kain_kusanagi said:
Michael-5 said:
kain_kusanagi said:
Do you have an electric mixer? If so, making your own dough is super easy, and fast.
Fast Home Made Pizza Crust
Makes 1 thick crust or 2 thin crusts.
What you need:
Flour - 3 Cups
Warm water - 1 Cup + 3 Tbsp
Yeast Fast Rise - 1 Tbsp
Sugar - 1 tsp
Optional:
Olive Oil - 2 tbsp or less, but at least 1 tsp
Salt - 1 or 1/2 tsp depending on your taste
What do do:
Poor the warm water into your electric mixer. Add the sugar and yeast. Let it sit for about 5 minutes or until it starts to show bubbles and signs of activating. Now add the other ingreadiants and mix using a heavy beater or kneeding hook attachment for your mixer. Beat about 20 times or until you have a single lump of dough. At water or flour depending on if it is too dry or too wet.
Remove from mixer and on a floured surface roll out your pizza crust and tansfer it to a pan. Cover with a light cotton towel and let it sit and rise for about 15-20 minutes.
At this point you can make your pizza. I usualy bake just the crust to finish rising until it starts to firm up. I then remove it from the oven, add the sauce, cheese, herbs and what not and then bake.
Of course you can use any sauce and topings you want. That's the beauty of pizza.
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No I don't, the kitchen in my apartment is tiny, I can't even fit my microwave on the table (it's on the floor, where there should be a cabinet, but I guess they wanted more legroom).
LOL
When I make pizza, I usually just use bread, not the best, but it still tastes good. If I have to make dough, I do it by hand, or buy it pre-made, but pre-made dough is only good to eat for a couple days.
Thanks for the tip though.
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Well you can still make my recipe without a mixer. It just takes hand kneading which I find tedious. Once you go mixer, you never go back.
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I've made stuff like this before, I just don't do it commonly.
LOL, I've made perogies from scratch before, but it takes like 3 hours to prepare and bake it right. It's damn worth it, but usually when I'm hungry, I take frozen ones and fry them.
So I only take time to cook when I have people coming over. If it's just for myself, I usually don't put so much effort. I usually eat pasta/rice dishes, since they are so quick to cook, and I make my own sauce.
Usually, when I cook pizza, I just use bread for the crust lol, still tastes a lot better then store bought. I mean to warm up an oven, just cut cheese, onions, mushrooms, and some sliced meat, and put it all together? So easy. I usually have some extra alfredo sauce from pasta which I put in a jar, and I use that as a base sauce, but if I'm feeling really lazy, I use ranee ceasar dressing. That stuff is so good.
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LOL, I only cook fancy stuff when people come over. If you want a good recipe book, try epicurious.com
