Pizza day with my nieces was awesome! Pizza on the Big Green Egg.
Today was pizza day with my nieces.
I went to the shop after twelve to buy yeast I needed for the dough.
In fact, I was there at 13:00 because Bianca wanted to come as well. I could drop her off at the Metro station after shopping.
She already made earlier plans to meet a friend. (on Pizza day! I know right...Í sort of felt like it was already tradition even though this would be the first time....)
When I got home around 13:30 it was time to make the dough. I quickly realized that making photo's would be impossible so I decided to record the whole thing. I don't expect anyone to watch that video. But I learned that making dough is a trial in perseverance.
When you think everything is lost and your hands are covered in sticky dough with no end in sight it will slowly come together and form a ball.
I put the ball in a bowl and covered it for 2 hours. It tripled in size! A great success. I was so happy!
The girls loved making the pizzas and eating them.
The products I bought for the pizza.
This is a 15 minutes video of me making pizza dough. It's for the diehards, lol :)
I would recommend watching the 20 sec result video.
These are my nieces Juliet and Fee. They were very happy when it was finally time to make pizza!
I put all the goodies in separate bowls so they could select their favorites.
Building a Pizza takes concentration
It was then time to put it on. The Green egg was 300-350C
This was the first result! They loved it!
Sadly after eating one half each they were full, lol. Luckily me and my brother have bigger stomaches. This was my proudest moment. That looks pretty perfect to me!
It was super thin too! In the end, we eat 4 pizzas!
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Oooooh, I can almost smell the aroma, just looking at the pictures. Yum!
Simple tip for next time - just before starting to dive into the dough with your hands... coat your hands liberally with vegetable oil. The dough will be much easier to handle and won't stick to you as much. Have a warm wet towel ready ahead of time for cleanup afterwards.
That's a great tip! Thank, you!
the green makes everything. You are the guy that uses the green to the fullest.
The real fun, family gets involved.
Good job @exyle.
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It looks like you knocked it out of the park. The dough looked great and doing it on the Green Egg looks like it made the crust nice and crispy. The pizza looks really good.
The kids look like they had a blast. Doing little hands on things like this together is a blast and you're making a memory. Great way to spend a Sunday. Bravo brother!
Thanks, man! I think they had fun. Sad they were full so fast :)
Congrats on making the pizzas. They all look delicious. Oh for the dough, it'll work better for the yeast if the water you use for it is heated up to 40 - 43 degrees Celsius. Usually, when I make bread/pizza dough, I measure the temperature of the water with an instant read thermometer.
http://slice.seriouseats.com/archives/2011/01/protips-correct-water-temperature-for-proofing-yeast.html
Girls seems to be having lots of fun while making pizza. This special time, you will remember and cherish through out your life.. pizza is really looking delicious but i was missing grilled steak on it... Hahaha!
I'm sure steak will be on the menu soon :)
@exyle you are a great cook, you should consider doing a cook show on tv , think about that.
haha, thanks, man. I'm not sure about TV, I like the blockchain :)
Really?
It looks like they had so much fun hanging out with their pretty cool Uncle @exyle haha
It seems like you were right when you said that children tend to gravitate towards margarita as kids don't realise the wonders of other toppings and meats :)
Well at least one of them put some ham on haha
For Pizza on a green egg it seems like it turned out extremely well.Nice lovely thin pizza. Just like something straight from an Italian restaurant
I guess the fitness journey will start some other day haha
The plan is to go to the gym today! :)
Fantastic!!! watched 4 mins paused commented and back to video. Brilliant!!!!!
Did you really watch the whole 15 minutes? Wow!
Yes I did. Ask me any question I will answer. :)
The kids love to get stuck in with all the sticky bits and its great to see their faces when they see the food they'd prepared cooked.
I've done lots of cooking with my grand kids.. They always go home with a box full of goodies and a big smile :)