What's for Dinner? (Another Monday)

Pizza day!  (It's the best day.)

After a bus ride back from the Borders, errands in the city, an eye appointment, and a cold walk home to a cold house, I pulled a half batch of pizza dough and a dish of sauce from the freezer.  In a few hours it was defrosted enough to throw together with leeks, broccoli, red pepper and mozzarella, and the result was a delicious homemade pizza.  

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Our house pizza dough recipe is based on Billy Reisinger's, but Jamie has done the maths to use up our abundance of digestive crumb "sand."

Digestive Pizza

1.5 cups warm water

141 g digestive crumbs (gold glitter optional)

2 t salt

26 g oil

14 g yeast

413 g bread flour

Mix water, digestives, and yeast in a large bowl.  Let sit for ten minutes. (This allows the yeast to bloom and the crumbs to soften.)  Add salt and oil, then flour, 100g at a time.  When it becomes too hard to stir, turn it out and knead it on the counter until all the flour is combined and the dough is smooth.  Put back in the bowl, cover loosely, and leave to rise for at least an hour in a warm place. When ready to make pizza, knock back and halve the dough.  Put one half in the freezer for next week, and bake the other half in a 200 oven until the cheese is almost about to burn.

I was too excited about to get a picture of the cooked pizza before we dug into it.  It was delicious.

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