Pizza and a Movie!

Friday night the boys and I tackled pizza for the second time for our Pizza and a Movie night. Once again, my lovely wife took care of the dough for us, and the boys and I took care of rolling everything out, and all the toppings. Her dough recipe gave us enough to make 12 personal pizzas. The boys helped me out with four, and I made the other eight. They probably would've been willing to help with more than that, but we started the movie after the first four went into the oven, and that was the last I saw of them.

Anyhow, the toppings we used this time were tomato sauce (obviously), red bell peppers, mushrooms, shredded mozzarella, spinach, olives, basil, and sausage. The goal was for me to "brown" the sausage, but we probably should've done some more research on what that entails before we started. By definition, browning is: the process of partially cooking the surface of meat to help remove excessive fat and to give the meat a brown color crust. The key phrase there being "PARTIALLY COOKING THE SURFACE." So instead of having browned sausage, we had fully cooked and slightly blackened sausage. Whoops.

We made progress with my oldest this time in his pizza making as we moved up from his red pepper, tomato sauce, no cheese "pizza" to using four slivers of mozzarella in creating "pizza-owls." Pepper ears, mushroom eyes, sausage nose and mouth, and cheese whiskers. Now you might be one to say that owls don't have whiskers, well pizza-owls apparently do. And now you know.

Our three-year old took a simpler approach declaring "I want cheese pizza!" And so cheese pizza he had.

For the remaining eight pizzas, I only took on one edgier pizza. So when I was in Germany like a decade ago, they had this pizza you could order with an egg in the middle of it. And they were fantastic. Obviously it hasn't really caught on here in the states, but I figured I'd give it a whirl. Other than the challenges of fitting a whole egg on a mini-pizza, it actually turned out all right. It was definitely messy, and absolutely an eat-it-with-a-fork kind of dish, but it was good.

As for our movie, the boys picked the Lego Movie of course because after all, everything is awesome.