Cool Link To Check Out!

Just wanted to share a cool website with everyone - it will take years to explore all the links and articles but looks like some awesome stuff! Enjoy! Thanks to my friend Ann for sending this one to me - I love it!

http://oldfashionedliving.com

Pizza Dough

How could one get excited about pizza dough or any dough for that matter - dough? Really? Yes...I love making bread of all types, the smell of the dough, watching it rise, the olive oil coating the bowl and getting on my hands - it's a great moisturizer actually! So here's a gorgeous bowl of pizza dough that I threw together on Friday - we would have pictures of the pizza too but - well it got eaten to quickly!

Pizza #1
Mozzarella cheese, black olives, mushrooms with red sauce

Pizza #2
Mozzarella cheese, roasted red peppers, mushrooms, artichoke hearts and olives, red sauce also...

Pizza #3
Homemade pesto sauce, mozzarella cheese, artichoke hearts, mushrooms, red peppers and feta cheese

Cooking as Therapy?

You ever have one of THOSE days? A day when you'd just rather be ALONE? That happened to me and, well, as a stay at home Mommy with kids that don't go to full time school yet? Yaaaah, not gonna happen. That was my Thursday last week - ugh. No idea why, just a plain old bad day emotionally and physically wth? That is so NOT me!

Well the day progressed and I decided to cheer myself up I'd cook up something fantastic for dinner and use my "new" pasta bowl purchased at the Thrift store for 6 bucks! I'll blog more about that obsession later - I could Thrift store shop ALL DAY and be in seventh Heaven - bonus for our budget is that I NEVER break the bank haha....

So here's the new pasta bowl....and then there it is filled with a recipe I created..."Greek Pasta" and much to my delight it was good! Have you ever been in a bad mood and even what you cooked totally sucked? Not the case on my bad gloomy Thursday ~ much to everyone's relief! I think they were afraid it might be peanut butter and jelly sandwiches that night. I basically just used stuff I already had in the house - then again I keep some rather interesting things around so it's usually easy for me to pull something off the wall together...

I don't usually include amounts unless I'm baking - I am the kind of cook that puts "some of this and some of that" just put in what looks good for the amount!
Chicken - about 2 breasts, cut up into small pieces
Onion and Garlic - chopped
Artichoke Hearts - I used marinated ones - cut into pieces
Black Olives (Greek ones would have been better)
Mushrooms
Feta and Parmesan Cheese
Pasta of your choice - any type would work

Saute the chicken in olive oil, salt and pepper to taste -set aside
Saute the onion in olive oil and then add the artichoke hearts, black olives, mushrooms and finally the chopped garlic, cook about 10 minutes on medium heat, add the chicken back into this in the pan...drain pasta and add to the chicken mixture and toss, add feta and Parmesan cheese on top and serve in a lovely pasta bowl!