Post 207: Homemade pizzas

I was bumbling around the kitchen struggling to think what to cook, when I saw the breadmaker and hit upon the idea of pizza's. Possible if I'd looked in the drawer and found Domino's number then I might still have had pizza for T but with a lot less effort.

Anyway two 300gs batches of pizza dough and a trip to Tesco's later, I was good to go. My first mistake was to leave the dough uncovered while it was proving and because I'd  done the dough pre-Tesco's trip I'd left the dough to prove far longer than the recommended 15 minutes. This gave me a crust on the un-baked dough. Not a good start.

Then to rolling the dough. I hadn't known how much dough was needed per pizza, I managed to rollout 2 and a little 'un from the 600gs, I managed to fill my two trays reasonably well. The pizza dough is amazingly elastic, so it took quite some strectching out. I even had a go a twizzling it round in the air.

Once I'd go it big enough to fill the trays, I then concentrated on the tomato sauce. This I made by adding garlic (3 cloves) and an a onion to some passata and then reducing it down a bit.

The on with the topping:
- 1 x ham, cheese and basil (Basil from the garden! yay my herb patch)
- 1 x pepperoni, cheese and olives

Turned out like this ->

Which for my first attempt at a pizza I was pretty pleased with.

There's the upside, the downsides were:
- I needed to stretch the dough much more; I like a thin base, and I probably needed about only half the dough I'd used per pizza.
- Quite how far I'm able to spread flour around the kitchen whilst trying to stretch pizza dough is pretty amazing

So, very nice but I'm not sure I'll be doing it again in a hurry; especially when there are offers on at Pizza Express.