Hungry for . . . Pizza
Fun Facts
- Origins of pizza date back to ancient times; Greeks and Egyptians enjoyed!
- The word PIZZA was first documented around 997 AD in Gaeta, Italy.
- The Hawaiian Pizza was invented in Canada in 1962 by Sam Panopoulos, a native of Greece, living in Ontario and tired of the ‘same old’ toppings to put on pizza.
- The biggest pizza, with a total surface of 13,580.28 ft² was prepared by Dovilio Nardi, Andrea Mannocchi, Marco Nardi, Matteo Nardi and Matteo Giannotte in Rome, Italy, on 13 December 2012. Guinness was there to document the massive pie!
International Pizza Day
2nd Saturday in February
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- Over 5 billion pizzas are sold worldwide each year.
- Most pizza is confused on Saturday. What are you have eating on Saturday?
- Most popular pizza topping is pepperoni. What’s your favourite topping?
Send us your pizza preference and if we can, we’ll add it to the list.
cultural preferences
Favourite Canadian Toppings
- tomato sauce
- mozzarrella cheese
- bacon
- pepperoni
- mushrooms
- eggs
- raisins or currants
- black olives
- rocoto peppers
- cumin
Favourite French Toppings:
- tomato sauce
- mozza cheese
- bacon
- pepperoni
- mushrooms
Ghanian Toppings:
- green peppers
- onions
- mozza cheese
- processed meat
cast iron frying pan pizza
thin crust
Step One: Buy or make pizza dough
Step Two: Prepare your toppings
Step Three: Let pizza dough rise aka proof
Step Four: Add 1 tbsp olive oil to frying pad then dust pan with cornmeal (prevent sticking). Add salt, pepper and oregano or other italian season you like to pan
Step Five: With oily hands and assisted by gravity, stretch pizza dough to fit in frying pan
Step Six: Turn stove top burner to medium heat and broiler to high
Step Six: Prep pizza dough with tomato sauce and prepared toppings. Complete this step within five minutes as your pizza dough is cooking and your pan is getting hot.
Note:
Mind you handle does not get hot. Remember to use oven mitts when cooking.
Step Seven: Once topped put into the oven (above you already turned the oven broiler on). Let cook for 5 – 7 minutes. Keep an eye on your pizza, when cheese is bubbling and crust edge is brown it is time to take out. REMEMBER it is hot. Put your oven mitts on!
Bloom is used to test the yeast, especially if yeast has been stored for some time. Blooming is also the process whereby active dry yeast is made ready to be used in a recipe. Blooming is not necessary when using fresh yeast and instant yeast.
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