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Life’s Little Pleasures – Baking Pizza Tiger Girl Style

The kids have always love eating pizza and recently even Tiger girl has been asking for pizza. As it really isn’t that cheap eating pizza at a restaurant we decided to make our own for lunch.
Pizza

I have baked pizza a few times with the kids but it was the first time that Tiger girl was participating in the pizza baking activity.

She was thrilled to be able to get her hands into plying the dough from the bowl to the tray and adding in the pineapple cubes.

tiger girl and the pizza

Our little chef posing for the camera besides her creation .

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pizza baking

She waited patiently for about half and hour before the pizza was baked and cooled enough to eat.

Pizza

What better pleasure in life then enjoying a baking session with my favourite little girl 🙂

Here is the recipe that I used to make the pizza.

For the pizza  I made the dough before hand using this recipe.

Ingredients

-. I packet active yeast

-. 2 1/2 cup bread flour

– 1 teaspoon white sugar

– 1 teaspoon salt

2 tablespoon olive oil

Method

  1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C). In a medium bowl, dissolve yeast and sugar in warm water. Let stand until creamy, about 10 minutes.
  2. Stir in flour, salt and oil. Beat until smooth. Let rest for 5 minutes.
  3. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and pat or roll into a round. Transfer crust to a lightly greased pizza pan or baker’s peel dusted with cornmeal. Spread with desired toppings and bake in preheated oven for 15 to 20 minutes, or until golden brown. Let baked pizza cool for 5 minutes before serving.

For the toppings for the pizza we used the following

– pineapple cubes

– Mozzarella cheese

– ham

Do you bake together with your kids?

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Writers Workshop: Getting Through Summer

Tiger girl and me

It’s July and it’s suppose to be the start of summer for most people. However staying in the tropics it is summer all year round. The only difference is whether it is hot and wet or just plain hot!! The heat can really sap ones energy and on some days I find my energy level rapidly depleting even though it is only lunch time.

I find that my blogging schedule has changed these few months.  I used to find that my afternoons are my best time for drafting post and getting my ideas down onto the blog. However all these have changed since Tiger girl been sleeping lesser in the afternoon. She doesn’t have a fixed nap time and sometimes can even go without a nap for the day. It really throws my schedule blogging schedule out of the window.

I now try to blog early in the morning before the kids wake up or after they go to bed. If there are spare minutes or seconds during the day I will try to start on a draft and hopefully it gets completed by the end of the day.

I started working on this blog post in the afternoon after lunch but now as I’m typing in this particular sentence the clock on the wall already shows 8.40pm.  I have been pulled away from my laptop countless times by the kids with their 101 requests. I had been attending to spills, setting dinner, bathing the kids, cleaning up, answering calls, supervising homework, piano practice among other things.

Thankfully at this present moment they are playing in their bedroom so I can type as fast as my fingers. Opp..”spoken” too soon as they come charging out of the room screaming at each other.  Another interruption which I have to attend to which disrupts my train of thought again!!

Back again after  having to play judge with the kids. I’ll better speed type the rest of the ideas I have on hand if I’m to complete this post before it’s time to send the kids off to sleep.

Finally this post is done.

 

How has your blogging schedule changed this summer?

Has it been for the better or worse for you?

 

 

 
Jenny MatlockMama’s Losin’ It