Food for Mommy’s Day

Food for mother’s day… What is something everyone can do… How can we help those families, those kids, and the dads help to honor the moms in their life. As I was thinking of how to celebrate mother’s day for all the mother’s I know in my life, I remembered the time I asked a friend to a dance in high school. I went to a local pizza place and asked if I could personally decorate a pizza and send it to a friend. So I took some of the toppings and wrote on the pizza “Sadies?” and had the pizza delivered to my friends front door.  So I thought, why not do the same thing to celebrate mother’s day?? Of course, now I can actually make a pizza on my own and deliver it myself.  But you can do it with lots of different things… pizza, pancakes, cookies, sandwiches, and snacks.  You can make a shape, write mom, spell out I love you.  You can get your kids to help, your friends to help, and share the love of the celebration.

So this week, I made a pizza… and I wrote MOM on the pizza.

It made it a little more special than just a regular pizza. I cut up some veggies, grilled up some sausage, and threw on some cheese… But the best part: a homemade pizza sauce.  I found a recipe on the internet, but tweaked it a bit to use up ingredients I had. But it turned out GREAT!!!!

Pizza Sauce (adapted from kitchenstewardship.com)


Ingredients

•                                2 Tbs Olive Oil
•                                1 onion, chopped
•                                1 green and/or red pepper, diced or pureed
•                                4 cloves crushed garlic
•                                1TBS oregano
•                                Dash cayenne
•                                1 tsp Italian seasoning
•                                28 oz. can crushed tomatoes

Instructions

1. Saute the onion, sweet pepper in the olive oil.

2. Add the crushed garlic.

3. Add oregano, cayenne (opt.), Italian seasoning and tomatoes.

4. Stir well.

And you get a pizza!!! (Weisser Whole Wheat Pizza dough recipe coming soon!!)

 

 

 

 

 

What creative ways have you celebrated with food?