Some times things don't go exactly how one expects.When I got home I noticed that it had a expiration date of August 2010. I couldn't give that as a present!
We went out and got another present, and we decided to use the pizza kit ourselves.
We discarded the expired tomato sauce and replaced the yeast (when it wouldn't work), but the rest of the kit was fine.
It shows you how to make the dough and then cook 3 different types of pizza, thin crust, regular crust (called thick crust) and deep dish.
It was alot of fun. Clare liked the regular pizza best (in the middle), Gregory liked the thin crust (on the right) and I was the only one brave enough to try the deep dish, which was really good.
The kit was also neat in that it taught you the origins of the different types of pizza and all about yeast. There was even a little experiment using yeast, a bottle and a balloon. Activated yeast lets off gas, which expands and can put air into a balloon.
We ate our pizza while watching Matilda, which the big kids enjoyed and Thomas sat in one place watching it. (He never sits still for movies, I think he liked the kids.)
I'm actually glad the pizzeria kit didn't become a gift, we enjoyed it. It gave us something to do on a cold, wet, and snowy afternoon.
