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This is a effortless recipe for a delicious home-made cheese and tomato pizza. The main work is in the dough preparation but get this right and the result is wonderful.

Pizza Dough Ingredients:

• 1tsp – salt
• Warm water 120ml
• Olive oil 1tsp
• White Flour 225g
• Yeast 1tsp
• 1/2tsp – sugar

Pizza Topping Ingredients:

• 125g – Buffalo mozzarella cheese
• 4tbsp – Tomato Puree
• 1tsp – dried oregano
• salt, pepper

To Make Your Pizza Dough:

1) Sift the flour and salt into a mixing bowl and add the yeast and the sugar. Combine and cread a dough with a central space for adding oil and water.

2) Adding the oil and water, blend together with your hands.
Add additional flour and water if required.

3) When the dough mixture is kind of firm and no remnants are left on the sides of the mixing bowl, you have finished.

4) Knead the dough on a dry floury surface until it has a smooth and stretchy texture.

5) Allow the dough to raise, this should be in something like an hour. It helps to lightly oil a bowl and also the surface of your dough, wrap it in a clean dry cloth and leave in the bowl.

6) The dough will rise to about double its initial size.

7) Return the dough to a floured surface and knead for a few more minutes.

Stretch out the dough to make a circle. Decide the desired thickness of the pizza base.

Place the dough on a non-stick baking sheet and brush with olive oil. Pre-heat your oven to 220 degrees Celcius. Spread the tomato sauce evenly over the pizza base. Now scatter the mozzarella around the pizza evenly and sprinkle with salt, pepper and oregano. Add a drizzle of olive oil. Place on the top shelf of the oven and cook for around 15 minutes, or until the cheese has melted and the base is firm. If required add your own choice of extra toppings. Remember to ensure any meat used has been previously cooked. Then return to the oven for a further 4-seven minutes.

You can add your own personal choice of additional meat, fish or vegatables.

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From Business Week

Having crashed his auto into the side of the Biscuits N Gravy restaurant, 92 year old Charles Pierce then had breakfast in the restaurant. Investigators think he confused the accelerator pedal for the break!

Ref: www. wesh.com/news/22157235/detail.html

Having rammed his car into the wall of the Biscuits N Gravy eatery, Charles Pierce, 92 then wandered in and ate his breakfast. He probably pushed the accelerator instead of the break, according to crash investigators!!

Ref: www. wesh.com/news/22157235/detail.html

Countertop ovens are a contemporary and convenient development of the stove-top oven. Countertop ovens possess quite a lot of benefits over stove type ovens, including space saving and fuel efficiency due to enhanced and more modern design.

A high-quality countertop oven will have several functions such as warming, baking, broiling and toasting. Many countertop ovens will power-down after a set time due to an on-board timer system. This improves energy economy and safety.

Most countertop ovens fit a medium-to-large pizza tray or a large baking tray. So although this category of oven is economical in size, it is by no means too small to utilize for preparing your favourite meals.

When purchasing a countertop oven you ought to be looking out for one that comes with all the correct apparatus. It should be fitted with a crumb tray, pizza tray, baking tray, broil grid, a rack and handle.

Countertop ovens also come as convection ovens. Convection ovens contain a fan which circulates hot air within the oven.

It is suggested that when using a convection oven food should be cooked twenty degrees C cooler and that the food is checked about ten minutes earlier than when cooking with regular oven.

There are noticeable advantages to using a countertop oven, both monetary and economical. For example:

• Cooking time is reduced, often reduced by as much as 35%, which saves you money.
• It also saves on space in the kitchen allowing you to potentially re-vamp your kitchen.
• The countertop oven just about eliminates the need of a conventional cooking stove and so also reduces the number of of used cooking pans after cooking.
• The oven interior is easy to clean due to the removable racks and the fitted glass door.

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From: www. nytimes.com

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