Good idea about the mini ones.

We rarely eat donuts.

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In fact shopping at Costco is part of our holiday fun (does that sound pathetic). My sister takes us and we do our semi-annual stock up of essentials (and treats). But thanks for the suggestion. I can always bake some muffins.

Tomorrow morning we're traveling on our vacation. We leave at 5 a.m. so I pack breakfast (lunch and dinner too but I've got that figured out). Any fun breakfast food ideas that are portable? Thanks.

It has not been missed here in our house and in fact I feel a weight lifted because I was always afraid of the garbage my kids (particularly one child) would run into. We do watch t.v. sometimes but now it's dvd's we choose to bring into our home.

With two teenagers in the house, and one on the way we're thinking we maybe should get something like a net nanny product. Partly we're doing this on the advice of friends who have already parented teens and partly I want to do all I can to protect my kids. Anyone have any experience with this or a similar product?

I'm on my way out for a few hours. Let me think about it for a bit (I haven't made homemade ice cream for a number of years after our ice cream maker bit the bullet and we've never replaced it.) It might have been that we used fruit juice base for sherbet rather than low fat dairy. I'll reply later when we return.

But I have made ice cream with lower fat milks and it still thickened so that probably isn't the problem.

Love it and it's economical. Of course I always enjoy Starbucks when we get to one but it's a bit steep in price. My dh and I love strong, strong coffee.

I'm sure we've had them the last few years but I never saw them. This summer has been unusually warm and dry. I wonder if that's why I'm seeing them. Thankfully it's only been outside that I've seen them.

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And, because of our discussions last week we ate pizza two nights! And, that my love of pizza is one of the only sources of incompatibility between my dh and I (Well not really. I love, love, love pizza. He only likes it. And not more than once a week.) All these pizza discussions are feeding my pizza obsession. Thanks for posting this thread. Your dough recipe suggestion intrigues me because we are pretty much a strictly ww family (I grind my own) but I have not been able to make a good ww crust so I do use white flour for my crust. I might have to break down and buy the cookbook you suggest. Anyway, I made pizza Saturday night. We had a few slices (maybe 8) leftover that my dh and kids were planning to "snack" on while watching a movie later that night. Well apparently the appeal of grilled pizza was overwhelming for our 83 pound Bernese Mountain dog who decided she just had to try some. Or all of it! While we were downstairs, she helped herself to a little movie snack and scarfed down our leftovers!! I guess everyone loves pizza.

I've just skimmed your post but I find myself in some of what you say. I think I might have to pull my red KF book off the shelf too. I read the article SWB wrote for Memoria Press magazine and was again inspired to continue some self education. I also agreed with her statement that the best time to do this is in the morning. My only problem is I'm going to have to get up a 3 in the morning to do all the things that are best done in the morning . . . bible study, self study, exercise . . . .I'll be crashing by 9 p.m.!:001_smile: Or maybe I'll just cut some of my computer time and dedicate some of it to those higher aspirations. :)

I didn't notice it too much when I made my tomato/mozerella pizzas but last night I grilled pizzas with regular toppings and actually decided to set them under the broiler in my oven for five minutes to finish the tops. I think if I would have had more patience they would have worked on the grill but I wasn't feeling to great so I wanted the project to end quickly. Thanks for the photos.

But now that you mention it I should have said grilled. Chock it up to "regional language"?

I'd say after I made the dough and rolled it out, the actually barbecuing time for two pizza's totaled 20 minutes or so. Much less time than the oven.

Oh my your toppings sound awesome. I'm going to have to try that tomorrow night. (I wonder if my family will tire of pizza . . . who cares, I won't. :lol:)

I have collected London and Sarum from a used book sale. I think I will head downstairs and pull one of them off the shelf and read it.

I plan to make the pizza again using more conventional toppings (the tomato, basil thing was more to my liking than the kids). Your alfredo one sounds yummy!

After I've heated it up I turn it down as low as it goes.

But here's kind of what I do. I dump 2 cups water into my mixer to which I add maybe a tablespoon yeast, a tablespoon salt, a 1/2tsp sugar and I usually like to add some herbs to my crust . . .rosemary, oregano or basil, maybe two tablespoons oh and 3 -4 cups flour. About 1 or 2 tablespoons olive oil. I mix it all together for a couple of minutes. Then I let the dough rise 1/2 - 1 hour. That's it. That makes two large pizza crusts, 3 if it's a thin crust. Hope that gives you an idea.

Must be.

Like when it's -20 and we have strong arctic outflow winds! Even my kids said they loved it (even with the non traditional toppings).

I'm thinking it was around 400 degrees.