Lauren: PHP, Pee-Wee's Big Holiday

Lauren
Sat April 30 2016

Pizza: Patrick's Homemade Pizza

We had weekend guests... nieces Hannah and Reagan were here! So that meant extra pizzas all around. I made four this time, all with my standard dough recipe and Carfagna's pizza sauce. Reagan likes cheese. Trevor really only likes black olives on his pizza. (for confirmation, check the sidebar of keyword labels used in this blog). Hannah wanted pineapple. Lauren and Beth wanted apple and bleu cheese (and I wanted some bacon!). I wanted sausage with onions and peppers. Beth wanted me to throw some mushrooms on the sausage pizza. The kids grabbed slices before I could take full pie shots. Ta-da!

Movie: Pee-Wee's Big Holiday

I saw the trailer for this a month or two ago and thought "That's exactly what the world needs. New Pee-Wee!" And I was right, because the movie was great. It contained many classic Pee-Wee bits, like the Rube Goldberg devices, Pee-Wee misquoting people, a road trip, and meeting interesting strangers. All in all, a very solid entry. Recommended.

Movie Trailer

DUBSMASHES

for Pee-Wee's Big Holiday

Lauren gets us going

Hannah and I play the parts of Joe and Pee-Wee

Reagan is too shy to do it, but Hannah closes it down perfectly

Beth: The Secret of Roan Inish, PHP

Beth
Friday April 8 2016

Pizza: Patrick's Handmade Pizza

Everything tonight is being brought to you by Ancient Age bourbon, the runaway winner in multiple Long households for the category of "Best Bourbon Sold In A Giant Plastic Jug". Mmmm. Tonight, we mixed it with Dailey's sour mix and some soda water for a classic whiskey sour. The pizzas were good, but Beth felt that my attempt to switch up the apple pizza from bleu cheese to cheddar lacked whatever it was she was looking for in the pizza when she requested it. I don't think that substitution earned a repeat appearance. Smoked sausage is always awesome with onion and pepper and  the cheese pizza got a little pinch of the cheddar just because that's what the whiskey wanted. Sometimes, I roll the dough so thin that I have a usable 4th piece, so I rolled it as far as I could and made Trevor's pizza from that. He enjoys getting a special pizza, and I'm only too happy to not infest the good pizzas with those filthy black rings. Gross. We had one jar of Carfagna's pizza sauce and one jar of Classico, so of course I used the Classico for the kids' pizzas and saved the good stuff for ours. Parenting!

Movie: The Secret of Roan Inish

My mother lent this movie to Beth and I because the three of us are going to Ireland in September (whoop whoop!) so we're naturally drawn to these kinds of things. The movie started out "Super boring, and hard to understand. Can I go play Minecraft?" and ended up with "That movie was actually OK". I concur, little man. I concur. I wouldn't really recommend this movie, because it isn't for everyone. The acting is, uh, sub-optimal. The settings and locations, though...

Movie Trailer

DUBSMASHES

for The Secret of Roan Inish

Naturally there weren't many available pre-made sounds in the Dubsmash banks for this movie, so we had to create one. Since Beth was the one who picked the movie, by law she had to do the smash.

Beth: Superman Man of Steel, PHP

Beth
Friday March 18th 2016

Pizza: Patrick's Homemade Pizza
Pretty standard three pizza mix - smoked sausage and red peppers, pepperoni, and cheese/olives. Trevor insists on olives for his pizza, and has for many years. Carfagna's pizza sauce, Italian 4-cheese blend cheese, and some plain shredded mozzarella. Good stuff. The pepperoni pizza stayed in a little longer because the crust on the bottom wouldn't harden up. I ended up pulling it off the pan and baking it on the rack for an extra 3 minutes, after an additional 3 minutes... I should just go to the rack immediately if it's not ready when the buzzer rings. The top and the sides were a little more burnt than I would like. It was still good though.

Movie: Superman Man of Steel (2013)

I will cop to not having seen the Superman movie that came out before this one, the one with Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor. I thought it looked dumb, and I just figured this was more of the same. But with the new Batman vs Superman movie coming out, Beth chose this one to get a little backstory. We're all glad she did, because Man of Steel is actually a pretty good movie. The prologue on Krypton is interesting. Trevor was scared enough to sit on my lap during one of the darker scenes, but he was fine. 

DUBSMASHES

for Superman Man of Steel

Beth as Zod! Grrrwwwrr

Lauren as Zod! Puuurrrrrrrrr

Patrick as Clark sharing with Trevor

Lauren: Toy Story 2, PHP

Lauren
Saturday February 28 2016

Pizza: Patrick's Handmade Pizzas
One cheese and olive, one pepperoni, and one Carfagna's mild sausage and orange pepper. Mix of Carfagna's pizza sauce and Classico Fire Roasted sauce. Very good.



Movie: Toy Story 2
Classic. Pixar's third film is not only one of the greatest movie sequels ever, but this 1999 masterpiece stands as one of the best animated films of all time. Yes, you've already seen it.

Beth: X-MEN Days of Future Past, Pizza Bread

Beth

Saturday February 13th 2016

Pizza: Pizza Bread

I accidently ruined the dough by not adding the correct amount of water, so with only an hour to go until movie time, I called an audible: back to Carfagna's for Pizza Sub Shop buns! They turned out delicious. (Carfagna’s sauce, Pizza Sub buns, and Yoder’s pizza blend cheese, sliced smoked sausage from the refrigerated section, and black olives). There are no pictures because this blog idea, though conceived two weeks ago while on a dog walk, was not implemented until two days after the pizza.

Movie: X-Men Days Of Future Past
Various comments include "It was a little confusing." "We drew a paper timeline to keep track of the days of future past last time we watched it, and I still don't understand.""Can I play Minecraft now?"