Can anybody relate to the "belated birthday celebration"? It's when your household has so many other things going on that celebrations are put off until weeks after the birthday has come and gone. Before anyone calls Children and Youth on us, keep in mind that we do acknowledge the birthday as well as celebrate as a family on the actual day. The party part however is delayed for lack of time.
Well, today is the day. Blaise's friend will come over after school to have dinner with us and then we'll head to Skyzone for trampoline fun. In lieu of taking the boys out to a meal or delivering pizza in for a meal, I am making my own pizza. Homemade pizza is a staple in our household. Ross would make it in the early years of our marriage when I had ZERO interest in cooking anything that didn't come in a box. Watching him knead that dough made my head spin as I thought, 'I could never learn to do that!' Well, now I am the regular maker of the dough (although I did never learn to knead because my KitchenAid stand mixer's dough hook does that grunt work for me.) Below are the ingredients needed to make a killer pizza dough.
I usually purchase a 3 pack of yeast then knock out three doughs one right after the other while my mixer is out. It takes me about 30 minutes to do all three. Next is the rising process. A nice sunny spot by the window helps this process along quite nicely!
Finally toppings...I did one with basil and cheese and one with sausage and cheese (shown below). I could've kicked myself because I wanted to use feta cheese with the sausage but I forgot and used mozzarella. I purchased a 5 lb. bag of feta for $9.99 at my favorite grocery store last week and have since been incorporating it into every meal known to man :-)
And finally the end product...two fabulously delicious pizzas (as confirmed by our little birthday party guest who exclaimed during dinner, "I need to come to your house more often to eat!") made with ingredients we already had in our kitchen.
Pizza party, anyone?
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