A Pizzalicious friday
Imagine waking up to the smell of a freshly mowed lawn. Heh, I really do love the smell of freshly-cut grass... they are just so, umm, fresh? Well, the smell of freshly baked bread should be more tantalizing to the taste buds. When I woke up this morning, I planned to have a peaceful quiet and non-stressful day. Nothing exciting really, just perfecting my pizza-making skill.
Who am I kidding? I only have to line up the ingredients and dump it all in the bread-machine. I didn't even go shopping today. So I have to make do with whatever I can raid from our fridge and cabinets. For two large size pizzas you only need 120g of water, 1 TBSP Olive oil, 1 TSP sugar, 1/2 TSP salt, 250g Bread flour and 1 TSP instant yeast. The machine took 1 1/2 hours (mix, prove and mix in between). This recipe should also work outside the machine, just as long as you give the dough time to prove.
While waiting for my pizza-dough, I started working on my Mexican Bread recipe. The sweet bread type, its sold at Fun Bread... with crispy chocolate or vanilla layer. They used to taste good but recently, the quality seemed to have changed. I don't know, less flour maybe? more enhancer to keep the volume? I have been searching for the recipe and luckily found it in my mom's Bread Recipe book. I have tried it twice, quite a while back. My third trials today seemed to come out all right. For this particular recipe, I have to prepare the sponge and left it for 5 hours before I can prepare the dough for the bread. While at that, I prepared the toppings for my pizza. I could only find a can of Tuna and some leftover bottle of Mayonnaise and a slab of cheese.
So, you can imagine me working in the kitchen nearly the whole day covered with flour. My nephew riding his tricycle round and round the kitchen table, singing ABC over and over again (more like shouting) while my youngest niece perched on the chair, trying to grab my cooking utensils and contribute to the mess. It was a chaotic morning... but it was fun.
My sis once passed by the kitchen and raised an eye-brow, "Pizza again?".
"Yeah, I will keep working on the pizza, until everyone gets bored and couldn't take it anymore", I joked. But I was seriously considering it. It feels good if the food you made gets eaten (and get good reviews)...
So, that was my Friday. Nothing as exciting as getting lost in the jungle trying to locate a campsite (with waterfall), not as challenging as climbing up to Low's Peak before dawn (thanks for waiting for me up there, bro!), not as unpredictable as being thrown off during whitewater rafting (thanks for fishing me out of the water, Frank!) and not as frustrating as sitting in the darkness for more than 5 hours without light and air-conditioning. I have gotten my fair share of misadventures. But yeah... today was an ordinary Pizzalicious Friday
Who am I kidding? I only have to line up the ingredients and dump it all in the bread-machine. I didn't even go shopping today. So I have to make do with whatever I can raid from our fridge and cabinets. For two large size pizzas you only need 120g of water, 1 TBSP Olive oil, 1 TSP sugar, 1/2 TSP salt, 250g Bread flour and 1 TSP instant yeast. The machine took 1 1/2 hours (mix, prove and mix in between). This recipe should also work outside the machine, just as long as you give the dough time to prove.
While waiting for my pizza-dough, I started working on my Mexican Bread recipe. The sweet bread type, its sold at Fun Bread... with crispy chocolate or vanilla layer. They used to taste good but recently, the quality seemed to have changed. I don't know, less flour maybe? more enhancer to keep the volume? I have been searching for the recipe and luckily found it in my mom's Bread Recipe book. I have tried it twice, quite a while back. My third trials today seemed to come out all right. For this particular recipe, I have to prepare the sponge and left it for 5 hours before I can prepare the dough for the bread. While at that, I prepared the toppings for my pizza. I could only find a can of Tuna and some leftover bottle of Mayonnaise and a slab of cheese.
So, you can imagine me working in the kitchen nearly the whole day covered with flour. My nephew riding his tricycle round and round the kitchen table, singing ABC over and over again (more like shouting) while my youngest niece perched on the chair, trying to grab my cooking utensils and contribute to the mess. It was a chaotic morning... but it was fun.
My sis once passed by the kitchen and raised an eye-brow, "Pizza again?".
"Yeah, I will keep working on the pizza, until everyone gets bored and couldn't take it anymore", I joked. But I was seriously considering it. It feels good if the food you made gets eaten (and get good reviews)...
So, that was my Friday. Nothing as exciting as getting lost in the jungle trying to locate a campsite (with waterfall), not as challenging as climbing up to Low's Peak before dawn (thanks for waiting for me up there, bro!), not as unpredictable as being thrown off during whitewater rafting (thanks for fishing me out of the water, Frank!) and not as frustrating as sitting in the darkness for more than 5 hours without light and air-conditioning. I have gotten my fair share of misadventures. But yeah... today was an ordinary Pizzalicious Friday
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