Our Labor Day weekend was full of fun with a family reunion on Saturday – LouLou and Jaf hung out with all their cousins, aunties & uncles. They learned about their family ancestry, and more importantly, all about the traditional luau foods and how to prepare them.
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With the threat of Hurricane Jimena, we spent a rainy Sunday indoors, coloring with our cousins. We were lucky the rain didn’t extend into Monday because our friends invited us over to use their new outdoor pizza oven!
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The kids always enjoy making their own pizzas; it’s a great family activity and everyone ends up with their own pizza variation. There’s really nothing like a homemade pizza, especially when making it in a wood-burning oven. The taste cannot be beat – it reminded us of the pizza we had in Italy.
While there are some great pre-made frozen pizza crusts you can buy at the store, we sometimes like to make our own. If you’re a fan of thin crusts, Marie of Feeling Foodish has a great NY style pizza dough recipe; the dough can also be frozen, which is what we often end up doing.
See the recipe: The Best New York Style Pizza Dough at Feeling Foodish.
How did you spend your Labor Day?
Preparing pizza is easy, but the tough task is to prepare a pizza dough for the family because it takes more time, but I prefer to make the pizza dough at home because it is healthy.