I don’t know if many of you like to cook, but i thought i would share an easy to do recipe of mini pizzas. I serve them as coktail cookies. They are really easy to do and you will sure impress your guest. People always ask me if it’s me who has done these !

First you have to prepare the pizza dough. You will make approx 40 mini pizzas. For this you will need :

- 2 1/2 cup of flour

- 1 cup hot water

- baker’s yeast

- 1 tb spoon olive oil

- 1 tea spoon salt

Mix all the ingredient (you will need to follow the instruction for the baker’s yeast, it depends on which you are using). You will have to form a ball that is not sticky. Then you have to let it rest so it can rise. Leave it for at least 30 minutes.

For the topping of the mini pizzas you will need :

- Tomato coulis

- Red green & yellow peppers chopped

- Grated cheese

Spread the dough and cut small circle using a small coffee cup.

On each mini pizza pour a teaspoon of tomato coulis, put some peppers and some grapped cheese.

Then put in the oven for 15 minutes at 375°F.

You can serve them cold. Or if you make them in advance you can heat them up just before serving.

Enjoy !

During the weekday workshop this past week, Aja shared a really neat trick which I did not know about. Unfortunately, this trick is only useful for PSCS3 and above. For CS2 users like me, I luckily found something similar so don’t you just leave yet.

The script, Load Files into Stack, will automatically open your selected images in the same canvas, each on a different layer! In Aja’s example, she used this trick to make a multi-photo LO.

1. Open up a new canvas and fill it with white, then go to File>Scripts>Load Files into Stack.

2. Select the photos you want to use on your layout. They will automatically open in the same canvas on separate layers.

This will also be very useful when using alphas. How much easier will that be?! Instead of opening each alpha and then moving each one onto your LO, it can all be done with a single click!

Now, for CS2 users…

This nifty little script is not built into our version of Photoshop.  However, I found a similar script that we can use. It’s a little more complicated to use but still a timesaver!

First, we have to download and install the script.

1. Download the “Import Folder as Layers” script from Free Photoshop Scripts by Trevor Morris. Follow his instructions on how to install it.

2. Create a temporary  folder that contains only the images/files that you want opened together in the same canvas. The major difference between this script and the one installed in CS3 is the ability to choose the files you want to open within the folder. This script opens ALL the images in the folder.

3. Run the script by going to File>Scripts>Import Folder as Layers.

4. Each file will open on its own layer with the layers named accdg to the file they represent.

Hope you enjoyed today’s trick.

Joy