Friday, August 16, 2013

Pizzas and punctures


Another busy week last week, and more gallivanting around the country for me. I went to Cabarete, on the north coast for 3 days for a staff meeting with a group of us who all work for the same British company here. The apartments had a stunning view


And the sun rises were beautiful.


Did lots of work, ate lots of delicious food and came home, picking Chivirico up on the way.
He decided he wanted to make pizza, as there is nowhere to buy it ready made here.
First stage was to make the dough – more on him than in the bowl though.


Then we had to put it somewhere warm to rise, so off it went into the front seat of my jeep. The jeep is only useful for proving pizza dough at the moment as it has another puncture.


As Chivirico told me, it punctured itself. All I can say is that it did a pretty good job of it.


The dough doubled in size which Chvirico found amazing.


Then I explained how to make it big and round and flat by throwing it around. That didn't work at all!


Made the tomato sauce, covered the pizzas with ham,cheese and salami then  into the oven.
We made two, one for us and one for the neighbours. It was delicious.


This is the time of year for flame trees to flower. This one is at the end of the track which leads to our house.


Known as flamboyant, or framboyan here, the real name is Royal Poinciana I think. They are usually red, but for the first time I have seen yellow ones here as well.


Absolutely gorgeous, and we have planted them all around the finca, so it should look stupendous in 20 years time.

And on a final note, Molly C wrote on the last post that she had the same cauliflower issues as me. Leaves for months and no middle. But she said once the white flower began, it grew really quickly. Molly, the same thing is happening here!


Oh and I nearly forgot the best thing that happened this week. I received my first royalties for the book, which are for March this year, the first month it was out. It sold 226 copies, so I am really pleased. I just hope I can keep it up. "What about your saucepans?" is still getting great reviews, up to 60 five star ones now.  For those of you who haven't read it, you can buy it from Amazon.com/.co.uk or .ca and it is available in paperback or kindle version. If you want to check it out first, you can read previews here.

11 comments:

  1. I didn't get the book from Amazon but from The Book Depository since they offer free shipping worldwide and accept PayPal. Will you still get royalties? Hope so!

    Allison

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    1. Thanks Allison! I am sure I do. I was sent a spreadsheet by the publisher, and I need to work out what it all means! The book is for sale on all sorts of site and in some stores too, I just mentioned Amazon. Hope you enjoyed it.

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  2. Yes I absolutely loved it - total page turner!

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    1. Great! Will try and put more pages in the next one so it lasts longer!

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  3. Great looking pizza. I also love the Flame trees. Here in Perth there are plenty, but I have never seen a yellow one.

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    1. I had never seen one either Sami. I think they are pretty rare, but there are quite a few here where I live now.

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  4. Hi, i read a post that you wrote called: "Ten ways to spot a sanky pankie". I have to say i laughed a lot reading it. As a dominican man i admit it is kind of a social problem for dominicans, but it should exist anywhere, just with a different names (gigolos, chulos, etc). Hope you got me. Anyway is good to know there are people like you, living and writing in my country, about the people, the culture, problems and many other things. I write too, not exactly as a professional but kind of stories, but in spanish, if you are able to read in spanish (wich i supose is a Yes) you could go to my blog(http://trazosdeintrigas.blogspot.ch/2013/08/SobreSankiesYVampiros.html) and read a comic short story that i posted. Blessings!

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    1. Fabulous story! I laughed a lot. You are a good writer and thanks for reading my blog.

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    2. Nice, it is good to know that you enjoyed reading me. You can count with a new reader here!

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