Eat your hear out Taco Bell...Gooey, slimy, and melty --- Goslelty

Went to Whole Foods for the first time this weekend to try to add something exotic to my usual weekly meals. And what do they have in the seafood section but fresh calamari. 1 pound of squid should do very nicely. After watching the Early show on CBS I was motivated to do something special with pizza. I got some ridiculously fresh mozzarella and pizza sauce. I get home and look through the cookbook the hubby got me for Christmas to try and find a good squid recipe. Fried squid is just too typical and just not me. A-ha one where I only have to buy one ingredient after I tweak it. Recipe as I made it as follows, about
1 inch long piece of fresh ginger (left over from my adventures in grilled tuna),
3 dried red chili peppers
3 cloves of garlic
1 lb of squid sliced into rings
a couple of tablespoons of olive oil
a bunch of bok choy

I rarely measure ingredients so it's really hard for me to write out recipes. Chop up the garlic and ginger into small pieces (mince). Tear up the peppers and add them all to the squid with olive oil and toss. Refrigerate for about 2 hours. You really should sautee the squid in a wok but mine is still packed away in my basement after the move. I heated a large frying pan over medium heat until it was hot (water sizzled) then tossed in the squid. It obviously doesn't take very long to cook a couple of minutes but I kept the squid moving the entire time. Removed the fully cooked white squid from the pan and added what was left of the marinate and waited for it to boil. Added the chopped bok choi and covered the pan immediately. After about 2 or 3 minutes the bok choi was wilted but still tender. Added the squid back into the pan tossed it for a few seconds and served over rice. It was really spicy which my daughter loved. The hubby and cousin even tried it and loved it eventhough they have aversions to slimey foods with tentacles. Very light easy to fix and perfect for a summer dish.

Next is melty. The mozzarella from Whole foods was delish. If I wasn't occassionally lactose intolerant I would have just eaten the cheese globe whole. Bought a Pillsbury pizza crust, leaves a little to be desired as far as taste but it worked enough. THe pizza sauce was really good, unlike most other pizza sauces you could taste the tomatoes. I sauteed some italian sweet sausage and mushrooms (another favorite of the daughter). I cooked the crust for about 5 minutes so that it would be cruchy added the toppings on different sections of the pizza (you know how it's almost impossible to have a pizza everyone is happy with). Sprinkled some sliced garlick under the toppings and finished it with a toss of Italian seasoning. Cooked it for a few more minutes and wa-la. Melty cheesy goodness. The cheese really made the pizza, must invest in more ridiculously expensive cheese.

Last but certainly not least the gooey goodness that is a recipe for a s'more pizza. The one I saw on the early show looked kind of ick, but I liked the idea of it. As always I tweaked. Probably the easiest recipe ever only 3 ingredients.

1 pack of ready to bake chocolate chip cookie dough (you can really use any type you want)
Few tablespoons of hot fudge sauce
2-3 cups of marshmallows.

Roll out the dough into a circle on a cookie sheet. Bake according to package directions. After the cookie has finished baking allow it to cool completely then spread the hot fudge sauce on like pizza sauce. Liberally add marshmallows to the top of the pizza. Turn your oven to low broil. And stick the pizza back in for a few seconds (it really takes less than 1 minute) for a very cool toasted marshmallow topping. It's ready to eat immediately. The sugar content has to be through the roof so if you make it for kids make sure they are going home immediately afterward, lol. The kid and adults all loved it.