Freshly baked pizza

Me and my brother really wanted to have pizza today, but after a rummage through the fridge we realised we didn't have a pizza base so I thought I would try and do one from scratch.

 
I've seen how to kneed dough on The Great British Bake Off where they made bread. So I found a recipe for pizza dough on the internet and started cooking. something I didn't realise about making dough is the amount of time it takes to rest, prove etc.  

The actual prep and kneeding didn't take long, it was pretty quick, the thing that took time was waiting an hour for it to double in size, then rolling it out and having to wait another 20 minutes before popping it into the oven. 

Once it went in the oven it only took 10 minutes to cook and it looked really good. I went for plain toppings, just tomato, basil and cheese. Once it was done, I drizzled a bit of olive oil and top and ground some pepper. It was delicious and something I would most definately do again. 

Todays pizza turned out to be a bit of a thin base, next time I want to try a thicker base and maybe even a stuffed crust.  

This time was a trial and next time I try it out I'm going to make more and experiment with some different flavours. Doing food from scratch is really satisfying and gives you that little bit of pride when you know that you made something out of nothing.


Lots of love

MLP