Hey, anyone else stupidly excited about Jurrasic World?

Because I am stupidly excited about Jurrasic World. I’m taking a couple of the older kids to the movies this afternoon, and I am going to dream about dinosaurs all night.

I love dinosaur movies. Godzilla. The Land Before Time. King Kong, especially the recent King Kong .  I think I love that we are trying to recreate the world using our imaginations…and sometimes that is amazing.  Sometimes, it is weird. Sometimes it is terrifying…but that’s what a good story is. It takes you somewhere that you could never get to on your own.  And I love a good journey 🙂

SO, with that being said: today is a great pizza day!

The best thing about this recipe: it actually tastes like pizza.

It isn’t made out of cauliflower, quinoa, tofu, asparagus or unicorns.

It is a straight up, solid, easy pizza recipe.

Okay, so I have been making this pizza all week for lunch, because it is amazingly easy…and the kids go nuts over it.

There are no leftovers with this pizza.

Ben tried it the other day, and even he said it “tastes really good,” was “very filling,” and is “a great lunch.”

These are reviews us mothers live for. 😉  Seriously, after a few days of sandwiches at home, you have to start thinking outside the box for meals.  And since we eat at home every day, I run out of interesting ideas unless I spend a good hour in front of a notebook once a week brainstorming meal planning.

So here you go! An easy pizza recipe anyone can make!

Ingredients:

Dough-

• 5 cups flour
• 1 cup oil
• 1 tsp kosher salt
• 1 cup of warm water
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 Tbsp yeast

Sauce-

• 3 cups of canned/diced tomatoes
• 1 can of tomato paste
• 1 tsp garlic powder
• 1/2 tsp kosher salt
• 1/2 red bell pepper, sliced
• 1/2 yellow bell pepper, sliced
• 2 cups of shredded cheddar cheese

What’chu Do:

1. Preheat oven to 125F
2. Add the yeast, warm water and sugar to a mixing bowl. Let sit and froth for 5 minutes.
3. Add flour, salt, and oil and mix until smooth. You may need to add a little more water, but add it ta tablespoon at a time.
4. Pour the dough onto parchment paper on a baking sheet, smooth out to all corners and put the sheet into the oven to rise for 30 minutes.
5. While the dough is rising, make the sauce, slice up the bell peppers and shred the cheese
6. Take the dough out of the oven and raise the temperature to 375F
7. Pour the sauce and bell peppers onto the dough and spread gently with a spatula
8. Sprinkle the cheese over the sauce
9. Place back into the oven for 20 minutes
10. Let cool before you start cutting it…and then enjoy thoroughly!!

Happy Pizza Kids