Homemade Pizza Dough
Ingredients:
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1.5 cups warm water
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½ ounce dry active yeast
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2 T. sugar
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¼ c. olive oil
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2 tsp. salt
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4 c. AP flour
Directions: Pour 1.5 cups. warm water into a large bowl, sprinkle with yeast and let
stand until foamy, about 5 minutes. Whisk sugar, oil and salt into yeast
mixture. Add flour and stir (with a dough hook) until a sticky dough forms.
Transfer dough into a greased bogoogle.comwl. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and set aside
in a warm place until dough has doubled, about one hour. Turn out onto a
lightly floured surface and knead 1-2 times before using. Bake at 500℉ on pizza stones.
Simple No Cook Pizza Sauce
Ingredients:
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4 cups San Marzano tomatoes, pureed
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4 large fresh basil leaves chopped
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1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil
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4 cloves thinly sliced garlic
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1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
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1 pinch of sugar
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2-3 pinches of kosher salt
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2-3 grinds of fresh black pepper
Directions: Place tomatoes in a blender or food processor and pulse until desired
consistency. Add the remaining ingredients and stir to combine. Taste for
appropriate seasoning. Use as you would any pizza sauce.
Lamb Chops Sous Vide
(serves 2)
Ingredients:
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1 rack of lamb, cut up to 4 chops
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2 sprigs of rosemary,
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2 cloves of garlic
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1 tablespoon butter
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salt and pepper
Directions: Cut the rack of lamb into four chops. Season the chops with salt and
pepper. Place some rosemary leaves on each chop and a few slices of garlic.
Place two chops in each vacuum bag and place some butter, rosemary and garlic
slices on the other side of the chop. Vacuum seal the bags and submerge them in
the 130℉-water bath to cook for two hours. After the two hours take the vacuum bags
out of the water and remove the lamb chops from the bags. Sear the chops on a
scalding hot pan, about a minute on each side.
