Sunday, May 29, 2022

Jesse's Pizza Dough

 

Trying to figure out what kind of pizza dough will work in our pizza oven. Jesse recommended this recipe adapted from pizza heaven.

This will make 6 11-12 inch Neapolitan pizzas:

  • 1kg or 1 bag Tipo 00 flour 
  • 622 ml cool water 
  • 25.9 g of fine sea salt 
  •  1.13 g of active dry yeast 

Use a large mixing bowl.

Mix water and salt.
Add 10% of the flour and mix with a wooden spoon until smooth
Add yeast stir until dissolved
Gradually add the rest of the flour while mixing

Put dough onto counter and knead for 15-20 minutes
Leave uncovered for 15-30 minutes

Fold the dough over a few times making a smooth round dough ball.

Place in an airtight container and let rise for 14 hours.


Happy Eating!

https://thepizzaheaven.com/authentic-neapolitan-pizza-dough-recipe/


Ingredients for Authentic Neapolitan Pizza Dough

Authentic Neapolitan pizza dough consists of only 4 simple ingredients: flour, water, salt, and yeast. And to get the best result, make sure you use quality ingredients.

This will make 6 11-12 inch Neapolitan pizzas:

  • 922g Tipo 00 flour (100%)
  • 553ml cool water (60%)
  • 23g of fine sea salt (3%)
  • 1g of fresh yeast (0.1%) or 0.28g of active dry yeast (0.03%)

What you’ll need to make Authentic Neapolitan pizza

Here are a few things you need to make Neapolitan pizza:

  • mixing bowl
  • kitchen scale (preferable an accurate 0.01g scale) to measure ingredients
  • proofing box (or alternatively small air-tight containers that can hold one pizza dough ball each)
  • A pizza peel to transfer the pizza in and out of the oven
  • pizza oven (alternatively a pizza stone or steel – but heat is key!)
  • (optional) A dough scraper or spatula to handle the dough
  • (optional) An infrared thermometer to check the temperature of your oven

You’ll also need Neapolitan pizza saucecheese, and toppings for the pizza.

Sunday, May 08, 2022

 



Kumquat Upside Down Cake 
  •  total time: 1 hours 50 minutes
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  • INGREDIENTs

      • 1 tsp. vanilla
    • ½ tsp. salt
    • Caramel Topping
    • 1½ lbs. kumquats, halved and deseeded
      1 stick (4 oz)  unsalted butter
      ¾ cup light brown sugar (I used 1/2)
      3 Tbs honey
      ½ tsp. vanilla
      ½ tsp. salt
      Handful of blueberries

      Cake Batter
    • 1 1/3 cup sugar 
    • 1 1/3 cup flour
      1½ tsp. baking powder
      ¾ tsp. salt (more like a pinch
      1 cup (8 oz) softened butter
      1 1/3 cup sugar (just over a cup)
      5 room temp. eggs
      1 tsp. vanilla 

    INSTRUCTIONS

    1. Preheat the oven to 335ºF.
    2. Melt butter pan.
      Add brown sugar/ stir Remove from heat. Add vanilla, honey and salt, and stir to combine.
      Put in 9x12 pan
    3. Add the fruit to caramel mixture — fit as much as you can inside. 
    4. Make the batter: Put softened butter and sugar in a large bowl and beat until fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating on high. Add vanilla.
    5. In a separate bowl, sift together dry ingredients.
      Add to wet ingredients until combined.
    6. Carefully spoon or pour batter over kumquats, taking caution not to disturb the fruit. Carefully smooth the batter.
    7. Place cake in oven on the middle rack. Bake for about 1 hour, checking after 45 minutes. Test the cake with a toothpick, making sure it is cooked in the middle. Take a butter knife and loosen edges along the pan. Put cake on a wire rack and let it cool for about 30 minutes.
    8. Put a large platter face down over cast iron pan and flip cake
      I am also considering dripping dark chocolate over it. MMMMM
    • Adapted from https://alexandracooks.com/2009/06/03/kumquat-upside-down-cake/