I had a great baking day today!
I started an overnight white bread dough last night (from the Ken Forkish book “Flour Water Salt Yeast” that Michelle got me for my Birthday) and baked a single loaf this morning, probably my best attempt yet – I was really pleased with the air cells in the crumb!
I divided the remaining dough into three balls and stored them in the fridge. Later that evening I made a couple of pizzas from two of them – basic margaritas using a chunky tomato sauce, mozzarella and basil leaves. The first one I added some left over slices of ham and the second one I made into a three cheese pizza by adding grated cheddar and parmesan.
Our oven doesn’t really get hot enough for pizza so the toppings on the first pizza disintegrated a bit! The second pizza I tried par-baking the dough before adding the toppings, which seemed to work pretty well.
The third dough ball I saved for the next day. I made foccacia to go with some pasta for tea. Plenty of olive oil and seasoned with salt, garlic and basil. I couldn’t resist adding mozzarella to one half of it!
