Mr. H and I have loved having homemade pizza nights for years – it’s fun to devise different toppings to try out and custom make your own pizzas! Now that Miss H is getting a little bit older, we were recently able to add her into the pizza night fun.
We made an individual pizza for each one of us, as we all wanted different toppings. Once I had Miss H’s pizza rolled out and covered with sauce, she was able to help me with toppings! Her pizza featured broccoli (steamed in advance), sliced black olives, and mozzarella cheese. The olives were a new food for her and she LOVED them – she kept on stealing them off of her pizza while we were making it!
Miss H’s favorite activity was sprinkling on the cheese. I put some cheese on a little plate on the counter (ok, let’s be real – I think it was the lid to the cornmeal container, ha!) and Miss H sprinkled the cheese onto the pizza piece by piece. She was very meticulous about her work!
Miss H is always asking us for pizza (even though she’s rarely had it) so she was a huge fan of pizza night! And it proved to be an easy opportunity to sneak in some veggies, especially because Miss H is not old enough to know whether or not broccoli is a standard pizza topping.
I have perfected my own pizza dough recipe over the years, which I’m happy to share! Of course, you can always purchase dough or frozen crusts from the grocery store, but there’s nothing more fun than making your own. And, to save time just open up a jar of red pasta sauce for the sauce and use the rest for pasta later in the week!
1 cup all purpose flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
1 package rapid-rise yeast
1 tbsp honey
2 tbsp olive oil
1 cup 100 deg. water
coarse cornmeal
toppings and sauce for pizza
blogger / pomegranate / 3491 posts
Yum! Love Miss H’s broccoli pizza
pomegranate / 3414 posts
We make homemade pizza pretty much every Friday night. DD is 3.5yo and loves to help me with the toppings. On occasion I’ll allow her to help me roll out the dough, but she tends to poke holes in it.
blogger / pomelo / 5361 posts
Ahhh, I love this post. I grew up on homemade pizza, and we still make it pretty often. I remember my brothers and I would each have a “job”–I made the dough, my oldest brother made the sauce, and the middle brother did the cheese and toppings. It took lots of Mom-help when we were little, but we were a well-oiled pizza making machine by the time we were older! I can’t wait to do this with my kiddos.
blogger / clementine / 998 posts
ooh yum! i’ll have to try this recipe. do you think it would lend well to making the dough in the bread machine?