I haven’t done a weekend cooking post for a long time but I have more vegan cookbooks to review, so I thought this would be a perfect place to post them.
Bill and I LOVE pizza, so I make it a lot! However, since I received the Vegan Pizza Cookbook by Julie Hasson, I have been making a pizza every week! Don’t get me wrong, I always made good pizza, just not restaurant quality pizza.
It cost me a total of $80 but now I make restaurant style pizza. It now tastes like it came out of a brick oven and it has the crispy texture I always longed to create. The secret is a pizza stone and pizza peel. The pizza stone goes directly in the oven and the pizza peel is the paddle you use to get the pizza on and off the stone with out burning yourself. You can keep the stone in the oven and put your cookware right on top of it as well. Since I started doing that, everything I have put in the oven has cooked more evenly. Let me tell you, both the stone and peel were well worth the investment.
The other trick to perfect pizza is the recipe. There are several recipes in the book but my favorite is the basic. It is quite a bit wetter than the dough I use to make, but that is the other trick required. Use just enough flour to be able to roll the dough out. Then put it on parchment paper and on the pizza peel. Put all your topping on and then put the pizza that is on the parchment paper directly on the pizza stone, in the oven.
Have you ever thought to put potatoes on a pizza? I know, sounds crazy but trust me it’s not. I made the
Potato and Wild Mushroom pizza from the book. OMG, it was so good. In fact, there was only one lonely peace left for me to take a photo of.
I highly recommend the Vegan Pizza Cookbook! You don’t even have to be vegan to love it!
5/5
I received the ebook version of this cookbook from Net Galley for my honest review.
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I never make pizza at home but might if I knew how to make restaurant quality. I’m making note of this cookbook.
We’ve become a bit more daring with our toppings as the kids have gotten older–haven’t tried potatoes though!
Looks like a good cookbook!
Kathy, be careful, it is addictive!! Also you don’t need to be vegan to love this cook book. Just use the crust recipes and tips and whatever toppings you like. I have to admit that I have a kitchen appliance called a Thermomix, which makes it super easy to make dough. A bread maker would work too if you don’t want to make the dough with elbow grease.
Julia, we were suprised at how delicious the potaoes were on the pizza!
sounds like it’s helpful
Yes, we love potatoes on pizza! One of our favorite pizzas is the Genovese at out local pizza place. It has potatoes and basil and garlic. It’s heavenly in that way that only pizza can be.
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Pizza is a big favorite in my family. I plan to check this book out.
Have you ever used grated cauliflower for the crust?
No I haven’t but I have a recipe somewhere for it. The recipe is from a local Vancouver vegan chef. Perhaps I will try it one of these days. I really love real pizza crust though!
OH yum! I have had mashed potatoes on pizza before – it was absolutely heavenly! So I want to try to make this pizza, too. I am so embarrassed to tell you, Teddy, that I did not ever think to use parchment paper on my pizza stone…and my stones were getting so “dirty.” The instructions said to place the pizza directly on the stone. Well, I know better now. I also need a peel! We have been lifting the stone in and out! And another great tip you shared – leaving the stone in there to evenly cook other things/place the cookware on top. Such a helpful and yummy post!