2010 is CRAZY!!!

Haha…not really! Our night thus far has been totally lame laid-back but awesome 🙂

For our New Year’s Eve dinner, I knew that I wanted to eat something with CHEESE since I’ll be living without for the next 31 days (I’ll miss you, friend!).  Ryan and I decided on homemade pizza for our party-of-two New Year’s Eve bash.

This afternoon, we got to work making the dough.  We followed a recipe out of Colleen Patrick-Goudrea’s The Vegan Table.  It was a pretty basic pizza dough recipe.  It called for 3 and 1/4 cups of all-purpose flour, and we subbed 1 cup with whole wheat flour.  Otherwise, we followed it to a T.  After a few hours of letting the dough rise, we had a lovely, glistening bowl of pizza dough:

Ryan and I like our pizza really, really thin, so I rolled it out as thin as possible:

I prepared some pseudo-Caesar salads, while Ryan chopped veggies for the pizza.  Our salads included: romaine, capers, kalamata olives, shaved parmaggiano regiano, lemon zest, and Amy’s Caesar dressing:

The lemon zest really made this salad!

Our toppings included: roasted orange bell peppers, regular yellow bell peppers, pineapple, basil, and blue cheese:

After rolling out the dough, we baked it in the oven at 350 for about 10 minutes, and then pulled it out to top it.  We always bake our crust first for a little while before topping it; otherwise, we’ve found that it can stay pretty doughy, even after baking.

Post-baking:

 

Topped, back into the oven for another 10 minutes or so:

Out of the oven…ready to eat!

Don’t you just love my New Year’s Eve outfit?  Tank top and yoga pants– super fancy!

We poured a nice glass of wine and settled down on the couch to watch one of my absolute favorite movies: Almost Famous.  Can you believe Ryan has never seen this movie?  I love, love, love it. I remember totally wanting to be Penny Lane the first time I saw it :-).  Plus, it contains one of my all-time favorite movie quotes:

“The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool.”

How appropriate for tonight’s activities 😉

Hope you’re having a great New Year’s Eve.  If you can’t tell by the above pic, I’ve been feeling a little under the weather, so I don’t even know if I’ll make it to midnight.  Kiss someone for me!

See you in 2010!!

ps-  Thank you for ALL the sweet comments about my new hair! Y’all are too sweet!