Walter & Kim's Wedding

Finally, I'm getting some wedding pics posted! Its been a busy week but I've gotten through quite a few of the wedding photos and just thought I would post a few. Hope you enjoy! (they are in no particular order).

Jonah Pics

We had a fantastic week in Ann Arbor and the wedding was great. Just wanted to get a few pics of Jonah up. We will post wedding pics in the near future.

Mom and Jonah enjoying corn toss

Anna taught us the secret of GREAT pizza dough. it was awesome!

Hello everyone. Here are some pictures of our new couches with our new rugs! It's so nice to have some carpet in our house now! It will be really nice when we have our little guy here, especially! That's it for now!

Couches and Pizza

Just a couple of updates. We decided to purchase a new sofa and loveseat because our current set was really falling apart. Here are the before and after photos. We like them a lot because they are a good contrast to the dark wood floors and they really brighten the place up. (the first picture is dark so its hard to see the before, but you get the idea)

Mary Ellen is working today so I decided to try making pizza, although this time I went for the Chicago style deep dish. Its a lot easier to make because you don't need really high heat to cook it. It actually turn out really well. I will definitely be making this often. I used a spring foam pan and you push the dough around, kind of like a pie.

First a thick layer of mozzarella, then I added pepperoni, green peppers, and olives

Close up shot

Then a layer of crushed tomatoes, topped with basil and parmesan cheese

Here is the final product!

Easy recipe and great pizza, let me know if you want the recipe!

Pasta Pasta!

Mary Ellen and I enjoyed a great weekend in Prescott AZ. Its about 20 degrees cooler up there so it was great to get away. The weather was perfect. We did a little hiking and lot of relaxing, but the main project was raviolis! Above you can see we made three different kinds - on the right our regular cheese recipe, in the middle was a grilled chicken filling, and on the left was our veggie filling. We thought the veggie one up specifically for my Dad. I think he will love them.

So here are some picks of us making them!

We had a little bit of leftover dough, which we made into fettucine, and tried out our new pasta rack!! Worked out well.

My wife and son hard at work

Here are the final products - all in all they turned out really well. In both of the new ones we added basil, ricotta, and parmesan cheese. They were very flavorful and a good addition to the cheese ravs. We didn't have time to make other kinds, but this weekend I will experiment with meat ravs and dessert ravs! Below are close ups.

Four Cheese Ravs

(Ricotta, Mozzarella, Parmesan, White Cheddar)

Grilled Chicken Ravs

(grilled chicken, parm, ricotta, basil)

Veggie Ravs

(Onion, zuchini, bell pepper, ricotta, parm, basil)

We decided that we are going to sell them, and Mary Ellen came up with this pricing scheme:

1 Dozen: $100

1 Dozen hand delivered: $1100

online ordered will be coming soon....

New Bassinet for Baby Dougoveto

Hi everyone!

This is Mary Ellen and this is my first time blogging!! I wanted to show you the small new addition we made to our home. A bassinet for the baby! We are really excited about it! It will fit perfectly next to our bed when baby Dougoveto comes along. The outfit inside of it is from his Daddy, Joe. And Anna, all those diapers you gave us finally have a nice little storage space underneath the bassinet. Hope everyone is well. Miss you Joe!

Beautiful Mess

This title is a perfect description of my pizza making experience tonight. My dough prior to this has been too doughy and dry so I decided to try making the dough stickier. Well, it turned out to be way too sticky! Here you can see my dough balls rising in their little tupperwares. They were looking good at this point.
Here's my pizza sauce - ground up roma tomatoes (seeded) with salt, pepper, and a touch of oregano.Here I'm trying to work with the dough. Its incredibly pliable, but also very sticky...

Adding the tomatoesAnd cheese...

Cooking up on the grill!

As you can see in this picture the dough is too moist...although this is the opposite of what happened with the last batch, so I have to simply split the difference!


Finished product - The good thing is that we are learning a lot about the dough... It was very tasty but the dough needs work!