Making Breakfast Pizza

After trying it out for the last three post, I’ve come to the conclusion that watermarking is a heinous task. It’s tedious and I now personally deem it unnecessary. I might still be on the fence about enabling high-res images, but I’m definitely off it when it comes to watermarking every image that goes into a post. So yeah, rants aside, here’s some pizza eggs to celebrate making it halfway through the week without crashing and burning. Not [human] bodily at least.

My car rear end-ed a car a few days back and though at a glance it’s not noticeable, at a closer look you’ll see hairline fractures all over the grill and inside the right headlight. I just got the estimate for the damage today and I’ll be having a slice or two [and not really feel that guilty (about the pizza, that is, not the car)] of this before making the call to break the news to father.

Pizza Dough:

[1 1/4 cup all purpose flour + 1/2 cup warm water + 1 teaspoon instant yeast + 1/2 teaspoon salt + 1 teaspoon sugar + 1 tablespoon oil]

Pour warm water in a medium size bowl.

Add salt and yeast and stir around.

Mix in the flour. Gradually add more flour until the dough comes together enough for you to start kneading it.

Knead for a couple of minutes, add additional flour if it sticks to your hands.

Put the dough back in the bowl and drizzle it with the oil.

Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and set it in a warm place for 30 minutes - 1 hour.

Toppings:

[3 tablespoons pesto (homemade or store-bought. can also be substituted with 2 tablespoons olive oil + 1 clove of garlic, grated) + a handful of cherry tomatoes + eggs (1 per person) + 5 mushrooms (shiitake, button, etc etc) + olive oil + salt & pepper]

**Cook’s note:

The toppings can really be anything you want - the hallmark of breakfast pizzas is that there are eggs on top; the rest is up to you.

Preheat the oven to the highest possible temperature (450-500°F).

Crack the eggs into separate ramekins or bowl.

This is to ensure that the yolks won’t break and you can take out some of the whites so that it won’t flow all over your pizza.