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Pizza delivery!

What happens when you feel like having a slice of pizza, just one slice overflowing with the goodness of tomato sauce and mozarella cheese but the only kind you can find are those frozen ones with green peas which you absolutely detest?

Solution: Make your own pizza!

It was late Decemeber last year, more than a month since i was last out in the city after sending my parents off, when i suddenly craved for some pizza. Not wanting to eat the only available ones at the supermarket, i decided to make my own using this rather straight forward looking recipe i found from a cooking magazine i borrowed from the library.

Although there are ready mixed pizza flour in the supermarket and all you have to do is just add water to make the dough, i was feeling rather adventurous that Saturday afternoon and took the challenge of following the seemingly simple steps to make the pizza dough from scratch by adding flour, baking powder, olive oil and water, all carefully measured according to instructions.

As i am without a hotplate and neither do i have access to a swanky wooden stove to bake the pizza in, i ladled the flour mixture onto the frying pan instead. It was slightly bigger than the size of a personal pan at most pizza joints so it fitted just nicely. After the crust was formed and i've decorated it with tomatoes, bell peppers, onions and some slivers of ham, i transferred the almost done pizza into the toaster oven for another 10 minutes so that it could get some top down heat as well and viola!



Verdict: Pizza tasted really good and so experiment was a real success! Great recipe and i'm keeping it for good! : )

And just in case i lose the photocopied one, i'll keep an online version as well.
Feel free to try it out at home (click on recipe to get the enlarged image), it's really that easy and yummy!

But then again, who would need to go through all the hassle of mixing the batter, chopping the veges and making their own pizza when delivery is just a dial away?

posted by テレサ @ 10:24 PM