Too much pizza…a satisfied selfie.
Donc, mama and papa have just visited the Hokusai exhibit here in Rome and oh, boy, was that a treat for me…even kitties in his woodcuts and everything so precise and amazing. What an artist. But the fun part is the roon with videos of his famous ‘WAVE’, which you can enter and feel that your body is actually part of the water and sea and the giant wave!
I sidestepped that one…he understands who understands, a phrase in Italian that about covers it.
Happy Sunday to all…brilliant sun here, which papa is seeing with new eyes, and a grandkid’s soccer match later on and then the search for good pizza. Even Italians are complaining about the lack of….
Mama is getting some dough ready, just in case.
2 cups water
1 package dry yeast
1 teaspoon salt
4 cups all-purpose flour
Mix it all up into a smooth ball and place in olive-oiled bowl to rise.
Stretch out risen dough on oiled sheet pan and roll or stretch very thin..
Place somewhere warm to rise just a little while you assemble tomato sauce, mozzarella (preferably fresh), fresh basil, and for us, anchovies to put on top of the tomato sauce.
Heat oven to highest temp.
Spread the tomato sauce thin, do not pile it on, distribute 6 or 8 anchovies on top and bake for 6-7 minutes until edges are browned. Then add the cheese and bake again for 3-4 minutes.
Adding the cheese after the pizza is on its way will keep the cheese from turning to rubber!
Remove from oven when all edges are browne well and cheese is melted.
Decorate with fresh basil leaves, if you have them.
You may also bake in a round pan if you wish.
How wonderful a exhibition visit. And what a lovely looking treat for later on. It looks almost as good as your selfie, Loulou.
Have a wonderful week
ERin
Awwww…Merci, you are so kind…
Awwww…Merci, you are so kind…
We can imagine that you are satsfied in your Selfie, after such a delicious pizza, sweet Angel LouLou😻Double Pawkisses for a Happy Day to you and your mommy too🐾😘💞
Merci, cutie pies, and I used to get a piece of the mozzarella….nummy nums. Up here I can have it anytime, haha.
That pizza looks delicious!
It is, it is and easy at home!
Oh yum your mama’s pizza looks amazeballs, Loulou! Happy Sunday.
Try it, you will love it.
Your pizza(s) have my mouth watering!
Wish we could send it around the world.
How wonderful a exhibition visit. And what a lovely looking treat for later on. It looks almost as good as your selfie, Loulou.
Have a wonderful week
ERin
The exhibit sounds amazing and so does your mama’s pizza. It’s sad not to be able to get good pizza at a restaurant there.
THEY FOUND ONE, just around the corner…an old standby that was sold and resumed making pizza in a wood oven!
We were already impressed by today’s writing and then we got to the part about anchovies ! Perfecto !
Awww….merci, Ms Mary. Pizza Napoletana it is called, with anchovies. Papa loves his that way but mama just wants lots of basil.
That looks so good. Thank you for the recipe. XO
Let us know if you make one. The girls could do it easily…put a little olive oil in the dough, I think mama forgot to mention that.
YUM! Boy do I ever miss having pizza!!!
Brian’s Home ~ Forever
You can have it at home so easily. Do you have a good food processor? Don’t even need one, just mix up the dough and let it rise to double. If you need a bit more flour, fine, then press it very thin on a bake sheet, spread with tomato sauce, sprinkle you favorite mozzarella over it (we like fresh) and bake in in the oven turned to the hottest you have. In America, it’s 400 or so. You will find this easy and can have it anytime you wish. Just don’t overword the dough and do not knead it sticky. Add a bit more flour when you knead it into a ball to rise.
That sounds like a fascinating exhibition, LouLou!
Donc, it was absolutely mind-bending, mama said. She went back with a friend to see the second part, which she and papa missed because there was so much to see they had to take a break, and the second part was even more overwhelming and beautiful. The woodcuts were larger and there was a room devoted to ghosts and phantoms and videos of the subjects in the woodcuts were thrown upon the walls, huge images of the small original woodcut. Just amazing. Mama will try to find a video of the expo.