Foodie Blog! Reporting Live from Connecticut, Pizza Capital of the World

Some interesting recent pizzas I've had here in Connecticut:

(1) White pizza with Alfredo sauce as pizza sauce/pizza topping.

(2) White pizza with Pesto sauce as pizza sauce/pizza topping.

(3) Pizza with tuna salad (canned tuna mixed with mayo) as a topping.

I've also formed a theory of what is in the Coca-Cola secret formula. I believe it contains vanilla extract, cinnamon, and some combination of licorice and/or annis seed extract. It may also have other ingredients. But it's just a theory; obviously I don't know for sure.

I also have a theory of what's in Dr. Pepper. They literally went to a local fruit stand, grabbed twenty fruits at random, and threw them in a blender, and that's how they invented Dr. Pepper.

And, I learned the name of my favorite dessert, which I've blogged about before in this blog. It's a chocolate cream pie where the pie crust is made from crushed Oreo cookies, and apparently it wasn't a one-off, it's, like, an actual thing, it's called an Oreo Bash Cake.

Your food blog correspondent,

Russell

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What I'm Working On - Author Update July 2025

Hi readers!

I just completed the first draft of the screenplay based on my novel The Gospel of Judas. You won't be able to read it, but if I can find some studio or indie filmmaker to buy it, you'll see it on the screen one day! (If you happen to be a filmmaker looking to buy scripts and you're seriously interested, please reach out.)

With my work on that screenplay complete, I am now turning my attention to my next project, an epic fantasy trilogy. I haven't begun the first draft yet, but I'm an outliner, so I always begin a novel by writing an outline, and I have most of the outline for all three novels done and I like what I'm seeing so far, so I definitely plan to write these novels. It's looking like I already have a lot of content lined up based on how big my outline is getting, but I want to fit it all into a trilogy (I just like the trilogy as a format, I feel it's an ideal format for epic fantasy novels), so right now I'm thinking it's going to be three novels, but each one of those novels is going to be quite large in and of itself. Or, if it ends up being shorter than I expect when I actually write it, I might risk it and just fit the entire thing into one gigantic novel, instead of three novels. We'll see how it goes once I start writing it.

I don't currently have any nonfiction projects, although my nonfiction essay "An Essay on the Seven Deadly Sins and the Ten Commandments" was a dismal fail, so I pulled it and republished it as "The Wisdom of God," and it's doing a bit better now -- as it should, since its new title is (I feel) better than its old was.

So, that's what I'm working on in July 2025.