Monday, January 21, 2008

Hay Hay its Donna Hay # 17

We love Donna Hay, well, at least the photos in her cookbooks and the magazines we buy. They are truly a piece of art to look at, and to drool over. Have yet to try out the recipes.

So, I was pretty excited when I saw this event listed on one of my favorite blogs and fellow Daring Baker, 80 Breakfasts. We were going to some friend's house for a pizza/kid party last Saturday night so this was the perfect opportunity to try out Donna's pizza recipe.

Don't let homemade pizza dough intimidate you. It has to be one of the easiest things to make. I even made some extra for the freezer. In keeping with the theme of the event we made a couple of the Class Tomato pizza as well as a favorite for the kids - pepperoni. We also made a fennel and spicy Italian Sausage, before putting the cornmeal on the stone we mixed some garlic salt into it. This was our favorite!

You should definitely add this to your recipe box as a favorite. The crust was fantastic, crisp and flavorful and not chewy and you can get as creative as you want with toppings! You will be seeing this over at Chez, very often in 2008!

6 comments:

Cakespy said...

Oh lord this looks good. My mom and I always used to make pizza dough with cornmeal...memories. I wouldn't have thought of premixing garlic salt into it, although duh--garlic makes everything better! Mm.

Anonymous said...

Your crust came out perfect! Love how crisp it looks :) Glad you enjoyed this and thanks for joining HHDD! :)

Unknown said...

great looking pizza!!

Barbara said...

It looked fabulous before you cooked it. Thanks for joing HHDD.

Chez Us said...

Thank you for all stopping by. Yes, we loved this event - hope to do more! Great recipe!

Anonymous said...

Hi there, I am so inspired by the HHDH, i am organising one too, and I was wondering if you would be keen to take part too....

Here's the link http://vanessafrida.livejournal.com/202333.html