Note: this was originally posted to Ben Around the Block on June 23, 2014. I have made minor grammatical changes.
Another week and weekend has come and gone. As usual, there were new and interesting experiences that accompanied them: pizza-related ones this time!
After the jury trial on Tuesday, the rest of my week went smoothly, complete with work and occasional dinner with friends. Because there’s a new employee in our office, a lot of my duties have become exponentially fewer and easier over the last few days. On Friday, I even managed to scan an entire drawer full of closed case files and got to go home early! Work’s getting easier and more pleasant in other ways: the bailiffs at the circuit court now address me by name and I’m on a first-name basis with the secretary at the DA’s office. Furthermore, the attorneys were out of town on Thursday and Friday, so the office was fairly quiet and relaxed. When not working, I’ve been watching movies (I recently finished The Godfather, Part II) and playing Mario Kart 8 (my favourite characters are Dick Cheney and Miles Edgeworth, both of whom are Miis on my Wii U). All in all, it’s business and pleasure as usual.
OK, that’s that. Pizza incidents time!
As previously mentioned, Thursday and Friday were quiet attorney-free days at the office. To celebrate my fellow office workers decided to order in pizza for lunch on Thursday, which posed an interesting problem for me. For those who don’t know me particularly well, I have a bit of a sensitive palate, and tomatoes are one thing that disagree with me. As such, the only pizza I can really enjoy is white pizza (pizza without sauce). I considerately tried the cheese pizza my supervisor had ordered, but the sauce was a little too strong and my tummy was mostly empty that lunch. That didn’t stop me from kicking @$$ with those files, though.
With that pizza-related fiasco in recent memory, you’d think I’d avoid pizza for the rest of the week. You are right!…I waited until Sunday, the beginning of the next week, to make my own pizza. That’s right: using a recipe given to me by a friend, I was going to make some pizza of my own (white pizza, of course!…I feel like a weird pizza racist for saying that)! This was bubble pizza, an unorthodox recipe that consisted of using biscuit dough for the crust, creating an awesome fluffy texture (not to be selfish, here’s the recipe: http://www.thetwobiteclub.com/2012/11/bubble-pizza.html Enjoy!). I had spent earlier this week/weekend preparing and the cooking process went well. Would it be to my liking?
It was! I was really impressed with how delicious the whole experiment was. True, it wasn’t exactly fancy, and I’m still no Julia Child, but all in all, the experiment was a success. May more culinary success greet me in the future!
Well, I don’t have any major plans for this week, but I’m still hotly anticipating whatever is in store for me!
Incoming...transmissions...from...THE FUTURE:
The bubble pizza was one of several culinary successes over the summer, and I'm still proud of how I did on my first try. I haven't tried this recipe for over a decade (I did make it a few more times over the summer), but the link is still good if you're interested in trying it (to try it Ben Fischberg-style, just leave out the pepperoni, sauce, and oregano; feel free to add anything you like if you're feeling adventurous).
I've gotten much better with eating tomatoes (especially raw), but tomato sauce still generally disagrees with me.
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