Helllooooo.....
Am back and with a new excitement.... Uh huh.... Only my dear husband bares the brunt of my excitement! The rest of the world just gets to read and laugh at it.... Surely my closest friends, cousins, and parents have had their share too, except not to the degree of what my darling better half is going through :) of course if I wrote about all my exciting ideas and the misshapen failures and victory of it then I would have to write a lot more blogs dedicating to it.
In the initial days he used to worry about all the hullabaloo I used to create about a new vegetable or fruit I would pick while am out shopping but then he got used to it and considers his wife to be normal now lol
Am a foodie and back where I come from vegetarians have about a billion options to keep munching on and my family could probably participate in a foodie competition and win it too! All the uncles, aunts and cousins put together I suppose we have a very different palette and each to his or her own weird tastes. Even in my childhood I remember I had my mind set on a particular set of things to eat at particular time like lot of people don't mind lemon rice or vangibath for breakfast but I wouldn't be ok at all. My mom had a tough time providing me with different set of things to eat at different times becoz I was fussy and wouldn't eat the lunch food for dinner, I found it to be boring and not at all exciting and would sulk throughout dinner. Everybody I know said after marriage let's see how many things you will do per day. Of course my husband happens to be a foodie too and has the same issues like I do except for he is a perfectionist and does not entertain any half baked ideas literally and hence the saga of cooking different things each time has continued so far...
I digress as usual...
As promised today's is about whole wheat home made pizza from scratch!
Now before you have a laugh at this I would like to say in my defense the following: it's healthy, lot of veggies, home made, I know what's in it and I can eat happily, I know how much cheese is in there so I can eat without worrying too much ... Ok that's about the list my unintelligible brain can come up with.
So I ran out of ideas on a vacation day for dinner and decided to mix about one and a half cup of warm water with a table spoon each of sugar and yeast( rapid rise) after the froth appears start mixing next set of ingredients but before that I must mention am sure most of us don't have a baking thermometer and end up messing this part since most of the recipe sites have some degree in Ft or C and so it's safe to heat the said amount of water in microwave for about 1 minute and ten seconds Now once the mixture is frothy add one tbsp each of salt, honey, oil, and three cups of whole wheat flour and mix it and leave it in the bowl for about ninty minutes and see if it's puffy.
It will look like this after you finish mixing:
Once it has puffed up roll it and cut into the size you want and roll it like an Indian bread but thick and place it on a lightly greased pan (I used my cast iron and inserted it with a baking sheet) and applied olive oil and some pasta sauce(loaded with veggies) and added cheese slices and tossed in vegetables and voilà! You can put the oven to 500 for 15-20 mins and munch on it yum yum :)
The first time I made it looked like this and then I kept improvising on it of course ....
Now if you are as crazy as I am and did try this and did any improvisations do let me know and I will try it too :)
Am back and with a new excitement.... Uh huh.... Only my dear husband bares the brunt of my excitement! The rest of the world just gets to read and laugh at it.... Surely my closest friends, cousins, and parents have had their share too, except not to the degree of what my darling better half is going through :) of course if I wrote about all my exciting ideas and the misshapen failures and victory of it then I would have to write a lot more blogs dedicating to it.
In the initial days he used to worry about all the hullabaloo I used to create about a new vegetable or fruit I would pick while am out shopping but then he got used to it and considers his wife to be normal now lol
Am a foodie and back where I come from vegetarians have about a billion options to keep munching on and my family could probably participate in a foodie competition and win it too! All the uncles, aunts and cousins put together I suppose we have a very different palette and each to his or her own weird tastes. Even in my childhood I remember I had my mind set on a particular set of things to eat at particular time like lot of people don't mind lemon rice or vangibath for breakfast but I wouldn't be ok at all. My mom had a tough time providing me with different set of things to eat at different times becoz I was fussy and wouldn't eat the lunch food for dinner, I found it to be boring and not at all exciting and would sulk throughout dinner. Everybody I know said after marriage let's see how many things you will do per day. Of course my husband happens to be a foodie too and has the same issues like I do except for he is a perfectionist and does not entertain any half baked ideas literally and hence the saga of cooking different things each time has continued so far...
I digress as usual...
As promised today's is about whole wheat home made pizza from scratch!
Now before you have a laugh at this I would like to say in my defense the following: it's healthy, lot of veggies, home made, I know what's in it and I can eat happily, I know how much cheese is in there so I can eat without worrying too much ... Ok that's about the list my unintelligible brain can come up with.
So I ran out of ideas on a vacation day for dinner and decided to mix about one and a half cup of warm water with a table spoon each of sugar and yeast( rapid rise) after the froth appears start mixing next set of ingredients but before that I must mention am sure most of us don't have a baking thermometer and end up messing this part since most of the recipe sites have some degree in Ft or C and so it's safe to heat the said amount of water in microwave for about 1 minute and ten seconds Now once the mixture is frothy add one tbsp each of salt, honey, oil, and three cups of whole wheat flour and mix it and leave it in the bowl for about ninty minutes and see if it's puffy.
It will look like this after you finish mixing:
Once it has puffed up roll it and cut into the size you want and roll it like an Indian bread but thick and place it on a lightly greased pan (I used my cast iron and inserted it with a baking sheet) and applied olive oil and some pasta sauce(loaded with veggies) and added cheese slices and tossed in vegetables and voilà! You can put the oven to 500 for 15-20 mins and munch on it yum yum :)
The first time I made it looked like this and then I kept improvising on it of course ....
Now if you are as crazy as I am and did try this and did any improvisations do let me know and I will try it too :)
