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Rose was hungry this afternoon and Sneetch had eaten the last two slices of pineapple pizza.  She was very disappointed so I suggested we make some and could go to the supermarket to buy bread to make pizza with.  She refused and requested that I make flat bread.  Thinking about it later I realised that the pizza was one of my slow food recipes and I had to share.

To make flat bread pineapple pizza;

7 days early - buy pineapple and leave in fruit bowl.  Occasionally look at it and think, "I should cut that up so people will eat it".
4 days early - tip out the previous batch of ignored sourdough starter and refresh with new flour and water.  Look at it 24 hours later and think, "I should either make bread or refresh that starter.
On the day - chop the mouldy and brown bits off the pineapple and put in the fridge.
Scrape the black tinged bits off the top of the starter and put in the compost.  Use 1/2 cup of remaining starter and 1/2 cup flour to make dough.  Leave for 10min then divide into 4 and roll out flat.  Cook both sides in the cast iron pan.
Put bread onto griller, spread with tomato paste from the back of the fridge (scrape white mould from the top of the jar and put into compost, make sure none of the eaters notice.  Only take non-mouldy paste from jar.)  Chop pineapple bits smaller and add to pizza.  Sprinkle grated cheese on top (reject the mouldy cheese, but leave in fridge because it might be useful for something else).  Grill until brown and feed to man and small child.
mrsbrown: (domestic goddess)
Wot I have done in the past two hours - only the online-y stuff;

I've moved my sourdough starter to this phase - http://www.io.com/~sjohn/sour.htm  It's making me think that we should change our approach to bread at Festival.  When we use up a large sponge to make bread we should make the next days sponge at the same time.  Then bread making becomes; mix and knead bread dough/ make sponge for next day, knock down and shape, cook, repeat the next day.   Removing one of the steps will make it easier fto do each day.

I need to keep track of this page too - http://sourdough.com/forum/recipes.  This recipe looks particularly good - http://sourdough.com/forum/topic/120.  Although I also like the idea of chappatti - http://sourdough.com/forum/sourdough-chapatis-using-starter-toss-out

I also noted this change to regulations about cutting trees around the house.  It might change some of the equations about buying land.

I got my tax refund yesterday.  Now to work out what to spend it on.  Credit card reduction? New car seat for Rose?  New stove?

Now, because we're shaped (with no reprieve for 6 days, unless I crack and upgrade), I'm going to design my house.



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