Sunday, 16 June 2013

Evolving Pizza

I live with pizza fanatics. The youngest has eaten pizza daily for a couple years, and is moving on again into a new world of food. I refuse to give up eating pizzas and preparing them for him! imagine a picky child who will eat almost anything so long as it was on a pizza crust with a good sauce.

Here's a recipe I am working on for my homemade pizza sauce.

1 can of diced tomatoes (drained)
1/4 cup of olive oil
3 tbsp of golden sugar (organic)
1 can of tomato paste
1 dash of sea salt
1 dash of basil (dried)


Here's a recipe I am working on for my homemade crust.

2 cups of all purpose flour (blanched wheat in this case)
1 packet of active dry yeast
1 and 1/2 cups of warm water
1/4 tsp of salt
4 tbsp of oil (I use whatever is on hand)



For 'A' my best results have been to make it as close to store bought pizza as possible. Attempting to duplicate delivery pizza has been a failure every time. A great idea is to use round cake pans for your pizza crust to give it that authentic looking processed food feel, but you know its completely homemade!

If your child is obsessed over eating any particular dish, I recommend trying many different varieties (if it is a processed or store bought food, this shouldn't be hard, just switch brands routinely), and establish what he likes and doesn't like, and his responses to different flavours. This little munschkin likes things a little sweet, a little acidic, fresh-tasting, and energizing. He has a strong aversion to many chemically-derived flavours, and common artificial ingredients.

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