There is no competition between Koji's Kitchen and us ... 1) because we are sisters, 2) because competing over this would be incredibly silly, and 3) mostly because we would lose!! Regardless, it turns out we both did a few of the same things this year. My sister read up on gardening, put her previous experience to use, and went all out. She spouted plants from seeds, has eaten lots and lots of her bounty, and has already replanted where spring plants have finished up. Us - we pulled out a strip of grass about a month ago and threw some pre-started plants in there. There is no rhyme or reason to our garden. We have absolutely no previous experience ... and therefore, no expectations! But, we have started to see some progress. We have eaten our whole crop of strawberries. There were about 20 total and they were very small, but so darn sweet!
Now we have the start of 2 different peppers and some broccoli!
We also had the idea to get pizza stones at roughly the same time. Theirs came first and the did some pizzas in the oven first and then graduated to the bbq. We just got ours and on Friday and Saturday we had bbqed pizzas. The Sat. version was gorgonzola and pear and it was scrumptious! On Sat. we got a peel to get the pizza onto the hot stone easier. It was easier, but as you can see, I still had some issues!
Since my sister is taking a professional cooking class this summer, again, I am not trying to compete on taste! Let's just say ours is still in one piece, while there's is in 3 pieces because their bbq was at roughly 750 degrees!
Now we have the start of 2 different peppers and some broccoli! 
Since my sister is taking a professional cooking class this summer, again, I am not trying to compete on taste! Let's just say ours is still in one piece, while there's is in 3 pieces because their bbq was at roughly 750 degrees!
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They also both drive Elements.
This brain-sharing thing is getting out of hand!
Crap, NOW you tell me we're not competing!!
Everything looks fantastic! And you would definitely win in the peel department - yours looks very fancy, although ours DOES have the really long handle.
I definitely want some pear and gorgonzola pizza. Oh, btw, what kind of dough are you using?
I make pizza, and I'm not sold on the pizza stone. I didn't break mine into three perfect pieces, but I did stop using it. I prefer pizza pans with the holes on the bottom, like the one I took to Koji's Kitchen one time with a bunny-shaped cake on top.
I have a pizza question for Sonnjea: One the things I love most about making pizza is the lovely smell of rising dough. You told me once you hate that smell - even avoid walking in front of a Subway shop when their bread is coming out of the oven. Has that changed? Or do you wear nose-plugs? Or do you make a non-yeasty pizza dough? None of the above?
To date, we haven't had the makings for our own dough, so we've bought the pre-made dough from Trader Joe's. I did some shopping tonight and they only had 1 dough left. Given that it is going to be 95+ for the next few days, cooking inside is not an option. We are planning on grilling all week and figured a few of those dinners would be pizza. So, I also picked up the yeast that we were lacking. We've got a pizza dough recipe from the Joy of Cooking, but we've never made it. Any suggestions on recipes are welcome!
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