been able to find is a California rice.

So, how do you make sushi? Well, first I make the rice - 3cu rice, 4 cu water. That takes about 30 minutes. Then, I dump the rice while it is still hot into a bowl and mix in about 1 cu of AjiMirin (Rice Vinegar). Then you put it on the seaweed with julienned cukes, shredded carrots and tuna. Roll it up.

Hey, Mom, is that right?

The nice thing about living in a small city in Texas is that they think my sushi is pretty darn good. I guess I can't go too wrong experimenting with their taste buds. Maybe I should try to make ManaPua though I'm pretty sure they'd draw the line at Poi.

The last two days have been pretty tough on Tanner. He got up yesterday at 8:00 and went to school, ended up with 120 homework problems and 2 quizzes to do, so instead of going to sleep, he stayed up all day and worked on homework, then he went to work, got home at 5:30, slept for 2 1/2 hours, got up and went to class. So, I'm hoping he can sleep through the afternoon and evening.