Tonight was the beginning of a new Taylor family tradition. Drumroll please...
PIZZA FRIDAY!!!
Woohoo! Yeah! It's a pizza party!
It all started when Mommy thought, "I'm tired of coming up with lots of different ideas for dinner. Hmm...I know. Let's start a "tradition" so I don't have to think about what to make, it's just always the same." So this morning Cumorah climbed into her kitchen tower and helped me make the pizza dough (a double batch so that a ball of it goes in the freezer for next week). I also prepared and chopped toppings in the morning. Tonight it was eggplant, peppers, green onions, chicken, and olives. A little before dinner time I turned on the oven, took the pizza dough out of the fridge and rolled it out. Then I set all the toppings onto the table. When Brian came home, he and Cumorah made the pizza. Another wonderful part of the tradition that makes less work for Mommy. Brilliant, huh? Good things about pizza are:- it's easy, even the dough if you have a kitchen aide
- it uses up whatever hodge podge of leftover vegetables you have sitting in the fridge that your neighbor gave you from their garden
- you can make whole wheat crust and it becomes actually quite a healthy thing (if you don't put too much cheese and pepperoni, but I'm not a pepperoni fan so no problem here)
- kids are proud of their creation when they help
- everybody likes pizza
Our photo shoot for a Lindsay olive ad. :) Cumorah wanted to put the whole can on.
So, Brian has this thing about meal soundtracks. He wants to collect a bunch of cool sounding mariachi band music for when we eat Mexican food and old Italian love songs for when we eat pasta. So I searched "pizza children" on the itunes store and collected quite a soundtrack for a pizza party. I also threw in Mambo Italiano and That's Amore. Cumorah and I have been dancing to our pizza play list for several days now, but we kept it a surprise for Brian.
9 comments:
How come I did get to hear the meal soundtracks?
Mom
Oh, what I really said was, how come I did NOT get to hear the meal soundtracks? Is there one for Grammy's cookin' dinner?
Mom
we take turns having fabulous ideas and actually carrying them out...you thought of the jean quilt, I actually made it...we thought of meal nights, and while you had a fabulous time, I was at the mall feeding my kids McDonalds last night while my pizza dough sits patient in the freezer...of course, it didn't help that your mom turned the fridge off and we had to cook like a weeks worth of meals in three days (she forgot to actually empty it...)
I love the idea of pizza Friday! What I am really impressed about is that you are actually making pizza- if I implemented a pizza Friday it would certainly be delivery, or Papa Murphy's or possibly Digiorno- definitely NOT homemade. I am impressed. I also love the idea of a pizza party soundtrack- you are such a fun mom!
duh, I didn't do anything naughty! Actually, my mom really couldn't think of anything, but the first story she told about annie was one I was pretty sure was about me...If mom wants to romanticize my childhood and blame all of the bad stuff on Annie, fine with me!!
Okay, I'm down with the whole wheat crust, do you use the weight watchers recipe? What do you do for the tomato sauce?
What whole wheat crust do you use? Weight watchers recipe? Also, what kinda of tomato sauce do you use? Do you make your own or buy it?
JOHN...yes, weight watchers recipe. Except I use more whole wheat flour than they call for, you know, more like half and half. The tomato sauce is just that, plain tomato sauce, whatever is the cheapest can at our wonderful friendly dirty and sometimes scary neighborhood SUPER WalMart. Though I do sprinkle basil and oregano on it usually. Sometimes we do bbq chicken and then we use bbq sauce. And once years and years ago when I used to cook for mom and dad (I think you were on your mission), I took leftover grilled veggies and ground them up in the blender and spread that allover a crust with some feta cheese sprinkled on top. Looked kind of interesting (ok so it looked really gross) but actually tasted pretty good. So, pretty much anything goes when it comes to pizza. Ooooooo, I just remembered. You have to try taco pizza too, where you put taco seasoned ground meat on it and other taco toppings, no tomato sauce on that either.
ps why can't i comment on your blog? Fix it. I want to comment on your blog.
Ohfoe, I originally took off comments cuz I didn't know you could do the approval thing. So I turned on comments, however, it is first and foremost an adoption site. As such, identities need to be protected as much as possible, so any comments left that aren't anonymous or name/URL (you can use your first name) or contain information not appropriate for an adoption site will not be approved. We will see how the comments work.
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