Tonight was a fun night. We invited our neighbors over for a pizza and salad. It was a spur of the moment idea and turned out great!
First of all my husband and I have decided we like our homemade pizza better than the ones we have delivered or buy at the store. One night when I was late getting home my husband had gotten into the cookbook and found a pizza dough from "scratch". What a surprise! He raided the refrigerator and found a variety of items. He found everything from left-over ham, olives, peppers, onions, miscellaneous cheeses from Christmas, and you name it. He carefully chopped and sliced, made the dough from the recipe book and came up with a deliciious pizza. He was proud and so was I.
Since then we have made several different kinds of pizza depending on what we have on the shelf or in the refrigerator. Tonight was one of those nights. I simply made a phone call right after my neighbors got home from work and asked if they would be iintrested in a pizza for dinner. They said yes. They were here by about 6:30 and the pizza was ready. We had not only pizza and salad but for dessert we had oatmeal cookies and peanut brittle that my neighbor brought to share with us. Now if that wasn’t a great meal I don’t know what you would call it!! We laughed and had a wonderful evening.
Actually, the food is important but most of all the time spent with friends is also important. Sometimes we just don’t get to know our neighbors and the peace it creates just knowing who is next to you or down the street. We look out for one another in so many ways and care about our neighborhood.
Try reaching out to your neighbors with a meal or a gift of food. It is a way of saying a lot with so little effort.
‘Enjoy,
Gogi
