It's way to easy just to post a pic and a sentence on facebook or twitter, and completely forget about my blog...
So today...on Jon's 30th birthday...I blog about pizza!
For the past year and a half, Jon & I have been on a weekly mission to recreate Monical's Pizza ...and drag as many friends as we can into our obsession!
I grew up eating Monical's Pizza nearly every Friday night, while watching the Dukes of Hazzard. My entire family is obsessed by it, especially my uncle Ben who moved to Indianapolis, a town that had not yet discovered the heavenly pizza. If we celebrated Christmas not on Christmas day, we'd eat a huge lunch, open presents, then follow it with a huge feast of pizza!
When I began dating Jon, Monical's Pizza quickly became a favorite of his when we would go back to Illinois to visit my family. We love it so much that we catered it for our rehearsal dinner!
So a year and a half or so ago, we decided that since we probably will never have Monical's Pizza here in the Joplin area, we would do our best to recreate it in our own kitchen.
We read everyone's advice from crust recipes to the layering of toppings, to cook times and utensils. We purchased a pizza peel from a local restaurant supply store, plenty of basil and we were on our way.
It is now our Friday night tradition to make our version of Monical's and invite friends over to share.
The Student Ministry Center at our church recently acquired a pizza oven. Fantastic! I thought to myself, "I'm the Student Ministry Assistant and I oversee our cafe for students. I should probably learn how to use this amazing oven, right?"
So this past Tuesday Jon and I loaded up our pizza peel, homemade dough, rolling pins, corn meal, basil and toppings and invited a few friends to join us.
Here are the results:
I don't know how I can ever make pizza in my own oven again!
And we're trying it again Saturday night!
Our obsession has gone to new heights!
