Two New Pizza Attempts

Our pizza party this weekend was quite the event. With our best good friend Brooke in town, plus Spencer's nephews, we had a great shindig. We headed over to Paul & Cindy's house and Spencer was in a rare mood which I was able to catch on video. Unfortunately, it was taken with my camera phone and I can't upload it here, but trust me it was awesome to see Spencer dancing in the kitchen like he was at a club.

The prep work began with making our tried and true whole wheat crust recipe. Paul did the kneading of the dough (which is hard work) and Gabe and Jesse peeled the wrappers off the mozzarella cheese sticks while Brooke grated mozzarella cheese and supervised. I chopped veggies. We actually did 3 different types of pizza - our standard combination pizza and the two new pizzas: BBQ Chicken pizza and Chicken Bacon Ranch pizza.

Due to the specific tastes of the nephews, we made personal pan pizzas for each of them, allowing them to choose and place their own toppings.

The boys tried to tease me with their judgment, pretending that they didn't like the pizza but considering that they each ate more than a single piece, I think they really did like it.

Zach was very adamant that his pizza only have cheese. Anytime someone mentioned one of the other pizzas he was confirm that he didn't want any of those he just wanted cheese. However, after eating two pieces of his cheese pizza, he said "This is my favorite pizza."

Spencer's parents have a top secret BBQ sauce recipe that they had made up for a block party on Friday. We used the leftover sauce on the BBQ Chicken pizza. We topped that with chicken and onions as well as mozzarella and parmesan cheeses.

I did not care for the BBQ Chicken pizza. The flavors were fine but I'm not a big fan of BBQ sauce. As you can see below, everyone else really liked it. I also didn't really like the Chicken Bacon Ranch. I didn't think it was ranchy enough and it fell kind of flat for me.

Overall it was another successful attempt at pizza making. We really enjoyed being with Spencer's parents and nephews too. We played Scattergories and the Wii. We also watched and set off some fireworks after dark.

Brooke said that we have achieved pizza perfection and should now move on to another food category. Spencer wants to try some other types of pizza (like a taco pizza and greek pizza) before we call our pizza chapter finished.

Our ratings are below:

BBQ Chicken: 3.2

Chicken Bacon Ranch: 3.2