I recently wrote about my recent experiment in bread making and this weekend, both Stephen and I had the hankering for pizza. I wanted to make Hawaiian pizza so badly and I know Stephen would go for a sausage and onions pizza with no protest at all. Again, I had a lot of fun making the pizza dough from scratch.
putting on the tomato base with just a hint of basil
adding the pre-cooked sausage
Voila!
caramelized onion added to the Hawaiian pizza
little balls of fresh mozzarella all over the pizza dough with pre-cooked ham and caramlized onions as toppings
then of course there's the mess!
I should mention that last weekend, after reading Kristen @ The Frugal Girl’s blog on musts for pizza baking, I was convinced to invest in a pizza stone and peel. See, I just started this love affair with bread making and if you must know, I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE breads of any kind. Ask my grandmother and she will tell you of the many mornings I spent in her kitchen chowing down as many pan de sal as was allowed for me to eat. Left to my own devices, I could’ve attacked the whole bag’s worth of pan de sal each morning. Only thing was, there were other people in our family who also needed pan de sal for their breakfast.
Bread, of course, is the epitome of carbs and frankly my body does not respond well to carbs. I mean, now that I am older and more inert than say, my teenage years, carbs very easily settle themselves on my belly, thighs, and shoulders…oh, and face! I probably really ought to be whipping my dancing shoes to that cha cha or rhumba or other exotically named dance routines out there but…that’s ok. I’ll keep to chasing my little one’s floor routines. Ha! Really though, nothing deters me from good, delicious, and freshly baked bread.
Anyways…sorry about my tangents, I’m wired that way. Back to the pizza stone and peel. Unfortunately at the store that we went to, there was not a set available. My budget only allowed me to settle for one of the two. ’Course I went for the stone cause I would need that more than the peel and I thought I’ll just figure something out to use as a peel. Suffice it to say, Steve and I had an adventure in the kitchen figuring out how to transfer the sticky pizza dough from the cookie sheets on to the pizza stone. There were notes taken and we’ll try to make it work at our next pizza night. As it turned out, the pizzas came out perfectly and the flavors were down right delicious. Hey, it’s homemade, right? Who needs pizzas to be perfect? I know I don’t!
kakagutom naman!