Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Pizza and salad



It's been a busy weekend for me, but fun. Over the weekend, I was craving Pizza like a teenager at a sleepover. Lucky, for me I still had some spaghetti sauce from when I made pasta, and 1/3lb block of mozzarella cheese from ??? (it was still good). Well, I found this really great and simple whole wheat pizza dough recipe.
1 package if active dry yeast (or for those like me who buy in bulk and store yeast in the freezer it's 2 1/2 teaspoons)
1 cup warm water
1 cup red wheat flour (the dough gets a little to strong flavored and less elastic with any more)
2 cups all-purpose
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 full teaspoons salt

Dissolve yeast in warm water. Then mix in the rest of ingredients. Kneed well (for at least 5 mins) and let rise until it at least doubles in size. Then punch down and separate into 2 balls. let set for about 20 mins. then roll out into a 12 inch circle.
Since it is just Jacob and me, I put one of the balls straight into the fridge after punching it down so we could make our second pizza the next day.
To make the pizza just spread on a thick coating of sauce, grade on some cheese (I used about 1/6 of a 1lb block of mozzarella, but I would have used more if we hadn't been low.) and put in a preheated 400 F oven until crust it cooked and cheese is melted. It is SOOO good. I love pizza!
I also enjoyed a wonderful balsamic vinger Romain and cucumber salad this weekend too. If you haven't tried the simple joy of a little good olive oil and balsamic vinger drizzled on your salad do try. This salad is especially good with goat cheese, but that also makes it a little less healthy and a lot more expensive. Still, when we have the money, it will be goat cheese all the way!

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