Give Pizza Chance





Pizza with fresh basil

  My poor children often remind me that they have never had pizza delivered to our house. I figure with all the soccer/softball/birthday party pizza they will have in their life times, the fact they won't ever have the experience of Pizza Man at our door is not really a big deal. Besides, when pizza is so easy to make at home, why bother? If you're really intimidated by the dough, buy some pre-made dough (Trader Joe's has great white or whole wheat dough for a couple of bucks in the deli section). But I prefer to use my own olive oil dough which I keep in the refrigerator. The secret? Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day, by Jeff Hertzberg and Zoe Francois.  After I discovered their life changing philosophy on bread making, (why weren't we taught THAT in cooking school?!) I always keep a tub of dough in the fridge.Check out "Wonder Bread" post for more on that! It's fun to make pizza when the kids have sleep overs.  Sometimes I will pre-bake some individual crusts and then let them choose what they what to top their pizzas.  



Gaby and Emma

 This time, since Emma was having 6 girlfriends spend the night, I made three pizzas all with different toppings. One was a loaded vegetarian , another was pepperoni, mushroom, kalamata olive and quatro fromaggio. Remember the olives you used to stick on your fingers at Thanksgiving and eat off one by one? Well, kalamatas are much zippier, and I for one am happy that my kids prefer them.