Social Pizza night

So these posts are gonna be a little out of order because I have the pics from tonight's cooking adventure with me but not the cottage pics.

So again for tonight's creative event I decided to make pizza. Specifically I made a batch of pizza dough which makes 8 small pizzas and then my gf and i "decorated" and cooked them. yum, pizza for lunch for the rest of the week.

anyways, the pizza dough recipe is from Jamie Oliver's cooking school webpage Here and so I made it. As usual I measured out all my ingredients before starting. The nice thing about this recipe over other ones that I have tried before is that there are very few ingredients. You may notice that the yellow "flour" looking stuff isnt quite the same as the recipe. Its actually not semolina, its corn meal. I find it gives the dough a nice texture now that I have made it but in truth i misread the ingredients which is fine cause I don't actually have semolina.

The other interesting thing is that I'm not exactly sure what "golden castor sugar" is so I used brown sugar. turned out fine :)

So after mixing the dough up (note: I found that there was a little too much water so when i try this again i think i will drop the amount of water down a bit) and letting it rise for 15 minutes i cut it up into 8 pieces and rolled them into circular-esk shapes. I dont have pizza trays that fit into my toaster oven so i just used aluminium foil and stacked up the naked pizzas on top of each other

Once all 8 were rolled out it was a simple job to decorate them. Luckily my gf is amazing and helped to cut all the veggies for the pizzas so by the time I had rolled them out the veggies were ready to start decorating :)

Despite the webpage saying 7-10 minutes I found that 14 minutes worked better. Because we had so many I also put the large oven on and we made about half of them in that. Sadly i dont use the big oven that much so when I turned it on I put the heat on from the bottom instead of from the top and I think that the heat fromthe top would have been a lot nicer.

So the final test: TASTE...

 I dont like cooked tomoatoes so have of the pizzas have cherryy tomotoes for my gf and half dont for me. result: AMAZING

So now you might be wondering why I called this entry Social Pizza night... well as we were making the pizza we started chatting about how this would totally make an amazing thing to do when hanging out with friends. The dough would have to be made before hand but the decorating of the pizzas could be a social gathering kind of thing and everyone would end up with exactly the kind of pizza they wanted. To that end, the next time we have friends over for a games night we are probably gonna make pizza :)

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