Published!

So, I got published on Heartwarmers with an old bloggie story "She looks just like you" from April 2005.

Thanks, Mom! (She's the one that suggested I submit my stories to Heartwarmers in the first place.)

Check it out here:

http://archive.mail-list.com/heartwarmers/msg01305.html

Well, I have gotten a number of letters asking me for the infamous "Pizza Fish" recipe.
You have to understand the background of this recipe for it to make you giggle as much as it makes me giggle.

The first time my mom made this recipe was when I was like 13-14, so we are talking 20 years ago when some technologies we have now were brand new.

Microwaves have come a long way since the early 80's, I am pretty sure most would agree.

So, when we had gotten our first microwave it came with a set of microwaveable dishes.
They were really heavy brown plastic dishes with the grooves and such in them to drain grease and juices. (I bet she still has them...) Needless to say, she had to try them out.

I guess there was a little recipe book that came with it and I am not sure who the testing kitchen was, but they should have been fired.

Imagine raw white fish placed on these dishes with canned or jar red sauce poured over it and mozzarella cheese slices placed on top of each piece of fish. Press power and zap it's done, in like 20 minutes.

The microwave does not do good things to fish. Let me just say, it probably wasn't my mom's fault. She was following a recipe that she probably assumed was taste tested.

The fish, sauce, and cheese kind of steamed together into this wet mushy mess and it was really gross and slimy and the cheese never really melted. I don't reccommend this recipe for anyone.

Needless to say we haven't let my mom forget about pizza fish for over twenty years.

I bet you are giggling now...