Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

@irenes@mastodon.social - Yup! AND THAT WOULD BE ME! :D

# Hylian Tomato Pizza

Personal Trainer: Cooking
1.0 pizza

1.0 cup bread flour
0.75 cup water
0.5 tbsp dry yeast
0.5 tsp sugar
0.25 tsp salt
0.5 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
7.0 oz fresh mozzarella cheese (diced into 1/4 inch cubes)
0.5 whole bell pepper (sliced into rings)
1.0 oz black olives (sliced)
0.5 cup tomato sauce
0.5 medium tomato (sliced into 8 slices per 1/2 tomato)

1 - Put the warm water into a bow! and add the dry yeast.
2 - Stir in the sugar
3 - Leave the yeast and sugar in a warm place for 15 minutes to activate the yeast.
4 - Put the bread flour in a mixing bow and add the activated yeast mixture.
5 - Add the salt and olive oil.
6 - Mix together well using your hands.
7 - Knead the dough until it starts to stick together.
8 - Knead the dough on a cutting board. pressing with the palms of your hands as you push the dough away from you.
9 - Rotate the dough 45 degrees and fold it over. Continue to knead a you did before.
10 - Knead the dough until the surface of the dough is smooth and moist.
11 - Dust a deep dish with flour.
12 - Gather the dough into single lump then cut into the number of pizzas you'd like to make. Roll each portion of the dough into a ball.
13 - Wait a few moments before transferring the balls of dough to the deep dish.
14 - Cover the dish with a dry dish towel and leave it in warm place for approximately 50 minutes.
15 - Preheat an oven to 475F.
16 - Remove the dough from the deep dish and press down to release any air that has built up.
17 - Dust the dough and rolling pin with flour and roll the dough balls into flat round pizza crusts.
18 - Spread tomato sauce over the pizza crust, about 1/2 cup per pizza.
19 - Layer eight tomato wedges in a spiral pattern over each pizza crust.
20 - Scatter an equal amount of black olives over each pizza crust, about 1 ounce per pizza.
21 - Scatter an equal amount of bell pepper rings over the pizza crust.
22 - Scatter an equal amount of mozzarella completely over each pizza crust., about 7 ounces per pizza.
23 - Put the pizzas in the preheated 475F oven and bake until they are crisp and golden.

So I was actually kinda unhappy with the Hylian Tomato Pizza. It was great, don't get me wrong. But on reheating in the microwave, the cheese and dough just melted and turned to goop.

But I just reheated a slice in the oven. AND OH MY GOODNESS IT TURNED INTO EVEN MORE OF A PIZZA.

"Monsieur Neary? I envy you."

Not sure about those Special Edition versions though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlKvPpij-QQ

I don't remember if I saw Close Encounters at the theater (I would have been three) or if I saw it on TV later on, but this scene has been burned into my brain since the first time I saw it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZhWPrxeHwo

@BalooUriza - There was a trope in the 80s of "The Kid is Always Right" when it came to children's shows. Usually the adults acted like buffoons, and the kid was only genius in the room. YCDTOTV was pretty much in that vein, especially in the later years.

Jenn, you cook so much awesome food. Where'd you learn all that?

@gaghyogi49 - I seem to remember the Enterprise having a "Copernicus" shuttle as well. But it doesn't look like Copernicus fits the "squiggle."

Spent the entire day cleaning house between ice pack applications. Ice packs work best at this point, even more than the pain killers.

The house is still not clean, but at least it no longer qualifies for superfund site status. One or two more loads of dishes, and we'll be all done. Then we can just be very judicious about what needs cleaning/washing and what can be disposable until this pinched nerve is worked on.

Trying to make Friays my Chore Day, but lemme tell you, my neck ain't havin' none of that....

I'm not someone who ships Zelda and Link, like, ever. I see their relationship as "Queen and Knight" or "Ruled and Ruler." There's a Fealty aspect I've always put to the Zelda games. I see Link with Malon in Ocarina, or Link and Mipha in Breath of the Wild.

But Tears of the Kingdom? I'm fairly sure they're a couple at this point, if only out of the circumstance of where and when they are at this point in that story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bfjukn4_zw (Warning, spoilers!)

#tearsofthekingdom

@jonmarcantel - Lwaxana Troi is a narcissistic mom, big difference. ;)

Lwaxana would get me on a ship as far away from Betazed as possible, too. Pelia would make me cookies while encouraging me to pick the pocket of a Ferengi. :D

@gaghyogi49 - I do know one is "Medical Insurance Remaining!" :)

@greatgamer - No. I am not beautiful.

Leave it be, at this point. I know me. You do not.

#blunttruth

@greatgamer - No. It would not. #blunttruth

@rayckeith - Nothing here that will spoil the show. I'll be putting any spoiler material behind an appropriate cut, trust me. (See my last month of Zelda spoilers)

I am 15 minutes into Strange New Worlds, and I'm ready to rename this to The Commander Pelia Hour. Carol Kane is this show already playing a character type I've NEVER seen in Star Trek before: The michevious grandma.

Ah, summer. The season of "Yeah, I'd like to wear that cute summer outfit that girl is casually wearing, but I'd be laughed out of the county if I did."