Margherita Madness
Posted on July 22, 2006, by Conor O'Neill, under Cooking, Family.
Inspired by Red Mum’s recent pizza making post, the awesome DiFara Pizza story and my experiences in The Good Things Cafe recently, I decided to make some pizza-pies with the two middle childer yesterday. We made one each. Classic Margherita with simple garlic/oregano/basil/passata sauce and buffalo mozzarella.
Sibéal, aged 2:
Oisín, aged 4:
Conor, aged 38:
Which was the nicest? Yup, the 2 year old’s. After the horror of watching them “knead” the dough and drop it on the floor several times, the two little gits ended up with far superior results because [a] they were not swimming in sauce and [b] the were wafer thin cos I only gave them a small bit of dough each. Mine was more like a soup on a bap. All tasted fantastic tho.
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2 Replies to "Margherita Madness"
conor on July 25, 2006
Of course they wouldn’t flippin eat them but that’s another day’s posting altogether. They all love the idea of pizza and burgers but they actually rarely eat much of either no matter how much work we put into making them.
Oscar who is 7 can now do scrambled eggs on toast almost unassisted but I should try and get all of them to do more.
I used to “help” my mother a lot when I was a kid. It got to the stage where I was driving her so nuts, she would race to get any baking done before I got back from school. I should have my gang driving me just as crazy.
redmum on July 23, 2006
I love the look of Sibeals effort, it looks absolutely gorgeous! Delighted that someone tried it too. It is an easy and fun thing to do with the childer and their efforts look just yum…
And I agree with your too much sauce bit, when you put too much it becomes wet… while nice it isn’t how you want your pizza, unlike Sibeal’s efforts which makes me want one like that now.