There isn't too much I miss about office life having exclusively been working from home for a year and half now, but one thing I do find myself wanting for every now and then is the catered lunch meeting. Lunch is a popular meeting time at my work and that hasn't ebbed during the pandemic, which means it's actually harder to get a meal in. When in the office though, the call to gather during lunch hours usually came with the promise of being fed, and, at least for me, that's an incentive I all in on. One of the most frequent lunch options provided is a pizza place called Emilio's, whose claim to fame is a chicken vodka pie that's loaded amply with sliced chicken breast and then dosed in a vodka sauce that's probably more cream than tomato. It's a hell of a slice, and it's also incredibly heavy and filling—I may have dozed off in a meeting or two after eating that pie. That specific pizza isn't one I've really seen many other places, and to satisfying a recent hankering for it, I made a version at home that had a much lighter touch, but was equally delicious.
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