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Here is an easy recipe for a delicious home-made cheese and tomato pizza. The main work is in the dough preparation but if this is done correctly the results are super tasty.

For the pizza dough you will need:

• 1tsp - salt
• 120ml - warm water
• Olive oil 1tsp
• 225g - white flour
• Yeast 1tsp
• 1/2tsp - sugar

For the pizza topping you will need:

• 125g - Buffalo mozzarella cheese
• 4tbsp - Tomato Puree
• 1tsp - dried oregano
• salt and pepper to taste

To Make The 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) Add the water and olive oil to the small hole and mix well with your hands while bringing the ingrediants together to make a small ball.
Add extra flour and water if required.

3) Continue this motion for about three minutes or until the mix is one ball and the bowl is comparatively clean.

4) Move the dough to a floured surface and continue to knead until the dough becomes smooth and elastic.

5) Allow the dough to raise, which should take roughly 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 more or less double its initial size.

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

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

Place your dough on a non-stick baking sheet and brush with olive oil. Pre-heat the oven to 220 degrees Celcius. Spread your tomato sauce evenly over your pizza base. Now scatter the mozzarella around the pizza evenly and sprinkle with salt, pepper and oregano. Drizzle with olive oil. Place on the top shelf of your oven and cook for around 15 minutes, or until the cheese has melted and the base is crispy. If required add your own choice of extra toppings. Remember to ensure any meat used has been previously cooked. Then return to your oven for a further 4-7 minutes.

Feel free to add ingredients to the topping, e.g. meat, vegetables or fish.

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A good countertop oven will have several functions for example heating, baking, broiling and toasting. Many countertop ovens will power-down following a set time because of an in-built timer function. This improves energy saving and safety.

Even if the countertop oven is small it is not necessarily too small to cook your favourite dishes. Most have room for a big baking plate or a pizza tray and most countertop ovens also have two levels.

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It is suggested that when working with a convection oven food should be cooked 20 degrees C cooler and that the food is checked in the region of ten minutes earlier than when using a standard oven.

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Ref: www. nytimes.com

Sometimes as a man I need a bit of help with cooking. I'm not that I'm bad at cooking, but I just need encouragement now and then. I was looking for some cooking tips and came across the following list. It's a small list but with any luck it will be useful.

Some of the tips are oven related. A wide array of types of oven exist. For example restaurant wall ovens are a sort of restaurant oven. A particular style might be the deck oven which is normally used for cooking food such as bread and pizza. The oven mentioned below is just a simple kitchen oven.

Cooking Tips - I trust you find them practical.

• You can sweeten food by using carrots instead of a sauce.
• During roasting meat the pot juices should be set aside for the gravy.
• Prepare in ample of time - it will save much pressure.
• Lightly simmer broccoli for a few minutes - never much longer, unless you want squelchy broccoli.
• Do you wash mushrooms with running water? Avoid this since the mushrooms will take in the water. Instead clean them with a damp cloth. Make sure you get rid of all the loam.
• One should make certain that their kitchen has a decent potato ricer.
• A salad can be made to look more appealing by using intense or dark colors, such as red leaves or beetroot slices.
• Avoid soggy lettuce with a salad spinner - drooping leaves look terrible.
• The best type of vegetable steamer is one is able to fold and sit inside a saucepan.
• If you do not have fresh Rosemary, replace it with dried: a teaspoon of dried leaves can substituted for a tablespoon of fresh leaves.
• In order that the juices within a roasting joint and prevent the meat from drying-out, ensure you pre-heat the oven before you cook. This sear the exterior of the meat.
• Always make use of a pan that is large enough - a bit bigger is far better than too small.
• When making soup from vegetables take into account using a hand blender because this way you do not have to take the food to the food processor.
• Do not use a fork to turn steaks. Use instead tongs and a spatula.
• Wine that the cook would not drink should not be use to cook.

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Reference: Deck Oven Suppliers .

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