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Fun with Pizza. It’s so easy.

January 25, 2008 at 3:19 am · Filed under Recipes: Quick & Easy, Recipes: Baking

How do you like your pizza? Thick or thin crust? Lots of cheese? Or just full of toppings? I definitely like mine with thin crust, lots of cheese with moderate toppings. As much as I like to try making a pizza base myself, I didn’t had the courage to do it, for fear of failing and wasting the cheese and toppings. From my understanding, to achieve a thin crust, you need a very high heat like a stone oven to toast the pizza fast and yet the toppings gets cooked with cheese melting at the same time. Nevertheless, it will still be in my to-make list. It’s just a matter of when I can strike this item off the list.

A promise’s a promise. The long awaited school holidays were here again. We baked chocolate chip cookies last National Day. The intention for this session was to make rolled cookies. I even got the cookie cutters ready. But I gave them 2 choices. So it’s gonna be pizzas or cookies? Pizza sounds delicious and fun to have, and so they decided on making pizzas instead.

Store-bought frozen pizza crust isn’t that bad. In fact, it’s quite decent and affordable. And you can have free-play to use whatever toppings and cheese you like. You can spread a layer of tomato sauce or puree on the base of the pizza. As I had a jar of tomato-based pasta sauce in my pantry, I used that instead. Next, is to grate a layer of mozzarella cheese on the tomato sauce, followed by the toppings you’ve prepared. I used ham and fresh button mushrooms. Lastly, grate another layer of mozzarella and sprinkle some dried parsley on top. And they were ready to go into the toaster! It’s that easy!!

The 2 girls had fun preparing for the pizza, mainly cutting up the ham and mushrooms. These pizza crusts are of personal pan size and takes only 12 to 15 mins to toast. I love to watch the cheese melts and turn brown. Gosh, I am drooling at the of thought that while typing this post.

These pizzas are really not bad tasting! I am quite pleased with the results. My niece said it looked ‘real’. What she meant was the photo of the pizza looks pretty professional. Haha… I thought pizzas are not filling enough for them. So I made some wild mushroom soup for them to go with the pizzas. What a nice auntie I am. Hehe… But my effort was not wasted. They LOVE the soup and gave me both thumbs up!

Sorry for not posting this entire month. I didn’t had the mood to blog as work keeps piling up. I have so many things to blog about!!

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25 Comments »

Camemberu wrote @ January 25th, 2008 at 9:24 am

OMG LOOKS SO YUMMY!!!

And the kids are so cute…they look like they had a lot of fun and laughs doing this.

wiffy wrote @ January 25th, 2008 at 3:24 pm

yum yum, looks so delicious, I think looks better than those sold outside, serious! :)~

Your models are so pretty! … u’re such a good aunt Me like pizza with thin crest and lots of cheese too

Yeah, Hope to see more blog posts when you are free!

ovenhaven wrote @ January 25th, 2008 at 5:02 pm

The kids looked really happy and satisfied! They must be so lucky to have a talented and doting auntie. Oh, and I have to say that the t-shirt the elder girl is wearing suits the occasion perfectly. Hehe

Xinni wrote @ January 25th, 2008 at 11:19 pm

your nieces look so adorable! and the pizza definitely look mouth watering too. i love mine with cheese. sometimes i feel that i can just wallop plain cheese pizza.

yaya, really very nice aunty

Fei & E wrote @ January 26th, 2008 at 12:55 pm

WOWWWWWWW
Im really really very hungry for pizza now…
Actually I’ll just settle for soup.

steamy kitchen wrote @ January 26th, 2008 at 9:01 pm

CUTE!!! I love the smiles - what beautiful girls.

Hannah wrote @ January 27th, 2008 at 4:22 am

Looks like you’ve got two great helpers for making pizza there- How sweet!

tigerfish wrote @ January 28th, 2008 at 4:57 pm

Lovely pizzas.

Where did you get your store-bought pizza dough from?

didally wrote @ February 5th, 2008 at 2:25 pm

Thanks all for the nice comments about the girls. They never fail to make me smile with all their innocent talks.

tigerfish, I forgot to add that those are actually frozen pizza crusts.

Hungry Hamster wrote @ February 5th, 2008 at 9:47 pm

Hey Didally! The pizzas look beautiful! It’s making me hungry now! The toppings looked really good and generous

didally wrote @ February 6th, 2008 at 10:50 pm

Hi Hungry Hamster, that’s the thing about making my own pizza, using my favorite toppings! Haha..

ovenhaven wrote @ February 7th, 2008 at 10:47 pm

Happy Chinese New Year, dearie! May the new year bring much love and prosperity to you and your family

Rasa Msia wrote @ February 13th, 2008 at 5:56 am

Hey there,

Thanks for your comment on my jiaozi post…of course you should make them, your two girls will help you…it’s not that hard, other than kneading the dough.

didally wrote @ February 18th, 2008 at 10:58 am

ovenhaven: Thanks for your well wishes.

Rasa Msia: Thanks for dropping by.

Jaime-La-Nourriture wrote @ February 22nd, 2008 at 12:34 pm

cute lil’ kids, juicy pizzas. YUMMY!

btw, its my 1st time here. HELLO!

didally wrote @ February 23rd, 2008 at 12:41 am

Hi Jaime-La-Nourriture, thanks for visiting.

Evan wrote @ February 24th, 2008 at 7:45 pm

wei, why never blog?? i wanna see your ice-cream post!!!!! hehe.

Farhan wrote @ February 25th, 2008 at 12:42 pm

HI! The girls are so pretty! And your pizza looks mouthwatering. I like my pizza with tomato sauce, cheese and max 1 or 2 more ingredients. The simpler the better. Store bought crusts are convenient and tastes good. U should try homemade too! Its very easy if u have a stand mixer with a dough hook attached. Just 500g bread flour, 1 satchet instant yeast (11g packet, I use the brand Ragi) 300ml water. Mix for 15mins and leave to rise in an airtight container for an hour, roll out and bake at the highest heat your oven can go.. U can check out the detailed recipe here

http://happygrub.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/the-thinner-the-crust-the-better/

I started making my own pizza sauce too which is super easy. Before I start making the dough, I slice some tomatoes, toss in olive oil, salt, pepper and italian mixed herbs, bake at 150C for over an hour and hen just squish them onto the base to make a sauce, Tastes of pure clean tomato flavor! u should give it a go..!

didally wrote @ February 26th, 2008 at 3:34 pm

Evan: I haven’t make the icecream yet! lol

Farhan: Thanks for dropping by. I would love to make my own pizza base and tomato sauce. Thanks for sharing your recipe.

Corinne wrote @ March 1st, 2008 at 11:45 am

That’s a very interesting cookery session wif the kids. I am sure they enjoyed themselves alot. Of course, they must thank their aunt for creating such opportunities too. Haha.
Ya the pizza looks very yummy! Guess I wun have the patience to do that haha.

didally wrote @ March 7th, 2008 at 12:49 pm

Corinne, yeah, I always make an effort to do some cooking/baking with them during their school holidays. It’s something they don’t get to do at home.

White On Rice Couple wrote @ March 10th, 2008 at 10:37 am

Oh they are sooo cute!! and the pizza looks great too! I wish I ate this good as a kid!

Jessica wrote @ March 20th, 2008 at 3:56 am

Wow those pizzas look so good!

didally wrote @ March 20th, 2008 at 12:01 pm

White On Rice Couple: Yeah.. I don’t get that chance when I was younger.

Jessica: Thanks for dropping by.

paw paw wrote @ March 23rd, 2008 at 6:51 pm

Neck LONG Looooooooooooooooong ~~~
So long until can put rings around them … liowz! *hahah*
Hmmm! Will we see yr master piece anytime soon???