What's in your bag?

Some of the things I've been carrying in my work, shoulder bag for the past year. Cleaned it out today.

2 recipes
1 magazine page of websites
1 piece paper with websites
1 newpaper article for warehouse sale, denim samples at McCormick Place
1 magazine (Liesure) article travel to Lake Lucerne, Switzerland
loose change
medicine
sugar packets
steak knife
hot sauce packets
air freshner
powdered coffee creamer
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Art Smith's Margherita Pizza (from O magazine)
makes one 9-inch pizza
(Been dying to make this myself)

1 recipe for pizza dough or purchased pizza dough, www.oprah.com/artsmithpizza
3 tbsp Art's basic tomato sauce or bottled marinara
4 slices fresh salted mozzarella (not packed in water)
4 fresh basil leaves chopped
2 thin slices prosciutto
1/2 cup chopped arugula
freshly ground pepper

>Preheat oven 440, place pizza stone in lower third of oven
>Roll out dough on floured surface to 9-inch round. Place on a lightly floured sheet and top with the sauce, mozarella and basil.
>Slide the pizza onto the hot stone and bake until crusts is brown, about 20 mins. Remove the from oven and top with prosciutto and arugula, season with pepper and serve immediately.


Baked risotto with butternut squash and prosciutto (6 servings) Chicago Suntimes 10/31/2007 food section
3 cups cubed peeled and seeded butternut squash
3 tbsp olive oil
kosher salt
freshly ground black pepper
3 tbsp unsalted butter plus extra for preparing the pan
1.5 cups arborio rice
3 3/4 cups reduced sodium chicken stock
1.5 oz prosciutto cut into strips about 1/4 in wide and 3 in long
1/2 cup grated Gruyere cheese
1.5 tbsp chopped fresh rosemary and rosemary sprigs for garnish

Squash/2tbsp olive oil and cook in oven until golden brown. salt/pepper
Rice in a 2 quart baking dish, chicken stock, 3 tbsp butter, cook in oven until rice done(~40mins)
Remove both when done, cover with foil.
Cook prosciutto/oil until crisp
Stir gruyere cheese and chopped rosemary into the cooked risotto. Then gently stir in the roasted squash. Season with additional salt/pepper if needed.
Sprinkle cooked prosciutto and rosemary sprigs over rice and serve


Creative selling techniques for the Home buyer / Money magazine May 2008
http://www.domuswap.com/
http://www.goswap.org/
http://www.base.google.com/
http://www.zillow.com/
http://www.trulia.com/

Travelling rustic roads in wisconsin:
http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/

In Utica, Il, if visiting Starved Rock, also consider a visit to:
Matthiessen St Park

Indiana dunes:
http://www.casualcoast.com/

The warehouse sale denim sample at McCormick Place South. save UP to 80%. - http://www.thewarehousesale.com/

If we can ever go back to Europe and see Switzerland again, consider a visit to the little lakeside resort of Weggis . Travel on a nostalgic paddle steamers on the lake. Another port is Vitznau. A classic tourist destination is the mountain town of Pilatus, where according to legend Pontius Pilate went to die.