Here is our updated post for Sunday Night.  We made pizza two ways (Max’s way and Alex’s way), we made a shrimp appetizer two ways (Alex’s way and Max’s way) and we made dessert: ONE WAY…if you are making chocolate chip cookies, you don’t need to do it two ways. One way is yummy enough!  The good thing about making two pizzas is that we had left over for Monday night.  Here are the pizzas:

Tonight I (Alex) made white pizza (as you can see below). Half of the pizza was just fresh mozzarella cheese, while the other half was mozarella cheese, mushrooms AND truffle salt. We pressed and kneaded the pizza dough as thin as possible and then cooked it for 10 minutes at 500 degrees before we put toppings on it because otherwise the toppings make the pizza soggy.

White pizza with truffled mushrooms

Alex adding mozarella to the pizza.

Tonight I (Max) made pizza (as you can see below).  I made a easy tomato sauce (minced garlic and tomatoes), spread that on the pizza then put shredded fresh mozarella on top. When it came out of the oven, I put fresh basil on it.

Max’s take on a margerita pizza (tomato sauce with fresh mozarella and basil)

Max putting tomato sauce on pizza

Shrimp & Asparagus appetizers (2 ways). Today for an appetizer mom gave us 4 mystery ingredients: shrimp, asparagus, roasted almonds & lemons. Alex made a salad with arugula, asparagus, shrimp, tomatoes chopped almonds & a lemon-olive oil dressing. Max, on the other hand, made a shrimp & asparagus bruschetta. First, he sauteed the shrimp and steamed the asparagus. Then he toasted 4 pieces of bread and squeezed some lemon juice into the shrimp. Then, he cut up the almonds and took the bread out of the toaster. He then placed the cooked shrimp on the bread and drizzled the olive oil from the saute pan on the bread, and placed the asparagus on top. Then, he sprinkled salt and pepper on top of the bread. (Boy, is it hard to refer to yourself in third person!)

Appetizer ingredients: lemons, asparagus, shrimp and almonds

Shrimp & Asparagus appetizers (2 ways): Bruschetta or Arugula salad

Finally for dessert we had a classic: chocolate chip cookies (we made them earlier).  We also made a few ice cream sandwiches to add variety.  All we had to do was let some vanilla ice cream soften and then put a scoop between two cookies.

Homemade Ice Cream Sandwich

Dessert: Classic Chocolate Chip cookies.