Pizza Science

Whitney is just learning to be creative in the kitchen.  She always wants to cook with Mom, but never with the help of her sisters.  (I think there might be just a bit of sibling rivalry going on there!)  She decided that she wanted to help make pizza dough even after I explained how messy it can get.  She cannot stand to have any glue on her fingers when we do paper projects, so I wasn't sure how well she was going to handle the stickiness of pizza dough.  She started out very industrious.

Then she wanted to really know how the dough felt and what she could do with it.  She didn't really care that the purpose was to knead the dough rather than pull it all apart and dissect it.  She was quite fascinated with what happens to water and flour when you mix them together.

I finally persuaded her to add more flour so that we would actually have a finished product that we could eat!

And in the end, she was threatening everyone to stay out of "her" kitchen so that she could make it all by herself!  Surprisingly enough, it was pretty good.