This evening I tried my newly acquired ceramic pizza plate.

For the dough I used the recipe from some dude on the net, who went on for 10 minutes on how awesome stone baked pizza is. Mmmm. ;-/

For a small pizza for 2 I used 200 g of strong white flour, a pinch of salt, tbsp of olive oil, all this in the bowl of my beautiful Kitchen Aid. Then, in 130ml of luke warm water, sweetened with a tsp of muscovado sugar I dissolved half a sachet of instant yeast. The hook of the mixer was going all the work, while I stood there, added the liquid and admired. 🙂

The dough was left close to the radiator to rise, while the ceramic plate went to the oven, upwarming simultaneously, otherwise, I was warned,the plate would crack if put into a hot oven.

It was a joy to assemble, I must say, as the plate was hot, the rolled dough started to puff up slightly, as I topped it with tomato sauce, mushrooms, tomatoes, red onions, blue cheese and after 12 minutes in the oven- parma ham and rocket. Nice one!

For dessert little lemon pots, recipe from GF with very enthusiastic reviews, a bit too enthusiastic, I thought it wasn’t very special. Pleasant, but a dessert a 5 year old would make. Just a whipped cream, with some lemon curd added and lemon zest, frozen for 40 minutes and then topped with lemon biscuits. Maybe if the biscuits were a lemon shortbread of some sorts, home made, then maybe it would wow me. This was just ok.