Making Pies
If there is one fun meal that I know how to make with a group of friends, it is homemade pizza. I only just learned this new skill last semester, but since then I have mastered the art form. Just buy dough for a dollar at Trader Joes, some tomato sauce, a little cheese, and few slices of pepperoni and you have yourself a perfect little pie. I like sharing fun activities like this with my friends, so it is no wonder I made an event out of it.
Last Wednesday was Global Village’s Make Your Own Pizza and Pizookie event, and it was a blast. We place tables on the lawn between our apartments and laid out a line of pizza ingredients starting with the dough and ending at the toppings. With rolling pins and flour, the night started with rolling out your own dough, which quickly become a fun mess of flour and pizza dough tossing. Tomato sauce followed along with cheese, and then more toppings than our pies could handle: pepperoni, green and red bell peppers, tomatoes, mushrooms, sausage, onions, and spices. We brought out all of our cookie sheets and still had a number of people waiting to bake their personal pizza. Between two of our apartments, we had ovens baking several pizzas at a time, while residents hung out with beverages and snacks outside. I rushed between my second-floor apartment and the lawn to check on the ovens and show residents proper rolling techniques all night, but I enjoyed helping out as well. At the end of the night, we cleaned our big pizza pan and rolled out one final pizza, only this time with cookie dough – the Pizookie. No pizza cookie has ever tasted that amazing, and no event has ever attracted so many Global Village residents. We baked over 30 pizzas that night. Too much fun.
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