Stoned, Poor, and Hungry: Italian Freedom Edition
These are hard times, made harder by the fact that, in Seattle, you can get weed delivered, but you can't really get much food delivered. Sometimes, stoners have to step up and cook for their own damn selves. So the Seattlest Stoner is bringing you recipes that you can make in any state of mind. Got an extra good one that never fails and always satisfies? Send it over to tips@seattlest.com.
You were so busy watching the Amanda Knox verdict, you forgot to get your lazy self to the Grocery Outlet for some more microwavable pizzas. What are you going to eat tonight? Never fear, the Seattlest Stoner is here with some Italian-inspired grub. So pick up a bottle of cheap red and toast to freedom...or getting away with murder, whichever you believe.
Easy Peasy Pizza
Making pizza is actually super easy. The only thing you'll need to stumble out the door for, probably, is yeast. But it comes in a packet (like Kool-Aid!) and is really, really cheap.
Here's what you need:
1 (.25 ounce) package of active dry yeast. Ask the nice lady at the grocery store to help you find it.
1 tsp white sugar
1 cup warm water
2 1/2 cups bread flour (...or really, any flour. But bread flour is best if you want it to be edible)
2 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp salt
And then whatever you want to put on your pizza. Potatoes? Sure! Pasta sauce? Why not? Leftover Indian food? Go for it!
1.) Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
2.) In a medium-ish bowl, combine the yeast and sugar into the warm water, which will let it dissolve. This part is cool. Watch it. After about 10 minutes, it will look suggestive and creamy. This is a good thing.
3.) Slowly add the flour, salt, and oil. Beat it with a whisk or a fork or something until it's no longer lumpy. Let it sit for about 5 minutes, or else it will be really sticky and gross.
4.) Dust off your cutting board and cover it lightly with flour. Turn the bowl over and let the dough flop out like a floppy baby. Pat it into a circle.
5.) Once it's a circle, move it onto a lightly greased pizza pan. That's the circular one.
Now, add the stuff. Cheese, veggies, ginger snaps--whatever you want to eat.
Bake it for about 15 minutes, or until it looks edible.
And remember, wait a few before you eat it. Because you don't want to be like the hipster in that joke. The joke that we're going to tell you so you can tell your friends when you're serving them delicious homemade pizza:
Why did the hipster burn his mouth?
Because he ate the pizza before it was cool.
