Sunday, January 31, 2010

Swinger Sunday - Pizza & Movie night by NiftyNappy!


So I am a guest here but I wanted to let you into our homes on a typical Friday night!  
Even when we are away from home we have to have it. We are away this weekend staying with my sister.  Fortunately they like to have pizza and movie night also. Only tonight we are going to eat pizza and then go to a movie! Fun huh? the kids are way excited! Funny how traditions stick no matter what huh? My kids get upset if we say we are leaving town on the weekends. Even to go visit family!! "What about pizza and movie night?" or "We have to have pizza and movie night!" You'd think they would be excited to go see grandma or play with their cousins. We really hope this tradition sticks though AND that it is still cool when our kids are teenagers. They can have friends over and we can bake like 6 pizzas, but we will know what our kids are up to and be able to have fun with them. That is the end goal of this tradition!
Want our recipes?  We have 2 that are the backbone of our tradition!

first the pizza the kids love:
1 c. warm water
1/4 c. sugar
1 Tbsp. yeast
(if it is active dry yeast it needs to sit and bloom here for a few min. -instant yeast press on!) 
1/4 c. oil 
1 egg
mix all together, add
1 tsp. salt
3-4 c. flour till soft dough
let rise to double, roll out. 
Makes 2- med round or 1- 13X15 cookie sheet
bake @400 for 12-15 min. until crust is golden brown

Sauce recipe
8 oz. can tomato sauce
1 tsp. garlic salt
1/8 tsp. chili powder
1/8 tsp. onion powder
1/2 Tbsp. dried oregano
1/2 Tbsp. dried basil
1/4 tsp. pepper
mix and spread on rolled out pizza dough

we use the regular toppings: 
olives (lots of these)
pepperoni
sausage
bell peppers
mushrooms
cheese  

This other pizza is super yummy!  
We found it here online while looking for a healthier pizza, since we do eat pizza once a week!  
*we also like to add a tiny bit of Italian sausage to spice it up!  :) 

SO, gonna try to have Pizza and movie night next Friday night?  maybe you don't like movies, try pizza and game night!  Our friends have "Fun Fridays"  they have Pizza and then watch a movie, only they have popcorn too!  But they mix in mini marshmallows with their popcorn!  (it is YUM!!)
So, Party Friday night?  HeCk YeAh!  
Thanks lady! What a rad post! (its me, amber again by the way...) What a great way to start off Swinger Sunday! Feel free to comment away... show us pics of YOUR pizza nights... and if you decide to try the recipe you MUST come back and share your thoughts with us!! Heres a pic of our pizza night (different recipe, but still yummy, and loads of family fun :)



6 comments:

  1. Love it! mmm the pizza sure looks good!!

    My mom always did friday pizza night and all the kids on the street would come over, it lasted until I was about 17 then everyone started driving and we saw people less but it sure was awesome :)

    Gavin loves making pizza too now we don't do it every week but often enough and Gavin always gets to pick a movie, we're on toy story kick again.

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  2. What an awesome idea! We may need to do this, it gets hard to do "family stuff" when everyone is so busy! Thanks Vilate!!!

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  3. Mini marshmallows in popcorn eh? Sounds oddly addictive.

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  4. That's an awesome tradition to have!
    And those pizza recipes are awesome!

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  5. My home was always the place that friends came to hang out when I was a teenager. My mom was very open to getting to know them and opening up the house (even though it was small) so we had a fun, safe place to hang. I'm sure Vilate's kids will want to continue (and share) this fun tradition when they're teens too. :0)

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  6. Sounds SO good! We recently made our first homemade pizza... I don't think we'll be going back. =) Thanks for sharing your recipe!

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