Topic: The 'humble' pizza

This recipe will make 3 large pizzas. All ingredients were found in Foodtown.

3 Pizza Bases (from that part with the ready-made pizzas, but ignore them.)
140g tub Leggo's Tomato Paste
1 tablespoon Garlic paste
Herbs
3-4 medium tomatos
8 medium button mushrooms
2 onions
100g pepperoni slices
100g bacon
3 huttons cheese sizzlers
250g Pineapple pieces.
bag of grated mozarella cheese

Preheat oven to 200 deg C.

Mix garlic and tomato paste together and spread evenly over each pizza base.
Slice the sausages across-ways and fry lightly in oil.
Slice all the vegetables. Lay them evenly on each base, mushrooms, onion, then tomato.
Sprinkle herbs all over.
Do the same with the bacon and pepperoni, then the sausage, then the pineapple pieces.

Pile huge great heaping pile of cheese on top. Evenly.

Cook until cheese is browning and bubbly.

Let cool. No, longer...longer.. that cheese is bloody hot goddammit!

TURKISH PIZZA
dough:
1.25 cups water
1 teaspn salt
2 Tabslpsn oil or melted butter
1 teaspn sugar
3.25 cups high grade flour
2 Tablpns Surebake yeast

Filling:
250 gm lean lamb mince
1 large onion, peeled and chopped
1 teaspn gr cumin
1.5 teaspn gr allspice
1 teaspn dried mint
2 diced tomatoes
.25 cup fresh mint leaves
1.25 cups grated cheddar cheese
1 egg beaten with a little water for glaze.

Make dough in breadmaking machine.
Process onion, lamb, spices, dried mint, process until pastelike, then add fresh mint and diced tomatoes, process until shredded.

Divide dough into six pieces, roll into ball, knead a little, roll out into oval shapes (roughly 20 cm x 10 cm, or to fit your oven sheets).

Baste edges with egg wash, spread filling down the middle of oval. Bring edges in to not quite cover filling, baste with egg wash, sprinkle with grated cheese.

Place onto hot trays and bake in preheated oven at 220 degrees C (fan oven) or 240 degrees C in regular oven for about 15 minutes or until golden.

Best eaten straight from oven, but can be reheated next day. They make good picnic food, and for this purpose, make 8 – 10 smaller ones.

(also freezes well if not completely baked)

*parries and ripostes*

Have at you!

Take that!!

(Yes, mine also freezes well...or is freezing well at the moment. The 2 of us couldn't manage a pizza and a half each...I barely managed half a pizza.)

*reads ingredients and sobs*

onions? pineapple?

*shakes head*

I was going to put [Optional] on those two ingredients too...

:P

Oh, and you may have noticed I "fixed" up your Index header ... it had a couple of typos on it!

Why thank you...I didn't notice, but then again, I had thoughts of Pizza running through my head at the time..

YUM! Have to admit I just chuck whatever on my own pizza's but I leave off the pineapple. Got to have the cheese, onion, bacon, peppers, mushrooms, chicken, anything I can find in the fridge. And the base must be spaghetti not just a pizza sauce.

Had people in the restuarant tonight (the new job!), and they had all sorts of trouble deciding what pizzas to have . . . onew person wouldn't eat muchrooms or anchovies, another wouldn't eat chicken, peppers or seafood, and the third wouldn't eat broccoli (broccoli? on a pizza??? yup!)

They ended up having an italian-style hawiian - prosciutto and boschetto cheese with added pineapple

Spaghetti pizzas rock! I remember back in the good old days when my Mum would make the base herself (yes folks, no store bought pizza bases for us!) ... she'd make it square and it would JUST fit onto an oven tray. OOOOOOH, spaghetti, bacon, cheese, mushies NO onion .... mmmm

*dribbles*

*looks at photo again*

Dude, when was the last time your oven was cleaned? :spew:
*hopes it is just bad light*

Hmmmmmm
*wonders where form one (and that IS a long time ago) cooking book is with the pizza (and base) recipe*

heres one with similar ingrediants, great for after school snacks for kids.
You will need

Muffin Tray preferably deep

Bread
spaghetti
spring onions/ or onions depends what kids like
mushrooms
bacon or chicken
cheese

or sometimes i use egg beaten with cheese and onion

Cut crusts off bread
place bread in muffin tray and fill with selected ingrediants, takes about 10 - 15 mins in a preheated oven @ 200 then turned down to 180.
Kids love them, they look like little baskets so cute and they are quick and easy to do for snacks or lunch.

Pizza

I did work day with my grandkids at a coop nursery school in San Francisco (a tale in itself). The workday was once a week. Once a month, I did "snack".

English muffins (40).
Half gallon of pasta sause
Cheese I used Monterey Jacck but any mild cheese is ok.

One muffin makes two pizza.
Liberally add the sause.
Shread the cheese and add to top of muffin/sause.
Melt cheese in 350 oven. Just eyeball it.

Serve

These kids were 2 1/2 to 5 years old. At least 15 % to the floor.

Fun for all and easy to do.

Mmm...cheese....

*drools*

(so, we'd also be adding something like 'large plastic tarp for floor' to the ingrediets list? )

and don't forget the bib requirement.

mmmmmm ... cheese ...... I *like* cheese

I frequently did english muffin pizza when I had snack duty at the co op work day.

Muffins, one yeilds 2 pizza
Spagetti Sause quart jar size
Cheese mild like a Monterey Jack

300 degree oven.

10 to 15 minutes.

Originally Posted by Sparklechick

Spaghetti pizzas rock! I remember back in the good old days when my Mum would make the base herself (yes folks, no store bought pizza bases for us!) ... she'd make it square and it would JUST fit onto an oven tray. OOOOOOH, spaghetti, bacon, cheese, mushies NO onion .... mmmm

*dribbles*

wouldnt the spagetti get kinda hard in the owen or am i missing something ?????

The spaghetti for the pizzas is the prepared kind that comes out of a tin...

It goes on the base first, followed by the rest of the toppings, and the cheese.

All stays nice and moist and bubbly.