This is a project Christy and I did a while back. Since it's Home Project month at Apartment Therapy though, now's the time to write about it. Check out the How-To on AT.

A couple of my friends recently asked if I thought something they were buying/selling was a potential scam. In both instances, they indeed were. That's the inspiration behind today's
post on Apartment Therapy. Find out about some of the top online scams, and what you can do to avoid them.

Check Apartment Therapy today for my interview with DIY Network's Kitchen Crasher, Alison Victoria.

During this year's CES I also had a moment to talk with CEO and President of Libratone, Soren Pedersen.

He demoed the new Libratone Lounge Airplay speaker, and the smaller Libratone Live as well. Read my post on Apartment Therapy for more pics and details.

“So Sofie and I have come to Pizzeria da Michele, and these pies we have just ordered–one for each of us–are making us lose our minds. I love my pizza so much, in fact that I have come to believe in my delirium that my pizza might actually love me, in return....Holy of holies! Thin, doughy, strong, gummy, yummy, chewy, salty pizza paradise. On top, there is a sweet tomato sauce that foams up all bubbly and creamy when it melts the fresh buffalo mozzarella, and the one sprig of basil in the middle of the whole deal somehow infuses the entire pizza with herbal radiance, much the same way one shimmering movie star in the middle of the party brings a contact of high glamour to everyone around her."

For the dough we went with Peter Reinhart's recipe. It can be found here on 101 Cookbooks. It's a thorough, lengthy ready but worth it for the perfect, prized pizza dough it yields.

For the sauce, we went with Forno Bravo's recipe - because I desperately want one of their pizza ovens in my backyard one day.
Here's the form of the recipe we made for the Christy's Wordy Thirty event.

Use canned San Marzano tomatoes to create a wonderful, and simple pizza tomato base. Use a potato masher to get a good sauce consistency. Don’t use a food processor or hand mixer, as those will break the seeds and give your sauce a bitter flavor.

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We preheated our grill to as high as it could go with pizza stones in place (about 600 degrees). We then prepared the dough, slipped it onto our pizza peel and slid it into the tile on the grill.
We let that sit with grill top open for about 5 minutes, checking it with tongs every now and then to get the crust the desired burnt crispiness. We then flipped the pizza, and then quickly added the sauce, the mozzarella cheese, and basil. We let that side cook for an additional 3-5 minutes before bringing it table-side for all to enjoy.

Unfortunately, we couldn't find a quote for Paddington the bear.

But here's the marmalade sandwich recipe made in his honor..

'A dry martini,' he said. 'One. In a deep champagne goblet.'
'Oui, monsieur.'
'Just a moment. Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half
a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold,
then add a large thin slice of lemon peel. Got it?'
'Certainly monsieur.' The barman seemed pleased with the idea.
'Gosh, that's certainly a drink,' said Leiter.
Bond laughed. 'When I'm...er...concentrating,' he explained, 'I never
have more than one drink before dinner. But I do like that
one to be large and very strong and very cold, and very well-made.

We made ours an adaption as shown in the cocktails book,