Pizzas that your kids can make!

I am a stay home mom, and my 'duties' include chauffeuring the kids around, preparing lunch, washing the dishes, putting the dirty laundry in the washing machine, preparing material for home-learning, supervising homework, arbitrating fights, keeping the house (relatively) clean... 

I have a little over two hours of 'me time' every weekday morning when they are in school. Besides trying to complete some of the things listed above, I fit in a BSF meeting (once a week) and gym sessions (once/twice a week).

As such, the lunches I prepare are usually one pot wonders. Meals must be fast to cook with minimal washing thereafter. Recently, I found something even better than one pot wonders... I outsourced the job of preparing lunch to my kids!

Ingredients for simple pizza base

Ingredients

For pizza base

A loaf of bread

Tomato paste

Mozzarella cheese

For pizza toppings

Sausages

Ham

Pineapple

Minced meat

Capsicum

* Pick as many of the above as you like or replace with something that your kids like to eat

Directions

Before beginning, pre-heat oven to 190 degree Celsius.

1) Lay pieces of bread on a baking tray and spread a thin layer of tomato paste

2) Sprinkle a generous amount of Mozerella cheese on each slice of bread.

3) Top with your favorite ingredients.

4) Pop in the oven for 5 minutes.

5) Fill your tummies :)

Chefs hard at work

Other than cutting up the sausages into thin slices, the boys did everything else. They loved making their own lunch and eating it!

Yummy!

Do you have any simple recipes to share?

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Freshly Baked Madeleines

I've always loved eating madeleines. And after I introduced them to Nathan and Noah, they love it too! Quite often, we'd go to Starbucks for breakfast, and we'd usually buy a small packet for the boys. Several times, they ran out, and they were disappointed. Oh well... we finally decided that since we love madeleines so much, maybe we should try baking them ourselves. 

So there... I scoured the web for some recipes, and finally found one that I liked. The following is adapted from the Joy of Baking. I adjusted the quantities, and this recipe fits on my madeleine tray nicely.

Madeleines 

Makes 10

60g butter (melted)

65g flour

1/4 tsp baking powder

2 eggs (at room temp)

65g sugar

15g brown sugar

1/2 tsp vanilla essence

1) Preheat oven to 190 deg C.

2) In a mixing bowl, beat eggs and sugar at high speed until it turns creamy and pale yellow in colour. 3) Add in vanilla essence and beat for a few more minutes.

4) Sift 1/2 of the flour into the batter and fold in. Continue with the other half and fold in gently.

5) Add melted butter. Stirring in gently.

6) Transfer batter to madeleine tray. 

7) Bake at 190 dec C for 20 minutes.

Madeleines make little boys happy

Put it in the oven to cook!

Fresh out of the oven

The best part is, madeleines taste so much better fresh out of the oven! These days, I'd bake it almost every Saturday and Sunday for breakfast. Simple. No fuss. You can choose to double the quantity, bake one batch on Saturday, refrigerate the batter and bake the other half on Sunday.

Tip - get a non stick madeleine tray. costs more but saves you the hassle of greasing the tin. mine glides off so easily!

For teacher's day this year, we baked some to share with the teachers we love. I sure hope they enjoyed it as much as we do. 

Happy Teachers' Day!

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