I just had a tiring night of kneading and baking and chopping and my share of kusuting for i have never attempted making pizza from scratch before. It was like an excercise, ill be damned if i get ASTHMA tonight!! he-he.

I was saying to my mom how sick i am of eating out and asked if she could give me a decent amount of cash to go grocery shopping with so that i could start cooking again. I seldom cook on my holidays back to Brunei for obvious reasons such as

1. why cook when you have maids preparing the conventional ‘lauk rabus’ for breakfast, lunch, dinner?
2. eating out is cheap..unlesss ure paying $5.50 for a glass of GINA MANGO JUICE.

but it gets to a point where you’re just sick and muak of what they’re serving you out there that you finally feel the KNEAD (pun intended) to have a home cooked meal. So off to supasave i went to get the ingredients that ill be needing for tonight’s dinner.

The reason why i never made pizza bases from scratch before is because the recipe usually calls for ‘yeast’ hehehe you all know how crap i am when it comes to baking, i dont know why but the term BAKING just doesnt seem to register in neither my LEFT or RIGHT brain. So quite often i wouldn’t bother with recipes that requires alot of BAKING and TAPONG and EGgs & YEAST … in my head it all sounds like form 5 punya A-MATHS. Membari paning. However, i was up last night surfing food blogs and found a post that had illustrations on how to KNEAD A PIZZA DOUGH.. it seemed easy enough and by the 8th step (which was a picture of the end product with toppings and everything) my mouth was already watering and i started tossing and turning in my bed..so i thought WHY NOT?

After much fussing around to whether i had put too much yeast or there lack of.. i surprised my self when i saw the dough rising after an hour. I surprised my self further when i realised that i had managed to roll the dough out in to perfect ROUNDS.

huhu. I thought id make the pizza abit more decadent by adding spinach and portabello mushrooms. i found these amazing portabello mushrooms tadi at supasave.. $2 bucks for 3 pieces heh i thought to myself THESE BETTER BE GOOD and what do u know ..they were!!! and the sauce was made from scratch pun.

before it went in to the oven.

Generous amount of cheese bubbling in the oven.

How it looked like OUTSIDE the oven!!!!!!!!!!!!

Aziz enjoying his FIRST piece. I made two batches by the way, just incase people got hungry..and made mini pizzas with the remaining dough for my brother who only eats cheese and tomato.

Rahim’s Batch.

this isn’t a really good photo, i know. haha tapi by this batch my hands were literally shaking from kneading & rolling that i wsn’t really bothered anymore. huhu.

loveeed how it looked. I went all VAIN POT on my pizza..huhuhu..i just thought it looked restaurant worthy..but thats just me la..

haha anyway, its 2 in the morning. time for me to hit the sack. huhu i need to RECUPERATE.

oh oh before i forget.. i also made my version of the Spaghettini Agli-Oglio recipe, with the left over mushrooms,olive oil, parsely, black pepper and lots and lots of garlic ..and ofcourse chicken stock. The mushrooms turned the dish a little bit black..huhu it resembled squid ink pasta (siasapun) ..but just like everything else, the oglio was lovely pun..huhuhu..awu angkat bakul sendiri, baik tah puji diri sendiri, menunggu urang memuji DOI LAMA LAGI.

kiss me.