Australia Day & Pizza Love

I've spent most of the day playing around with the template on my blog. I don't consider myself to be very savvy when it comes to HTML, but I can go into the code and switch a few things around. I changed things around so much that I couldn't repair the damage and had to choose an entire new template. My first Australia Day was rather uneventful, I'm afraid. The highlight of the day was making a silver beet pizza, which was rather delicious, and listening to the Triple J Top 100 countdown. Will has gone off to work and hopefully will return with some good news about a job for me as well. Breaking into the hospitality industry is proving to be quite difficult. I've already experienced considerable damage to my ego and motivation levels, so I feel very confident that things can't get much worse.

Will commented on my pizza making skills: "Each time you make pizza it looks more and more like a proper pizza!" My pizzas haven't been horrible, as they always get eaten, but I have had the tendency to get carried away and make very thick crusts. Wholemeal + thick crust = extreme thirst and swallowing malfunctions. Making pizza is one of my favourite things to make as I have complete control over both the quality and quantity of toppings I want on it. Restaurants usually skimp on the vegetables and pile on the cheese; forget about even have the option for wholemeal crust. I usually pile on the roasted vegetables and skimp on the cheese by using a strong cheese with heaps of flavour. I've been making pizzas for a bit over a year now and I'll agree that my dough handling has improved heaps since using a recipe in The Joy of Cooking: Vegetables and the Basic Methods of Cookery last term.

There is a place in Hawthorn that makes vegetarian and vegan pizzas called Plush Pizza, when am no longer unemployed I'll have to make a trip out there!