Chef Paul: It’s Friday!
January 14 2011
And that means two things…the weekend starts tomorrow and most importantly, it’s pizza night!
I make a batch of pizza dough which I then separate into four and freeze for later use. I’m alw
ays planning ahead when it comes to meals. This way, on Friday’s I can come home, turn on the oven, chop some veggies and off we go. We love pizza night around our house. My daughter helps me make the pizza and we all sit on the floor in the living room and listen to music and drink wine…well it’s beer (apple juice) for the little one. Tonight’s pizza will feature chicken left over from last weekend’s roast chicken too. YUM!
My daughter loves helping dad make pizza. She helps place the ingredients on the dough…that’s if she hasn’t eaten all of them. She adores olives and goat cheese…not your typical fare for a 2 1/2 year old.
The weekend also means a trip to the farmer’s market. We buy about 90% of our groceries from the farmer’s market. I feel it’s very important to buy local and to buy organic whenever possible. Many of the farmers I buy from are farm’s we’ve visited, so I know that the cows were pasture raised on a diet of grass; I know that the carrots and beets I’m getting were not sprayed with pesticides; and I know that the dollars I spend are going to the people who deserve it and need it most…the farmers.
I try to always take my daughter along when we go to visit farms so that she understands where her food comes from. She knows that the pig she’s looking at will be slaughtered and eaten, same goes for the chickens, cows etc. (She calls beef “cow beef” which I adore). I feel it’s very important for her to understand that her food does not come from a grocery store but from a farm…because without farms and farmers, where would we be?
