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!
mary @ minutes per mile says
wondering if there’s a link to the dino kale salad? that sounds so good! 🙂
Lesley says
I agree! Recipe please! 🙂 Maple dressing? YUM! Thank!
KathEats says
I think she created the recipe herself!
Teri says
Pizza looks yummilicious ! What is the recipe for the pizza dough?
KathEats says
It’s Matt’s pizza crust recipe! I need to do an updated post on it.
Shana says
Yes, please to the update! I’m desperate to learn how to make a restaurant quality crust!!
Marisa @ Uproot from Oregon says
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 🙂
Erin @ Her Heartland Soul says
Mmm that pizza looks great! And Mazen is such a little cutie!
Linda @ The Fitty says
Do you use not mozzarella on your pizza? 🙂
Patty says
I was about to ask the same thing. That looks like cheddar!
KathEats says
It’s cheddar and smoked gouda!
Jen says
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.
Amanda @ Life To Table says
Pizza was super delicious, loved the doughy crust! Beer tasting was fun as always!
Katie @ Peace Love & Oats says
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!
Sarah says
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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KathEats says
We use Matt’s crust recipe and I need to do an updated post about it!
Alex @ True Femme says
Oh boy those pizzas and salads look amazing! Pizza is my favorite comfort food 🙂
Rachel says
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!
Shel@PeachyPalate says
He is so adorable! And that is one awesome pizza!!!!
Katie says
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!
KathEats says
hey Katie, can you send me a screen shot of this problem? It’s been requested for troubleshooting!
Katie says
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!
KathEats says
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.
Kelly says
Those pizzas look delicious! I love that you guys are always having people over for dinner – I need to start doing more of that! 🙂
Ashley @ Saving Money in your Twenties says
ahhh root beer beer?! That sounds so good! Also your pizzas always look so incredibly good and make me crave pizza!!! 🙂
Sarah @ RunningChickago.com says
Yummm that pizza looks great!
Jeanie says
The pizza looks delicious!
Kate Harvey says
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. 🙂
KathEats says
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!
Kate Harvey says
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. :))