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Crisis in Kitchen is a day to day affair.Kitchen is one place in any Home, where there is always something happening at all the time.You may be a housewife or a working woman or a bechlor trying to cope with unexpected mishaps or unexpected guests.More salt in curry to shortfall in quantity, Missing spices to missing proper utensils and gadgets.Everyday is a new challenge.What would you do if a problem arises? I would try and give you solution to frequently asked questions FAQ ......s for problems that arise in your Kitchen Kingdom. SO FEEL FREE TO ASK ANYTHING THAT NEEDS URGENT ATTENTION.

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• From: Mini (@ adsl-34-141-22.asm.bellsouth.net) on: Fri Dec 20 12:42:13
  
  Hi Revathy,
  
  Here is the recipe I use for making Pizza. Hope this may help you.
  
  For the dough:
  All purpose flour – 2 cups
  Yeast – 1 tsp
  Salt – to taste
  Olive oil – 1 tbsp
  
  Toppings:
  Tomato sauce
  Garlic salt
  Shredded mozzarella cheese Or pizza cheese
  Black olives (sliced) – 1 can
  Mushrooms – if you are not using the canned one, sauté in oil with little salt or cook with water
  Green bell pepper, sliced
  Fresh tomatoes
  Chicken pieces, cooked
  Onion, chopped
  (I am sorry that I do not have the exact amounts of these toppings. I just use as much as I want matching to our needs. All these toppings are not necessary. You can avoid some of these according your taste or add other toppings)
  
  Using a food processor, mix flour, salt and yeast. (The yeast I use insists not to add with water or milk, but to add directly to the dry flour. If you use another yeast, follow the package instructions.) Add olive oil and blend again. Now add lukewarm water little by little through the opening of the food processor until you get the right consistency. Less than 2/3 cup of water will be enough. Take out the dough from the food processor and knead some more with your hands and transfer it to a bowl. Cover it with a wet cloth and keep it in a warm place. Let it rise for an hour. You can prepare the toppings during this time. After an hour, roll the dough to a round shape. Use some flour for dusting if needed. The pizza base is ready.
  You can knead the dough without a food processor. It is very easy to make the pizza dough all by yourself. So please don’t buy ready made dough.
  
  Drizzle olive oil slightly over the rolled pizza base. Add the toppings one by one. You can substitute tomato sauce with crushed tomatoes. You can add minced garlic but this will alter the taste. On top of the tomatoes, add olives, mushrooms, onions, green peppers etc ending with mozzarella cheese. Cover all the other toppings with mozzarella cheese.
  
  You must preheat the oven at least an hour to 450-475’F. This is a very important step. So turn on the oven while you start preparing the base and toppings.
  Bake the pizza for 10 to 12 minutes. Slice it using a pizza cutter.
  
  
  
• From: Mrs.Mano (@ 195.229.241.232) on: Sat Dec 21 05:15:23
  
  Hello Revathy!
  I haven’t come across readymade pizza dough yet. But I have used ready made frozen pizzas. Just take one pizza from the freezer, and place it on a plate or a kitchen paper towel for a few minutes. Preheat yr gas oven to 160 C. Then arrange the topping you wish on the pizza and sprinkle pizza cheese or mozzarella cheese on it. Place them on a pie plate and Bake for a few minutes.
  
  For making real pizza, you will need the following:
  PIZZA:
  FOR CRUST:
  Plain flour-2 to 2 ½ cups, salt 11/2tsp, dry or fresh yeast-2tsps, boiling water ¾ to 1 cup, salad oil or olive oil-2tbsps, sugar-1sp.
  Dissolve sugar in boiling water. When it is lukewarm, add yeast. Keep it covered for 10 minutes if dry yeast is used and 5 minutes if fresh yeast is used. Add oil and mix. Add flour and make a firm but pliable dough. Knead for 5 to 7 minutes. Shape into a ball and place it in a oiled greased bowl, cover and leave it to rise in warm place till it is double in bulk. It may take 2 to 3 hours.
  Then turn dough on to a floured board. Knead lightly and divide into two portions. Pat each ball into a greased and floured pie plate. Sprinke some grated cheese on it. Cover and let them rise again for 20 minutes.
  FILLING:
  To prepare filling, liquidise 1kg tomatoes and strain. Fry 2 finely chopped onions for 5 minutes. Add strained tomato puree to it and mix well. Blend 2tbsps corn flour into it and mix well. Heat the liquid to thicken. Add 1sp chilli sauce, salad oil or olive oil 2tbsps, chilli powder 1/2sp, 1sp sugar, 1sp crushed ajwain seeds and enough salt. When the liquid is thick enough to spread, remove from the heat.
  Spread a thin layer of filling on the patted dough in the pie plate and bake for 15 minutes on the lower shelf of hot oven[160 C to 210 C] Spread the remaining filling on them and again bake them to 15 to 20 minutes or until the under side of the crust is brown. In the last 5 minutes of the baking, remove the plates, arrange capsicum layers on it and spread a liberal shredded pizza cheese on it. Bake for another 5 to 10 minutes.
  If you want to add any other vegetables or chicken chunks or mushrooms, spread them on the dough before applying the first filling on the pizzas.
  
  
  
• From: Revathy (@ 195.229.241.235) on: Sat Dec 21 08:24:16
  
  Thanks to Mini & Mrs.Mano; I had no idea how to make pizza dough & so was managing with the readymade one. Let me try the whole method just as you have described & get back to you.
  
  
• From: Revathy (@ 213.42.1.174) on: Sun Dec 22 05:58:16
  
  Mrs.Mano, one small doubt in your advice ; is there no need to defrost the frozen pizza base? How long should it be kept outside the freezer before i add the toppings & place it in the oven?
  
  
• From: meena (@ user-105ndbq.dialup.mindspring.com) on: Sun Dec 22 20:03:19
  
  Hi Revathy,
  If u have 'Papa Johns Pizza' OR 'Papa Murphy's- take and bake' stores in ur area, u could pick up their ready made fresh pizza dough.
  
  
• From: Mrs.Mano (@ 195.229.241.230) on: Mon Dec 23 12:48:32
  
  Hello Revathy!
  There is no need to defrost the frozen pizza. pre heat the gas oven to 160 C before taking out the frozen pizza. Just 5 minutes are enough to keep it outside. In that five minutes you could chop capsicum, onions, and tomoto pieces and keep them ready. The topping should have been prepared and cooled before that. Now place the pizza in a baking tray,and spread the topping, then again spread the chopped vegetables, sprinkle some coarsely ground ajawain and lastly add shredded pizza cheese liberally. Immediately place the tray in the hot oven and bake for 15 minutes. You must check after 10 minutes whether the under side of the crust is crisp and brown. Hope this will help.If you want to prepare the pizza in a haste, there is no need for the topping paste, just spread tomato ketchup before spreading the vegetables. Then sprinkle some more kitchup here and there before spreading the cheese.
  
  
• From: Revathy (@ dc5.emirates.net.ae) on: Thu Apr 3 04:05:38
  
  Help please; my ginger-garlic paste is going green !!! As i normally do i ground equal amounts of ginger & garlic with a little water & stored it in a pearlpet jar in the refrigerator. But the past three times, the paste has turned from a pale cream to a mucky green colour, the very next morning itself & I threw the whole batch out. Why is this happening & how to avoid it??
  
  
• From: Hemant (@ 203.195.208.26) on: Thu Apr 3 04:36:27
  
  Hello Revathy,
  Green colour may be due to development of fungus along with Bacteria.
  Generally Garlic is a very strong bacteria killer but it is powerless against fungus.
  I would suggest you to use 2nd class food preservatives available in any grocery shop, or prewash both ginger and garlic in 3 percent citric acid solution in water.(Its actually citric acid crystals 3 gms dissolved in a cup of water .Soak them for fifteen to twenty minutes and then make paste. Also remember that never use very tender ginger for paste purpose.
  You would have no problem of "GREEN COLOUR"
  Since you are living in UAE, FIND OUT IF YOU ARE GETTING "VIROSIL" a preparation of Silver and Hydrogen Peroxide.
  If you get that (It is a water treatment solution)
  You can just add about four to five drops in the paste directly.It is absolutely harmless for human consumption.
  And Revathy, how is your child?
  Its been long time since I heard from you.!!
  
  
• From: Revathy (@ an7.emirates.net.ae) on: Fri Apr 4 14:16:35
  
  Hello Hemantji,
  I'll enquire about 'Virosil' or it's equivalent here; meanwhile i'll try the citric acid method.
  My daughter is nearly 18 months old now & apart from her allergy to proteins, she is doing quite well.
  It was very nice of you to have remembered & asked about her.
  Thanks,
  Revathy.
  
  

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