Sunday, February 15, 2009

Vday Pizza

We have a tradition of making a heart-shaped pizza for Valentines each year.
We even make our own sauce and grind the wheat for the dough!

9 comments:

Mandy said...

Mmmmm, that looks yummy!! Are you willing to share your sauce recipe? I am looking for a good one!! (Oh, and I'll take your dough recipe too please!! I love trying new recipes!)

Briett said...

Very sweet! We need to make traditions for this day. We fed the missionaries and my niece and nephews b-days are this day, always fun to celibrate with them.

mmm... said...

looks like fun, and a great idea! also I love the greeting, Brianna is adorable!

Unknown said...

I love traditons! I think that is a great tradition!

Marilyn said...

It looks yummy. Have you converted Brian to your healthy-eating ways?

chelsea mckell said...

Mandy - I wish I could share the sauce recipe - but there isn't one! We just throw all the usual ingredients in the crock pot (or a sauce pan if we didn't plan ahead) and add things to taste. It's the typical ingredients though - tomatoes (we use fresh), onions (sauteed in oliveoil first), fresh garlic, peppers, sea salt... and sometimes I sneak in some pureed vegetables (shhh don't tell Brian. He's not exactly Captain Vegetable, but I want him to live past age 60)
The dough - we cheat and use the breadmachine (ours has a pizza dough setting). So I just throw in the ingredients and press GO: 1 1/3 cups warm water, 1 tsp honey,2 tsp sea salt, 2 TB EVOO, 4 cup whole wheat flour (we grind ours extra fine so the dough isn't so dense), 2 1/4 tsp yeast

Marilyn - you'd be surprised. Brian's made tremendous strides in that department in the past few years. I just have to stick to my guns. He's a typical man - he eats whatever's convenient. So if I put good stuff in front of him - he takes the bait!

Kelly Nordfelt said...

Good work on the pizza! Looks delicious!

Ashley said...

I bet that the Bri Guy loves the pizza. That is a great tradition.

Sam and Melissa said...

What a cool tradition. I thought about going the easy way and buyign a papa murphey's heart pizza but I think i'll try your way next year.