Artisan Bread in Five Pizza Party!

Thanks everyone for your well wishes. I do appreciate all of your kindness and support. I am feeling a little better, still not back to my "normal" self yet. I have lost my love for cooking, baking, and eating. So sad!! I might need Josh to take over for awhile if this week doesn't get better. 

But today is all about partying with pizza! We recently invited some friends over for an Artisan Bread in Five Minutes A Day pizza party. Josh made the master recipe a couple days prior to the party. This made hosting so much easier. The day of the party we made a homemade sauce, collected a bunch of toppings, and pulled out the dough from the refrigerator. Talk about simple!

When the guests arrived Josh rolled out the dough for everyone. We let our friends create their own pizzas. We had a bunch of toppings to choose from: peppers, olives, tomatoes, onions, pepperoni, canadian bacon, fresh basil, and of course mozzarella cheese. It was a ton of fun! 

Our friends were amazed at the ABin5 crust. It really is SO easy and SO delicious! Next time you are in the mood for pizza, give it a try. And if you are looking for a fun dinner party idea, try an ABin5 pizza party. It was loads of fun! My pizza sauce recipe is below and if you want the dough recipe buy the book: Artisan Bread in Five Minutes A Day.

Pizza Sauce Recipe

Olive oil

1/2 onion, chopped

3 cloves of garlic, minced

Fennel seeds, a dash

Crushed red pepper, a dash

2 cans of petite diced tomatoes, drained

1 can of tomato sauce

Salt/pepper, to taste

Fresh basil, a small handful, chopped

Italian seasoning (I use a blend by Emeril)

1. Heat a little olive oil in a large sauce pan. Saute onion until tender. 

2. Add in garlic, fennel seeds, and crushed red pepper. Saute for a minute or two. 

3. Add in diced tomatoes and tomato sauce. 

4. Season with salt, pepper, fresh basil, and Italian seasoning. 

5. With an immersion blender, puree the sauce until you get the consistency you are looking for. I do this to make it more of a "sauce." If you don't mind the tomato chunks, you can skip the blending part. If you don't have an immersion blender, you can transfer the sauce to a regular blender and puree. 

6. I let my sauce simmer for at least 30 minutes to bring out the flavor. 

7. Spread on pizza dough when ready. You can freeze leftover sauce! 

Food, Friends, and Awards

On Sunday we hosted a dinner party with our friends. Everyone wanted to chip in and bring something so we did a random pot luck and it turned out great! Most of our friends enjoy cooking so we had quite the spread of food. It was fun doing a "surprise" dinner. We hope to host these once a month.

Take a look at our dinner! Everything was super tasty!

We made black bean soup. One of my favorites!


We had to do Dorie's corn muffins! They went
perfect with the soup!


Scotty brought 3 dishes. First up, a killer salad with cucumbers,
tomatoes, mozzarella, red peppers, etc!


Next, balsamic roasted veggies! I loved the sauce!


Smoked Salmon on artichoke hearts. Genius!
This appetizer was super delicious!


Stephanie's Orange Rolls! The glaze is outstanding!


Jason's famous Ceviche!


Jake's Oatmeal Raisin Cookies! With real cinnamon!


Sug's homemade peach pie! It was still warm from the oven!


I know I forgot to take pictures of some things! Sorry! I got busy eating:) I will be posting the soup and corn muffin recipe this week. We also did a lime loaf cake and lime sherbet. Be on the look out for those too!! Thanks again to all of our friends. We really had a fun night!

We also wanted to share some good news! We recently received three food blogging awards!

The first one came from Maria at The Goddess's Kitchen.


The next one came from Beth at Jam and Clotted Cream.



And the last one was from Lisa from Jersey Girl Cooks.



Thank you for thinking of us! We are very honored!

We are new to the food blogging world, there is still a lot we need to learn, but we are having fun. We appreciate all of your support and wonderful comments. It is fun getting to know so many of you!