Shepherds Pie Pizza

As a young programmer or sysadmin you may not have the skills to cook. There is risk in that. Pre-cooked or prepared food can lack quality or can invite viruses or other biological organisms into your body that you may not want in your life. So I've made the step recently to start preparing food myself. I'm a very bad cook and don't have the patience, and if I have to cook it's gotta be quick, I can't lose time on the computer. So here is my recipe for making Shepherds Pie or Pizza if you wish. I started with throwing the ingredients together and experimenting, it reminded me of playing in the sandbox as a child. So here goes.

Ingredients:

300-400 grams of flour quarter tea spoon of salt (maybe less) baking powder (whole package) Water (H2O)

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Yay, you've selected pizza. You got the ingredients to make the dough so what you do is you throw all the above stuff together. Use about 80 milliliters of water. When you mix it all up the dough should be easily put together into a ball. If there is too much water it will stick to your hands and gets real yucky, if that happens add more flour but it's a hack.. If there is too little water lots of flour will not stick to the ball and you'll have to add more. You'll have to spread butter on the oven tin as a small layer so that when you put the dough on it it won't stick. Then spread the dough like a pizza, you can use your fists and knuckles for this. After that apply pizza sauce, ground cheese and the rest of the toppings you want. Preheat the oven to 220 degrees C for 15 minutes and put the entire thing in for another 15 minutes. Bon appetit.

PS: I added a cost break down of how much this homemade pizza would cost in Frankfurt and compared it to a local Pizza maker and delivery and completely put them to shame in savings. Why don't you do the same and find out how much they are really ripping you off for? Here the link @my blog.

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You've selected pie. See above on how to make the dough it's the same concept you even spread it like a pizza on the tin. After or before that you cook potatoes in water. When they are in a state where you can break the potatoes up into a sort of paste they are ready. Then you cook green peas until they are ready, add those to the potatoes. After that you can cook some meat, may it be ground beef, veal or goat, when tender add to the potatoe-pea mix. Stir it up a little make a nice mix out of it. Add some parsely from your garden or window/balcony. After that take two or three volumes that your fists would make and put it into the dough. Take the edges of the dough and fold it up like a jamaican pattie. Then bake. 15 minutes preheat, 15 minutes actual baking.

It won't all work out perfect the first time but the more your refine the process you'll get better at it.

Enjoy.

PS: After a bit of experimenting I noticed that when you add milk to the potatoes they mash up nicer and stick with the peas better. Also what gives a really good aroma and taste is putting a bit of curry in there. mmmmh.

PSS: I did this this morning. The dough alone is great for bread/pizza sticks. Without fillings or toppings I put just the dough in the oven and baked for 20 minutes or so (oven wasn't preheated as much as for the other stuff which allows more time to preheat). After baking done, pull out the bread and cut into slices like pizza sticks. Apply sausage, jam or marmelade with butter or whatever. It really is good!