Things I have made

This past week was a good one for me in the kitchen. Thursday night I made some chocolate cookies with the help of my friend, J. Those were good, but Friday night was better when I made those delicious lemon bars that I have always wanted to make. In the middle of the week I made homemade pizza that was fantastic, and then today I made Flaming Spinach Pizza Pie. It happened like this:

I was going to make cornbread, but when I walked into the kitchen a friend offered me a pre-bought crust that she had been storing in her freezer for a while. I accepted, thinking it was a pizza or keish crust, since that's kind of what it looked like on the cover. Maybe it was a vegetable pie crust. I don't know, but it ended up being sweet. At any rate, I quickly scrapped the cornbread plans and started heating up some tomato sauce and olive oil. To that I added carrots (for vitamins!) and a ton of spices in completely haphazard amounts. The list, as I remember, was cumin, tabasco sauce, chili powder, salt, pepper, pimente forte (HOT powder), dark brown sugar, basil, herbes de provence (a French specialty), and of course a lot of oregano. I forgot the garlic but it ended up not mattering. I then fried up a bunch of spinach in oil. I looked in the fridge and, realizing that I didn't have much shredded cheese, I tossed two triangles of off-brand fondu cheese (yay for France!) into the sauce. I spread the sauce over the pie crust, slopped on the spinach, and then sprinkled my shredded cheese over the top. That cooked for about 15 minutes, and when I tried it, it was FANTASTIC!! It was just a perfect amount of spicy and the brown sugar and pie crust gave it a really nice sweet undertone. I have never in my life tasted it's equal and, thanks to my unmeasured spicing, I'm sure I never will again.