{"id":45106,"date":"2020-05-15T14:16:30","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T14:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/?p=45106"},"modified":"2020-05-15T14:16:30","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T14:16:30","slug":"national-day-happy-national-pizza-party-and-chocolate-chip-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsnotaboutme.tv\/news\/national-day-happy-national-pizza-party-and-chocolate-chip-day\/","title":{"rendered":"NATIONAL DAY: HAPPY NATIONAL PIZZA PARTY AND CHOCOLATE CHIP DAY!"},"content":{"rendered":"

HAPPY NATIONAL PIZZA PARTY AND CHOCOLATE CHIP DAY!<\/h1>\n

This pair of \u201cNational Days\u201d are actually two separate entities, but for some unknown reason, they\u2019re both celebrated on this same day this year. (But please notice that it\u2019s not just \u201cPizza<\/em> Day\u201d; it\u2019s \u201cPizza Party<\/em> Day,\u201d which is entirely different. The same with it not being \u201cChocolate<\/em> Day\u201d or \u201cChocolate Chip Cookies<\/em> Day\u201d; it\u2019s \u201cChocolate Chip<\/em> Day.\u201d)<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>

A duo of frozen pizzas, with party plates in the background. Photo by Karen Salkin.<\/p><\/div>\n

And what a day it is for me<\/em>! I basically eat just those two items every<\/em> day! (Well, not exactly. But definitely often enough during this siege. And now I have an excuse to do it all again today!)<\/p>\n

\"Karen<\/a>

Karen Salkin’s Chocolate Chip Walnut Water cake. Photo by Karen Salkin, of course!<\/p><\/div>\n

I don\u2019t know which one I want to celebrate more! After all, there\u2019s nothing more fun than a pizza party. But then again, I barely make any sweet treat these days without<\/em> chocolate chips. Since Mr. X and I have been cocooning at home for over nine weeks<\/em> now, I\u2019ve just about used-up a gigantic<\/em> bag of those delicious morsels. I\u2019ve made banana-peanut-butter-chocolate-chip pancakes a bunch of times, a chocolate cake (with chips, of course,) peanut butter-chocolate chip cookies, and I even used them in my Tower of Matzahs!!! You\u2019d think I\u2019d be bored with them by now, but think again. I\u2019m getting ready to make some chocolate chip bread pudding followed by chocolate chip scones! (The only<\/em> scones, in my book.) I may even make a chocolate chip dessert pizza<\/em>! OMG!<\/p>\n

On the other hand, Mr. X and I had more than a half dozen pizza parties since we\u2019ve been in isolation. None of them were really very satisfying, though. A handful were frozen pizzas, (which really came in handy, no matter how much like real<\/em> pizza they do not<\/em> taste,) and we had another quartet in one order the only time we deigned to get a delivery of any<\/em> food. (The delivery woman arrived with no mask nor gloves, so that was the end of my trusting strangers during this siege.) And I made a couple of my own healthful<\/em> ones, using cauliflower crusts. (I\u2019ll tell you about all<\/em> my isolation creations next week.) But I am sooooo craving a real<\/em>, cheesy, oily New York pizza right about now. OMG\u2014I can just taste it.<\/p>\n

\"Karen<\/a>

Karen Salkin rocking her perennial Pizza costume. Please note her pizza earrings–one is just a slice and the other is the whole pie with that slice missing! Clever. Photo by Mr. X.<\/p><\/div>\n

On all my trips to Brooklyn to see my little mother after my father died, I took her to breakfast or lunch just about every day; she was just about as restaurant-obsessed as I<\/em> am. (From whence did you think I learned to be so? As I told Johnny Carson on my first appearance on The Tonight Show<\/em>, \u201cMy mother taught me how to not cook.\u201d) But on one trip to visit her, all I had was six or seven days, (as opposed to the three or four weeks<\/em> I usually spent there,) so my mother opted for us to stay in and just have different friends visit every day for…a pizza party! And we all<\/em> loved those experiences.<\/p>\n

So today, Mr. X and I will have yet another frozen pizza, followed by a chocolate chip anything<\/em>, to celebrate. And to fulfill the \u201cparty\u201d part of the day\u2019s title, I\u2019ll set-out fun plates and decorations (homemade now, of course\u2014there will be no trips to a party store for a few more months,) and have soda, which I don\u2019t normally drink anymore. And I\u2019ll play That\u2019s Amore<\/em> while we dine. I may even don my pizza costume that I\u2019ve worn on most Halloweens for the past decade! I suggest you guys follow my plan, (except for the costume part; I\u2019m sure I\u2019m the only one who has one,) today, as well. I promise\u2014it will be tons of fun! (And after all, what else<\/em> do you have to do?) [Note: There\u2019s even a brand of frozen pizza that has a version that includes chocolate chip cookie dough right in the package! Now you have no excuse not to celebrate.]<\/p>\n

So Happy National Pizza Party and Chocolate Chip Day, everybody! Make it a memorable one!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HAPPY NATIONAL PIZZA PARTY AND CHOCOLATE CHIP DAY! This pair of \u201cNational Days\u201d are actually two separate entities, but for some unknown reason, they\u2019re both celebrated on this same day this year. (But please notice that it\u2019s not just \u201cPizza Day\u201d; it\u2019s \u201cPizza Party Day,\u201d which is entirely different. The same with it not being<\/p>\n

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