Using 3 burners at once!
I love that you are advised to eat this salad with your fingers. The kids loved that.
So tonight for dinner I made homemade pizza. My neighbor Melinda gave me the recipe and it is so good. I use wheat flour instead of white. Which may be the reason it won't rise like I think it should. Any ideas on that? Whenever I make any type of bread I have a hard time getting it to rise. Why? I'm not sure. I don't think I am killing the yeast. It looks like its "growing" in the water, especially once I add a little sugar. But for some reason I can't get it to rise into a big poof. Anyway.
The kids helped me add the toppings. And my husband helped with the chopping of the veggies. It was really good. I think they key to any good pizza is to bake it on a pizza stone. It makes the crust so much better. I forgot to add the olives, which I love an my husband hates. But it was still good.
The salad was so good too. I got the recipe from my newest favorite blogger The Pioneer Woman. I love her! Ceaser Salad is definitely one of my favorite salads. I even made the croutons. Hello! I made croutons. I was so proud of myself. They were really easy too. But I have decided that I want a food processor. A good one. I have one that someone gave me that isn't so great and worked for about a month. It is now in my cupboard taking up valuable space and still not working. Hmmm...my birthday is coming up. Do you think that would be a good gift?
Frugality: I already had all of the ingredients to make the dough, the pizza sauce and part of the dressing. I also had the sausage and olives. So all I had to buy was the cheese, pepperoni, the french bread and the veggies. Quite a frugal meal if I do say so myself. And yummy. All of the kids ate it up.
Waist Line: I used wheat flour instead of white. And I used light mayo for the dressing.
Success.
