Lovin’ Life 8/3/2018: Pizza Fridays.


In celebration of it being Friday tomorrow, this week’s Lovin’ Life is all about home made pizza.  Friday night is probably the official night of pizza for many households across the country and it’s not hard to see why.  There’s a topping to suit everyone, leftovers make excellent Saturday breakfasts and there are so many ways to observe Pizza Friday – at your local supermarket (fresh or frozen), at a favourite takeaway (home delivery or pick up) and you can even make your own (just the topping, the sauce and topping or the whole kitchen sink approach where you make your own pizza bases).
Please disregard that packet of Mi Goreng.  It has nothing to do with my pizza.  I often have an ‘In Case of Emergency’  packet of noodles sitting on the bench just in case we get really desperate for dinner options.
I’m usually frozen pizza person.  Dr Oetker and I go back a long, long way.  But then I discovered Lebanese bread as a pizza base last week and I’ve seen the light.  Apparently several years after the rest of the world made the same breakthrough but better late than never.  Nagi at Recipe Tin Eats wrote a really useful post about home made pizzas and I’m linking to it here.

I splurged on my toppings with various cold cuts, two kinds of cheese (plasticky and spendy), pineapple pieces, pre chopped mushrooms and pizza sauce from squeezy bottle but I have enough of the ingredients here to make at least 6 pizzas.  My bag of Lebanese bread cost around $5 for 6.

These are our pizzas before they went into the oven.  Mine’s the one with all the mushrooms and red onion on top.

Master SSG’s featured ham, cheese and pineapple only,  I couldn’t even sneak in a few slices of tomato because he was watching me do the toppings.

These pizzas only needed 10 minutes in a 200C fan forced oven.

The Lebanese bread baked to a wood fired, crispy texture and thanks to the moisture content of the pineapple and vegetables, the pizza as a whole wasn’t as dry as I feared it would be.

via Google images

Sorry, Dr Oetker, I think we need some time apart.

Do you observe Pizza Friday?

Do you make your own, order in or go out for your pizza?


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