Planet Veggie

Two weeks ago, I ran the Folkestone Half Marathon (I might will blog about it later). Afterwards, seven of us went for lunch at Googies Art Café, a fantastic café bar in Folkestone’s Creative Quarter. Most of our group opted for burgers (which Googies do in a wrap, rather than a bun) but as I’d [...]

The Meat Eater made dinner tonight, as he’s in charge of cooking at the weekend (which actually means he only has to cook once as we usually go out Saturday nights) and he actually managed to make the dough in the bread machine all by himself instead of asking me if he was reading the [...]

After experimenting further with the pizza base quantities, it’s now perfected I think.  After quartering the original recipe, we now have a base that’s not too thick and not too soggy.  Hurrah. Pizza base (makes 1 large pizza) 1/2 teaspoon dried yeast 3/4 cup bread flour 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/2 tablespoon sugar 1/2 tablespoon olive [...]

After Jo responded to my ‘how to get pizza base less soggy’ question on my previous pizza post, The Meat Eater and I skipped off to our local Robert Dyas (ok we drove 10 miles to the nearest Robert Dyas) and purchased a pizza tray with holes in.  So, of course, we had to test [...]

I am truly a domestic goddess.  I know this because I make pizza from scratch, including the dough, and therefore this makes me a domestic goddess.  Even if I do make the dough in a bread machine.   And even though I can never roll the dough into a circle. After you’ve rolled the dough into [...]