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Cooking For One with Katy - Episode 19

Chicken Picatta Pizza

6 chicken breasts (boneless/skinless)
1/4 cup flour
4 Tbsp butter ormargarine
1 Tbsp olive oil
3/4 cup chicken broth (Swansons is best)
1/3 cup lemon juice (2 lemons)
1 tsp finely grated lemon peel (zest)
1/2 tsp salt
4 or 5 grinds of pepper mill
1 Tbsp butter or margarine
3 Tbsp snipped parsley
2 to 3 Tbsp capers???(this is a guess...I've never measured

If the chicken breasts are large, cut in half. Pound the chicken breasts between plastic wrap to about 1/3 inch thick. Sprinkle them with or dredge them in flour. Heat the butter and olive oil (till foam subsides) and cook the chicken in it about 2 minutes per side. Take the chicken out. Add broth, lemon juice, lemon peel, capers, salt, and pepper and boil for about 6 minutes. Add the last Tbsp of butter. Put the chicken back in the pan, spoon the sauce over it, and heat for about 2 minutes. Taste for seasoning. A little caper juice or lemon juice, or a little more salt or pepper may be added if needed.

Pizza Dough:

1 1/2 cups water
4 cups flour
1 tbsp sugar
1 1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp yeast
some oil (Just eyeball it)

Proof yeast and then mix all ingredients (except salt) in together and knead by hand for about 2 minutes. Then add in salt and continue to knead until the dough takes on a consistent texture throughout and is relatively soft and pliable to the touch. Let set and raise for as long as you want (I once left my dough out for 24 hours).

Pizza:

Cooked, sliced chicken breasts from the Chicken Picatta recipe
Leftover sauce from the Chicken Picatta recipe
Red sauce
Cream Cheese
Shredded Mozzarella
Other typical/desired pizza toppings.

Preheat oven to 415-425. If you have one, place pizza stone in oven while it preheats. Divide dough in half. Cover a wood cutting board or pizza peel with cornmeal or semolina. Form dough into a ball in your hands. Place on board and begin to push down and out, forming the ball into a disc, and eventually a flat pizza round. Use a rolling pin if necessary. Cut cream cheese into 1/4 inch pieces. Spread red sauce onto pizza round, then evenly spread 1/4 inch cubes of cream cheese. Place pizza in oven for 2-4 minutes, or until the crust begins to become crispy, but not brown. Remove pizza, add mozzarella, chicken, and rest of ingredients and then place back in oven until the crust starts to take on a brown color. If you have delicate ingredients such as basil or sun dried tomatoes, add them either 30 seconds before you remove the pizza, or right when you take the pizza out.

Things/People I haven't lost lately:

• Drew & Ron... cause I haven't lost my testimony of the gospel
• Mom (physically)
• Stacy
• Wendy
• Dave & Erin
• Ability to exercise (there was a time when I couldn't):
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• golf clubs (last year I think I lost two pitching wedges)
• my assistant at work, Matt, who is great
• my iphone
• a lot of facebook friends and real friends for that matter
• the ability to bribe Asher with candy or a movie

And here are some more (see, I'm a glass half full gal after all):

• testimony
• temple recommend (physically or spiritually)
• job
• shelter (my condo)
• transportation (my suby & scooter & bike)
• scooter parking spot
• keys
• wallet
• any weight
• sense of humor
• a game of connect 4 ... I dare you to beat me
• my plant (it's been alive for over four months in my care)
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• my view of Y mountain and squaw peak from my balcony
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• love for BYU sports
• receipts (they are all filed away in chronological order)

Things/people I've lost lately:

• Drew ... to death
• Ron... to death
• Mom (mentally)... to Alzheimer's
• Stacy... to Dave and Pennsylvania
• Wendy... to Travis and Wyoming
• Dave... to Erin
• Erin... to Dave
• Motivation for exercise... to comfort food and television
• Lots of golf balls to bushes, trees, creeks, and ponds
• Student employees to other jobs, graduation, and snake bites (totally JK about the snake bites)
• Every game of scrabble (words with friends) I've ever played on my iphone
  
• A Facebook friend or two
• And Asher's affection - this is the typical look he gives me:

Now lest you think I'm a "glass half empty girl ..." come back tomorrow for a list of things/people that I haven't lost. Cause you know, the sun'll come out tomorrow or maybe the next day.

Van or Napoleon?

Ann Dee doesn't see it.

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Tonight as I left this beautiful building on the hill ...

I felt proud because for the first time EVER ... I didn't fall asleep.

Laps for Lacy ... and an intestinal organ

Yesterday morning I got up early and ran a 5K for the Utah County Down Syndrome Foundation. Here are some other participants ... aren't they all good looking?

Now I'm going to tell you a story ... names have been changed to protect those involved.

Katarina was golfing with her good friends, Don, Jack and Mike at Hoggle Stream the other day. On one of the last holes (can't remember which one) Katarina got up to hit her ball from the red tees. As she swung a little fart came out. It distracted her and the ball did not go very far at all. It was not a very big fart but it was loud enough that Katarina knew she couldn't pretend it didn't happen. She kinda chuckled and looked back and Jack and Don. Mike was already on his way up the fairway cause he likes to walk.

Don (while laughing): Did you just fart?

Katarina: Yeah, it was one of those ones that just comes out. I couldn't help it.

Jack (while laughing): Well the ball should have gone a lot further than it did with all that extra force.

Don: It was just a little, cute one. Ziiip (trying to imitate the sound)

Katarina: blushing while trying to make it seem like it wasn't such a big deal

Mike had now learned what was going on from all of the discussion up by the tee box. Katarina was very embarrassed. The next day at church, during the closing prayer, the organist accidentally played two notes on the organ. This sounded just like the little fart and Katarina was reminded of the incident. The organ in the chapel was likend to Katarina's intestinal organ.

The End.

Change the world

Last week I got a parking ticket for parking my scooter outside the museum in this spot. At the time it did not have a sign up and the curb things were not painted. This has always been, however, the place to park motorbikes. I was a bit upset at the time ...

Here is what happened:

• online appeal
• fine decreased from $20 - $10
• argument with appeal judge
• name dropping
• explanation that I was not a student but a FTE who works all day in the museum
• no backing down from either of us
• phone call by an influential co-worker
• citation voided
• sign posted
• curb things painted