Sunday, July 6, 2008

Pizza

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When my brother and I were younger, the closest we ever got to cooking was making pizza. We would pile the storebought dough with so many toppings that it never cooked through, leaving us with a soggy and rawish crust. A fork would be absolutely necessary to eat our so called pizza turned salad. Since my last two yeasted recipes worked out so well, I decided to give pizza dough a try. This time I wanted to test out the food processor, which is a lot faster than the standing mixer, but also easier to overwork or overheat the dough. I figured that even if the crust was ruined, the toppings would be there to hopefully cover it up.

The recipe said that the dough was going to be tacky, but I had a feeling mine was a little too wet. It was actually so incredibly wet that I literally had to knead a cup of flour into the dough. After that, the dough transformed into a tough and lumpy mess that was difficult to roll out and stretch.


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This time around, I put too few toppings. The crust was a little tough, but better than I imagined. Thank god for the toppings or this would have gone into the garbage.

12 comments:

  1. You have me laughing with the pizza story. My sister and I used to weight ours down too. It would be like a flying saucer of sauce and cheese. Remember the Boboli crust?

    Yours looks really good. I see you have learned much from your childhood pizza days :) The red peppers and mushrooms are beautiful. Keep it up soon to be one month poster :)

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  2. Your pizza looks great. I'm glad the dough wasn't as bad as you thought it would be and yes! Thanks God for the toppings :)

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  3. I can definitely relate to your over-dressed pizza memories. In fact, I still do that!

    If your pizza dough is coming out too wet, try letting it rest for 15-20 minutes as soon as the dough comes together. This allows the yeast to hydrate and makes the dough smoother and stretchier without adding extra four.

    Good luck.

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  4. oh my this pizza looks fantastic!! i love the idea of adding zucchini and pepper..guess this is the best way to entice my hubby to eat veggies hehehe

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  5. Nice pictures of the pizza. It looks delicious!

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  6. pizza is one of my favorite foods!! yours looks so good, i would like to try to make some focaccia bread pizza ive never had it.

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  7. Your pizza looks perfect to me. I love your topping choices. Great photos.

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  8. Worse still is when there are too many toppings for the toppings to cook through. Raw garlic is not always a welcome surprise ;)

    Thanks for the well-wishes during the power out. As it turned out, all we had to get rid of was the milk, some sausage, and a few ice-cream bars.

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  9. I really love this Pizza!!! Im hungry with this cheese!! mmmxxGloria

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  10. It looks perfect! i love the red pepper and all that cheese. Now I'm hungry...

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