be your own pizza deliv­ery guy

-- June 20th, 2007 --

Be hon­est: how many times have you ordered a pizza and when it comes, and you’re eat­ing it, you think, “This tastes like noth­ing.” Then you start to think that you paid, what, 8 pounds for it, 15 or so pounds if you got two, and it tastes like… noth­ing. Plus you have to get rid of those boxes. The whole sce­nario is annoy­ing. And the only rea­son you did it was to save time because you got home late from the sta­ble or the skat­ing rink and it was all you could think of. Well, that can be his­tory. All you have to do is invest a lit­tle bit of time and a lit­tle bit of knead­ing, and a really fab­u­lous pizza is in your future. Trust me: if you hate to cook, have scram­bled eggs, but if you like to cook at ALL, don’t order another pizza, just do this:

Pizza at Home
(serves four today and four later in the week)

4 cups “strong flour”, like Hovis, plus more for dust­ing
2 cups-ish warm water
1 sachet pow­dered yeast (Hovis fast action…