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greenbee

With TWO near misses in a day you deserve a whole jug full of margaritas!

Greying_Pilgrim

greenbee said:

With TWO near misses in a day you deserve a whole jug full of margaritas!

Well, we weren't greedy - we spread them out over 2 days, but thanks for the permission! 😁👍

I made creamy tomato soup in the PrC for lunch.  It's a nuisance to try to remember not to turn the lid upside down when you take it off, but as it can still function (safely) at the moment, I have not rushed to order the replacement part.  The soup used 2 cans of chopped tommies (so soup is no longer an inexpensive choice!), some assorted veg, a stock cube and a blob of cream cheese.  There was enough for 3 bowls and no waste.

A vote has been cast for cheese and tomato pizza for tea.  We'll see.  

Greying X

Cheery_Daff

Goodness Greying, what a frightening time you've been having! Big hugs to all of you. Did you manage to get any details to report anyone?? I know it's hard to think of such things at the time. Very glad you're all ok at any rate xx

badmemory

The problem with bank holidays is that just before too many people are in way too much of a rush.  Yesterday I was on one of those roads that have parked cars on both sides, so you are always waiting to let someone through & to be let through.  I was following another vehicle we had let one vehicle through & were just setting off when a van & car went shooting past us.  As we were headed for the same local car park I asked him if he had managed to see whose van it was but we were both a bit shaken by it.  If they were driving at under 20mph I would be very surprised, I'm not convinced they were under 30 even.   I know neither of them owned the vehicles they were driving because an owner doesn't take road humps at that speed.   I have never liked being near roads around bank holidays & always used to avoid the commute.

kayannie

Greying_Pilgrim said:

greenbee - the only 'good' thing about yesterday's incident, is that I now see that in my mind, rather than constantly seeing the zebra crossing incident....... 😬  Does 'margaritas as treatment' extend to 'parents of' - asking for a friend....... 🤭

kayannie - I make my pizza dough by hand, but as I have a rectangular tray I make the pizza on (which gives 8 slices), I do roll it out with a rolling pin once it's had it's first rise.  Whether the dough gets a second rise on the tray is usually dependent on how close to the wire I am with getting tea on the table.....  Our house is rarely warm enough for a second rise anyway.  Is that any help?

Greying X

I will try again with pizza dough using a rolling pin. I've only had 2 attempts, each time just trying to pull & push it into shape - each time I ended up with the centre so thin I could almost see through it & the rest of it much too thick. I'll still make the dough in the bread maker as I've not got the patience to make it by hand!
I'll let you know how I get on!
KA

Greying_Pilgrim

Cheery - thank you.  No details gathered, but at least the driver yesterday picked up something was wrong and pulled over just as they passed the car behind me. The zebra crossing driver just disappeared into traffic.

badmemory - I suspect that was absolutely at the root of yesterday's event.  It was mid-afternoon, nearly knocking off time (going into a BH), and the driver was either done for the day, or very close to finishing/needed to get back to base.  So a combination of carelessness and 'pushy-pushy', which could have had dire consequences - pedestrians or cyclists, if hit, would just have been taken out......  Your experience reminded me of something we encountered at the w/end.  We were going down a narrow (and potholed) country road.  DH pulled over to let a car coming the other way through.  As this car got alongside, the driver  slowed and told us a huge piece of farm machinery was coming - we'd be best to wait where we were a second or two longer.  Clearly he didn't tell the car behind, as that car hurtled past us, the second it could, and then slapped the brakes on when it did meet the (extremely large and not hanging about) farm machinery at the next bend.  Luckily a combination of both vehicles going onto the verge (hope there were no pipes or ditches), allowed them to pass - even though the farm machinery barely slowed down.  But at least the car in front of us, was..... in front of us 🙄

kayannie - I use my hands to pull the dough into an approximate rectangle as I go along.  The trouble is with a rolling pin is that you're squashing the air out, which is the opposite of what you want with pizza.  But as I'm cooking the pizza on a conventional tray, in a conventional oven and want the size of pizza that gives me leftovers, then I have to compromise.  I try to remember I'll rolling bread dough, not toddler plasticine.  One day I would certainly like to try making pizza in a pizza oven - particularly a brick built, wood fired one 😁 with the metal paddle and everything 😁 Preferably in Tuscany...... in an olive grove.....🤣  (OK, maybe the last bit is a not gonna happen🤭)

Greying X

rtandon27

Dream big hun - you never know!

Greying_Pilgrim

I don't know if this is any help;

Pizza dough after second prove (for a change!);



Pizza cooked and portioned into 8;



Greying X

kayannie

Greying_Pilgrim said:

I don't know if this is any help;

Pizza dough after second prove (for a change!);



Pizza cooked and portioned into 8;



Greying X

That looks amazing! I'll hopefully have a go over the weekend & if it turns out half as good as yours, it'll be 100% better than my last attempt!
KA

Greying_Pilgrim

Good Morning MFW'rs

kayannie - I took notice of what I did with the pizza dough last night.  Rather than roll it out - rolling and pressing at the same time to get it thinner/bigger (like you might for biscuits or with plasticine), I've noticed I actually just 'press, move, press, move' with the rolling pin.  So that you end up with a 'ploughed field' set of furrows on the dough.  Then I do it from the other way (because I'm always seeking to make a rectangle), and stretch it with my hands as I go.  You can see from the bottom right hand corner that my dough has thin spots too! 🙂 So I just squish the dough together and flatten it a bit.  I'm sure any artisan pizza maker would frown on my technique (quite rightly), but it gets me where I need to be, and - weather dependent - I can sometimes get quite a rise on the dough. However, we've moved into a house with a kitchen on the north side of the house, again 🙄 so I'm never going to get a humungous pizza from 300g of flour.

I need to get a wash on today, although we've a chance of rain.  I'll get the lighter clothes through and hope that the forecast for tomorrow stays true and put DH's workwear through then.

I'm aiming to make curry for tea.  I've a lone sweet potato to use up that came in the last MrS box I had - so it's nearly drawing it's pension.......

I was going to wander into Greying Town this morning, to move some money around.  But DH has pointed out that the money needs to be left where it is to pay the car tax, so there is no point.  Better to leave it where it is.

At the moment I can't think of anything else MSE relevant, so I'll shuffle orf.

Ta for popping in.

Greying X