I thought it would be fun to have some friends over for a dinner party…I always thought that looked like a fun activity, seeing my sister do it a lot with her friends and their kids.
I wasn’t sure what to make that everyone would like. I have actually started to cook quite a bit in these last 2 months. I cooked a lot before, but ever since we got hitched I’ve been trying to cook things that dont require the microwave! or toaster! i wanna be a good mommy and wife.
Anyway! I decided homemade pizza would be fun to do. Ryan, a good friend of ours, had a super easy pizza dough recipe:
1 c. warm water
1 pkg of yeast
1 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
2 TBSP olive oil
2.5 c. flour
In a large mixing bowl add water, yeast, salt, and sugar. Let activate (sit) for 30 seconds. Add olive oil, then flour. With a fork, mix beat 30 times or until all the flour is mixed in. Put some flour on your hands, form dough into a ball. Leave it in the mixing bowl and cover with towel or suranwrap. Let rise for 25 minutes. Preheat oven to 400. Add any toppings you wish and back for 22 minutes.
Ryan said you arent doin it right unless you have flour all over your shirt…and i wore black to show how CLEAN i could stay. yep. he attacked me. And the handprint on the back kinda proves it!
He would love for me to take all the credit but I can not…he was throwing the pizza dough in the AIR! it was pretty entertaining. He just taught me as we went and people just said what they wanted on it. I have made it a few times since then and it has turned out really well.
It was really funny while we were making it, little Hannah was super hungry and got impatient, started licking up flour…
She wasnt very hungry when the pizza was ready…
But I want to have more get togethers like this! Any of you have any cool ideas for appetizers/main course/dessert?
Or you can just post your favorite recipe cuz I love to experiment!
5 responses so far ↓
Jana // May 16, 2008 at 10:39 pm
That’s awesome! I will have to try that pizza sometime.
You have to ask chantel for her bacon wrapped water chestnuts recipe, they are so good!
Jana // May 16, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Oh and if you click on food in my tag cloud you can see all of the recipes I’ve ever posted.
Carly // May 16, 2008 at 10:42 pm
Where do you even get water chesnuts?? I’ll definitely ask her that sounds so good
Misty // May 19, 2008 at 2:15 pm
I am totally proud. I didn’t do dinner parties for a least a couple years after we were married. You are a regular Suzie Homemaker!
Jeana // June 8, 2008 at 4:40 am
Look at you being a good little domestic wife! Cute blog, I do a lot better with this than the facebook thing.