Credit where it's due

  Don't get taken in by the apparent innocence of the two monsters below. They're a handful, but despite that I still managed to impose my enthusiastic encouragement upon them and achieved some amazing results. If you look closely, you can see them involved in some sort of cover up, surreptitiously eating the evidence.

  Through some clerical manoeuvring I'm related to them, so was called on to make sure they not only got lunch, but got involved in the production of it as well. The source of the original idea is not clear but somehow we found ourselves on a crash course towards pizza. If memory serves, they were quite enthusiastic. Who'd have thought it?

  I had nipped out to the shops for supplies leaving the wrangler-in-chief managing the beasts and preparing the dough. When I returned... Well, let's just say I've known yeast to more to show a bit more enthusiasm. Fortunately this is pizza so it doesn't matter. As a quick refresher, as long as the oven is on full volume and the dough is thin, you'll love the results.

  Other tips include using loads of flour everywhere to stop the dough sticking and treat yourself to a pizza stone. Of course, the toppings should be prepped in advance so once the dough is rolled out and (if you don't have a pizza stone) transferred to well floured piece of tin foil, you can add the toppings and get that sucker on the preheated oven tray and into the oven, pronto. If the oven's hot, the pizza's done in about seven minutes but let it cool before you tuck in as it will be scorching.

  For maximum hilarity, the small one had decided he didn't like any of the ingredients on the first one he saw being prepared. 'Special' ingredients were organised while it was in the the oven but as soon as he saw and smelled the finished article he had a sudden bout of amnesia and couldn't get enough of it. Quite astonishing.

  

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Kirk out

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