My grandkids and I have turned takeaway pizza night into some even more fun - home made pizza night! It's really easy, and not any trouble, and the results are so delicious that everyone we know wants an invite now. My grandkids love putting on their aprons and caps and

I do the shopping first. On the shopping list are the three essentials - frozen pizza bases, tomato paste and mozzarella cheese. The pizza bases are cheap and you can find them in any supermarket, often on special; never compromise on the mozzarella, that's what it has to be, but you can buy grated or a whole cheese - I buy both; your tomato paste can be plain or those terrific tubs flavoured with herbs and meant for pizza.

Then there's the topping shopping - salami, peppers, tomatoes, basil, bocconcini, chopped ham or bacon, olives - whatever you fancy, whatever makes up your favourite pizza toppings, from canned pineapple to pancetta. We love making Marguerita pizzas so we have to have fresh whole tomatoes, basil leaves and whole mozzarella slices. Mmmmmm.

You need to set up your kitchen counter or table as a production line, so its like a real pizza parlour. Chop the veges and meats ahead of time, and place in their own bowls or containers. Drain olives and pineapple cubes and whatever and place handy in containers. Slice salami and cheese and put on plates. Open the tubs or sachets of tomato paste and put them with the other toppings. 

Set out the pizza bases - you can set them on their trays ready to be topped and put in the oven. Show the kids how to spread the tomato paste - they love this, it's so messy! Use small spatulas for small hands and help them even it out. Now you can put on the toppings! 

Some kids will be just happy to scatter their favourites over the pizza bases, but some will take a more artistic approach. If they want to make funny faces or amazing scenes with a pineapple sun shining over everything, that's fine. It will still taste just as good. The Marguerita pizza mentioned above is a great canvas for artistic endeavours - it is simply a layer of mozzarella slices, topped with slice of tomato and fresh basil leaves, but it can be as modern art as you like!

Supreme is such a favourite, so make sure you have salami, olives, cheese and anchovies but experiment with other combinations as well, such as seafood, ham and pineapple, curried chicken - whatever! It's all good. You could even keep one pizza base for a dessert pizza - top it with jam, fruit, cake crumbs and hundreds and thousands.

Bake your pizzas in a hot oven. You will have to take over here, but after the pizzas have cooled on the counter, section them with a pizza cutter and dish them up. It's so much fun and it tastes good too.