Homemade Pizza II

Pizza for dinner tonight. This is my second attempt at making a pizza from scratch. This time round with the correct baking sheet my pizza turn out so much better:)


With the gloomy weather for the past few days, I was very doubtful that the dough would rise within the 1-1.5 hours time. So in order to make it for dinner tonight (which is around 6-6.30 pm), I prepare earlier. I started kneading around 1.30 pm and the dough was sent for proofing by 2.00 pm. I constantly peeked at the proofing dough to check the rising. I was a little surprised that it did rise within the one hour stipulated time....just like my first attempt.

I use the same recipe from My first homemade pizza. I divide the dough into two. This time round I use a sandwich tin and a baking tray. I thought a round sandwich tin would yield pretty well like a store-bought pizza. However, this round pizza turned out to be a little thicker than the elongated one. Hmm.... next time, I will just roll out into round and bake it on a tray.






Overall, my family loved it very much. My eldest son who just came back from school gobbled up three pieces at one go! Getting to be a big eater now:)), but still so slim:(


Here's a close-up of my pizza:



Seems like my kids love this kind of thick crust pizza. May try out the thin crust next round. Oh yah, my little son complained about the pineapple chunks. He doesn't like pineapple!

My first homemade pizza

Made this very first pizza last thursday as our dinner. Follow exactly the recipe from Happy home Baking.

The dough was fairly easy to work with. It double in size in less than an hour (thanks to the good sunny weather outside!)





As I don't have a pizza tray, I lined my long baking tray with parchment paper(?). I divided the dough into 3 parts: 1 large and 2 medium.







I topped my pizza with tomato sauce, some hams, button mushrooms, some mixed vegetables, morzarella cheese and some minced parsley.



Though the pizzas'appearance wasn't that pleasing :(, the four of us nearly finish the 3 pizza with 2 small leftover :). Judging from the eating from my younger son, ws, the pizza was really good. Haha! Though my husband remarked that not enough cheese topping ... OK, next time I'll know what to do..
Think that I lined the wrong paper? Gosh! The pizzas were sticked to the papers and we literally had to tear the papers and the base away....! what a pity! and the crunchy base were the best part of the pizza....... :(


So, is parchment paper the same as greaseproof paper? Anyone out there can tell me please?

Black Sesame Seeds Sausage Bread

My "Black Sesame Seeds Sausage Bread"!!

This recipe was taken from "Bread Magic". I think something wrong with the recipe!
Instead of sprinkle "some" black sesame after 2nd proving, the recipe indicated adding "100g"black sesame together with 50g butter during the kneading process! So end up my dough became a "Bao Kong" face - black like a charcoal :( Another problem: with the 100g sesame seeds, the weight of the dough exceeded the 8 portions of 60g each...

"Bao Kong" face

One thing to note though is that this recipe called for "icing sugar". May be I'm new in baking, for most of the recipes I came across called for caster sugar. Icing sugar in bread baking is very new to me... However, it didn't affect the taste. The bread remained soft the next day.

Because of the 100g black sesame seeds, the bread was on a bit of crunchy side. I used a mixture of chicken hot dogs with some german sausages. These sausages are tasty unlike those pre-packed ones which are loaded with sodium...:-(

The next time I make ,I'll just omit the 100g sesame and just sprinkle some on top before I do the rest of the topping. :)