{"id":1147,"date":"2015-01-11T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/?p=1147"},"modified":"2015-01-11T09:01:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-11T13:01:55","slug":"big-green-egg-pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/?p=1147","title":{"rendered":"Big Green Egg Pizza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Project 365 &#8211; Day 10<\/p>\n<p>We are both blessed by and cherish our family meal times.\u00a0 Most of us are together virtually every night of the week.\u00a0 I came across this from a North Dakota State professor, for which most of these points are so obvious but are often overlooked or dismissed in today&#8217;s American culture:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Family meals provide a sense of family unity and identity. Family meals become a vehicle for carrying on valued family traditions, such as having a particularly favorite dish on someone\u2019s birthday or going to a favorite place to eat together on special occasions.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Family meals give the opportunity to transmit the values and attitudes of a family from one generation to the next. Children can learn from parents and grandparents about what values are important to the family. Also, family meals are a wonderful way to link family members with their cultural and ethnic heritage, as differing foods may reflect the unique cultural traditions or ethnic tastes of a particular family\u2019s background.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Family meals also furnish a means for daily communication and strengthening family connections. Conversation around the dinner table allows give and take among family members and the chance to cultivate attitudes of patience and respect in communication.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Family meals give a meaningful opportunity for family members to spend time together and enjoy one another\u2019s company in a relaxed setting. Families should consider how to maximize the time they have together by encouraging positive comments, adjusting meal experiences to the family\u2019s needs, and creating a warm and relaxed setting.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On this particular evening, we made one of our family favorites:\u00a0 Homemade pizza cooked on the Big Green Egg.\u00a0 It&#8217;s to die for (just like our time together)!\u00a0 Special thanks go to my son-in-law Dale for being my chop-master.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1155\" style=\"width: 476px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1155\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1155\" src=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/150110_0011-466x700.jpg\" alt=\"Dale Preparing for Pizza\" width=\"466\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/150110_0011-466x700.jpg 466w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/150110_0011-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/150110_0011.jpg 774w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dale Preparing for Pizza<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Fuji X100s, 23mm f\/2.0, 1\/55 sec @ f\/2.8, ISO3200<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1150\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1150\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1150 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/marksisco.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/150110_006-700x466.jpg\" alt=\"150110_006\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/150110_006-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/150110_006-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/marksisco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/150110_006.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1150\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mark&#8217;s Big Green Egg Chicken Pizza<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Fuji X100s, 23mm f\/2.0, 1\/100 sec @ f\/2.8, ISO1600<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project 365 &#8211; Day 10 We are both blessed by and cherish our family meal times.\u00a0 Most of us are together virtually every night of the week.\u00a0 I came across this from a North Dakota State professor, for which most of these points are so obvious but are often overlooked or dismissed in today&#8217;s American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43,10,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1159,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions\/1159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marksisco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}