Pizza night made a comeback! It’s our favorite meal – Mazen especially. He and Matt love rolling out the dough and making Mazen’s own personal pizza that comes out of the oven first.
My RD friend Amanda and her husband Matt joined us for dinner. They are homebrewers as well, so we got to try a bunch of their beers. My favorite was a root beer beer – a stout (I think?!) inspired by root beer. The aroma was all root beer, but the flavor was all stout. Loved it!
Amanda brought over not one but TWO kale salads. Love me some kale salad! The first was dinosaur kale with walnuts and a maple dressing and the second was curly kale with Parmesan, garlic and lemon. Loved ’em both, but the dino kale was my favorite.
PIZZA!!! Super thick crust last night. I tamed myself a bit and only had 2 pieces : )
For dessert we had some Talenti gelato and called it a night.
Blake and I are off to make a forbidden rice salad and panko salmon!
wondering if there’s a link to the dino kale salad? that sounds so good! 🙂
I agree! Recipe please! 🙂 Maple dressing? YUM! Thank!
I think she created the recipe herself!
Pizza looks yummilicious ! What is the recipe for the pizza dough?
It’s Matt’s pizza crust recipe! I need to do an updated post on it.
Yes, please to the update! I’m desperate to learn how to make a restaurant quality crust!!
Love that you guys already involve Mazen in the cooking/assembly – he looks like he is having a blast! I need to have a pizza night myself soon 🙂
Mmm that pizza looks great! And Mazen is such a little cutie!
Do you use not mozzarella on your pizza? 🙂
I was about to ask the same thing. That looks like cheddar!
It’s cheddar and smoked gouda!
Oh, That kale salad sounds so good. I am not typically a fan of kale cooked, but for some reason raw kale sounds delicious. Oh and the apples! Two days in a row of mouth watering.
Pizza was super delicious, loved the doughy crust! Beer tasting was fun as always!
Omg I love the pics of Mazen eating Pizza! We used to go to this italian restaurant in Kansas City ALL the time (my cousins and I always requested it for our birthdays) and if you ordered pizza they brought you back to the kitchen where you stood on a chair, watched the chef toss your crust in the air, and then you got to put all the toppings on! It was the absolute coolest thing. Oh and you color on the table. And it was actually a really nice restaurant. Haha parent and child’s dream!
I love homemade pizza but never think to make it. Do you use a premade crust or have a recipe you swear by?
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We use Matt’s crust recipe and I need to do an updated post about it!
Oh boy those pizzas and salads look amazing! Pizza is my favorite comfort food 🙂
If you like kale salad, you have to try Deb’s: http://smittenkitchen.com/blog/2014/03/kale-and-quinoa-salad-with-ricotta-salata/ it is one of my favorites! I usually sub farro for quinoa and only use half the amount of grains listed, but otherwise make it as is. Absolutely delish!
He is so adorable! And that is one awesome pizza!!!!
Kath, I know you’ve gotten lots of feedback on your new mobile app, and i TJ’s being worked on, but i’m not sure if this has been mentioned – when typing a comment on a mobile phone, there’s a big ad banner above the keyboard, so it’s impossible to see the comment being typed, which is kind of irritating – hopefully this issue is being worked on, along with the big ads embedded in the posts in confusing places! Thanks for being understanding of the readers’ perspective!
I love Mazen’s little pizza – he looks so proud of himself! And hiw coll that you have an intern! Are we going to be “introduced” to Blake? How did you get paired up with her?
Looking forward to the rice & salmon recipes!
hey Katie, can you send me a screen shot of this problem? It’s been requested for troubleshooting!
Hi Kath — you mentioned a few days ago that the small font was just temporary, so I just wanted to let you know that it’s still showing up on my computer. I hope you’ll consider a larger font! I love reading your blog but don’t want to strain my eyes trying to do so!
I changed it back, so it might be a caching issue. Can you try clearing your browser history? I have had a hard time with changes showing up right away for my own computer too. But I just verified it was indeed changed back.
Those pizzas look delicious! I love that you guys are always having people over for dinner – I need to start doing more of that! 🙂
ahhh root beer beer?! That sounds so good! Also your pizzas always look so incredibly good and make me crave pizza!!! 🙂
Yummm that pizza looks great!
The pizza looks delicious!
This is sort of unrelated but do you have a favorite pizza place in CVille? We’ve been here almost a year and haven’t yet found one that we love! You’re full of awesome local recommendations so just thought I’d ask. 🙂
Oh gosh..hmmm…
Fry’s Spring Station has great overall pizzas
Lampo’s are gourmet and thin crust – delicious
Belmont Pizza is our go-to delivery place
Christian’s avocado and feta is my favorite Fridays After Five slice
Dr. Ho’s is really good but a drive
and Blue Mountain Brewery is probably my favorite – but also a far drive and usually a wait! But good beer in the meantime!
Thank you! So helpful. So far we’ve had Crozet Pizza (the CVille location) and Mona Lisa’s and haven’t been super impressed. (LOVE Mona Lisa’s pasta, however.)
Excited to try your ideas. :))