My boyfriend makes pizza. Lots of it. And it is delicious. There is a local pizzeria that will reluctantly sell balls of dough for $1. Reluctantly as in, you call and "it's cool buddy we sell dough balls" and you go in and they are like "what are you talking about, why would you want a raw ball of dough?"
The best part is the cheese mix he makes. He combines mozzarella, fontina and pecorino. I like to pick at it before it makes it to the actual pies.
Tonights toppings were:
Pizza #1 - olive oil & garlic base, prosciutto, spinach and fresh heirloom tomatoes.
Pizza #2 - olive oil base, italian sausage, red onion, green pepper and kalmatas.
Making pizza at home is actually really simple. The trick is to get a pizza stone for baking in your home oven. I actually leave mine in all the time to help distribute the heat evenly for all my baking.
4 comments:
mmm. I need a pizza stone. sur la table, here I come!
but making dough is super easy. this is how I do it, and yes I've made it so many times I've memorized it:
3/4 cup flour + 1/2 cup flour
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp sugar
1 pkg rapid rise yeast
1/2 cup very hot water
•mix dry ingr. together, then add water and mix until smooth.
•add additional 1/2 cup flour to mixture and knead for 5-8 mins.
•cover dough with bowl and allow to rise for 25 mins.
cook pizza, with your special toppings at 425 for 20 mins.
viola!
mmmmm pizza! that looks good!
aly-
i would do that but pizza night is gavin's cooking night. the night i get to do nothing. maybe we can convince him to make the dough!
j
ah! correction to my recipe. I cooked pizza tonight and almost burned it. only cook for 12-15 mins. oops. seems I don't quite have it memorized! :) and I added hot beer in place of water tonight. it was yum!
and yes...tell G how satisfying it is to make your own dough.
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