Homemade Food Recipes
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Save Money By Creating Your Favorite Recipes At Home
How many times have you gone out to the local fast food take away to grab lunch instead of making it at home yourself? There's no telling how much money you spent on all those take away meals and ready made sandwiches each week. So save yourself lots of money by making your lunch at home, and taking it with you if you work away from home.
Once home, instead of picking up a take away or phoning for a pizza delivery, get the family together and make one of your own at home.
Once home, instead of picking up a take away or phoning for a pizza delivery, get the family together and make one of your own at home.
Just Like Restaurant Food - But Home Made
Creating a homemade pizza can be great fun, and can become a regular part of your weekly meal plans at home. Choose a day of the week when everyone can get together and enjoy sharing the job. Why not go the whole hog, and decorate your dining room or kitchen in the theme of an Italian pizza parlor and putting on a pretend Italian accent for the evening. Great fun, and entertaining for the kids too!The best thing about homemade pizza is choosing the toppings. Since it is your own pizza, you can have as many toppings as you desire. It's a chance to experiment with new flavors and ingredients that you have never tried on top of a pizza before. Some will be an instant hit, and some will be an epic fail, but that's all part of the fun.
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Home Made Pizza From The Crust Up
How will you make the pizza crust? Will you make your own crust? You could always cheat and buy a ready prepared pizza base and let the family decide on the toppings, or you can go the whole hog and create your own dough from scratch.It you want to make an evening of it, or you have older children who would be interested to know how bread is made, then make the pizza dough from scratch. There are lots of recipes on the internet for home made pizza dough, or you could just cheat a little bit and buy a pizza dough mix that just needs water adding, and away you go.
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Choose Your Pizza Toppings
When the dough is ready, shape it into a square or circle, depending on how you want it to turn out. I have square baking trays so I will often make square pizza's to fit the size of the tray. This makes it easy to bake and cut once cooked through.For the sauce, you could buy a ready made pizza sauce in a jar and just use that to spread over the dough base. Or you could create your own sauce using tomato passata (sieved tomatoes) and a bit of tomato puree, with a few added dried herbs, chopped onions or garlic if you like.
Cover the sauce with one or two types of your favourite cheeses. It's more economical to purchase a block of cheese and use a grater to grate your own cheese. Don't forget the extras. Add chopped peppers, pineapple pieces, sliced olives, tuna pieces, or any left over cooked meat you may have in the fridge.
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If you have kids, try making a few mini sized pizzas and have some fun. See who can make the funniest face on their pizza. Red peppers make great smiley mouths, sliced olives for eyes, a cherry tomato half for the nose - let your imagination run wild.If there are leftovers from your pizza, enjoy them tomorrow morning for breakfast! Kids love pizza at any time of day, so don't just save it for dinner time.
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This book is brilliant! It has some tasty recipes inside, and makes the most of seasonal ingredients that your can batch cook, and freeze down to fill your freezer with tempting family meals.
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Donnaonline
Oct 13, 2011 @ 7:32 am | delete
- Makes so much sense! Food is expensive, so cooking from scratch is becoming far cheaper than eating out, or buying ready meals.
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Sophiebright
Jul 31, 2011 @ 10:24 am | delete
- Yum! What else can I say :)
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