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Mark Etinger
Everyone loves pizza. Even if your child is finicky and only likes the cheese, or doesn’t like the sauce, when you’re cooking with children at home you can customize your recipe to your child’s wants and needs. Let’s get started: 1. The Dough: • Drop yeast in a bowl of warm water and let it dissolve for about five minutes. Add ¼ tsp sugar. Stir the clumps out. Bubbles should form. • In a separate bowl add some flour and salt, and stir in yeast and 1 tbsp. oil until some dough forms. • Take the dough onto a lightly floured board. Knead the dough by folding it in and then pushing it away from you with the heel of your hand. Turn and fold, push and turn. When ready, the dough should be stretchy. • Add the dough into a greased bowl and cover. In 40 minutes, the dough should double in size. If indentations stay after you’ve touched the dough, it’s ready. • Knead the dough some more and let it sit for five minutes. • Cooking with children gets fun when you give them a rolling pin and tell them to flatten the dough into a circle. Guide their rolls outward from the middle. • On a greased pizza pan, stretch the dough to fit. Cover and let it sit for 15 minutes. 2. The Pizza: • Preheat your oven to 450. Add tomato sauce to your pizza evenly. • Add cheese and toppings – mushrooms, pepperoni, sausage, peppers, whatever you desire. • Bake for 12 minutes if your pizza is a simple cheese, but if you have more toppings, it will take longer to bake more thoroughly. Four or five toppings can take up to 35 minutes to turn golden brown. • The pizza is done when the cheese is melty or the crust is medium to golden brown. 3. Remove the Pizza: Children’s cooking is fun, but it’s important to reinforce the idea that when you cook safety is number one. Always use hot mitts when you’re removing something from the stove. 4. Enjoy! Cooking with children is fun when you let them use kitchen tools. A pizza cutter is sharp, but they can really get a lot out of it – the rolling back and forth is part of the experience. Just make sure to supervise them during this part of the process – if necessary, guide their hand along the slice to make sure the cutter doesn’t slip. Cooking for kids and cooking with children is fun and easy. The memories you make will last forever, and you can easily turn these special times into a weekly or daily ritual. Whatever you cook, your children will thank you for it.
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