Allora…

I brought this to a kentucky derby party – so I wouldn’t eat it myself!

Recipe TK…

Zucchini Pizza
Serves 1

Grate 1 small zucchini, 1 small onion, 1 clove of garlic with a grater. Saute in olive oil. Salt, pepper, stir. The zucchini will get very soft, that is ok. Saute for 10 mins, at the end, stir in 1 tbsp chopped basil. Remove from heat, reserve in a bowl. Meanwhile, heat a grill pan, or your grill, and oil the grates. Roll out whole wheat dough as thin and evenly as you can get it. Transfer dough to the grill and grill over medium heat for about 5 mins on the first side. Once you flip it, then top with sauteed zucchini/onion mixture, and also with parmigiano, and a few dollops of ricotta cheese. Dust with crushed red pepper. Keep on the medium hot grill for 5 more mins or until cheese melts. (I covered my grill pan with a big pan lid to help the cheese melt quickly)

I’ll often describe what projects I’m working on to Becca; tell her what my bosses demands are, and just generally yap about work. Occasionally, she’ll try to help me out by providing some ground-breaking designs.

Becca, thank you for keeping me laughing! You are the funniest person I know.

Here is B’s response to my post below for bea and chris:
Subject: If love doesn’t make your heart stop…
Body: This philly cheesesteak will

Her response to an invitation package where I was asked to combine a lemon, a martini glass, and the fountain at LC into an invitation…

Her response to a logo project I was working on, where the client requested some kind of “splatter”/”spray” design.

Finally, her interpretation of some retouching work I was doing. I had to change the stain on some wood chairs for a client’s furniture catalog. I had to change it from a light color wood to a very dark color wood in Photoshop.

friends bea & chris are gettin’ hitched next year, and I am the maid of honor! woo woo. a great couple, b&c live in philly and want to incorporate many philadelphia traditions (no, not heckling of small children at sporting events) into their wedding. inquiries have been made to local vendors, etc to help give a special hometown flair to their event….. so i started to play around with some playful designs, just for fun at this point. maybe for a save the date, maybe something could be used at a different part of the wedding planning process….but i thought, maybe these magnets would be cute. Philly pretzels, and TastyKakes are Philly institutions and so i thought that maybe something in this kitschy vein would be up their alley.

Obviously, we need to get a cheesesteak version too! Wit, or witout???

Also, Bea and I were kicking around a play on words for the pretzel idea – something about a love knot/philadelphia style/pretzel/tie the knot, but couldn’t really coin anything just yet.

Anyone have any suggestions for some kind of clever quip?

…after watching Syracuse lose to Marquette tonight.

W.T.F.

Saute a bunch of veggies. Here i did mushrooms, peppers, onions, garlic. add some grated ginger, black pepper, hot sauce. don’t salt this at all bc you’ll add beef broth, fish sauce, and soy sauce. try to find low sodium of all of these. Add 3/4 box of beef broth. 1 cup water, a few dashes of fish sauce and soy sauce, bring to a boil and simmer for 10 mins. Reduce heat to simmer, stir in 1 can of low fat coconut milk. Also add a few handfuls of frozen snow peas. Simmer for 2 minutes. Add chopped cilantro, and a few squeezes of fresh lime juice. To serve, place a big spoonful of Jasmine or Basmati rice in the bottom of your bowl and ladle soup on top.

this was for dinner Monday – and it was good. fun to build your pita how you like it. must have the accoutrements – feta, pepperoncini (banana peppers), red onion, tomato, cucumber, red peppers, tzatsiki sauce (which I made myself with sour cream and finely chopped cucumber and garlic, lemon juice). and hot sauce! Grill some chicken, or beef etc and throw the pita on the grill before you stuff it to give it some texture, taste…

Sighted: Crocuses crocusing outside my front door.