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Try new food.. Tuesday! - Homemade pizza

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Happy Tuesday everyone. I usually post my weekly food creations on Thursdays, but I am going to switch it up this week and post today! This week we were lucky enough to find some live yeast after searching the shop for weeks, so we utilised it by making home made pizza! I am lucky enough to be married to an ex-pizza express employee from when he was growing up so he is incredibly skilled at making dough (and the famous pizza express dough balls)! We used the dough recipe from river cottage: theguardian.com/lifeandstyl...

We also try to use any leftover meats and veg from our weekly shop to create different creations. I've posted a picture of my olive, chicken, pesto, sun dried tomato and onion creation. It's a very fun thing to do with whoever you may be self isolating with or a perfect midweek treat to yourself while using up your leftovers. You just need to make sure you make your dough early enough in the day to let it prove (usually a couple of hours).

What has everyone else been cooking or baking this week?

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ooh the pate and banana bread sound great! good luck and let us know how they turn out :)

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This looks great. I’ve just got into using fresh yeast and have been making pizza bases. I like thick ones and my partner likes thin 🤨 so we have to compromise.

I used to work with someone whose husband made pizza express dough 😃

Did you also make dough balls. Is that what I see in the background?

Your pizzas look delicious! 😋

Ali

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SadieHU in reply to Agoodenough

Yes, those are dough balls too! They are the best! We are very similar to you and your partner, I like crispy bases and he prefers thicker ones haha I hope you enjoy your home made pizzas as much as we do :)

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Wonderful entry! Thanks for sharing.

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Hi Jerry! That cottage pie looks INCREDIBLE. The crispy topping is browned to perfection. I bet it tastes just as good as it looks. Thanks so much for the pizza compliments! I wish I could say that this lasted us more than one meal, but we love pizza so much it rarely lasts until the next day! We will try to be a bit healthier this week but started off the work week with quite a nice treat. Hope you have a lovely day as well :)

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I’m making a turkey breast tonight and hopefully I will get 2 additional meals after! One is your fav! Turkey tetrazzini!

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sounds delicious! i hope you can share with us a picture of your turkey tetrazinni.. it really is one of my favourites!

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I had pizza on my mind this morning. Good timing.

That looks tasty.

We are fortunate to have an outdoor wood fired oven that we built several years ago. It makes a good pizza.

Now I’ll be thinking about pizzas for the rest of the day!

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Wow! An outdoor wood fired oven is our dream! Today seems like the perfect day to put it to use :)

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They are incredibly fun. A bit of work for construction, then figuring out how to make it work. A great thing.

I once cooked beautiful lamb shanks in our oven. I thought the temp was going down too fast and added more coals.

A little too much.

They became small carbonized balls of char in the cast iron pot, after igniting the oven mitts.

We had pasta for dinner.

These look heavenlyy Sadie! I might try pizza over the weekend.

Tonight we are having kippers on toast for tea.

Yesterday we had salmon with vegetable rice for dinner which we enjoyed.

At the weekend we are going to have a take out probably pizza.

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They sound like delicious meals! Thank you for sharing :)

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We lived in Gibraltar many years ago and some of the locals used to use what I knew as our scone mix for their pizza bases. I have to say it worked very well with no need for yeast.

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SadieHU in reply to Patsy10

That sounds really different and tasty! I would like to try that!

Hi SadieHU, Lovely looking pizza. I do love one that's heavy on the toppings! How very handy to have a PizzaExpress expert on hand! I must admit I do often put a pizza together myself using my breadmaker to make a trouble-free base.

This week I've been into rocky road squares. It's less a recipe and more an assembly! All that's essential is a huge bar of melted chocolate and assorted bits and pieces, including crushed biscuits (shortbread's good). Then essential for mine are marshmallows and popcorn. After that, whatever's handy. This week is was some chopped nuts, dried fruit, and some broken up wafer biscuits, all combined until the mixture binds together stiffly,. Then I spread it out in a square pyrex dish, let it cool a little, mark it into squares and leave it to set completely in the fridge. It's so naughty, but so nice!😆

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oh wow! those rocky road squares sound incredible :) I will definitely have to give them a try. thanks very much for sharing!

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Those pizzas look so professional and delicious Sadie!!! If they were in my household there is no way there would be left overs! This is giving me severe hunger pangs, Adeela

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