Pizza Heaven

This weekend, Jen and I took off for a long-planned weekend visit to Baker City to try the pizza that Kina and Whitey (and staff) work so hard to make. We'd heard rumors that it was good, and I believed it would be good. What I didn't know was that I'd come home and wish Paizano's was HERE instead of five hours (at best) away! OMG, Jen and I agreed that we both wanted to try the Sweet Thai Shrimp pizza, and decided we'd actually do half the pie with shrimp and half with chicken. The chicken rocks, but the shrimp is insane.

This isn't your typical pizza - without having heard Kina talk about it so often, I don't think I'd have braved it. It has sweet chili sauce, peanuts (yes, peanuts), coconut (yes, coconut), and green onions along with the shrimp (and these aren't canned shrimp) or chicken. I know it sounds weird. I know, really. But it is SO GOOD that I'm wishing that I'd brought a pie home with me. Yum.

The crunch and light saltiness of the peanuts, mixed with the tropical hint from the coconut, with the bright, clean tasting fresh shrimp, blended with the crisp green onion and the just-sweet just-sharp enough taste of the sweet chili tomato sauce blend was perfect. The pieces definitely make the whole - I think if I'd thought to order this anywhere else (I gave total trust to Paizano's here), I would have asked that the coconut be left off, and I would have been less enthralled with the result.

I'll be dreaming about this pizza for a while to come, and looking for excuses to go back to Baker City. Kina, it was so great to meet you, finally!!

Zippy's so happy!

The ice cream man came! The ice cream man came! For a four year old, there's nothing better on a summer day than hearing the music from the ice cream truck and getting told, "Yes, you can have ice cream!" Zippy chose the classic sno-cone for her treat, and was just the happiest sunniest child alive when we came in to open it. I don't think she'd ever had a sno-cone before, but she chose it and was extremely pleased with her choice.

The fun of a sno-cone is that the first lick just tastes like ice. It's once you get through the outer crust that you really find the flavors. Yum. I swear she ate this in record time - it was gone in under three minutes!

It's the little things like this that can make my day. Call me easy, whatever. But I'd buy her a sno-cone every day just to see that smile.