one filipino dish a week

Pizza!!! I’m always excited for pizza. I was extra excited for this Friday night dinner with T because I was going to make pizza from scratch. For me pizza is one of those things that I’ve never really thought about making from scratch. I’ve always associated it with something you order. I’ve never really made pizza dough so I did the google-ing and the recipe book researching for pizza dough and found that it isn’t really as intimidating as I thought it would be. Probably the most intimidating part as crazy as it sounds was buying yeast. It’s like when you have to try something that you’ve never used before and you have that anxiety if it works or not.

Making the dough was a little bit of a challenge and I think I just need to do it a couple more times to get it to that right elasticity and consistency. I used portabellas, white button, and enoki mushrooms along with the white part of the leek. For the cheese, I used gruyere and pecorino romano. Even though I had a challenge with the dough this came out spectacularly and was an excellent Friday night dinner along with some red wine. Wine and pizza that’s how adults spend Friday nights. Especially with the soil smelling mushrooms this pizza was really good with red wine. Perfect combination. This may be one of those things that will be added to the regular rotation.