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Yes, pizza can be done together with the dough ourselves! But why? Sure, you have just frozen pizza into the oven and at least 20 minutes later you can eat them. That's true and when you come home ravenous, which can also be very practical. But to make pizza from scratch is an event.

We make pizza often, when friends are visiting with children. Including children's birthdays, the pizza was very well prepared. But then I have made so that each has its own small pizzas and placed on the greased sheet.

Here, then, first of our pizza dough recipe:

600 g flour

1 / 2 teaspoon salt

Pinch of sugar

G 40 yeast (a cube)

250 ml of water

6 tablespoons olive oil

Preparation

The first one gives the flour, salt and sugar in a bowl and mix these ingredients and forms a short recess. (Who wants it very well make sifting the flour first.) The most fresh yeast dissolved in lukewarm water - for example, in a cup -. This yeast-water and possibly the rest of the necessary water and the oil is then added into the prepared flour trough. We then let the dough is kneaded from our kitchen appliance. It works the same but also with his hands. Then you have to let the dough. That is, he needs to rest for at least 20 minutes. In either case, a cloth over the bowl so the dough does not dry on the surface. A hot spot is an advantage.

(If the dough sticks to the hands or the bowl, still missing a little flour.

If, however, flour is left, which is not absorbed by the ball of dough, which is missing some liquid.

The more full-fledged the flour, the dough needs more liquid. - We use mostly 550 - flour, mixed with some 1050 - flour.)

The tomato sauce

2 cans peeled tomatoes, puree and season with salt, pepper and oregano.

While the dough "is" one has to prepare in peace time, the "Drauftaten. Fresh ingredients are of course a good opportunity to take healthy themselves.

The coating

That comes with us as the pizza:

fresh mushrooms (sliced)

Bell peppers (cut into small pieces)

Zucchini (grated-out did not taste the difference, so do not bother my son)

Onions (thinly sliced rings or pieces)

Spring onions (cut into rings)

Tomatoes (sliced)

fresh pineapple pieces (alternatively, from a can)

Ham, salami, tuna, olives, feta cheese

After walking the pizza dough from the bowl is fetched and again kneaded by hand. This makes children usually very fun. (The best hands with flour "dust".) Then we oiled the baking pan well with olive oil and rolls out the dough on the sheet. The oil well then you get the pizza from the sheet and it can later be cleaned with little effort. 300 g of dough rolled out a thin layer on a plate.

So, then the tomato sauce is spread on the dough and documented. We shall outline on the sheet generally in four parts, which prove we are different then.

Finally, there is yet the cheese on top. Particularly good taste in sliced mozzarella. Ultimately, however, you can drüberreiben each cheese.

Then it comes off in the oven.

If you like, you can then distribute it yet Rúcula. (See photo!)

• Together, even cooking with young children

13. May 2009 | Tags: cooking | Category: Food, Health, Miscellaneous | Write a comment on this article

Ben Translator

Children make from the outset, things like that make us as well. They learn by imitation. Even as a little child Tim always wanted to be close to the action, if I cooked. His favorite place was the countertop. But other small children, which I watch out, love this place. There she would sit and look into the pots and mixing a little snack or easy.

It has been my experience that children food that they eat themselves have prepared, much more. Volunteering can have very small children. You knead it, for example, enjoy a pizza dough or dough, or roll out similar to the plate. Or they distribute something on the plate or in a casserole dish. You can of course also needed to wash fruit or vegetables or picking fresh herbs.

When children have learned that pots and stove are hot and do not try to touch, they can stir sauces, soups or vegetables and add the prepared ingredients and spices. One should, however, they can in no case alone. Of course, one must also be careful when frying as meat especially that children are protected from Fettspritzern - if in doubt, prefer runtersetzen! Keep children also like the electric mixer. Here, care must be taken, however, good that the mixer is actually handled with both hands. The temptation to nibble during the Mixens is very large and the danger is quickly forgotten in young children.

In a next step, they can then chop finely and the required ingredients. Even here, of course, one must first induce most.

In the beginning, of course, you need patience when cooking together. Children are usually not in a hurry and need to learn the respective handles. The joint activity itself but provides the opportunity to come to rest. Do we have to hurry, anyway? While working jointly quängelt sure no one and the children are supervised and satisfied in general.

It can now Tim (12) all alone cook many dishes and is a real help. They especially like it intersects with our very good, sharp knives and tastes from the courts. Troller, we are now a well-coordinated team of chefs and from time to übenimmt Tim also cooking alone. And rightly so, he is proud of its results.

• Pizza with children themselves make

24. January 2009 | Tags: cooking | Category: general education, promotion, Other | Write a comment on this article

Ben Translator

"I've geseht ball." - "No, that is, I have the ball geseh en!"

For people who correct speech is important, remains stubbornly in the habit of constantly improving their children if they speak false words or make grammatical errors. These constant interruptions, however, disrupt the natural flow of speech of the child and steer steadily from the nucleus. We should never forget that language has the task of making himself intelligible to others and tell them something. And to the "wrong" sentences of our little ones usually are sufficient. Ourselves, but it would become annoying if we ask in England after the way the restaurant or order something to talk about our nice and would interrupt constantly compared us to improve. And, even though he understood exactly what we mean. But as the child learns to speak properly because then if it is never mentioned by us in error? Is it not better if we improve our children directly when they say something wrong? No! Children learn the correct forms of the grammar and the correct pronunciation of all alone. They are based on their role models - that is us! There is a simple and very effective way to promote children's language, without having the conversation is disrupted. They repeated in his response to the sentence of the child in his verbessertenVersion. In the example, provides input, for example like this:

"I've got the ball geseht." "Oh, did you see the ball, that's great. Where is he? "

• The other day at the traffic lights

29. December 2008 | Correct Tags:, language development, role models | Category: general education, promotion, personal development | Write a comment on this article

Ben Translator

"A man is sweating heavily. Nevertheless, he has gloves on. Why? (Level 1)

"Romeo and Juliet lie dead on the floor. The window is open, on the ground a pool of water. What happened? "(Level 2)

"All the world looks to them. Only Michael, who was a thousand times closer than any other, saw nothing. Why? (Level 3)

"Because he accidentally pressed the trigger, he had to die. What happened? "(Level 4)

Maybe you know this riddle stories even from her childhood and adolescence. Someone describes a daily, sometimes unusual or gruesome situation, and the others have skillfully yes-no questions to unravel what happened piece by piece.

On vacation, we spent a whole evening with our friend with the reconstruction and our kids had lots of fun just like us parents.

Meanwhile, we met at the bookstore for a whole collection of such puzzles, and that the first puzzle book from the popular puzzle inventor CUS: "What happened here?". In it the author has collected the one hand, more or less well-known puzzles and develop your own puzzles for others. (CUS is actually a nickname from the initials of the author. The most famous puzzle creator, Germany has also made himself into a mystery. You know that is neither his name nor his exact place of residence in Bavaria and in photos you see him with large, dark glasses, or only his shadow.)
The book has a total of 155 Mysteries, which are divided into 4 levels of difficulty (easy, medium, hard and hammer hard) puzzles. At the end of the book can be found at any riddle two tips that will to a helping hand if one's ideas proceed. The solutions of the puzzles are found naturally in the end.
Since then, we puzzle together regularly - such as when it once again the whole day raining outside, on long Autofarten, on walks or just because. We take turns with the role of the puzzle plate. This looks at the answers, read the two tips, and then presented the situation. The others must guess. Tim can not get enough of them. It makes him very fun to watch us in the desperate search for the right solution, and with malicious joy again and again "No, proclaiming," too. Just as he's happy but if the rates of sudden "aha" effect ceases and he recognizes the right solution. In my experience it is for children but frustrating when they come to the solution over a long period of seemingly no closer. This occurs in young children, of course, usually a faster than larger ones. This frustration boundary, you should under no circumstances overburden, since that will make it all so fun. The two proposed in the book of tips here are usually just right. Sometimes it helps the children but also, if you decide questions on something more than just "yes" or "no" answers. Even in a somewhat greater rate team can be sustained longer and perplexity, of course, easier to bear than alone.
Players who have the characteristic of the puzzle flash of inspiration, to announce their solution to the puzzle plate gently and then help in answering the questions, so that other members also have the chance on the great feeling that sets in when the Ratenuss is cracked.
Toll from these puzzles is that they encourage lateral thinking. The solution is usually simple and prevented only our limited view that we solve the puzzle right away. Even in real life, solving problems often is that it takes a different perspective. To solve the puzzle you need two things: methodology and intuition.
While it is specifically trained in the school methodology is the promotion of intuition is often neglected in education. Here, these puzzles also provide a very useful side effect.

So if you something for Christmas or a birthday is looking, I can fully recommend this book:

PS: The only "out of the frame falling" 2-star reviews at Amazon does not refer to this first volume of CUS, but on the successor book.

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5. December 2008 | Tags: mystery stories | Category: Promotion, Miscellaneous, Play | Write a comment on this article