Practice #14: Homemade Pizza Night

This practice will either make your week easier or more work. Feel free to do with it as you please.

By Friday, I’m fried. I mean, I’m done. I give I give I give and I just can’t give anymore! So, we adopted the tradition of homemade pizza night. It’s a no brainer and never fails. For the dough, I use Jim Lahey’s recipe that I found on Dinner: A Love Story’s website. I usually make it earlier in the week (it takes a grand total of 3 minutes) and leave it covered in the fridge until Friday. I also make a double batch of tomato sauce every other Sunday and usually have some frozen to transfer to the fridge Thursday night (though you can easily just buy pre-made pizza sauce. No judgement. The glass is recyclable 😉) Our favorite toppings are caramelized onions (caramelized during some random evening earlier in the week while watching New Girl after the kids have been put to bed. Trust me, you don’t want to be caramelizing those suckers while your family/friends hungrily wait to start making the pizzas!), ricotta, greek olives, artichokes, local sausage, and sauteed mushrooms.

Less waste? Most of the ingredients have been bought from bulk bins or from the antipasti bar using my Pyrex or straight from the butcher.

That’s all I will say about this. Some day we hope to construct one of those outdoor wood fired clay pizza ovens but until then, the regular oven works for us!

Bon Appetit!

P.S. When I look at this collage of pictures, it seems so idyllic. Please don’t think that’s our life. One of the things I want to make very clear through these posts is that we don’t have it together. We are just trying to make it the best we can and leave as little waste as possible along the way. That sweet little angel rolling out the dough? I’m pretty sure she shortly thereafter grabbed an olive, threw it at me and laughed as she jumped off the stool, running. And no, I probably didn’t catch her. She’s crazy quick.