Hello everyone!
I can't believe that I have left so long not to update my blog. I have been concentrating mostly in my placement at Make Piece, and it has taken a lot of my time. Also I couldn't think of anything to write, that would have been more important than the
photoshoot we did. I thought it would be important what comes first when you open my blog. But problem solved, I have now done an online portfolio, that I can just put the important pictures and they will stay there. Here is the address for that:
www.cargocollective.com/valpurivihriala.
I just had a little think and it seems that I have a lot to catch up on with the blog. There has been quite a few things going on lately and they are all very exciting, so of course I must share these things with you. Anyhow I decided to start this blog shooting lightly. I would like to quote my dear friend
Suvi, who quotes her dear friend Jack N: " All work and no play makes a Jack a dull boy". So this post will be a little bit about other stuff than just knitting or work. We get to the serious stuff again in the next post, when I have warmed up a little bit for this writing.
The thing that I wanted to share with you all, is something that me and
Riku made together. Something beautiful, big and using the great force of nature. We made a
Pizza!
I try to keep my
Sundays free, when I am free to sleep how ever late I want, and do whatever I want and eat whatever I want. I really like cooking, but
I'm often too tired for that after work. But Sundays I like to make a bit of effort for the cooking, it's just something that is good to do together. Though often my vision of what I want to cook is so specific that I hardly let anybody help me, but I am working towards a better, non-control freak me. So last
Sunday me and Richard decided to make a pizza as there was loads of stuff in the fridge that needed eaten. Also I often have frozen fresh yeast in the freezer. I have tried to bake pizzas with dried yeast- it doesn't work out for me. All and all I don't think my pizza making skills are the same than they were when I lived in Finland. I have tried to think why that is. Is it the oven trays? Is the water? Is the yeast and flower? i don't understand it. But anyway, these pizzas were delicious.
This is how I make a nice pizza dough:
fresh yeast, use about a size of half a golf ball (I buy mine from
Barbakan,
Chorlton, it only lives for one day, but you can freeze the rest)
hot water (2
dl about)
Oil
Salt
Plain flower
Melt the yeast in the water, add salt and oil, then start adding flour and keep mixing and adding until the dough don't stick on your hands anymore. I suggest you only use one hand that you mix in the dough, otherwise you are in trouble if you try to do anything else in the middle, like answer the phone, open the door or finding a knife from the drawer that you can keep scraping the dough of from your hand. So yeah, it's well easy. Then you spread the dough in the oven trays, keep pushing it with your fingers gradually over the oven trays and be careful not to make holes. I tend to do mine really thin crust, but you can do yours however you want. If you even going to make a pizza.
We got about three trays of pizza from the dough I made, so we decided to make one and a half each, was great fun!
Riku is putting courgettes on the pizza.
My pizza had: onion,garlic, pesto, cherry tomatoes, peppers, mushrooms, olives, courgette, feta cheese and
emmental cheese
Riku's pizza had: ham, mushrooms, peppers, danish salami, spinach and cheese.
I also made well nice chopped tomatoes and fresh herbs and garlic mix for the tomato base. Oh my god I am hungry now, why did I choose to make this blog before I have even had breakfast?
Riku wants to already eat the pizzas, but you can't yet
Riku, they need to be baked in the oven first!
Now
Riku can eat the pizza, Look how happy he is!
So that me sharing about my
sundays. Next post will be a bit more about work again I promise!
V
