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It’s been just over a year since we closed Memory Lane Pizza & Ice Cream Parlor. I still hear from everyone how much they miss it.  Just like our shirts said, it truly was a “pizza eater’s paradise”.  I still have kids in town calling me the  “pizza lady” when they see me around.  It really is cool!  Thank you to everyone who is still so loyal.  I have even had one loyal past customer tell me that his child cries every time Memory Lane Pizza is mentioned because it is missed so much.  Boy, I miss it too!

I love my new resale shop-Rumors HAS IT!, and I love being home at night with my family. BUT, I haven’t had a good pizza since we closed.

We’ve made pizza a few times at home (once was actually the worst pizza we’ve ever had and I didn’t think any pizza could be THAT bad, LOL) and we’ve ordered a few times from some chains in Topeka, nothing compares to Memory Lane Pizza. Tonight we bought a couple of those frozen Freschetta pizzas and I doctored them up with some extra toppings and cheese. They weren’t bad. It’s sad when a couple of frozen pizzas turn out to be the best pizza we’ve had in a year.

If you frequented Memory Lane Pizza, then you know that I could eat pizza everyday of the week (and I nearly did for 8 years).  My favorite on my menu was the Triple S. We sold a lot of those, remember it had canadian bacon, pineapple, bacon bits and jalepenos. YUM! YUM! It was sweet, spicey and salty all at once, that’s why I named it the Triple S. My mouth is watering. I always had lots of sauce too, our sauce had so much tomato flavor. Oh, it was GOOD!   And we had the BEST cheese and SO MUCH of it!!

Oh, and the German Pizza, canadian bacon and sauerkraut–it was my second favorite!  Our Santa Fe Chicken Special was another really popular pie, it had a spicier sauce and was layered with canadian bacon, bacon bits, and diced chicken and was often ordered with onions and green peppers added.

WOW!  I guess I am just really hungry tonight.   I really MUST figure out how to make a good pizza at home, but it just is not the same without those big old Blodgett gas ovens with the stone decks.   That is just really hard to duplicate at home.

If any of you find a good pizza within driving distance, please let me know!  I really need a GOOD pizza fix!!

In the meantime, be sure to check us out at Rumors HAS IT! Resale Shop.  It’s the best kept secret in Osage County–a resale shopper’s paradise!

Cya in store soon!

Rhonda (the former pizza lady)

I’ve had this recipe for years and had never made it (didn’t know what I was missing), but my daughter Kallie saw it in my recipe box this weekend so we made it. It was really quite good–it truly tasted like twinkies. It disappeared the first day!!

Bake a chocolate or yellow cake mix in a 13×9 inch cake pan following the directions on the box. Now if you have a favorite yellow or chocolate cake recipe you could use that instead of a box mix but we just used a generic yellow cake mix and it was great. Don’t forget to coat the pan with butter/shortening and flour–this is IMPORTANT because you want to be able to easily remove the cake from the pan when it has cooled.

FILLING:

5 T. flour

1 c. milk

1/2 c. butter or margarine

1/2 c. shortening

1 c. sugar (granulated)

1 t. vanilla

While the cake is cooling, mix the flour and milk in a sauce pan and (more…)