SURRENDER!

OK. Enough already. I'm done with this white stuff.

I've baked enough oatmeal cookies to lower the cholesterol of every fat, lazy, self-important legislator in New Jersey AND Pennsylvania. I've made ednough soup and chili to float and fart myself into oblivion. Really. I'm still not tired of making pizza with my kids, or reading to them all morning and afternoon, snuggled under blankets on the couch in the den, as we like to do.

But c'mon now. Enough is enough. I give in , Mother/Father/Uncle/Cousin/Crotchety Old Neighbor Nature. You win. Now gimme back my driveway.

Pizza Dreaming,,The Downside of Surfing the Web

On so many cabin-fever-inspired days in February, the mind tends to wander. With the pouring rain and sleet half-melting the ugly mounds of snow in and around Lawrenceville, I reluctantly started to surf the web (I was actually babysitting two repairmen in my kitchen who were resurfacing my Corian countertops). I tend to obsess about pizza, and lately, making lots of it at home, I'm looking for inspiration and nuggets of knowledge.

Woe is me. I stumbled upon a website about pizza from Naples.. But not just pizza from Naples. but a listing of the 10 Best Pizzerias in Naples (and therefore the 10 Best in The World). Join me now for a few sighs and read about Vera PIzza Napoletana.

Ok, I'm starting up my Cuisinart stand mixer.....