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Cooking up a pizza storm with Target.

by Melissa {Suger} on May 21, 2013

Brought to you by Target Australia.

There is one thing that brings my family out of the wood works and that’s pizza night. Roll out some dough, laden it with cheese and hey presto they’re all over you like flies. Interesting factoid Suger, you may be thinking, but what’s it doing in a Target post? Where’s the outfits, right? Well I hadn’t planned a home wares based post but it sort of happened. I had my Target gift card in my hot little hand and they just called to me!

They being a chopping board, pizza cutter and Jamie Oliver serving platter or two. As soon as I saw them I ditched all plans for this month and decided to whip up a pizza night! Yum. the platters I picked up are now showing as SOLD OUT online but check your local store. These melamine platters have been amazing and so useful. I wish I had more of them.

I rallied the troops, purchased my body weight in cheese and we were all set. A late change of venue for footy season later and the day was here. Pizza night! There were 10 adults to feed and football to watch so the oven pretty much turned over pizza after pizza for an hour or so until everyone was fed.

I was glad to have multiple pizza trays so I could have the next one ready to go in the oven when one came out. At $6 a pop, you can afford to have a few of them on hand even if your family aren’t quite the pizza fans that mine are. We did 8 pizzas in total from a double batch of dough plus a mini one for the kids.

The star of the night for me though is my new chopping board. This baby is solid, has legs with pads to stop it moving and it photographs like a dream. At my house {not shown in these photos} my kitchen is very white and grey. The multicoloured wood of this board just adds the extra something special looks great sitting on my bench top. Which it does most of the time.

So there you go! Below is a list of Target Essentials that will get you on your way to hosting your own pizza night and a hot tip for Thermomix owners when it comes to the pizza dough. I’m signing off, over and out, this post is making me hungry. Anyone for pizza? Haha.

Target Australia Homewares Pizza Night with Family-12

Stock up on these essentials for your very own pizza night!

Pizza Cutter {gifted}
Small Chopping Board
Large Chopping Board {gifted – as shown}
Jamie Oliver Mortar and Pestle
{I’ve owned one of these for at least 5 years now, the best!}
Pizza Crisping Tray {gifted x 2}
Jamie Olivier ‘Don’t Mess with the Chef’ Tea Towels {cute!}

And don’t forget the cheese. You always need LOTS of cheese.

Happy pizza night folks! Keep warm.

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p.s. The fail proof pizza dough recipe is from the standard cookbook you receive when you buy your Thermomix. I’ve never had this baby fail me. That makes it idiot proof, I think. Fail proof so much so that even the time I used old plain wholemeal flour in the batch it worked. Now’s THAT’S special.

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Do you read blogs? You know, other than this one right this very minute.

by Melissa {Suger} on May 21, 2013

in Bloggers

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I joined a Blog Chicks group on Facebook a week or two ago now. It’s a place for bloggers to have their questions answered, chat blogs and just, you know, hang out. It was early days in the group so there were a lot of introductions happening. SO many great blogs and woman roll calling. As it does. But I wanted more!

I wanted the hot tip.

The inside track to the best content the web has to offer.

I wanted a new favourite blog!

So I asked.

What’s the best blog post you read this week? And not one of yours, don’t be weird.

And do you know over 100 people saw that post and I received TWO responses. TWO. So it turns out either we, as bloggers, are more interested in flogging our own stuff than reading, or we just aren’t reading. I know for myself I’ve slowed down my usual blog visiting. I used to manage a blog roll with over 800 blogs on it. I’d visit as often as I could but could confidently say that I would see them all, at least once, every month. I sort of wore myself out!

But why is that? Why when push came to shove did I quit visiting other blogs? Why when I’m a little stuck at the moment for inspiration and ideas did I stop visiting the people who do it best? Am I the only one? It’s a phase, I know I’ll be back. My question above is proof of that I think. A desire to read more blogs. A desire to find that new hidden gem. A new favourite. But I wonder, where it went in the first place.

I’m calling this phase the blogger’s have their heads up their own butt phase. I think the response to my question is testament to that. To some degree. Comments in general are down, I’m constantly hearing people complain about it. Content writers everywhere are lamenting the downturn of conversation. Maybe what’s really happening is people aren’t really reading? Maybe the content isn’t WORTH the effort? Hmmmm.

Or could it just be that we are too busy doing our thing and much, much too busy to share our precious time with anyone else. Afterall it’s already spread between all the other things that are important to us. Family, friends, work, hobbies, Pinterest… It’s just a theory but when push came to shove visiting, communicating and reading other peoples blogs was at the bottom of a very long list, there must be a reason. What do you think?

Now I’m asking you…

What’s the best blog post you read this week? And not one of yours, don’t be weird.

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Classic Casual {She Wore What}

May 20, 2013

Saturday when I packed my bags to head to Liv’s disco party I had to put together an outfit for our day spa adventure, organised by the team at Blog Power events, yesterday. I packed two outfits, this one and a peplum, stripe skirt thing that I’d planned to wear if I could be bothered [...]

Stock up on these essentials for your very own pizza night!

Happy pizza night folks! Keep warm.

What’s the best blog post you read this week? And not one of yours, don’t be weird.

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