Homemade Pizza Night

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Home-made Pizza Night 

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Tonight we snuggled up on the sofa, watched some Disney and had a good family time making pizza. I much prefer home made dough and here is the recipe we use – hasn’t failed us yet; 

Fail Safe Pizza Dough 

  • 1 1/2C warm water 
  • 2tsp (or 1 sachet) dried yeast 
  • Pinch of caster sugar 
  • 4C Plain Flour 
  • 1tsp Salt 
  • 1/4C Olive Oil 

Method 

  1. Combine yeast, warm water and caster sugar in a small bowl, put aside for 5-1- minutes until froths 
  2. Combine flour and salt in a large bowl and make a well in the centre
  3. Add oil and yeast mixture 
  4. Using a butter knife combine the mixture (in a cutting pattern) 
  5. knead well for about 10 minutes 
  6. Lightly grease a clean, dry bowl (I find a metal one works best) and place dough inside, cover the top with cling film and sit for 30 minutes, until dough has doubled in size. 
  7. knead lightly again and break into three 

This makes 3 decent size pizzas – but if you like a thin and crispy base could easily make up to 4 or 5. SIMPLE 

 

While we were waiting for the dough MOO showed some interest in the various fillings I had diced on the bench 

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So I took the opportunity to play a little game. We both sat on the bench and took turns closing our eyes and guessing what foods we fed each other. 

In this time he tried, and swallowed; 

– Red Onion

– Chicken 

– Tomato 

– Capsicum 

– Mustard 

– Rocket 

It was great fun and he almost forgot that he doesn’t like trying new vegetables!! 

It also made him more comfortable with them when it came time to topping our pizzas! 

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There is a time, which is hard to believe was only a week ago that he would have insisted on having nothing but tomato sauce and cheese on his pizza – yet tonight he chose – red onion, capsicum, feta, tomato and chicken. Granted when it came time to eating it he tried to pick the toppings off. It only took a stern look and a “Don’t forget to eat those delicious toppings” for him to pick them up and gobble them down though. 

Looking forward to trying some different salads and seeing how he goes with the textures and concepts there! 

As for tonight though – it was a success and a great family bonding experience! 🙂 Was lots of fun stealing each others ingredients sizing up who has the better looking base and who could top the cheese the fastest 🙂 xox

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