it's a pizza pie

I love pizza, but not just regular sauce and cheese pizza, although I love that too, but homemade pizzas. You can buy a whole wheat pizza dough ball at the grocery store for 98 cents and get around 4 good sized - enough to feed two - pizzas out of them. They are the perfect meal for a college girl like me who dreams of eating more than spaghetti and ramen but still wants to stay on a student budget. Once you roll out your 25 cent pizza, you can top it with anything at all. Things from the farmer's market, or things that are freezer burned in the back of your 'fridge.

My favorite combinations currently are: 

carmalized onions and goat cheese

roma tomatoes, basil and chunks of fresh mozzarella

cherry tomatoes, olive slices, shredded parmesan and 
whatever dried herb I reach for first 

onions, zucchini and parmesan

and last night I made this delicious little thing.

 

 frozen spinach, grape tomatoes and feta.

1. buy pizza dough for around a quarter per meal 

2. put anything and everything on it 

3. cook it at 350 for 15-20 minutes 

4. actually have a good meal and make your mother proud. 

It's a win-win all around. Enjoy your new favorite quick, cheap and delicious dinner! Try it out and tell me what you like best on your homemade pizzas!

friday favorites

It's Friday, and a new weekend is upon us. 

with my senioritis hitting me harder each day, weekends seem sweeter than ever

besides the upcoming weekend being my favorite thing about Fridays, 

here's some more of my favorite things in honor of my favorite day of the week. 

Vanilla candles, can't live in a house without them

watching [personal] classic movies all weekend

 Coffee, cute mug and my initial rolled into one -- nothing better

($6 at anthropologie, hello, what could be better?)

Spoil yourself and think about the little things in your day that make you happy and feel good. When we are able to identify the good things, instead of focusing on the bad, being thankful and living in a happy state of mind becomes much easier. I might have a 'packed-tight with obligations weekend' ahead of me and a huge exam on Monday, but I'm drinking out of my J mug with my vanilla candles burning, and I know I'm living la dolce vita