Pizza night

Last night I decided on one of our favourite ‘got to ‘ dishes for a Friday night. Homemade pizza.

This used to make an appearance on our menu at least once a fortnight – and was well overdue.

Normally I make a wheat free crust using rice flour, however I knew I had this box of GF flour in the pantry (with its accompanying pizza base recipe) so figured I would give it a try.

Immediately I was struck by how much of a batter it was, rather than a dough.

I literally poured the mixture onto two lined pizza pans, then let it rest in a warm place for 20 minutes or so.

Looks like a pancake?!

I then placed the pans in the oven for 10 minutes, after which they came out looking a lot more like pizza bases.

Ready to be topped with a variety of vegies and mozzarella.

Starting with basil and tomato sauce.

Followed by sweet potato and red capsicum.

And topped with mushrooms, tomato, pineapple and cheese.

Then baked to pizza perfection…

While the GF base burned quickly on the edges, the flour produced a wonderfully light and fluffy pizza base – something that I have not, before today, been able to recreate. Given that the flour is wheat, dairy and yeast free, and the only addition when making the dough was water, I am quite impressed. Mr BBB also enjoyed the pizza base, which is great as it now means I don’t have to make 2 pizzas (ie. a WF one for me and a ‘normal’ one for him!)

Training:

Well it is Saturday morning, whilst I would like to say that I am having a leisurely brunch with friends, or doing something similarly relaxing, I am about to head out on my longest run ever……

15 kms!

Wish me luck! I can’t believe that there is only two weeks until the half marathon eek.

Happy baking :)