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Hi there! I’m Lisa Krone and I am from the Best Epicurean and I am here for the expertvillage.com
to talk about making dinner with kids. These are my children, Kyle and Scott and they are
going to help me today in making a dish that I like to make with kids which is really great
and that is make your own pizza. So the first thing that we do when you make your own pizza
is I go to my local pizza parlor and I get some dough. The really neat thing is for 16
inch dough like this they charged me about 75 cents. So what I do for the make your own
pizzas is I take a simple knife, I cut up the pizza dough, I give them some cutting
boards and a rolling pin and if you don’t have an extra rolling pin for everybody, you
can just use a flat cup like this one and it works as a great rolling pin. The other
thing that I’ll do is I will put the sauce and all the stuff that they are going to put
on their pizza, I am going to put it in plastic or paper containers because if you have a
lot of kids around the island or around your table who are making pizza, very often or
not we might get one of these and then you could have a broken glass, broken ceramic
or something like that, so this is a kid safe, kid friendly way to do it. A lot of times
when my Kyle will have some of her friends over or Scott will have some friends over,
this is what I make. They love making their own pizza. If you have smaller children, one
of the things that I recommend the most is if you get a canned or jar of tomato sauce,
excuse me that is my dog Kathy, you want to look at the ingredients because a lot of these
tomato sauces come with corn syrup and extra sugars. You do not want to have that with
your small children so what you will do is read the label, bring it home, this particular
one does not have it; they make their pizzas. When they roll out their dough, you want to
use flour. One of the ways you want to store the flour is in a plastic bag. It makes it
easier for little hands as well as big hands to reach in and grab the flour for the dough.
When the kids are all done and all finished, I grab a pizza stone, this one is very well
seasoned and the kids, Kyle is almost finished, all we do is take it, now it is nicely floured,
slide it onto the stone and it is finished and that is how you can make a easy dinner
with kids and it is very little work on my part and it is a lot of fun for them. So that
is one great idea that you can use when making meals with kids. I’m Lisa Krone for expertvillage.com.