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.
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.
