Hurricanes!

Hurricane Irene means hurricanes for everyone!

• 1 part light rum
• 1 part dark rum
• 1 1/2 parts passionfruit juice
• 1/2 part fresh lime juice

Shake with ice. Serve with maraschino cherries.

Pizza Pizza!

Obviously you can make your own pizza out of just about anything, but we enjoyed these two varieties enough to record them. In both cases we used the ready-to-bake dough from Whole Foods bakery (which makes two small pizzas).

Pear and Prosciutto Pizza

• 1/2 Whole Foods pizza dough
• couple tsp olive oil
• 1 pear, sliced in long thin pieces
• 6 cloves garlic, sliced
• 1 large shallot, sliced in long thin pieces
• about 2 tbsp basil-based pesto (we used ready-made)
• a few basil leaves
• 4 tbsp gouda, shredded
• about 4 pieces of proscuitto, torn into bite sized pieces

1. Bake the pizza dough until almost done.
2. While the dough is baking, saute the shallot, pear, and garlic in a bit of olive oil.
3. Take out the dough and apply a very light brushing of basil-based pesto. Top with the pear mixture, then top with small proscuitto pieces. Sprinkle cheese over everything.
4. Return to oven until the cheese is fully melted.
5. Top with basil leaves and cook for one more minute.

Brocollini and Parm Pizza

• 1/2 Whole Foods pizza dough
• couple tsp olive oil
• 3 sprigs brocollini florets, cut into bite sized pieces
• 1/2 c mushrooms, diced
• 4-6 pieces of marinated artichoke hearts
• tomato sauce (we used the pre-made pizza sauce from Whole Foods)
• handful of parmesan flakes

1. Bake the pizza dough until almost done.
2. While the dough is baking, saute the brocollini and mushrooms in a bit of olive oil.
3. Take out the dough and apply a very light brushing of pizza sauce. Top with the brocollini mixture, then top with artichoke hearts. Sprinkle cheese over everything.
4. Return to oven until the cheese is fully melted.