Eatin good in our neighborhood

Once upon a time Adam and I got a phone call from someone who wanted us to go to an Ultimate Vacation Getaway presentation. We grilled them really hard to make sure it wasn't a time share and we wouldn't have to sit through a sales pitch. They promised us that if we came we were just giving customer feedback and if we went we'd get a free two night hotel voucher.














Always ones for cheap vacation solutions we told them we'd come. But as we were driving there we were like what did we get ourselves into, we hate sitting through these. In our short marriage we've already done several (but always so we could go stay in a free condo for our anniversary or things like that). We vowed this would be our last.





We went it. Greasy, slick, salesguy with a tiny goatee came in (they all look the same). He had us start filling out the questionnaire "How much do you pay for hotels in a give year?" "What are your top five dream vacations??" We know the pitch. We're gearing up to be politely interested for an hour and then level with them that it's just not for us.

Suddenly goatee asks us point blank, "So are you guys really here to buy?" We'd only been sitting there for five minutes. We confessed that we weren't and on the phone they just told us it was customer feedback not a sales pitch. He was like, "Okay, let me go get your voucher."

So we didn't have to sit through the presentation and he still gave us the hotel voucher AND a free dinner at Main Street Pizza in Park City! Score!!

We went to the dinner that night and ordered this really good Focaccia Pizza (just for the word focaccia--Firehouse friends you understand). The pizza was delicious! I had garlic, olive oil, mozzarella, asiago and parmesan cheeses, fresh basil and fresh tomatoes.

After we came home we kept thinking about the pizza. So we decided to try it ourselves. We bought all of the ingredients (fresh basil has such a STRONG smell, but tastes oh so good) and set to work. We even added my favorite topping--pine nuts-- at the very end.

The final result was a masterpiece! It tasted SO good! And so healthy! As you regular blog readers know, we've been really stepping up our cooking in 2009 and trying lots more recipes from scratch. It has made our food so much more delicious and more healthy. We save so much money on groceries and we've finally started to build up our supply enough that we don't have to buy tons of new spices for every recipe.

Anyway, so the sales pitch ended up being worth it just for the free meal and great recipe idea! Yum!!