melty.

Tonight was the first night that I made really good at home pizza's. I've tried this before, but always on a cookie sheet or something, and the crust doesn't turn out so great. *p* has some pizza stones, and he always makes great pizza, so we decided to give them a shot. *ac* and *nn* were coming over for dinner, so *nk* came up with the idea of making gourmet pizza's. Despite the 100 degree + temperature, and the oven cranked to 500 degrees, they turned out great! (Thanks to central air.) I carmelized onions earlier in the day, and we had mushrooms, pepperoni, grilled chicken, peppers, basil, broccoli, etc to add to them. We each had our own, so no one had to share or fight over a stray mushroom on their side. We had leftovers too for lunch tomorrow. Earlier in the day, two of the kids made chocolate chip cookies with me which we had for dessert. When we needed to soften the butter, we just stuck it outside for a few minutes. It was evenly soft instead of having patches of melted butter like the microwave produces. Just think...if we lived in phoenix, we could soften butter all the time.