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Mexican Steak Pizza

Ok so this was tasty. My roommate Justin got a great deal on some steak and I was craving pizza/thawing some frozen bread dough to make a crust. I ran to the grocery, we combined forces and made Some DANK Mexican Style steak pizza.

Ingredients:
- One good size steak. Get something tender and tasty. As fresh as you can get it. Go kill a cow if you have to.
- 4 FRESH ORGANIC vine ripened Tomatoes.
- 1 Bunch of Organic cilantro
- Corn Salsa (you can normally find this near the salads or pre-cut onions... or make it your self you lazy ass hole)
- Mozzarella Cheese grated. (do yourself a favor and buy the best you can afford. Trust me. It's worth it.
- Olive Oil
- Salt (you know, the stuff you find in a grinder... none of that "kosher salt" crap)
- Pepper
- 2 Frozen Loafs of Bread

Preperation:
The night before you're going to cook the pizza, take the dough out of the freezer, wrap in plastic wrap and place it in the fridge.

2 hours before you're going to cook. Remove the dough from the fridge, unwrap the dough and let it rise. Once it stops rising, beat it down and let it rise again.

While thats happening, slice your stetak as thin as you can manage then saute it in a tablespoon of olive oil. Add a few twists of salt and a few twists of pepper. Set aside.

Give the garlic a rough chop. Dice the tomatoes or cut them however. Just break those beyotches down.

Break the dough into 4 pieces or keep it in two large pieces. Whatever you want to do. Roll it out as flat as you can make it. Using a fork, poke some holes in the dough. (this is a good anger reducer). Finally sprinkle iit with olive oil and toss it in the oven.

While the dough is cooking put the tomatoes, some salt and half of the cilantro in a pan and begin to cook it down. Dont let it burn. It'll taste like crap. Just stew them until theey are tender and then simmer till you are ready to use them.

Once the dough starts to brown ever so slightly remove from the oven. Take your tomato mixture and spread it on the crust. Don't go overboard here. Seriously. It's not worth it.

Put some meat on it.

Finally top of with a light dusting of cheese. Don't go crazy. Cheese is fattening and you don't need a lot of it. Trust me.

Pop it back in the oven until you see the cheese has melted and the crust has gotten crispy.

Pull it out of the oven and IMMEDIATELY top with the rest of your cilantro. For a finishing touch spread some of your corn salsa on it.

right before serving sprinkle with olive oil and slice it as you see fit.



For an added bonus, pair with a nice dry red wine.

No Sauce Pizza

Ok So last night I was inspired to make a pizza that was both healthy as well as delicious. Here's the recipe I created:

Ingredients:
1 lb Pizza Dough rolled thin.
1/2 cup Shiitake Mushrooms sliced thin
1 Romano Tomato sliced thin
1/2 cup shallot sliced thin
1/2 cup of ricotta cheese
1 bunch of Fresh Basil cut into strips
The best Olive Oil you can find.
Salt


Preparation -
1 - Place rolled pizza dough on a baking sheet that has been dusted with flour. Perforate with a fork and sprinkle with olive Oil.
2 - Bake at 450
3 - While it's baking take the ricotta cheese and some of the basil. Add about 1/2 a teaspoon of salt and mix well.
3 - Remove dough from oven as it turns a light brown color.
4 - Lay tomatoes on the crust followed by the Shiitake Mushrooms and shallots. Crumble the Ricotta on top of everything.
5 - Bake until the crust turns dark and the other ingredients have cooked through.
6 - Remove from the oven. Grind some salt on top to taste and put the rest of your fresh basil on top. Sprinkle with some more olive oil.
7 - Let sit a few minutes before slicing. Serve immediately.


TIPS:
1 - It's ok to have a pizza that isn't round.
2 - "ready-dough" can be purchased frozen at the grocery store or you can go to your favorite pizza joint and buy raw dough.
3 - You don't need sauce to make a pizza taste good. Let the ingredients you use speak for themselves.
4 - Replace shiitake Mushrooms with asparagus and add prosciutto. (thanks T-pain for the idea)

Hope you enjoy it!

No one reads this anyway...

so I figured I'd write about my life. Things are on an upswing lately. I re-met a girl I once dated and we are now dating (officially this time). I'm so blessed to have her in my life. She's an awesome girl, a beautiful woman and a fantastic kisser. (TMI)

I asked her out in Vegas which was fun. See my facebook or myspace for the pics.

Umm what else. Oh... The karaoke community in Esco lost a good guy this 4th to a fight between gangs at a party. Daniel Alexander passed away when entering a party held on 9th ave. Please pray for his family and friends as they cope with this loss.

Ok that's about all for now. I'll write more eloquently when I'm not tired/tips.

Love you all. (anyone who reads this and leaves me comments.... nice or mean.)

Got myself a journal

I got myself a journal. Whoop. I guess I had it for a while but I'm just now starting it. Wish I would have thought about that a few weeks ago. Haha.

Ok that's all. Will write more later. More in my journal for sure. But y'all will get something. (all like 3 of you)

Jobs, Traveling and Getting Out.

So I realize now more than ever how much I miss L.A. Seriously, it's a great town. I can relate to people there. Not the party scene, that's not me, but the flow of things. California is my home and it will probably be that for quite some time but there are parts of California that I love more than others. After living and working in L.A. I realize that it's where I'm called to be. Not a day goes by, good or bad, that I don't wish I was there.

I've spent a while researching possible jobs up there and so far I've found very little. I need to call some of my contacts up there on Monday and find out if there's anything going on. Till then I have 3 jobs lined up to work on. I'll be doing promotional videos for a few companies across the country. That leads me to my next thought.... traveling.

I love to travel. There are few things better than the open road. In the next few weeks I'm going to be traveling to Portland and Michigan. I've been to both places before but I've never had the chance to fully engage them and discover them. While in Portland I hope to find a nice coffee shop to spend my mornings before filming. In Michigan, I'll probably spend a lot of time driving to Grand Rapids to visit Beth and up to Ann Arbor. It's an exciting time!

Through these two jobs I'm hoping to have enough money to move up to L.A. I'll be doing some preliminary job searching this week so wish me luck! I don't really care what I'm doing up there as long as I can be around a creative environment. Since being back at home, I've learned that my professors were right, removing yourself from creative people makes you less creative. I miss that. I need that.



"take a look at what i did but can you imagine what im about to do
the places im bout to go and the money im bout to see
gave bill gates some binoculars and said look out for me" - Ludacris

I promised so here it is...

Ok so I promised a blog last night on my facebook post. Here it is.

So a few of my friends sat me down last night and had a chat, let's call it an "intervention", and although I don't think they were 100% convincing, they did bring about a few good points. There are some things I feel I owe to you to clarify about my few previous blogs.

1 - I called the girl I was considering dating immature. In fact she is probably one of the more mature girls I know for her age. I should have added that I meant to only call her immature as far as dating goes. I've dated quite a bit more than she has and although that doesn't necessarily mean that one is more mature in that area (although I'd argue that it is in this case), it probably would have been more appropriate to use the word "experienced".

2 - I was told that L.A. has changed me. My friends don't like that. I do. Perhaps it's my more cynical outlook on life, perhaps it's the fact that I'm a bigger ass hole, perhaps It's the simple fact that I've grown (in their eyes not for the better) into what I've set my mind to become (to do what I want to do, you have to be an ass hole, full of yourself... etc.). Whatever the case, I am truly not sorry. I can't be. I won't be. If the way I am is offensive to you then that's your problem and not mine.

3 - One of my friends rose an interesting question. She asked me if I stand by everything I've said. My answer was that I stand by it 100%. I may not believe it anymore, I may have seen the "error of my ways". The Grouch (musician... not the muppet) puts it best. He says the "The older I get, the dumber that I was". I stand by everything I said in the moment, however fueled by rage it may have been. It still is something I meant at the time.

4 - I've been told that I don't treat the girls I'm dating very well. (Previous girlfriends... please chime in here.) I honestly don't see where that comes from. I try to treat all women with the respect they deserve. In the next few weeks I'm going to have to ask for clarification on this. The only clarification I've received so far is the fact that I ONCE cheated (sort-of) on a girl. Mind you I was a freshman in high school. That was 8 years ago and to this very damn day, I regret it. The people I've talked to also cited my previous relationship. Here's a little back-story: I was dating a girl for well over a year and a half. Up until this point, she had told me that she would love to live in Cali since I knew I needed to after graduation. Last summer she lived with me and she started having second thoughts. Things went down hill fast after that and I was trying to hold together our relationship. I knew I loved her. I even had the ring picked out and most of the money to buy it. I wanted nothing more than to have her out in cali. Towards the end it got really rough and I knew I had to end it. She knew it too. It was just a bad situation. Anyway from my dealings with her, my friends assess that I was stringing her along for God knows what. I'm not sexual active so it couldn't have been for that. I was being emotionally wrecked and since I'm not a masochist it couldn't have been the pain. In all honesty I was hoping she would still want to be with me. Nothing more. If that's treating a woman wrong then I'm damn well happy about it. I hope to get more clarification on this point in the next few weeks. Seriously though, any of my exes who read this (I still am on good speaking terms with all of them... I must not treat them too terribly...) please chime in.

It was nice to clear some things up with the people of Escondido. I doubt the friendships that were strained will ever get back to where they were before I left of L.A., but isn't that how life works? They say there is a 7 year turnover on friendships. I know the people here will never be completely gone from my life. I will always consider them friends, if not close friends.


Tomorrow (hopefully) I'm meeting with the girl I mentioned in earlier blogs. I want to clear things up with her. This whole issue is getting to be stupid and I don't want it to destroy whatever sort of friendship we can salvage. I've contacted her and she asked to push it back a day. I'm hoping she decides to meet with me. The ball is in her court now. I've done what I can.



Ok enough of Mr. Nice Guy. Back to being an ass hole.


"I've got birds in my ears, and a devil on my shoulder" - Cute Is What We Aim For