Mar 7, 2008
The girl and I were starving and couldn’t be bothered cooking, which can only lead to one conclusion - eat out! Loong Fong restaurant was the destination, a small-ish chinese place near by.
We had:
- Dim sims - crap. Meat was harder than acceptable and still had that strong pork smell/taste. Shame on you for serving us such rubbish!
- Chicken satays with peanut sauce - The sauce didn’t taste like peanut at all, not sure what the flavour was but it sure tasted great. Chicken was nice and hot with crispy outer.
- Pumpkin soup - Different to pumpkin soups I’ve had in the past, but nice nonetheless. I’m a big fan of pumpkin.
- Hot and sour soup - The girl had this one, it looked tempting with about a billion different ingredients crammed in there. It was alright I guess, the ’sour’ part didn’t really do it for me.
- Chinese mushrooms and vegetable stir fry - As to be expected. If you screw this up then you don’t belong in the kitchen.
- Crispy skin chicken - My favourite, very nice tender chicken and crispy to the max skin. Yum.
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loong fong,
pumkin,
satay,
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Mar 1, 2008
I had a craving for some mighty fine pizza and what better way to get it than to make it yourself! I couldn’t get the cheese to brown like they do at Pizza King though, maybe I’ll grill it next time instead of putting it in the oven. This pizza you see here has tomato paste, pepperoni, tomato, mushrooms, onion, basil leaves, bacon, pizza mix cheese, parmesan cheese, oregano and chilli flakes. I ate the whole thing to myself over the course of the day. Yum!
Preparation time: 1 hour, allow time for preparing pizza toppings.
Cooking time: 15 minutes
Serves: 3-4
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups of water
- 2 packs dry yeast (7-8 grams or 1/4 ounces)
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 4 cups flour (approx)
- olive oil
Method
- Coat large bowl with olive oil and set aside.
- Stir wate, yeast and sugar together. Let sit for 10 minutes so the yeast can do its thing.
- Place 3 cups of flour in a large bowl and mix in salt.
- Cover work surface with a cup of flour.
- Mix/Pour olive 3-4tsp olive oil into yeast mixture and then pour into bowl with flour.
- Stir until combined as much as possible then pour onto floured work surface.
- Flour your hands and knead the dough untila smooth ball is formed. You may beed to add more flour as you go. This maya while (5-10 mins) depending on how awesome your kneading skills are.
- Place dough into the oiled bowl, cover with cling wrap and then a kitchen towl. Let sit for 30 minutes.
- Dough shoud have at least doubled in size by now, take the wrapping off and “punch” the dough down till its flatter. Let sit for another 30 minutes or so. The longer the you leave it the better it will be…suppossedly.
- Use half the dough to form the pizza base, flattening it out on a pizza tray. Brush edges with olive oil.
- Add spread tomato paste on and desired toppings and cook for approximately 15 minutes in the oven at 200 - 220 degrees celcius.
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