Pizza Saga Continued...

The pizza was amazing!
The kids are still talking about it. I found recipe online I wanted to try. It uses ranch dressing instead a tomato sauce. I made one pizza with tomato sauce and one with ranch dressing, just in case the new recipe wasn't good. :)

going into the oven...


right out of the oven...


Here is the chef with his master piece!

I used my mom's pizza recipe that has NEVER failed me. It is sooo good. I tried a different recipe last week and it was no where as good. SO I will never stray again. ;)

Grandma's Pizza Recipe
1 tsp yeast
1 cup warm water
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp salt
3 tbps salad oil
3-3 1/2 cups flour
2 tablespoons oil

Dissolve yeast in warm water in large mixing bowl. Stir in sugar, salt, 3 tbsp oil and 2 cups of the flour. beat until smooth. Sitr in enough remaining flour to make dough easy to handle.
Turn dough onto lightly floured surface; knead until smooth, about 5 minutes. Place in greased bowl; turn greased side up. Cover; let rise in warm place 45 minutes. Heat oven to 400 degrees. This recipe say it make two jelly roll pans worth. If you use two pans your pizza will be thin crust. (this is the way I like it)
Bake for 25 minutes

For the toppings...
Sauce: ranch dressing
marinated grilled chicken
roasted garlic (super easy...just drizzle with olive oil and roast in some foil in the oven)
fresh asparagus
fresh chopped tomatoes
mozzerella cheese

It was amazing....I am making this again next weekend!!!

Time to Learn to Cook

I wonder where the rule came in that women have to do all the cooking??? I mean really, is there a book that this is written in? I believe my husband read that book. :) No really, Hubby has really never had a desire to cook and most of the time I really don't mind cooking. Living in a country like ours requires a lot of prep work and planning to have meals on the table. My hubby is so sweet to always run down the street to the market or store to get that one thing I forgot! And that is a daily instance in our house! I am so greatful for his willingness to help in that area. This week I haven't felt very good and have been subbing in the kids school, so being in the kitchen wasn't on the top of my list this week. I had decided we would have homemade pizza tonight but just wasn't feeling all that well. The conversation went something like this...

Me: Honey, I want to teach you something.
Hubby: Oh no, I don't like the tone of that statement.
Me: If I died tomorrow, I want to know you will be able to feed the kids.
Hubby: We can live on Peanut butter and jelly and vitamins.
Me: I want to teach you how to make homemade pizzas.
Hubby: That doesn't sound fun.
Me: Ok, we will just order out then.
Hubby: Ok, I will learn. (Hubby doesn't like spending money)
(Little Man walks into the room at this time)
Hubby: Little Man, Mommy is going to teach you to make pizza.
Me: No, Honey you are going to learn.
Hubby: Well, if I have to learn so does Little Man.


He really is into this whole cooking thing!
On a more serious note...
Kneading the dough...notice that Hubby isn't in the picture at this point. :) He tried to sneak away.
The pizza is rising at this point....pictures of the finished product are to come.