Christmas Eve at the Roediger House was a pretty nice Wednesday, for late December: warm enough for good outside time with the dogs and suitable for casual house endeavors as per one's mood. With breezes to keep me from overheating, I knocked out a 5.1 mile walk in the early afternoon, in fact. And then, with four at the dinner table, I depended on prepped overnight mostly-no-knead pizza dough so that we could all feast on skillet sausage pizzas that night. Laid out on a bed of homemade pizza sauce that I'd retrieved from the freezer, adorned with almost enough cheese, and helped across the finish line by well-scattered Italian sausage, we slayed our slices and wiped away any wondering sauce and bellied up to the buffet bar for more because it's what the moment called for. One of the pizzas also got an abundance of marsala-sautéed mushrooms to go with that sausage, and there would one find the winning slices, for sure.
We got pretty close to 70°F on that Christmas Eve, by the way. Once the direct sun is hitting my Tempest weather station, I recognize there is a false elevation of the temp reading...but still! It's almost the end of December and I was enjoying outside in my short sleeves. Heck, yeah!
Pizza Crust based on "Fool-Proof Pan Pizza," by J. Kenji López-Alt, culinary consultant for SeriousEats.com. [Updated 30 March 2023]
