i’m editing a wedding i shot in october and this bride’s facinator is killing me! my friends over at ban.do make some pretty killer pieces,if you’re looking to fancy up your bridal head with a little somethin somethin. {also lots of great holiday gifts!)
i don’t shun carbs, i love them extra hard with their fill your belly up and make you feel warm and cozy-ness! do i recommend eating this pizza everyday? ABSOLUTELY! no, not unless you have a supermodel metabolism and no family history of heart disease. but as an occasional treat, this one takes the pie (hehe).
one of my favorite things about this pizza (besides the obvious: HELLO! marriage between pizza and mashed potatoes!) is that you can change up the toppings to make it more/less gourmet/junk foody/colorful. it’s basically like a choose your own adventure book. of pizza. with mashed potatoes. you see what i’m talking about? greatness!
the what:
store bought pizza crust (i use 365 organic whole wheat crusts from whole foods, they crisp up nicely and can withstand a heaping pile of mashed potatoes without getting soggy)
pizza sauce
7 small/medium red potatoes
3 garlic cloves
1 large yellow onion
evoo
1/2- 1 cup of soymilk (unsweetened)
3 tablespoons of earth balance (more to taste)
sea salt, pepper, red pepper flakes (optional)
the how:
this is so easy i kind of feel stupid writing out steps or calling it a recipe. more like an idea for food, from me to you. let’s be honest, i’m not a food blogger, i just eat things that are yummy. allrightthen, here’s what i do:
slice onion into half moon pieces, add to frying pan on low heat with 2 tablespoons of olive oil (they will cook/carmelize for 30-45 minutes, so keep the heat low and an eye on them while you’re doing the rest! and add more oil if needed.)
wash, cube and boil red potatoes and 3 cloves of garlic
while potatoes are boiling, place pizza crust on pan and cover with a healthy amount of pizza sauce
once poatoes are soft, strain and put in a large mixing bowl
mash potatoes (and garlic!) with soymilk, earth balance, lots of sea salt, pepper (add more/less of anything to taste)
spread mashed potatoes onto pizza crust (i usually do this with my hands, starting with a big scoop in the middle and working outwards). you can make this layer as thick as you please, but i recommend keeping it as thin as possible, it can get heavy really quickly!
rub olive oil on edges of exposed pizza crust
once onions have taken on a brown, carmelized tone you can scoop them out and spread them over the mashed potatoes.
bake the entire pie at 400 degrees for 10-15 minutes, or until crust is crispy to your liking
sprinkle with red pepper flakes and serve, to the delight of your friends and family. (or eat 3 pieces yourself, standing at the kitchen counter. whatever.)
here are some of the patterns super-designer aileen cheng came up with recently when working on our birds of a feather branding. i think they’re so great (i may be biased) and will be incredible worked into our packaging for things like cd’s/cases, stationary, business cards, etc (they’re already in use here). i’m officially pattern obsessed.
hey, thanks for the acorns designlovefest but, uh, they’re not very tasty. did you have something else in mind for them?
you may or may not know about my other life. the one where i edit wedding photos all day long. it’s really a dream job- but even though i know that there are days when it just feels like WORK, you know? in those times i let my mind wander back to my very colorful work history (it helps me stay grateful).
i was a cocktail waitress at a trashy horse racetrack who served bud light in plastic cups to surly old men. i had a stint working the night shift at the vermont teddy bear company dressing bears as they came down the production line (terrible!). i worked for a company where my only job was to sit at a computer and enter the numbers from checks as they popped up onto the screen (aka data entry hell).
i was a temp worker, i worked at wet seal (omg), i assisted a photographer on the set of “wheel of fortune”. i worked at the olive garden and then when i was fired, the macaroni grill. i was an assistant on the sports illustrated cover shoot with reggie bush when he won the heisman trophy (i did not know one thing about reggie bush, the heisman trophy, or sports illustrated). i still don’t.
i was a dock hand, a bus girl, a second mate of a charter sailboat in the caribbean. i was a personal assistant for one of oprah’s friends. i taught photography at the art institute of san diego (that one still kills me, i felt like any second they would realize they’d hired ME to teach college, laugh and toss my ass out the door).
when i look back on it, i’m amazed. what a crazy, wild, and random work life i’ve had. and i can’t wait to see what the future brings! is this normal? do you have a laundry list of bizarro jobs like this, or do i just have employment ADD?
here is a short list of jobs i might like to have going forward: dog stylist, luxury hotel critic, house flipper, baby animal photographer, caribbean tour guide, candy taster, gangster rapper, personal chef on a ginormous yaght where my employers (jay-z & beyonce) only come once a year for a couple of weeks leaving me free to explore the mediterranean in my long months off, robot inventor, sleep study contributor, candy factory owner (a la willy wonka), trend hunter, puppy cuddler. are any of these too much to ask? i’m a hard worker and i’ve got skills. i think i can make this happen.
photo david bailey for uk vogue, 1971 via they roared vintage
i hope you all had a wonderful holiday! our thanksgiving was sweet and delicious and mellow (and yay, no animals were harmed in the making!). lou has been under the weather so we stayed home and celebrated with just our darling family. and my favorite thanksgiving tradition, feeding the dogs a miniature plate of food they would otherwise never get to eat, was a definite highlight. when our bellies were full i was finally able to convince lou that we’ve waited long enough, so up went our christmas tree! we have so much to be thankful for and although i think we do a fairly decent job of remembering that on a regular basis, it’s so nice to have a day that’s dedicated just to that (and amazing food). so now, let the christmas season begin! i slayed the anthropologie sale this morning- 50% off already reduced items (SO worth the drive down there at 7 am). happy shopping my friends, i hope black fantastic friday is as kind to you as it was to me!
