Pita Pizza . . . quick and easy . . .

I have been into making quick and easy pea-less-easy meals for Hazel and I. I am also trying to stay SOMEWHAT healthy. I do need to shed more than a few pounds since I have stopped smoking . . . ask Hazel, she will be more than happy to let you know that!!!! For example, I had the following conversation with Miss Hazel the other day:

Mom: "Ah man Haze, I feel so fat and ugly"

Hazel replies " well . . . big pregnant pause . . . you aren't ugly"

Which kind of explains also my bad day in the previous post!!!

Anyway, this is one of my favorites, but then made this way, Hazel doesn't care much for it. But I must say, it doesn't take a lot of time, and gets me back to arting!! Give it a whirl, and let me know what ya think . . . always can make improvements! I got wonderful ideas for the smoothies!!


Pita Bread
Olive oil cooking spray (or some other type of spray stuff :*)
Garlic powder
Mediteranian cheese blend (Kraft crumbelievables) – or some other type cheese you like
Slices of Plumb tomatoes (or hey, any tomato ya got!)
Red onion slices
Black olives at least cut in half so they don’t roll
Mushrooms

(Change around the ingredients however you like! Heck, use pizza sauce instead of the tomatoes and make it more Italian with pepperoni and mozzarella!)


Pre-heat your oven to around 350 degrees.
Lay out the desired number of pita breads onto a cookie sheet.
Spray the bread with the oil spray
Sprinkle the bread with garlic powder
Put a few tomato slices on top of the bread now, and then layer on the rest of your toppings.
Sprinkle with the cheese
Put them in the oven until the cheese is nice and melted. I like my cheese with little brown bubbles, but not to be careful not to overcook, don’t like burnt cheese . . . It takes about oh 5 minutes or so to start melting up.

When they cheese is melted to your liking, take them out of the oven and let them cool for a few minutes and then cut into wedges with a pizza knife.

That’s it, that’s all. Make a few, make a lot!!!!

Think Your Having A Bad Day!!!

this is my day thus far:

First thing I do this morning when I get up . . . stub my toe . . . not just a little "Ouch that hurt" . . . but the good ole make your butt cheeks pinch together and say something like "Firetruck" . . . I think I may have broken my little toe . . . then moving on . . . get to work, bend down to pick up a report that is shoved under my door . . . thought I heard something, but didn't really think much about it until later if I did . . . when walking down the hall to go to the supply department to order paper for the printer passing by the cafeteria and dinning room mind you . . . a gal that works here says . . . Oh man Judy, I don't think that's a slit on the back of your skirt . . . . right-o she was! a rip . . . a big ole fat ass rip . . . from hem to hip . . . so I flip the skirt around to the side so it's more my thigh showing than my ass . . . . and home I went to change clothes and come back . . . yep . . . all this done before 8:00 AM . . . just let me say it again . . . TGIF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SUPER EASY SMOOTHIE!!!!

Hazel and I are into smoothies big time! We were buying little powder packages to make them (adding fruit to the powder and ice and blending) . . . but then we thought, hey, why do we need this powder stuff?

Well, I googled, because google is my best friend when I don't know something. Of course I found 5o million types of smoothies . . . that's also a problem with google, it may be my friend, but may sometimes it just gives to much information!

So knowing I wanted something somewhat healthy, I discarded all ice cream recipes. Then, because Rachel Rae and I are so much alike (okay, only in the fact that neither of us really care to have to measure when we cook. and she has "Rae" in her name and so does Hazel, and oh yeah, we're both cute, hey I must be, Hazel said I wasn't ugly ttteeeehhhhheeee!) I found one using yogurt, strawberries, and sugar . . . . I read it through, went to the store, and then I ended up doing this:

1 - 6oz serving vanilla yogurt
1 - 60z serving lemon yogurt (this was originally suppose to be vanilla, but I grabbed a lemon by mistake and didn't realize until I'd dumped it in . . . . it was a yummy error on my part!)

dump these into the blender

fill one of the now empty containers with milk (I use skim milk, but just heard from sister Mary that she puts Soy Milk into hers . . . now there's a healthy twist too!!)
fill one of the empty containers with ice (crush it up first if you have big cubes, I used the bag ice from the store, so I don't know the number of "tray" cubes)

dump the contents into the blender

throw about 16 small sized strawberries (hulled of course!) into the blender, and then peel and break up a small banana putting the pieces right in the blender, just break it in thirds or such . . .

Now, you can add about a tablespoon of sugar at this point, but what the heck, blend it without first . . . it may be sweet enough for you . . . if not, throw some sugar in and BLEND, BLEND, BLEND . . . . make it a smoothie baby!

Pour it into glasses and enjoy! Hazel and I consider this recipe to be TWO SERVINGS . . .


Think of the different variations you could make with this! Let me know if you come up with some good combos!!!

SSSSlllllluuuuurrrppp

Push Me Pull Me

Remember Dr Doolittle . . . had the Push Me Pull Me animal . . . llama with two heads headed in both directions . . . I think it was a llama any way . . . man, I have been feeling like that lately . . . just seems like there is so much to do every which way I look . . . yikes!

Today weather wise is a humdrum rainy day. It is one of those good ole napping days . . . but spring seems to have definetly sprung, and this is a good thing!

White Art

I keep thinking I shouldn't post until I have something really profound to say. Then I thought, geese louise, I'd never post then! So I just will keep on posting when I have new art to show off, and maybe, well just maybe, one of these days I will have the solution to all the world's problems to share with you all.

This is one of my newest pieces. I was very inspired to work the white theme after I saw a piece by a wonderful artist Belinda Schneider. I know Belinda from the ARTchix Studio Yahoo group. Belinda lives in Germany. I also have a couple very awesome ATCs in my private collection from Belinda. She rocks.




The vintage slide mount I purchased from www.collagestuff.com in it's original state it is a shinny silver colored metal and has a couple pieces of glass that you put your picture between. I daubed it up with gesso and then used some tea stain varnish I had on it. Then I also used some distress inks on it also.







Well, I'm sorry today isn't the day I have great wisdom to share with you, but I am so glad I had the opportunity to share some of my art with you!

Thank you so much for stopping by! Stay tuned, perhaps sometime soon I will have a give-a-way . . . it seems to be quite the fad in the Bloggin' world to give something away! I am just trying to think of a good way to pick a winner, and then of course, what to give out as a prize!

Until then,

Love ya, love your art!

Ja-who-dee

Group Collage

One of my favorite mixed-media artist is Claudia Roulier, who has a blog http://croulier.typepad.com/rouliers_rusty_reliques/ I think this collage you can see the influence that Claudia Roulier had on me in the creation.

I have a lot of group photos, well okay, I have a lot of images period. I am trying to start getting myself to use more of these group photos that I have.

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter Everyone! Right now at our house all the eggs have been found, the ears are gone from the chocolate bunny, and we are all kind of lazing around. Later today we will go to Grandmother's house . . . the horse knows the way . . . smiles . . .

We have snow for Easter. Not inches and inches, but we do have white patches of snow on the ground. Certainly not the new spring dress, shoes, and bonnet kind of day. BBBrrrrr, it's a wonder it didn't keep the Easter Bunny away . . . . perhaps he is a snowshoe hare after all!

Tomorrow is back to work, I can't believe how quickly the week vacation flew by. Of course I am glad I have a job, but, sigh, vacation, sigh, just goes by so quickly. The good news is I will be near a scanner, and I do have a couple new pieces to show you. Hopefully Hazel will cooperate enough in the morning so I can sneak in early and scan them up for you!

Blessings to all,

love

Ja-who-dee

Art In The Loft . .

is a gallery in Alpena, Michigan. I just got an application in themail to apply to be juried for exhibition. It's like $80 bucks perexhibit, man, do all galleries charge like that? Well, I suppose if your super famous they pay the artist hey? Anyway, I see that JonathonTalbot is going to be up there . . . Sure, on April 24th and 25th, which now I have used my vacation time and don't dare ask for more offthis month at least . . . oh well . . . It's about time that the artsy mailings came our way instead of coupons for water heaters and other flyers .

. . .It has been an excessively lazy day for me. I've even had a nap, or actually I tried to nap, got interupted a lot during it. Hazel decided she wanted to try making cornbread again. She is turning into quite the baker! You should see her . . . . scoops the flour into the measuring cup and then levels it off with a knife . . . all that fussy measuring stuff your suppose to do . . . bleck . . . That would be why I amnot overly fond of baking, you have to be more exacting with your measuring. But now I have trained my very own little baker . . . see, I've told many of you I was Tom Sawyer in my past life! . . . so I will let you all know how the lemon poke cake turns out for Easter Dinner!

I watched this really odd scary movie . . . The Devil's Rejects . . .the unrated version . . . don't know . . . kind of chain saw masacreish . . . had the family that has the motto . . . the family that slays together stays together . . . no chainsaws though, and you enter the movie with the police raiding the rambled down farm home and then the man hunt for the escapees. Wasn't overly hard to figure out the ending . . . but then aren't all horror movies like that? Can youtell I like my slasher movies? I won't watch movies about demons possesing people, but I will watch a wacko slice off someone'shead . . . man, I wonder what a shrink would think about that one! HA!Then I like to watch these on DVD the best because then you can watch the special features to see how they did all the special effects for all that blood and gore

. . .I started to art today and then kept getting distracted. I think you all may have figured out it really doesn't take much to distract me these days! Now I just keep thinking . . . It's Thursday, almost Thursday night, my vacation is almost over . . . .wwwwaaahhhhhh . . . .so there we have it, I see the glass as half empty, not half full.

Now I need to go watch "Happy Feet" with Hazel, 'cause then that evens out all the blood and gore and evil I saw in my other movie . . . see, all it takes is a little balance in your life . . .

yak-a-dee-yak . . .

ja-who-dee