March 7, 2009
· Filed under pizza, savory stuff, tips and tricks · Tagged dinner, food, mistakes, pizza, recipe
Brad and I decided to make pizza this week.
I forgot to start the dough on Wednesday like I was supposed to. So I started it in the bread machine on Thursday night instead.
And promptly forgot that it was there.
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January 11, 2009
· Filed under bread, pizza, savory stuff · Tagged dinner, food, options, pizza, recipe, special shape, yeast
This was originally posted on my other blog, What If. I’m moving it – and all of my baking posts – here in the next few weeks.
One of the things that I find so wonderful about baking is that I get to have tasty treats without paying huge amounts of money. It really started about two years ago, when ManPants and I researched a bunch of fast food restaurants (which is almost all of the restaurants around here) and realized that eating at them almost every day was not only hard on our bank account but not healthy in the slightest. Consuming more than a day’s recommended serving of fat in one meal was more rip-off than convenience. So we decided to cook a lot more often and I started to bake bread.

I didn’t attempt pizza dough until I’d learned a lot about break-baking, but pizza dough is in some ways far more forgiving.
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