Walnut Pesto Pizza

Know what this is?? I'll tell you in a minute!

 

I think I finally feel a bit better but I'm still pretty wiped out. I feel like I've been sick for, hunh well a week and it has been a week, so then never mind. Carry on.

It was a fantastic stormy weekend, lots of new snow to shovel (woot!), some wild wind, rain and more snow! We just hunkered down for the most part, we started a new braided rag rug from some jeans that were too far gone for repair and shoveled snow, the guys went sledding while I finished some computer work and all in all had great weekend.

The organizing of the house is moving right along, that's where the dead jeans for the rag rug came from, the "mending" basket aka where things go to get ignored. Our craft closet clean out is working pretty nice, the kids can get in and get what they want and as they told one grandma who stopped in to say hi "you can even WALK in to it!!" 

Coleen of Coleens Recipes asked me how I organized my tupperware style lids. I couldn't figure out how to explain it but I took a picture of it to show what I came up with:

I really need to make another one so it's not so stuffed. On the other hand I should probably match lids to containers and see what I have left, maybe I don't need another one...Guess I know what I'll be tackling today! Need any tips on getting it together in your house, ask away, maybe I can help.

Saturday we made homemade pizza for dinner and I came up with a pretty damn good combination for the adults in the house, pesto, feta, spinach and walnuts! On a super thin crust, it was so great. The kids had cheese and pepperoni, they love vegetables and all but ask them to eat them on their pizza and they might cry. So we enjoyed it without them and everyone was happy.

Walnut Pesto Pizza--oven 450˚

Dough for one Pizza, use your recipe

1/4 cup pesto

1 cup spinach, washed, dried and stems removed

1/2 cup feta crumbles

1/2 cup walnuts, toasted for 10 minutes in a dry frying pan makes them great or just let them toast in the oven while it's baking

pre-heat oven to 450˚

pat your dough out as thin as you like it on a baking stone or a pizza pan

pop it in the pre-heated oven on a middle rack for 6 minutes or so

assemble the other ingredients while it pre-bakes

after the 6 minutes remove it from the oven

spread on the pesto, snip the spinach evenly over the pesto, add the feta, then the walnuts

bake the pizza at 450˚ for 10 minutes or until it's done, depending on the crust thickness it could take up to 20 minutes

We have a lot of moose come through our yard or maybe it's the same moose with new babies every couple years, I don't know, but this is a first at our house: 

This house has been in our family for 35 years and I have never had a moose walk on our back deck. It took me a couple glances to figure out what in the world I was looking at. One thing is for sure it's never dull around here, ever!

Peace and Love,