Today i was given the pleasure to make lunch for everybody. :-) Hubby had wanted to eat some homebaked pizzas since last Wedsnesday when we went to get some baking ingredients. Think he reminded himself of our uni life few years ago when we often baked pizzas, pies, and lasagnas during free times. In the end before we left the shop, we managed to pack up some mozarella and cheddar cheese, basil, oregano, and mixed herbs, and some good dried yeast. Mom in law was not in favour of pizzas originally, but since her most beloved son was craving badly, she decided to let me have a go and today is the day!
And of course,just pizzas alone would be inadequate, so Hubby further suggested that i make potato salad as starter being one of the easiest. Ah Yee assisted to make another salad, and a chinese dou fu pork soup, just in case mom in law is not used to eating pizzas.
Potato salad with turkey chunks, shreded carrots and chopped cucumbers
Out of the pizza dough which i raised early to make and knead, i managed to roll out two rectanguish pizzas or what the Italians termed as Pizza Al Taglio (popular pizza baked in rectangular trays with wide variety of toppings). There was no choice for me since i only have rectangular pans!
Kneading pizza dough is much easier in comparison to bread dough with fermentation time of up to an hour only. Different pizzas have different types of crust/base. The original Italian pizza crust is crispy and much thinner. Like those you eat in Little Italy. Pizza Hut has a more spongy, soft, pliable and thicker base, almost something like bread with toppings. This time i got myself to bake something in between; not too thin nor thick, crispy and still chewy like bread, but not too 'bready'.
My first pizza consisted of turkey ham, bacon, and capsicum with tomato paste as the spread. Everyone including myself agreed that this was not as good as the second one, which was of seafood flavour with thousand island. Think it's the prawns. Once baked, they give a sweet moist taste. Accompanying thousand island makes it more perfect. Yumm...
Turkey and Bacon Tomato Pizza
Seafood Pizza with prawns, corn nibs and peas
As requested by Ah Yee, i also baked somemore chocolate chip cookies which were so buttery and crunchy that they almost ran out by the time we finished lunch. She had initially asked me to make more, but due to the limited time i have, i only managed to bake 12 cookies.
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