Sometimes the "holidays" are just darn silly (kiss a pig day? really?) But who am I to pooh pooh a week dedicated to our kids' favorite food? Especially when I might get an extra slice of mushrooms and extra cheese out of the deal?
It is, after all, Great American Pizza Bake Week (kicked off yesterday by Pizza Pie Day).
Apparently, pizza is so popular (do you know a kid who doesn't like it? Really?), it's celebrated in October - which is Pizza Month and again the second week of January which is Pizza Week.
This week is by far the best on the parenting front, however, because instead of calling out for a pie, it's one week when you can show them how you get your hands (and your counters) dirty. It's bake your OWN pizza week.
Inspired of late by our own Keri Fisher's mouth-watering Kitchenista posts, I've taken a renewed interest in getting my daughter into the kitchen with me - and at three, she's the perfect age for helping. Pizza, in particular, is one of those foods that kids can be a real help in making.
If you want to go real simple, go the English muffin route - they can break them open at almost any age, they can spoon on jarred sauce, they can sprinkle them with cheese and cover them with toppings. If you're ambitious to make your own dough, measure out the ingredients, and let them pour them into the mixing bowl. When the dough has to be kneaded, let their little fists do some punching. And when it's rolled out and ready to go - once again, let them at the sauce (homemade, jarred or canned - it doesn't matter), the cheese and the toppings.
Nothing makes a kid like eating dinner like getting involved in the making.
Image: Steffens Dinners
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