Friday 27 March 2015

Pizza dough for days!

My main mission when it comes to cooking is multi tasking. What can I prepare in bulk with multiple purposes? 

I love pizza and so I decided to try to make the dough myself. Jeff is usually incharge of making the dough. He has taught me that bread of any kind is made more by feel than a recipe. In taking that advice I actually added 1/2 cup more water than written in the recipe and it came together way better than it ever has for me in the past.
After about two hours it doubled in size!
I cut off a little dough ball for Aubrey to prepare her personal size pizza. This was so much fun for her. She got to decide the toppings and rolled it out all by herself. 
This kind of independence in the kitchen really encourages kids to think about ingredients.
She chose to make a sauceless pizza with pepperoni and cheese.
There was absolutely no pizza left over!

Aubrey graduated her wee college program at church and we had a special night with her to celebrate. Our little girl is heading to kindergarten this fall and we can't even believe we are in this stage of life but we are loving every minute of it!

Two days later;
With pizza dough in the fridge ready to be created into a delicious masterpiece I got to thinking that I wanted Asian flavours and I wanted pizza. Hmmm what to do? I ran my idea past Jeff and he thought it would work.
He made me a peanut sauce and prepped my veggies.
Carrots, red onion, celery, bok choy, mushroom, green onion, and red pepper.
Mozerella cheese
He suggested once it came out of the oven to sprinkle with toasted sesame seeds and a bit more of the sauce. 
I put it back in the oven for about three minutes after adding those toppings. My friend I had over suggested adding shrimp to this pizza. Uh ya! That would of been so delicious; next time for sure!
I had brought home bok choy for Aubrey to try. Once in a while I'll bring a "new" food item home to integrate into out regular repertoire. She loved it! We sure do have fun with food!

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