Here’s a fun garden for the kiddos and you to grow together. It’s the perfect intro to gardening and can be done on a small plot of land too.
A PIZZA garden!
What to grow:
Typical easy pizza plants like sweet basil, bell peppers (my son likes red, yellow and orange but not green), red onions or white if you like, parsley, oregano, garlic, tomatoes (roma is good because it’s paste quality), mushrooms, and so on. Really you can grow anything you like to eat on a pizza; well not pepperoni, but you get the picture. Because this is a kid garden …read more

I used the Artisan bread dough to make pizza crust for supper tonight. It turned out really well. I didn’t exactly follow the directions for pizza, but I think it turned out fine anyway.
The instructions said to preheat the cooking stone, but I just coated it with a little olive oil, then sprinkled it with corn meal. Then I worked the dough out on the pans and let it rise there for about 30 minutes. I made two pizzas and used the rest of the dough. I let the dough bake for about 5 minutes at 425` then added the …read more

My family love pizza and I love making it! Of course, as the kids have gotten older they like helping out too, putting the pepperoni and mozzarella on their pizza or the sliced tomatoes, mushrooms and grilled chicken on mom and dad’s.
I use Wolfgang Puck’s dough recipe and double it, which gives me four really good-sized pizzas. I also like doing it in the food processor with the dough blade though you have to be patient and help it get the flour worked in. I usually only let it rise for an hour and it doubles very well (this …read more