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The stuffed crust of deep joy October 16, 2008

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As pafrt of my mission to include cheese in EVERYTHING I EAT, I recently turned my handto making my own stuffed crust pizza. I make my own pizza bases quite often – I love baking bread, and still find it immensely satisfying to eat something that I know I made entirely myself.

Start with a basic pizza base recipe, such as this one from Anthony Worral Thompson. I like deep pan pizza, and so usually make mine thicker than he suggests. Once you’ve got your dough all nice and circular, sprinkle a thick line of grated cheese (I used a mixture of cheddar and mozzarella, but it would work with most cheeses) along the whole circumference, about an inch from the edge. Then – carefully! – fold the dough over the line of grated cheese, pressing it down at the join so that it stays put. It’s quite tricky and a bit messy but you’ll get there eventually [grin]

 

TEH CHEEEEZEZ! April 22, 2008

I have a friend called Elise who is by all accounts a much better cook than I am, and going round to hers for dinner is always a joy. I was there just last week and was served with a delicious recipe of Delia’s for Spinach and Ricotta Lasagne with Pine Nuts. I don’t claim that any of my food writing is to be all that intelligent as mostly what I was thinking was ‘MMMMM OMG CHEEESE!’. It was really very good indeed.

Oh, and this weekend I baked! Gooey chocolate brownies and a batch of biscuits shaped like Daleks. I took them to a party and they went down extremely well.