Welcome to Olivia Gartz's Website!

Hello, my name is Olivia Gartz. I am a Freshman this year at NCSU. I am in the First Year Engineering Program this year. I am hoping to major in Mechanical Engineering. I chose this major because I have always loved math and science; thus, I have known for a while that I wanted to be an engineer. However, I am not exactly sure what I want to do with my engineering degree. Therefore, I have chosen to major in Mechanical Engineering because it is very broad and will give me a lot of options once I decide what I want to do with my engineering degree.

One of my favorite hobbies is cooking. Ever since I was young, I have been very infatuated with cooking. I began my cooking hobby by making baked goods and once I mastered those I moved on to cooking real food. Since my mom worked when I was in high school, I was usually in charge of making nightly dinners and I loved it. Being at college has been tough because I have not been able to cook myself any meals which is very sad. I cannot wait to have my own apartment so that I can cook dinners for myself and my friends!

How to Make My Favorite Pizza

1. First, acquire some pizza dough. I prefer to make my own dough since I have a bread maker, but any pizza dough will do.
2. Next, take some Ragu marinara sauce out of the fridge, take out some zucchini, yellow squash, mushrooms, and spinach as well.
3. Dice the mushrooms, zucchini, squash, and spinach to desired thickness and set aside.
4. Roll out the dough to desired size and spread a sufficient amount of sauce onto the pizza, the more the better.
5. Put the diced veggies all around the pizza dough, on top of the sauce
6. Transfer the pizza onto a cookie sheet, or pizza pan if you have it, and bake at 375 degrees Fahrenheit for about 20-25 minutes. You'll notice that we never put cheese on the pizza, and that is because I do not like cheese so my favorite pizza is cheese-less
7. After the pizza has been cooked to your liking, take it out of the oven, let it cool, and enjoy!