Background:
I’ll be honest I wasn’t overwhelmed with the yeasty odour emanating from my homemade pizza, but it had taken me 4 hours to make, so I was going to enjoy it god damn it!
I don’t know what possessed me to make pizza from the dough up. Seriously, I have celebrity gossip to read, Youtube videos to watch and hair to straighten, but for some reason I couldn’t shake the desire to make my own dough and tomato sauce.
Well, maybe I do have an inkling as to why I Googled pizza recipes on my lunch break instead of pictures of Ryan Goslin shirtless. It might have had something to do with a little book I read, entitled ‘Not on the label: What really goes into the food on your plate’, but who can ever really be sure about these things?
I began my pizza making quest by visiting my local market. The grocers prices and knowledge of what those ‘green things’ were (notably parsley and coriander) made the experience much more enjoyable than schlepping around the local supermarket. I’ll admit though, my grocer didn’t have yeast, flour or basil so I did have to venture to the supermarket for those. Which is where I got my basil bush from. Isn’t he cute? And he smells divine.
Basil Bush
Recipe:
I followed a pizza dough recipe from the BBC Food website, a tomato sauce recipe from Delia Smith’s website and a toppings recipe from a vegetarian book. The topping included cheddar cheese, red onion and roasted butternut squash.
Photographic evidence of my cooking skills:
Pizza
The benefits of making your own pizza:
The pizza felt lighter, tasted fresh and I could trust the quality of ingredients.
Tips:
The tomato sauce tastes so beautiful so be careful not to cover it with too much cheese or you won’t be able to taste it!
P.S
The yeast smell eventually died off.
