Pizza, Focaccia, Salad

I really do like making homemade pizza. Favourite topping is definitely roasted pepper, chorizo, mozz, tomato sauce, rocket.
I made the tomato sauce this time - nice and garlicky. Sauted some red onion, garlic. Added tinned tomatoes. Seasoned. Blitzed.
The pizza dough was very wet today, and it was harder to get it crispy (at my oven's temperatures). Last time I remember making it drier on purpose and it worked a lot better. River Cafe recommend making it wet, so that it makes it crispier when baked - but maybe that only works with really hot pizza ovens?
Anyway - it was still tasty.
And I made some focaccia - just because its nice. As it turned out, we ate it for a few days following. Very gratefully received.

Pizzas! fennel lemon salad

Pizzas are always a bit of an excitement. The dough is just so lovely when super fresh.
I made two types -
 - Tomato, mozzerella, chorizo, roasted pepper, basil.
 - Tomato, pecorino, mozzerella, salami, rocket

The dough was from River Cafe (as before) and includes rye flour - which gives great flavour.
The ones with roasted peppers were exceptionally delicious. The sweetness alongside the chorizo was very good.

I also made a fennel salad alongside to cut through the pizza sweetness and saltiness: with very very finely sliced fennel, lemon juice, olive oil, seasoning. Sharp, cutting - just what I wanted.

Pizza!

I decided to have a go at pizza dough. And asked matt what topping to do - the answer: rocket and proscuitto, and goats cheese and oven roasted tomatoes. Good answer.
So - made the dough, and it all passed pretty much without incident. Shock.
The tricky bit was getting the dough cooked. I failed to heat the baking trays which was a mistake. Ideally I'd have a slab of granite, but that's a long way off.  The bases need a lot of heat.
The end result was super tasty. I made two. Matt and I had one each :)