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Hed Chef
Make peace with your man by making pizza
By Hedy Khoo
October 12, 2009
Clothes courtesy of River Island
Location courtesy of kitchen culture at Leng Kee Road
Hair and make-up by Helen Wong from Make Up For Ever Academy (Tel:63330678)
CONTRARY to popular belief, eating pizza is not necessarily a sin.
It isn't one as long as you don't do it while slumped on a couch while watching football.
The only crime would be using processed sliced cheese as a topping. In an un-aired episode of Extreme Food Crimes, a perpetrator was given a sound beating on the posterior with a wooden pizza peel - a shovel-like tool used by bakers to slide pizzas in and out of the oven.
The wonderful thing about pizzas is how versatile they are. You are at liberty to use any topping you like.
You could have a budget pizza or splash out on aged parma ham and Gorgonzola cheese. It is all about improvisation and imagination. You cannot possibly go wrong. And even if you did, it doesn't matter (because I won't be the one eating your pizza).
Beyond nutrition, pizzas provide consolation and comfort for the female who despairs over her fashion-impaired boyfriend. I say 'boyfriend', because by the time he is your husband, you would have given up all hope of improving his dress sense.
While you may not be able to coerce him into wearing the shirt you got him for his birthday, a pizza simply cannot protest against what you choose to put on it.
For those of you who're married, pizzas are a peaceful resolution to the war against hubby's allegiance to the tatty T-shirt bearing his secondary school crest.
Make your husband a pizza. Let him eat in front of the telly. Let him grow a beard. It can be a netting to catch stray crumbs before they hit the couch.
Do not be unduly worried over his sloppy appearance. Just don't be seen in public with him.
Feed him till he expands so much that he cannot fit into his clothes. Then buy him new colour-coordinated clothes - in a bigger size of course.
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PIZZA OF PEACE
INGREDIENTS
--TNP PICTURES: KUA CHEE SIONG, HEDY KHOO
DOUGH
(To be prepared at least eight hours ahead.)
I strongly recommend using a standing mixer with the dough hook attachment unless you want to break an arm.
1 sachet of instant dry yeast
220ml slightly warm water
220ml cold water
1 1/2 tsp sugar
1 tsp salt
2 tbsp olive oil
500g bread flour, sifted. (Unbleached bread flour would be good, but it costs double and it's not as easily available.)
METHOD
1. Add yeast to warm water, stir and allow to stand for five minutes.
2. Put yeast mixture with remaining ingredients into mixing bowl and mix at low speed for about fiveminutes. Keep an eye on the dough as it forms. Stop the mixer and push the dough down with a spatula if it climbs too far up the dough hook.
3. Allow the mixture to rest for two minutes before continuing to mix at low speed for another six to eight minutes.
4. With dry hands, remove dough from mixer and transfer to a work surface well-dusted with flour. Knead the flour into a smooth ball. Dust a little more flour on the dough if it is too sticky to work with. Halve the dough using a dough cutter or large knife. Roll each half into a smooth ball and put in individual large resealable plastic bags, pressing out any excess air in the bag. Leave in fridge and allow to rise for at least eight hours. It would be best to prepare them the night before use.
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INGREDIENTS
PIZZA SAUCE
(Mix the ingredients into a smooth paste.)
1 1/2 tbsp tomato paste
3 tbsp water
1 tsp basil
1 tsp parsley flakes
1 tsp oregano
1/2 tsp crushed red pepper flakes
Sprinkle of black pepper
Pinch of salt (I'd skip this because the topping is pretty salty as it is.)
1/4 tsp sugar
TOPPING
(For a single pizza.)
60g champagne ham slices
3 large button mushrooms
2 stalks spring onion, coarsely chopped
2 stalks Chinese parsley, coarsely chopped
50g grana padano cheese, grated
30g parmesan, grated
METHOD
1. Heat oven at 260 deg C for 20 minutes.
2. Taking one dough ball, place on flour-dusted work surface. Using a rolling pin, roll the dough into a flat round shape. Dust a little flour on the dough if it is toosticky.
3. Lightly grease a perforated pizza pan and place dough on it, stretching it to cover the edges of the pan. Trim excess dough around the edges.
4. Quickly place pizza pan on the middle rack of oven. Allow to bake for 10 minutes, without opening the ovendoor.
5. Remove the pizza and shut the oven door.
6. Spread the pizza sauce over and assemble the topping in whatever way you wish. You may reserve some cheese to sprinkle on the pizza after it's is cooked.
7. Put pizza back in oven for another 10 minutes.
Hed Chef
Make peace with your man by making pizza
By Hedy Khoo
October 12, 2009
Clothes courtesy of River Island
Location courtesy of kitchen culture at Leng Kee Road
Hair and make-up by Helen Wong from Make Up For Ever Academy (Tel:63330678)
CONTRARY to popular belief, eating pizza is not necessarily a sin.
It isn't one as long as you don't do it while slumped on a couch while watching football.
The only crime would be using processed sliced cheese as a topping. In an un-aired episode of Extreme Food Crimes, a perpetrator was given a sound beating on the posterior with a wooden pizza peel - a shovel-like tool used by bakers to slide pizzas in and out of the oven.
The wonderful thing about pizzas is how versatile they are. You are at liberty to use any topping you like.
You could have a budget pizza or splash out on aged parma ham and Gorgonzola cheese. It is all about improvisation and imagination. You cannot possibly go wrong. And even if you did, it doesn't matter (because I won't be the one eating your pizza).
Beyond nutrition, pizzas provide consolation and comfort for the female who despairs over her fashion-impaired boyfriend. I say 'boyfriend', because by the time he is your husband, you would have given up all hope of improving his dress sense.
While you may not be able to coerce him into wearing the shirt you got him for his birthday, a pizza simply cannot protest against what you choose to put on it.
For those of you who're married, pizzas are a peaceful resolution to the war against hubby's allegiance to the tatty T-shirt bearing his secondary school crest.
Make your husband a pizza. Let him eat in front of the telly. Let him grow a beard. It can be a netting to catch stray crumbs before they hit the couch.
Do not be unduly worried over his sloppy appearance. Just don't be seen in public with him.
Feed him till he expands so much that he cannot fit into his clothes. Then buy him new colour-coordinated clothes - in a bigger size of course.
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PIZZA OF PEACE
INGREDIENTS
--TNP PICTURES: KUA CHEE SIONG, HEDY KHOO
DOUGH
(To be prepared at least eight hours ahead.)
I strongly recommend using a standing mixer with the dough hook attachment unless you want to break an arm.
1 sachet of instant dry yeast
220ml slightly warm water
220ml cold water
1 1/2 tsp sugar
1 tsp salt
2 tbsp olive oil
500g bread flour, sifted. (Unbleached bread flour would be good, but it costs double and it's not as easily available.)
METHOD
1. Add yeast to warm water, stir and allow to stand for five minutes.
2. Put yeast mixture with remaining ingredients into mixing bowl and mix at low speed for about fiveminutes. Keep an eye on the dough as it forms. Stop the mixer and push the dough down with a spatula if it climbs too far up the dough hook.
3. Allow the mixture to rest for two minutes before continuing to mix at low speed for another six to eight minutes.
4. With dry hands, remove dough from mixer and transfer to a work surface well-dusted with flour. Knead the flour into a smooth ball. Dust a little more flour on the dough if it is too sticky to work with. Halve the dough using a dough cutter or large knife. Roll each half into a smooth ball and put in individual large resealable plastic bags, pressing out any excess air in the bag. Leave in fridge and allow to rise for at least eight hours. It would be best to prepare them the night before use.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
INGREDIENTS
PIZZA SAUCE
(Mix the ingredients into a smooth paste.)
1 1/2 tbsp tomato paste
3 tbsp water
1 tsp basil
1 tsp parsley flakes
1 tsp oregano
1/2 tsp crushed red pepper flakes
Sprinkle of black pepper
Pinch of salt (I'd skip this because the topping is pretty salty as it is.)
1/4 tsp sugar
TOPPING
(For a single pizza.)
60g champagne ham slices
3 large button mushrooms
2 stalks spring onion, coarsely chopped
2 stalks Chinese parsley, coarsely chopped
50g grana padano cheese, grated
30g parmesan, grated
METHOD
1. Heat oven at 260 deg C for 20 minutes.
2. Taking one dough ball, place on flour-dusted work surface. Using a rolling pin, roll the dough into a flat round shape. Dust a little flour on the dough if it is toosticky.
3. Lightly grease a perforated pizza pan and place dough on it, stretching it to cover the edges of the pan. Trim excess dough around the edges.
4. Quickly place pizza pan on the middle rack of oven. Allow to bake for 10 minutes, without opening the ovendoor.
5. Remove the pizza and shut the oven door.
6. Spread the pizza sauce over and assemble the topping in whatever way you wish. You may reserve some cheese to sprinkle on the pizza after it's is cooked.
7. Put pizza back in oven for another 10 minutes.
