Dinner
Posted by NiallM
August 29th, 2009 11:38 am
I made myself a mozzarella pizza for dinner. It looks the part, but I think I need to work on my sauce-making skills – there was definitely something missing…
Game-wise, I’ve got the scrolling mostly working except for a weird offset between the player character and the rest of the level that’s suddenly appeared. I’m going to try and fix that now, then hopefully I can get the light beams up and running before bed.
Ooh, I’d like that recipe!
The base:
100g plain flour
1/2 sachet yeast
some warm water
Mix the flour and the yeast, then add the water until you get a good dough. Knead for about 5 mins, then leave in a warm place to rise (I find the fan grate on the side of my laptop works great for this…). I usually leave it a couple of hours.
After it’s risen, knead it a bit more, then flatten it out into a pizza shape (with your hands, not a rolling pin – a rolling pin will knock out any air pockets that have developed).
The sauce:
1/2 small red onion, chopped
1/4 tin chopped tomatoes
pinch of sugar
pinch of basil
1tbsp olive oil
In a pan, fry the onion in the olive oil for about 5 mins, then add the rest. Cook for 5-10 mins, stirring. If you’ve got time, you might want to whizz it with a blender.
Putting it together:
mozzarella
pinch of basil
pinch of oregano
Preheat your oven as high as it will go. I’m not sure mine is quite hot enough for pizzas, so I do the next part in stages. First, I stick a baking tray in the oven for about 5 mins, then I put the pizza base on it (with some olive oil so it doesn’t stick), and put that in the oven for about 5 mins (if I don’t do this, the base is always slightly uncooked in the middle). Then I add the sauce and the mozzarella, basil and oregano, and put it back in the oven for about 10 mins. I cheated a bit and bought pre-grated mozzarella since I find it a bit easier to work with. Also, I only had dried herbs – fresh basil tastes much better for something like this.
Hope that helps