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…
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(serves 8 as a starter)
enough fresh pasta for 16 large raviolis
2 medium lobster tails
1 tbsp butter
splash olive oil
100 grams white crab meat
2–3 tbsps tomato puree
juice of 1/2 lemon
salt and pepper to taste
pinch chilli powder
1 tsp fresh thyme, chopped
100 grams mascarpone cheese
Sauce and Topping
large pinch saffron
1 1/2 cups chicken stock
1/2 cup double cream
2 cloves garlic, minced
salt and pepper to taste
4 tomatoes, deseeded and finely chopped
2 courgettes, made into ribbons using a potato peeler
white part of 1 leek, julienned
Bring water to boil in a saucepan and cook the lobster tails until not quite fully cooked, about 4–5 minutes. Let cool and then shell and cut off the very end (about 2 inches) of the tail and set aside. Chop the remainder of the lobster fairly fine and fry in the butter and olive oil until fully cooked. Lift out of the skillet and leave the skillet to one side to fry the courgettes and leek in later.
In a mixing bowl, mix the crab, tomato puree, lemon juice, salt and pepper, chilli powder, thyme and mascarpone, then the cooled lobster. Taste and…
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