THREE FOR THREE

In the past seven months we've been broken up with via:

Voice Mail

Text Message

Email 

Ahhh, the beauty of technology. Zero accountability. At least we haven't gotten dumped by a Post-It! 

(And, we admit it, we've played this game as well.)

PIZZA PIE

Another kind of pie we're obsessed with is the pizza kind. We especially love putting "weird" things on pizza and calling it fabulous. Awhile back we were inspired by InStyle and Aida Mollenkamp ("Food Network's rising star," apparently) to have our very own pizza party with one of our favorite people and fellow blogger, Saltina.


(Saltina takes the most lovely, thoughtful photos. Check out: myphoneograpy. Really, you'll love them.)

And today, we're thrilled to do a co-post. Here for the recipes. There for more photos. Join us.

Note: We used one package of Trader Joe's whole wheat pizza dough, divided and made one of each of the pizzas below. Recipes are for two small pizzas each, so you might want to halve the ingredients. Although we believe that pizza is very forgiving and don't worry about measuring (maybe that's why we love it).

POTATO, ARGULA, PECORINO AND MOZZARELLA

2 cloves garlic, sliced thin

2 T grated pecorino cheese (we think Parmesan would work, too)

1/4 lb. mozzarella, sliced

1 small (about 1/4 lb.) cooked potato thinly sliced (we sliced, then cooked)

4 T olive oil

2 cups baby arugula

Preheat oven to 450. Drizzle 1 T olive oil over cookie sheet (or, you could use a pizza pan or pizza stone if you're feeling fancy). Prepare dough (to us that means rolling out as thin as possible, we don't worry about the shape, as long as it fits on the pan). Sprinkle garlic, pecorino, mozzarella and potato slices onto rolled out dough. Drizzle 1 T olive oil over pizza. Pierce dough with a fork several times. Bake 10 - 12 minutes or until crust is crispy. Remove and top with fresh arugula.

BLUE CHEESE AND ROASTED SQUASH

1/2 cup diced butternut squash*

1/4 cup diced onion

5 T olive oil

1 t salt

1/4 t ground pepper

2 T grated pecorino cheese

4 T crumbled blue cheese

In large bowl, toss squash and onion with 1 T olive oil, salt and pepper. Spread vegetables in a single layer on a baking sheet. Roast at 400 until tender (about 20 minutes, but depends on how small you dice 'em), set aside. Preheat oven and prep pan/dough as above. Sprinkle pecorino onto dough. Spoon the veggies evenly over dough. Sprinkle pizza with blue cheese and 1 T olive oil. Pierce dough with fork several times. Bake for 10 - 12 minutes or until crust is crispy.


*We diced up all the butternut squash and threw small batches into individual ziplock bags and froze them for future pizza parties. Easy!

If you're feeling extra fancy make the Orange & Lillet Cocktail that Aida recommended. 

Thanks to InStyle, October 2009 for recipes and inspiration.

COOCHIE COO

Once, we went on a date with a guy who, in an attempt to take it to the next level (we’re guessing), said “Hey, my dart matches your shoe.” (We were in a pub. Playing darts, naturally.) And then actually reached down with his dart and tickled our blue-sandal-clad foot.

We wish he'd just touched our leg or something.

FLAT

Moving to a new city is hard, especially if you’re single and know no one. We decided to join Match when we got to D.C. – the best way to shock us into a social life we thought. Our second date was with a guy who was a giant, goofy and floppy and strange.

Does he suffer from ADD, we wondered? Is he crazy? Unfortunately we downed three martinis as a coping mechanism, so when he went for the back rub, we didn't resist. Worse, we didn’t protest when he gave us a big, slobbery, goofy, floppy kiss.

Forgive us – extreme loneliness, tiredness and martini-ness made us weak.

And don’t you agree? Once we kiss someone, we feel almost obligated to go out with them again. 

In the time it took to get from date #1 to #2, we chatted on the phone a bit and learned the following:

- He was unemployed

- Living with his parents

- Usually stoned out of his mind on painkillers because of chronic back pain

- He was stoned out of his mind on our date

- Whenever he is constipated, his back pain acts up "real bad"

- He has urinary hesitancy (this means he can't pee in public. neat, huh?)

Clearly, when date #2 rolls around, we are not excited. We organize a squadron of new friends to come meet us at 8 (date starts at 7). We arrive on time – he’s not there. We order a mojito and nurse it. Get a text from him at 7:15: "HAVE YOU LEFT YET?" We call him back: "At the place. Been here for 15 minutes...you know, at the time we agreed to meet?" He is apologetic and says he'll get in the car right away.

45 minutes later we are wilting into our mojito. Nothing is more humiliating than being stood up by someone you're going on a pity date with. Areweright?? Friends show up and we bail. A half hour goes by and we have a voicemail from date:

"I was coming down Rock Creek Park when I hit a pothole and got a flat tire (cue sounds of cars whooshing by). Triple-A came and changed it and I'm on my way..."

We text: SRRY ABOUT UR CAR. WE’RE KINDA BENT OUTTA SHAPE FROM WAITING SO LONG FOR U, SO LETS CALL IT OFF. HOPE UR NITE GETS BETTER.

We turn our phone off. About an hour goes by, and when we turn it back on we are hit with  a barrage of angry text messages from him, along the lines of:

I CAN'T BELIEVE UR DOING THIS TO ME

I WAITED 2 WEEKS TO SEE YOU AND THIS IS HOW YOU REPAY ME

I THOUGHT YOU WERE COOL

etc.

We're shocked alright. We turn the phone off...and continue to have fun with the new friends.