Celebration pizza, comfort food pizza

 Yesterday, after a restless night of worrying about the outcome in Georgia, and waking to the good news that the Senate is turned, and two iconic people will be the Democratic senators from Georgia, I thought a nice celebration veggie pizza would fit the bill.

So I made the dough, only this time instead of all wholewheat, I included some pastry flour with the baking soda and yogurt.  This was a good idea, very good crisp dough.  The only thing is that the recipe may have been mistaken in the amount of flour.  It was way too wet, impossible to knead, and I added more and more flour until it made a good dough.  Then I thought maybe resting it would be good, too.

Meanwhile, the new phone rang, while I had my hands in dough, and I let it go to voicemail, then tried to access it.  This is when I decided to rest the dough.  Voicemail would not work.  Would not load, Help function just shrugged and said, we dunno, we only work here, talk to your carrier.  Ah. I realized I had to set up the voicemail from scratch, and Googled on my question, adrenalin a bit charged up, didn't need any further excitement.

And found the code I needed to enter, and I had my password already noted on the old phone, which carried over, to my amazement.  And I got into the voicemail and retrieved the, not very important after all, message. So that was good.

And the pizza was, too.  Seen here as it bubbles up in the pan, first side cooking.

Then you turn it over, and add in the toppings, cover it and cook another few minutes till the cheese melts.  I had mushrooms, which I'd cooked earlier in butter and oil, scallions, broccoli.  The tomato base, since I had no sauce nor makings, was ketchup cut with tomato paste, and worked fine.

 So here's the celebration lunch,which was before the riots and the afternoon of terror started at the Capitol

And since the recipe made enough dough for two small pizzas, there's another one for next time I would like pizza

Which has now become comfort food for today, to digest all that happened yesterday, from heaven to hell in a few hours.  And maybe struggling back again, since the count was done, despite the best efforts at disrupting it, and the constitution prevailed.

I'm hoping for a lot of arrests including investigation of the Capitol police force who clearly aided the rioters in getting into the buildings.  They were part of the plan.

That was the most upsetting part of the whole day to me, that the supposedly closely guarded buildings, where the general public is called out for literally standing too close to something, suddenly it's open house, and armed rioters are invited in to where our entire unarmed government is sitting in conference.

I hope Merritt Garland will bring charges and investigate.  Now that Biden's picks will most probably prevail, we can count on a few more things being taken care of. I hear that the cabinet had a meeting yesterday and the question of the 25th Amendment came up.

For people not familiar, it's the amendment to the constitution which allows for the removal of a President shown not fit to be in office, physically or mentally. It takes some doing, but I hope we do it. Fast.