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Pizza wins

We don't really have pizza in the house. For a long time, Amanda was allergic to wheat, and is still allergic to dairy, and so if we get regular pizza we have to figure out what Amanda is going to eat. Add this to the fact that Eleanor really despises tomato sauce in all forms, especially on pizza (why would you let tomato sauce get in the way of lovely bread and cheese?), and we really haven't had pizza for a long time. Thus, when Luke is faced with a piece of pizza, he reacts the same way he usually does to an unfamiliar food: Why are you trying to poison me? Why are you giving me this burning hot piece of so-called food?

But last weekend when I asked Michael to come up with an idea for dinner this week and Eleanor had already suggested bratwurst, he suggested individual pizzas. He has become enamored with roasted garlic (a result of Easter dinner, lamb shanks with rosemary and 3 heads of garlic in the slow cooker), and so he wanted to try it out on a white pizza. Since the rest of us did not want to try roasted garlic out on pizza, and because Amanda doesn't get regular cheese, we made individual white pizzas. These consisted of pizza dough, olive oil, cheese, bacon, garlic for Michael and tomatoes and peppers for me.

They were a hit! Eleanor ate hers all up. Amanda loved the vegan cheese we found for her, although she didn't eat the crust. Luke started eating just the crust, but I think the way Eleanor was enjoying hers convinced him to eat the rest, and he liked it. Tomatoes on a white pizza are just perfect: not as aggressive as tomato past, but still zingy and moist. And Michael ate two heads of roasted garlic on his.

It wasn't so hard, and Michael has said he'll help prep the ingredients the night before so I can make it while supervising kids. Eleanor asked if we could have it every Wednesday. I'm not entirely convinced it belongs with pancakes as a weekly meal, but I'm up for considering it.

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