Ellie is six months now and we wanted to make sure that she really had a good start with solids.  We want her relationship with food to be based on really good feelings from the very beginning.  So we decided to start with pizza with Auntie Julie.  We even cut her a little piece just her size!

She wasn’t too impressed.  She wouldn’t even open her mouth to take a bite.  So I ate it for her!

Our secret to great oven-baked pizza:  the bottom of our 12-inch cast iron skillet.  Heat your oven to 500 degrees – put in the cast iron pan upside down to preheat also.  Cut a 10″ parchment paper circle.  Roll out your dough.  (We usually use this recipe but we splurged this time and bought some dough at a pizza place- all white flour decadence!)  Put your dough onto the parchment circle.  Top with toppings of choice.  Slide pizza (parchment and all) onto the skillet.  Bake until done – usually around 10ish minutes.  Enjoy perfect crust and delicious pizza.

Saturday night’s pizzas?

1. Pesto with broccoli, pinenuts, and cheese.

2. Asian barbecued chicken:  this barbecue sauce, cooked chicken breast, sesame seeds, cheese.  (This was Ellie’s pizza.)

3. Pepperoni: homemade tomato sauce (garlic sauteed in olive oil, add canned tomates, cook down, puree in blender), pepperoni, cheese, sprinkling of oregano.

All delicious!