Acquired a microwave oven over the Sankranti/Pongal long weekend. With expired gift cards that had to be renewed by adding an additional 50% of each gift card. A strange quirk that was a result of a combination of gift cards not carrying the expiry date, retain outlets unable to confirm when the card actually expired and patently stupid enterprise business workflows having web forms for the previous era paper gift coupons but get translated to more modern plastic cards. The details could be another blog post - so we leave it at that.
The kids demanded to have a pizza made at home. Went and bought some pizza base and mozzarella cheese. Sunday brunch menu was to be pizza. Followed the instructions that asked for pre-heating the oven to 200 deg C. Literal following of the manual meant I missed the minor detail of keeping the crusty plate inside the oven during this pre-heating process !
Got the base ready in a bit of hurry with butter, toppings of tomato, baby corn, onion & capsicum, grated the cheese on top and kept this raw pizza on the crusty plate. Asked the kids to pray to the Italian god of pizza. For usual South Indian food, we normally pray to Krishna (by saying Govinda !) - so by induction a Roman god had to be invoked. The kids came up the name Tony almost instantly.
Sounded Italian. So went with it.
Placed the plate on the high rack once the oven beeped mid-program. After 7 minutes, the pizza was not entirely ready so kept it for a few more minutes.
First home made pizza at our home was ready. The kids loved it. It was not great but not too bad either.
Jai Tony !
हर किसी को मुकम्मल जहाँ नहीं मिलता ।
किसी को ज़मीन, तो किसी को आसमान नहीं मिलता ॥
The kids demanded to have a pizza made at home. Went and bought some pizza base and mozzarella cheese. Sunday brunch menu was to be pizza. Followed the instructions that asked for pre-heating the oven to 200 deg C. Literal following of the manual meant I missed the minor detail of keeping the crusty plate inside the oven during this pre-heating process !
Got the base ready in a bit of hurry with butter, toppings of tomato, baby corn, onion & capsicum, grated the cheese on top and kept this raw pizza on the crusty plate. Asked the kids to pray to the Italian god of pizza. For usual South Indian food, we normally pray to Krishna (by saying Govinda !) - so by induction a Roman god had to be invoked. The kids came up the name Tony almost instantly.
Sounded Italian. So went with it.
Placed the plate on the high rack once the oven beeped mid-program. After 7 minutes, the pizza was not entirely ready so kept it for a few more minutes.
First home made pizza at our home was ready. The kids loved it. It was not great but not too bad either.
Jai Tony !
हर किसी को मुकम्मल जहाँ नहीं मिलता ।
किसी को ज़मीन, तो किसी को आसमान नहीं मिलता ॥
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