Celi Cooks: That’s a Layered Pizza Pie!

What’s cooking? Pizza!

I’ve baked homemade pizzas for years, but a recent episode of Man vs. Food I found on The Food Network convinced me that I might have been doing it wrong all along. The episode focused on an NYC pizza joint that serves an epic pizza the Sicilian way.

A big twist here: sauce on top of the pizza, not on the bottom.

I’m not Italian (Celi is a name I received when I married my Filipino-American husband), so this concept seemed new and interesting to me. What an idea, right? According to the episode, placing the cheese on the bottom and the sauce on the top of a square pizza actually improves the dough and makes a crispy pizza, despite a thick layer of sauce.

Five Fashion Must-Haves for Spring 2015

MANGO pink coat
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Tanya Taylor navy blue striped skirt
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MICHAEL Michael Kors zipper bag
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David yurman jewelry
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Some Thoughts on Vacations

For the last week, I’ve been on a “vacation.”

I put that in quotes because the longer I run my own business, and the more time that passes where I am my own boss (most of the time), I find the old adage to be true. When you run your own business, there never really is a day off from professional pursuits.

I think the days of being totally unplugged on vacation and separated from my daily life at home are way behind me.

Here’s the deal. My personality tends to fall into extremes. If I love something, I love it with gusto, until I’m pretty much living it. I can easily become a workaholic without even thinking about it. It’s like an internal voice inside my head pushes me to go, go, go all of the time, until before I know it, I burn out. In the past, this hasn’t had pretty results. I haven’t handled the “work/life balance” very well. Some years, I didn’t take vacations at all, and other times, I would take a vacation only to find myself working the entire time I was supposed to be on a break.