Easy Peasy: Fruit Pizza

Last Friday Hubs and I went to dinner at our friends house. The same couple we used to have LOST night with, so we’re used to splitting up the dinner responsibilities. We used to trade off who made the main course, and the other would make the salad or a veggie, etc. This Friday we brought a salad and a dessert.

I totally volunteered for this dessert thinking I would just make another blueberry crumble, but we still have half a blueberry crumble in our fridge and I felt super guilty wasting all that fruit making another one…. also felt I could just take over our leftovers haha.

I couldn’t think of anything else to make that didn’t involve fruit and crumble or baking a cake (which I did NOT have time for). So, I asked put the question out on Twitter and got a couple great suggestions. My favorite was from Amy at Dandelion Paperweight…


I was already kinda thinking of making a galette*, but all the recipes for the crust seemed too time consuming. Pizza? Pizza, I could cheat and buy premade dough for and call it a night! Thank. You. Amy!

I’m not gonna lie, I’m sort of proud of this recipe because I didn’t use a recipe, it’s super easy and UBER tasty!


How to make it…

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* I don't technically know what a galette is, so this could very well be one.

Five for Friday

Previous Fridays

1 - You made us hot dog for dinner on Wednesday. Grass feed and free range beef, hot dogs.
2 - You like think the curlers I use to do my hair are cute.
3 - You remind me to water my daisies.
4 - You water the basil plant and try to move is around so it gets goo sunlight.
5 - You washed and put away the dishes.

Brainstromy Sketches

My next project in my Lighting class involves designing a lighting fixture for a commercial space. I’m supposed to bring a sketch in tonight. I have no idea who my client is for this project. No idea. But, here are a few sketches of me working through the design.

I know, back-up Picasso! I think the final design with incorporate 2 of these elements. The bird cage and the drum light ooorrr something totally different. My office space where I work is pretty boring so I'm alway trying to add a bit of whimsy to call my commercial projects. We'll see where this ends up.

Five for Friday

Previous Fridays

1 – You don’t want to eat shrimp now because it causes more Sea Turtle deaths than they predict the Oil “Spill”* will
2 – You pretended to be Dan Aykroyd for that little boy that had just watched Ghost Busters and thought you were him.


3 - You’re great with kids even though you think you’re not.
4 – You were really proud of my Lighting project
5 – You love BBQ sauce

*Spill is in quotes because an underwater oil fountain is hardly a spill.

Blueberry Crumble

It’s berry season, just in case you haven’t noticed. Berry Season is one of my favorite seasons… it’s probably one of the tastiest! For the past few weeks I’ve been adding strawberries, blueberries and blackberries to pretty much everything I can. French toast? Check. Salad? Check. Pie? Check. Cereal? Of course!

Earlier this week Hubs was eyeing a blueberry crumble pie at Trader Joes. I get a little miffed when we wants to buy store bought pie (and such) because HELLO I can totally make that! So I promised him I’d make him crumble sometime.

Well, “sometime” was last night. I really wanted to cook something new and Hubs already had Trader Joe’s salmon burger for dinner. Best not to waste food we already had, so I decided to make the crumble. I went to my favorite go-to recipe site, Cooking Light, and found a recipe for Rainier Cherry Crumble. I decided I would substitute berries for the cherries since I wasn’t in the mood to pit 3 pounds of cherries.


How do you make this gooey crumbly berry goodness?

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For the berries I used 2 of those plastic things of blueberries and a bunch of leftover blackberries and strawberries. You can probably use any fruit you want. I think next time I'm going to do peaches and blueberries... YUM!

Do you ever get miffed when your husband/wife wants to buy something at the store you can make at home 10 times better? Am I the only weirdo?