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White Pizza

Pizza Crust recipe:

1 cup warm water

1T white sugar

2-1/4 t yeast

3T olive oil

1t salt

2-1/4 cups flour

In a large bowl stir together water, sugar and yeast until dissolved. Add oilve oil and salt and mix. Stir in the flour until well blended, you may need more flour than the recipe calls for but don't use too much or else your dough won't move around like it should. Roll dough out on a flt surface with some cornmeal on the bottom for added crunch to the crust

White Pizza recipe:

2 cups whole or part skim ricotta cheese

2 garlic cloves

a handful of fresh parsley, finely chopped

2 cups grated provolone or mozzarella cheese (I use a combo of both)

1 cup of grated parmigiano reggiano cheese

hot pepper flakes and fresh basil (optional)

Grate the garlic into the ricotta cheese and stir to combine. Mix in the parsley. Drizzle olive oil over pizza crust and spread cheese mixture on top. Top with grated cheeses and bake at 425 degrees for about 20 minutes or until crispy. Top with hot pepper flakes and fresh basil if desired.

And a lovely summer vegetable salad to go along with it:

Sliced cucumber

tomatoes cut into bite size pieces

feta cheese

garbanzo beans

fresh lemon juice

olive oil

Mix all the above ingredients together and season with garlic salt, celery salt and some pepper. mmmmmm... and so easy!

Beautiful Bounty

I love summer because I love my garden and being able to share my bounty with others.

Hello Truck!

Today we had fun visiting the trucks at the Snow Branch library in Dearborn. Adam and Josh had fun while mom and Sarah sweated like crazy in the humidity!

True firemen at their fire truck!

The free stickers were almost as much fun as the trucks!

Cruisefest

Thanks for inviting us to the Cruisefest Sarah we had tons of fun! Adam got his first balloon animal, a brontosaurus. He loves it so much that he now only has two legs.

Attack of Chnandler Bong

I just got a package from DHL today and this is how they spelled my name.

DACOBA SURWIEC

This amazes me because when I ordered this item I typed my name into a form online. I'm pretty sure I know how to spell my own name. The last name is pretty close but COME ON... DACOBA!!! That's nowhere near DAEDRA!!!

And then the DHL driver must of felt bad because hadwritten in pen on the other side of the package is Deadra. Close but not really.

Tagged...

Thanks Sarah, now I have to create some original answers.

-Let others know who tagged you.
-Players answer questions about themselves.
-Those who are tagged should post these rules and their 8 questions and answers.
-Players should tag 3 or more people and tell them they’ve been tagged.

1. one thing people might not know about you: 27 is my favorite number. My birthday: 2/27, my husband's birthday: 6/27, our anniversary: 10/27, my mom's birthday: 7/27, my parent's anniversary: 8/27. Pretty wild.

2. the best invention ever is: the Internet and email. I feel helpless without it. How ever would I talk to friends. oh, I guess there's always the phone :)

3. in my next house, i vow: to have a gas cook top. and laundry on the second floor. and central air.

4. in my next life, i vow: instead of worrying about how to live a next life (which there isn't) I'm going to live this life like this is my only life. I'm not going to stress or do things I would regard as bad.

5. if i had nothing else to do i would be happy: shopping, I'm totally on that bandwagon Sarah. I don't get to do it enough now. I even enjoy grocery shopping with a child!

6. my dream date would be: sorry for the plagiarism Sarah but it's very fitting: A quiet dinner anywhere that didn't involve getting up 50 times to cut up food, refill milk, clean spills, etc. And we could stay for dessert and not have to rush out because someone is getting antsy or has to pee or needs to go to bed. Oh, and I would like to do all this outside of my home, I rarely get to eat out anymore.

7. one thing i do and one thing i will try to do to make our planet greener: ONE thing I do, oh geez.... I collect rain water from the downspouts to use on my plants. Our next car will be a hybrid.

8. one thing that astonishes me and one thing that amazes me: the one thing that astonishes me also is the miracle of life. Until you watch a baby being born you have no idea what a miracle it really is.
One thing that amazes me is how good God is and how so many people think that He isn't. Another thing that amazes me is that the devil is mad that he didn't get to be God and therefore he mimics God all the time to try to trick people.

I'm tagging J.Mack, L.Star and Kataypow.

Currently Blessed

Do you know that God is always on your side? I have this sneaking suspicion that He really likes me and listens to me!! Whenever I say "Gee, it would be really nice to have ______" it literally shows up for free or nearly free. Although, to have this stuff happen to me I had to give up buying the stuff brand new and just accept that I'd have to look in the garbage or at garage sales.

Earlier this summer I wished that I had a little white wire fence around my garden to keep Adam from kicking his soccer ball in there. A couple of days later I was driving down Inkster Road on trash day and I saw a rolled up length of white wire fencing in someones trash. I got over the fact that I'd be a garbage picker and turned around to go get it. It fit my garden perfectly!! I couldn't believe it!

And then a few weeks ago Adam was playing a fishing game a church with some other kids. I remembered having it when I was a kid and it's absolutely addicting. I thought, this would be a really nice thing to have for Adam because he was entertained for hours with this game. (OK, it'd be nice for me too). I kinda glanced at Target for the game but didn't see it, so I just put it in the back of my mine. I was SO EXCITED to find this game for $1 at the garage sale across the street today! But, of course I had just put all my cash into my gas tank a half hour prior. The neighbor was so nice, she's like "oh, don't worry about it, you can owe me $1. I don't care" Then this sweet little 10 year old boy handed Adam 4 quarters to buy the game! I almost cried it was so sweet. It only has one pole but look how much fun he's having:

I have recently been praying for financial provisions to come so that the three of us can attend a conference at the Toronto church with the Ross family. We've never been to Toronto and would love to experience this event. Last week I was blessed by Sarah when she passed off some work to me and I was able to earn more than enough to register for the conference. We still need a lot more but I have faith that if God wants us there He will bring all the opportunities to earn the money needed for the hotel, gas and food for our family trip. I'm so excited to share what happens in the next few months.