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Oh my God, I am so completely mortified right now.  So I had the opportunity to do an interview with somebody really cool for my blog today.  So I spent forever and a day coming up with really, really good questions to ask her.  We did the interview over gChat – I’ve never used gChat before, but I did a couple test runs beforehand to make sure everything went smoothly.  I could have used the phone, but thought that would make me too nervous, and thought typing everything would be easier.  Ummm…not so much!  Everything that could go wrong, did. 

I was worried about being able to quickly respond to what she said and have the conversation flow – sometimes it takes me a minute to process what people say to me.  But, she was really nice and I actually felt comfortable with the conversation.  But it took a lot longer than it was supposed to… 

I had typed out all my questions beforehand and had them right in front of me.  I typed my first question into gChat and it took forever!  What?!  Seriously!  It took me like 10 minutes to write it!  And I’m a really fast typer.  It took me no time at all to write it in Microsoft Word, but with gChat, it took me forever.  And I think it’s because the box you type in is so small.  It just makes it harder somehow.  And then there were like a million typos in my question.  So yeah.  She was really nice about it, though, and told me not to worry.  But ummm, I worry about everything.  And so I completely freaked out after that and was sooooo nervous the whole entire time.  Like, I didn’t know what to do.  So I started typing while she was typing so that I could get my questions typed ahead of time and still respond to what she said.  But then that was probably a breach of etiquette, right?  Because that probably looked really rude.  So then I started waiting for her to finish typing and then I would type.  But yeah, she probably thought I was the dumbest person in the world.  She didn’t say that, though.  She was actually really nice to me. 

Oh, and I kept hitting the enter button so that there would be a space between the different topics I was talking about.  But then when you hit enter, it submits your comment.  Sigh. 

Anyway, this probably doesn’t seem like a big deal to you guys, but it is to me, because it reflects very poorly on me – it looks like I didn’t prepare, that I didn’t put any effort into it, but I did, I really did.  I spent so long coming up with interesting questions and didn’t even get to ask any of them because it took so long to write one sentence.  Seriously!  I think I typed about one word every five minutes.  And then there were still errors!  Sigh.  Never again. 

You know, I was hesitant to do the interview because I always get nervous when talking to people.  But then I told myself it was a really neat opportunity that I would never have again, so I said yes, I would do it.  And then I spent a long time writing my questions so that I was prepared.  Seriously, I watched her biography clip, her food clips, and spent such a long time coming up with good, solid questions.  And after I came up with those questions, I felt prepared, so then I got really excited to do the interview because I thought it would go really well.  Yeah, it didn’t.  And I didn’t get a chance to ask any of my good questions.  Sigh. 

I’m so mortified right now.  I just want to crawl into a dark hole and never come out.  Anyway…maybe I’ll read your blogs right now.  At least you guys aren’t complete failures in life…I can never do anything right, nothing, not even when I prepare ahead of time. 

Oh, and the interview.  Yeah, I think I’m supposed to post it tomorrow, so you’ll be able to see what a mess I made of everything.  Anyway…that’s all I have to say today.  I do hope you guys are having a good day!

Oh yeah, I kind of just put paragraph breaks wherever in this post, even if they aren’t in the right places.  Who cares at this point.  I just couldn’t stand that it was one big blurb of writing – it was hurting my eyes, so I just decided to put breaks wherever.

July 28th, 2010 | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (2)

Hey guys!  Hope your day is going well so far!

Nicole, from Marina Maher Communications, recently sent me an idea about

making Boboli pizzas on the grill! 

Thanks, Nicole!  Now, I don’t have a grill but wanted to make a Boboli pizza anyway!  I’ve tried the Boboli Original Pizza Crust before, so decided to try a new one:

Boboli Thin Pizza Crust:

Took the pizza crust out of the package:

Broke it in half so it would fit on the pan:

Added some olive oil, then some tomato sauce:

Cut up some cloves of garlic into thin slices:

Don’t freak out that there is so much garlic!  The garlic softens as it cooks and mellows in flavor!  But the flavor it does add is amazing!  Seriously! 

Added the slices of garlic to the sauce:

Added some mozzarella cheese:

I had the pan on top of the stove while the oven was preheating, so some of the cheese kind of melted as soon as I added it to the pizza!

Now, I actually think the cheese melts better when you just use a block of cheese and grate it yourself or cut it into small pieces yourself.  I used prepackaged grated cheese since it was mozzarella, while the block cheese we had was cheddar.  I just thought the mozzarella cheese would go better with the fresh basil I was going to add later!

Heated the pizza, and this is how it turned out:

Then roughly chopped some fresh basil leaves:

Added the fresh basil to the pizza:

Here is a slice of pizza:

So how did it taste?

Well for one thing I used way too much basil!  I wanted to use a lot of it up before it went bad, so I just added a whole bunch of basil leaves to the pizza!   But that turned out to be too much (next time would use half the amount) as it overpowered the whole pizza! 

But that might have been a good thing because…

The garlic didn’t really soften that much, even though I’ve made garlic pizza a few times before!  I think that’s because our oven is older, and while it cooks food just fine, it’s not as powerful as newer ovens!  Whenever I make garlic pizza at a friend’s house, the garlic is always the absolute best part of the pizza since it softens so much and just adds the most amazing flavor!  And it doesn’t really leave an aftertaste at all!  But for my pizza, it did!  I couldn’t really taste the garlic too much when I was actually eating the pizza, as the basil overpowered it, which was a good thing, since the garlic would have been too pungent anyway!

As for the Boboli Thin Pizza Crust, I really liked it!  I have tried the Boboli Original Pizza Crust before, and while I like it, it is more bread-like in texture since it is so thick, and therefore I think is also a bit dry.  The Boboli Thin Pizza Crust was kind of doughy and a bit moist, and was closer in texture to real pizza crust than the Boboli Original Crust.  It didn’t really crisp up in the oven, but that’s to be expected, as pizza never crisps up in our oven!  I think the pizza crust would crisp up nicely if you had a newer oven.  I will say, though, that the very outer edges of the crust (where there was no tomato sauce) got a little crispy, and I thought that tasted awesome!  So all in all, I really like the Boboli Thin Pizza Crust!  I just saw online that Boboli also makes a Whole Wheat Thin Pizza Crust, so I’ll probably try that next!

Have a great day, everyone! 

July 22nd, 2010 | Tags: Barilla, Barilla Tomato and Basil sauce, basil, Boboli, Boboli Thin Pizza Crust, garlic, mozzarella cheese, olive oil, pizza | Category: Dinner, Product review | Comments (7)