~by Julie
We have a family tradition that started because I needed one day of the week to be a no-brainer when I was planning menus. One day a couple years ago, I decided that Fridays would be pizza nights at our house. We like to make pizza together, and since not all of our kids have adventurous taste buds yet, we usually make more than one kind each time.
This night, we each made our own mini-pizzas. I gave the kids a ball of dough and they helped roll it out and loaded up their own pizza with toppings.
After dinner, clean up is quick (one of the bonuses of pizza night!) and then we either play games or hunker down in the family room to watch a movie together. This tradition started just because I was trying to simply our life and has become something everyone looks forward to each week.
Great idea! Do you have a quick, easy, infallible dough recipe you could share? 🙂 That seems to be the most challenging part of pizza for me!
Thanks so much for sharing your simplification — definitely timely!
What a great idea. I love this, and it looks like so much fun. Thanks for sharing!
Hi Heather,
I was thinking about posting our go-to recipe! It’s really simple:
3/4 c water
1 T sugar
1 t yeast
1 T dry milk
1 T oil
1/2 t salt
2 1/2 c bread flour
I throw everything in my bread maker (water on the bottom, yeast on top, everything else in the middle – and everything at room temp!), hit “dough” and walk away for an hour.
If you don’t have a bread maker, you get the water quite warm but not hot, and add the sugar and yeast and let it sit for a few minutes. Add everything else, mix well, knead for a few minutes, and let it sit for about an hour.
Roll it out and have fun! This makes enough to do an average crust on a jelly roll pan.
Thanks so much! Can’t wait to try it!
I love the heart shaped one–how cute!