TWD: Eastern Mediterranean Pizzas

We had high hopes of keeping up with our baking while on our August vacation by the beach.  I took pictures of the recipes on my smart phone before we left. I did lots of cooking with the kids and with my husband.  On one of our first days my son picked Swedish meatballs of all things for dinner.  We were going through the frozen food aisle at the one of two grocery stores on the island. Nathan happens upon the Stouffer's section and is captivated by the Swedish meatballs. We ended up making a homemade version that we assume now will be in our monthly dinner rotation.  We simply did not get the call to bake again until we returned.



I let the sponge go for about 4 hours and when I opened up the plastic wrap there was that wonderful yeasty beer-like smell.



For the first time in quite a while my husband assisted.  He's our family pizza maker so it was apropos.



I used tomatoes from our garden.  Our crop this year has been scant but the fruit that we have are a wonderful quality.



I put the pine nuts on ours and for the kids I left out.



We added a generous drizzling of olive oil and some feta cheese after we plated.




We all enjoyed.  I would reduce the amount of whole wheat flour next time we make this.  I liked the bit of bite that the whole wheat gave but I would have preferred a more tender dough. We loved the combination of the lamb with the tomatoes, garlic and shallots.  We will likely make on a rewind but make some tweaks here and there.