Do-it-yourself Pizza Kits

A bread machines is a versatile and frugal kitchen appliance. Here are a few tips for creating simple meal-starters using your bread machine:

If you have a few hours at home, put your bread machine to work and mix up some pizza or bread dough. Then, place the dough in an oiled gallon-sized bag and save it in the freezer for a day when you don’t have time to make dough. Defrost the dough in the refrigerator (or on the counter briefly) and get a head start on your pizza dinner on a busy day.

Make mini-pizzas: here’s an alternative to buying processed frozen pizzas for your kids. Instead of freezing one whole bag of pizza dough, cut the dough into 4-6 small pieces and freeze them separately in oiled sandwich bags. Also put together sandwich bags of pizza or spaghetti sauce and bags containing a small amount of mozzarella cheese and other toppings. In the morning, place each bag in the fridge to thaw, and at dinner you can create a mini pizza for each child in less than 10 minutes!

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Three generations of moms and daughters!

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Meet and Greet – Garden Update

I’ve taken a long break from blogging – just not sure if it’s a priority right now. But, Babywearing Week made me want to do some writing and post some pictures! So, here is what is new with us this Monday:

Our garden is pretty full of tomatoes, which is encouraging!  We really want to succeed at this garden thing, but a small yard in the suburbs in a challenge.  But, right now, my kitchen counter has a pretty nice heap of tomatoes to use for dinner and then to freeze.
Here are pictures (that are actually a few weeks old now):

Emma, looking pretty and thoughtful:

Cherry tomatoes!:

The little backyard garden:

Selah, being a silly one year-old:

Now, go visit The Natural Mommy’s meet and greet!