Pizza

Dear Lynne: Our big family loves light desserts, not rich and heavy ones. Do you have anything with strawberries that is not strawberry shortcake and isn't time-consuming? -- Jimmi Dear Jimmi: I am assuming you don't mean "lite" desserts, as in those made with artificial whips, and fake "low-fat" or sugar substitutes. Obviously, I've got a bias at work here. Those treats aren't. They never truly satisfy. Instead, see what you think of a sweet pizza. A flaky pie pastry is rolled very thin (so each slice is truly light)

1 potato, scrubbed clean 2 tablespoons pizza or tomato sauce 1/4 to 1/2 cup frozen vegetable mix 1/4 cup shredded cheese (mozzarella or Monterey jack) Bake or microwave potato until it is soft and cooked through. While potato is baking, place frozen vegetables in a colander; run warm water over them until thawed; drain well. Split baked potato in half lengthwise and place in a small baking dish. Spread pizza or tomato sauce on each half of the cooked potato; top with drained vegetables.

Pizza and Project Night drew about 200 students, parents and others to Potomac Heights Elementary School March 3. Everyone was invited to enjoy pizza and cupcakes before families adjourned to classrooms where children shared their writing and the writing process.

Whether you eat it out, order it in, make it from scratch or heat it up from the freezer, pizza is a popular answer to, "What's to eat?" Pizza can be an acceptable answer nutritionally, too, depending on your choice in pizzas. With a wheat crust, tomato sauce base and mozzarella cheese topping, pizza offers a flavorful combination of protein, calcium, vitamin A and carbohydrates along with the opportunity to pile on plenty of vitamin- and mineral-rich veggies. Pizza also offers the opportunity to pile on plenty of high-fat cheese, sausage and pepperoni.

A Domino's pizza delivery man was robbed at gunpoint Monday night as he attempted to deliver a pizza in the 600 block of Security Road, Hagerstown City Police said Tuesday morning. The incident occurred at 11 p.m. when the delivery man was approached by a man carrying a handgun. The man took a small amount of money and fled on foot. Police described the robber as a black man in his 20s, 6 feet 2 inches tall, 220 pounds, wearing a black jacket, pants and a ski mask. The delivery man was uninjured.

7 large (about 10 inch) flour tortillas2 1/2 cups shredded cheddar cheese3 cups shredded mozzarella cheese 2 cups prepared tomato or pasta sauce3 slices deli-sliced ham, smoked turkey or other sandwich meat, finely chopped1 small yellow onion, very thinly sliced1 large red bell pepper, cored and very thinly sliced9 slices pepperoni, finely chopped3.8-ounce can sliced black olives3 tablespoons jarred jalapeo pepper slices Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Coat a baking sheet with cooking spray.

It was love at first bite for Hagerstown resident John Cangemi. The scene was Italy, where Cangemi and his wife, Joan, were visiting family years ago. The thief of 54-year-old John Cangemi's heart was the oven-baked Neapolitan pizza he tasted there. No American version could compare, he said. Cangemi was so obsessed with the pizza that he built his own wood-fired pizza oven in his backyard, off Howell Road. The oven was completed about three and a half years ago and took him around four months to build.

By RICHARD F. BELISLE Staff Writer WAYNESBORO, Pa. - Nine years ago, Misti Morningstar Lucente's compact car was hit broadside by a tractor-trailer that ran a red light in Gaithersburg, Md., an accident that few of the doctors and nurses who treated her thought she would survive, much less walk again. She was in a coma for three-and-a-half months. Her mother, Louise Morningstar of 327 Valley View Drive, Waynesboro, never gave up hope that her daughter would not only survive and walk again, but would live a normal life.

by Kevin G. Gilbert / staff photographer Meals in Motion will deliver By RICHARD F. BELISLE Staff Writer WAYNESBORO, Pa. - Too busy to go out for lunch, go to the laundromat, pick up your clothes at the cleaners, buy groceries or run errands? Call Bill Davis and either he or one of his drivers will do it for you. Davis, 28, of Waynesboro started Meals in Motion, a pick-up and delivery service that he hopes will soon see success. He said he knows there's a void to be filled out there.

As this decade nears a close, and as readers continue to request best-ofs, The Herald-Mail has compiled its list of its favorite recipes from the biweekly column, In The Kitchen, from the past few years. In The Kitchen is a Sunday feature that profiles local, nonprofessional chefs who are "nominated" by friends, family and colleagues. The Herald-Mail interviews these local Top Chefs and runs articles with recipes in the paper. Know someone you'd like to see featured? Call 301-791-7372 or e-mail tiffanya@herald-mail.

Rocky's Pizza & Cafe Napoli, a longtime business in downtown Hagerstown, will close its doors by Sunday, a city official confirmed Thursday. Hagerstown spokeswoman Erin Wolfe said the city, which owns the building that houses the pizza shop at 40 N. Potomac St., recently had a meeting with officials of the business to discuss its “financial relationship” with the city. The business officials told the city that they would be willing to vacate the premises, Wolfe said, although she refused to elaborate on the financial situation that exists between the two parties.

The Winter Street Elementary PTA is holding a pizza fundraiser. Stop by CiCi's Pizza on Wesel Boulevard Thursday between 11 a.m. and 10 p.m. and mention Winter Street Elementary School at the register. The restaurant will donate 10 percent of the net sales to the PTA.  The offer is good for eat in and take out orders.  Easter events at Hager's Crossing The Salem Avenue PTA, Gateway Ministries, and the Hager's Crossing Social Committee are holding Easter activities Saturday at the Hager's Crossing Community Center, behind the Walmart shopping center.

A restaurant owner who believes there is a lot of business opportunity in downtown Hagerstown joined with local and federal officials Wednesday afternoon to formally open his latest establishment - Vince's Pizza Express. Guests crowded into Roberto Gonzalez's restaurant at 66 E. Franklin St., for a 4 p.m. ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the new eatery. Mayor David S. Gysberts read a proclamation honoring Gonzalez for his investment in downtown and Julianna Albowicz, representative for U.S. Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., presented Gonzalez with a senatorial certificate.

A Hagerstown man has been charged with using a handgun to rob Brothers Pizza Express at 1732 Dual Highway on Tuesday, the Hagerstown Police Department said. Timothy Blaine Ennis, 30, of 2052 Day Road in Hagerstown, was charged with one count each of armed robbery, robbery, theft, reckless endangerment and firearm used in a felony, according to a police department news release. Police said they were called at 3:40 p.m. Tuesday for a report of an armed robbery at the pizza shop.

A man made off with an undisclosed amount of money following a robbery at Brother's Pizza Express at 1732 Dual Highway Tuesday afternoon, said Sgt. John Lehman of the Hagerstown Police Department. The man showed a handgun during the 3:50 p.m. robbery and escaped in a vehicle, Lehman said. No one was hurt Lehman said. Lehman declined to give more specifics of the robbery Tuesday night because of an ongoing investigation.

Hagerstown police said they were searching for a man who robbed the Little Caesars Pizza restaurant Thursday night at 420 E. Antietam St. The man entered the store at about 9 p.m. and handed the clerk a note that said he had a gun and was robbing the restaurant, according to a police department news release. Police said the man fled the restaurant after the clerk gave him an undisclosed amount of cash.

Two Washington County restaurateurs told Washington County liquor officials they want to open a restaurant in downtown Hagerstown. Greg and Marjorie Kane, who own Toppings Pizza Co. off Robinwood Drive, told the Board of License Commissioners for Washington County during a Wednesday hearing that they were considering the space at 43-45 S. Potomac St. The building was most recently home to the Spin restaurant and nightclub. Marjorie Kane said she and her husband, Greg, were granted a liquor license last year to serve alcohol at a restaurant they wanted to open on Maugans Avenue.

A man who held up a pizza deliveryman with a pie slicer was sentenced Monday in Washington County Circuit Court to three years in prison. David William Scott Mills, 34, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to robbery before Judge John H. McDowell on Monday. McDowell sentenced Mills to 15 years in prison, with all but three years suspended. Washington County Sheriff's deputies went to the area of Twin Springs Drive and Wantz Road in the Smithsburg area on the night of Sept. 3, 2012, for a report that a Rocky's Pizza deliveryman was being held up, the charging document said.

Carrie Crawford learned her way around a kitchen early in life. Her family owned a commercial food business. "I learned to cook from my mother and grandmother. My mother owned the Cake and Candy Emporium in Lancaster, (Pa.), and we kids helped make things," she said. She continued cooking and baking into her adult years. Now a Funkstown resident, she gave up wheat a few years ago due to health concerns. "I'm gluten-free now. It's been probably five or six years," she said. "For a while, it was all about things I couldn't eat. But then I discovered things like quinoa.

Conococheague Elementary School honored its Shining Stars with a pizza party Oct. 25. The students were recognized for exemplifying the habit of being proactive. The honored students included Jarren Crowder,, Chevelle Hardy, Cole Vest, Addison Crowder,  T.J. Robinson, Jessa Garwood, Jaleigh Blickenstaff and Madison Gouge.