General Pizza tips & Quick Questions

little_lil

jay-jay,

i will be more than happy to keep you updated on my soggy bottom :eek:

Callisto

Haven't made pizza for ages, but when I do, I use a scone dough, favourite toppings are ham, pineapple and salami.

Also french bread pizza is nice and really quick, just cut off length of french bread required, add toppings and put under grill until cheese has melted. Yum

Cullumpster

My fave pizza topping is BBQ chicken.

Just buy a checp or reduced tin or tub of BBQ sauce, use your chicken from your roast dinner shove on some onions/pepers etc slap the chicken in the sauce and give it a good stir, bung it on the pizza.

Shove it in the oven Yummy

AussieLass

Would anybody have any suggestions how to make a HM BBQ sauce for a pizza. When we have bought pizza's in the past at Dominoes we always ask for bbq sauce. Were not keen on the tomatoe base. Tried just mixing tomato puree & some bottled bbq sauce, it was ok but nothing like what they use. I should ask if I can buy some. Thanks

squeaky

AussieLass wrote:

Would anybody have any suggestions how to make a HM BBQ sauce for a pizza. When we have bought pizza's in the past at Dominoes we always ask for bbq sauce. Were not keen on the tomatoe base. Tried just mixing tomato puree & some bottled bbq sauce, it was ok but nothing like what they use. I should ask if I can buy some. Thanks

I think I've seen some recipes offered in the various barbecue threads. There are a couple or three such threads listed in the Cooking section of the MEGA Index and it's made me think because I reckon that the sauce for the chilli and ginger chicken in the Recipe Collection might work out quite well too! Hm...

RowaN

£4 good value? You can buy 2x ready made chicago town pizza (full sizee ones) for £3.. and thats in Waitrose.. the priceyist supermarket ever. How is homemade pizza money saving?

Curry_Queen

RowaN wrote:

£4 good value? You can buy 2x ready made chicago town pizza (full sizee ones) for £3.. and thats in Waitrose.. the priceyist supermarket ever. How is homemade pizza money saving?

I think £4 is a very generous estimate for the cost of HM pizza, and of course depends on what ingredients are used as toppings and what size pizza you make!

I often make two large pizzas from one batch of dough, a simple cheese and tomato one and a ham and pineapple, and although I haven't worked out exactly what they cost me, I know it's definitely not more than £3 in total!

You also have to remember that HM ones don't contain any additives or hidden nasties that you get with pre-made foods ... and of course they taste far superior to any of the frozen shop-bought pizzas you can get

Gingham_Ribbon

Ours cost about £1.50 each but we can get it down to about 90p if we're being really careful. But we buy the bases at the moment at 99p for 2.

moneysavingplumber

RowaN wrote:

£4 good value? You can buy 2x ready made chicago town pizza (full sizee ones) for £3.. and thats in Waitrose.. the priceyist supermarket ever. How is homemade pizza money saving?

I make two for £3, the difference is, mine are actually edible. :beer:

GreenFingers_2

RowaN wrote:

£4 good value? You can buy 2x ready made chicago town pizza (full sizee ones) for £3.. and thats in Waitrose.. the priceyist supermarket ever. How is homemade pizza money saving?

The £4.00 was a very rough ballpark estimate of the cost of the ingredients. It probably is somewhat less than this. Also I was comparing the cost to that of the local pizza making place. Their large pizza with two extra toppings cost £12.99 and feeds one possibly two people. Whereas my huge, giant, incredibly delicious deep pan pizza, baked in the oven roasting pan and over one inch deep with oodles of yummy toppings will easily feed three or four adults. Hope this helps but I understand it is difficult to compare costs and quality as there as so many variables to consider.