Onions Pizza

Don't you just love pizza? Today, I bring to you a small pizza, where the onions have the leading role!

Ingredients:

500 g de flour

1 pack of biological yeast

1 bit of salt

1 egg

Warm water qb.

150 ml tomato sauce (homemade)

150 g mozzarella cheese (grated)

1 onion sliced

100 g sun dried tomatoes, in olive oil

1 jars / can of anchovies

Olive Oil and Oreganos qb

To make the dough, put the flour in a bowl, make a small cavity in the centre and add the egg, the salt and the yeast dissolved in warm water. Mix very well together, adding more warm water if necessary. Leave to rest (and grow!) for about one hour  and a half, covering the bowl with a cloth and put it in a warm place. Once the dough has grown, divide it in small portions to make the pizzas. This recipe is enough for 8 to 10 small pizzas. Extend the dough to the thickness you pretend. I like the fine. In this case I use small tartelette pans, to serve as an entrée, but the minipizzas can be made in the traditional way.

To prepare the topping, put the onions in a pan with olive oil and fried them slowly until slightly golden. Cover the bottom of the pizza with a thin layer of tomato sauce, and then add the grated mozzarella, the anchovies in small pieces and the sun dried tomatoes also in small pieces. Finally add the previously cooked slices of onions and finish with the oreganos. Take to the oven to bake. They are good either warm or cold!

Hope you like it!

Rosemary Bread

Today I bring you a Rosemary Bread, because the region where I live in Brazil has a strong Italian influence, because rosemary grows pretty much everywhere in the world, and, above all, because is one of my favourite herbs and one that I always have at home.

Ingredients:
500 gr flour
10 gr biological yeast
2 tsp. olive oil
1 1/2 tee spoon salt
4 tsp. rosemary chopped
250 ml of warm water


Mix the flour with the salt and with the rosemary. Make a hole in the centre of the flour mix and add the olive oil and, bite by bite, the yeast dissolved in the warm water. Mix carefully and work the dough. Form a ball and live it to grow in a covered bowl. Bake in a hot woven in a rectangular tray.

The first slices were eaten still worm with the butter melting down. So good!!!

Hope you like it!

Pineapple and Coconut Cake

One of my favourite drinks during my teens was Piña Colada. Even as a soft drink, it had that tropical aura that brought me to a holidays and exotic islands ambience. All that just for the price of a drink!

That's why, for me, and I think for many people in my generation, the pineapple and coconut flavours combined have that magic! So, why not try this winning combination on a cake? I'm sure this is not an original idea, but this recipe come to me from no more inspiration than the one given by a cocktail that I drunk twenty years ago!

Ingredients:
4 eggs
300 g sugar
150 ml vegetable oil
150 ml pineapple pulp
50 g grated coconut
250 g flour with baking powder
Beat the eggs with the sugar until you have an homogeneous mixture. Add the oil and continue beating. Next add the pineapple pulp (I reduce the fruit pieces to a pure with the hand mixer) and the coconut. Finally, add the flour, mixing carefully but without beating. Cook in medium oven in a pan greased and dusted.

Good appetite!!