I'm never a fan of commercially mass produced pizzas and least of all, frozen ones. However every so often I've a hankering for some slices of this pie! Since I'm not gonna pay exorberant prices for some pitifully topped, mass produced, delivered pizzas and I didn't know of a good pizza place, I would have to delve into the "world" of pizza making. I know that a good pizza requires a good dough and then you're pretty much set. I made a few variations with the toppings here but I definitely made my fav and also a classic, Pizza Margherita, as shown in the second picture. The dough was made using the Bread machine's recipe, no difficulties there, just follow the instructions (I think different bread machine has slightly different method/recipe to follow). Then I attempted (note "attempted") to shape the dough into a round shape, without success, so it turned out slight oval. I also did the throwing in the air thingy which didn't do anything taste wise (I didn't think so at least) except to dust my whole countertop with flour! Oh well.....at least I tried....hehehe..
After the pizza making attempt, I went onto cinnamon buns. Oooohhhhhhh I LOVE THEM! Well....at least I love the giantic ones from Cinnabon. I like it "pure" which means simply just as it is, no nuts no nothing. As you can see from this one, it's got nuts, pecans to be exact. Well, I had made two different batches but the ones with the pecans looked much prettier...hehehe... I make the pecan ones coz Ed loves them...so I know for a fact he wouldn't steal mine!!! Yes, two batches made for a selfish reason!! We gave some away and ate all of it in one day!!!! Yes, we had them for breakfast and brunch and it was gone!! Guess got to make some more. With the breadmaker making doughs(with yeast) are definitely less scary and closer to perfection, I mean, you really can't screw up. For those who thinks I'm cheating...well....it's good cheating then...LOL....with food like this, you can call it whatever....hehehe.....
With the bread maker I think I'm braver to make yeast doughs. I used to make to doughs in the past but they always turn out as failures but with this bread machine, all my yeast doughs are successes!It's GREAT! You don't have to invest on an expensive one, just one works.:)
2 comments:
Ohhhh...envy envy...you really made such a good use of your bread machine! Made me feels so ashame of myself, my hubby starts telling friend I'm wasting his money to buy this. :P
Both the pizzas and cinnamon buns look yummy!
Heheh....husband's always do that...I think it's one of their responsibilities as a spouse!! My husband says the same when I buy cookbooks, so I have to cook something from them just to prove him wrong!! hehehe..
But you should try the cinnamon buns, they are pretty easy and really impressive! I believe your machine comes with a recipe book too....give it a shot..:)Then your husband would think that you "slave" in your kitchen to get dessert out!!! LOL
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