What kid doesn't love pizza? Continuing on the "food takes work" lessons, I told Caleb that we would be making pizza for our next food experiment. We bought ready made pizza dough from the Publix bakery and also pre-made pizza sauce. While I wanted to curb the impatient "When are we eating?" inquiries that were becoming a regular thing at family dinners, I didn't want to torture the boy by making him slave over a stove all day just to make sauce. The rest was plenty of work anyways.
After disappointing him by telling him we would NOT be throwing dough up in the air and stretching it by spinning it around on our fists, I put him to work on pressing the dough into the pan. Getting it even and consistent in thickness was a little too much for his patience, but he managed to set up two crusts. A third was already in a circle shape that just had to be unfolded and set on a baking sheet.
He enjoyed pricking the dough with a fork to prevent bubbles.
Then he brushed the crusts with olive oil.
And then put on the toppings. He loves pesto, so rather than marina sauce, one of the pizzas had pesto. I'm not a fan of pepperoni, so we used sausage. One pizza was all veggies.
And then came the cheese.
And not every pizza has to be savory, so we did a sweet fruit pizza with a sugar cookie crust, vanilla and ricotta cheese spread, and then fresh fruit.
The pizzas came out pretty good, although the different pans made a difference in how well the pizza cooked, which we didn't account for in the timing. The one baked on the thickest pan was slightly underdone in the middle. But in all, they came out pretty tasty.
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