April 2022
Practice yoga. Eat pizza.
Tadasana Mama offers yoga and meditation on a donation basis 🙏 (donations from this practice will be passed along to Together Rising to “help meet Ukrainian families’ most urgent needs on the ground right now”)
This month’s yoga practice:
20 Minutes
Take twenty to connect with your whole self.
Physical
13 minute gentle yoga flow to DakhaBrakha.
Mental
7 minute grounding chakra meditation after the yoga practice.
Spiritual
I am birth and death and all the spaces in between.
💗🧘🏻♀️
This month’s pizza…
Dough
We followed the Classic Pizza Dough recipe from Ooni: Cooking with Fire.
Makes 5 x 12in pizzas - equivalent to 5 x 160g dough balls
Ingredients
300ml cold water
10g salt
2g instant dried yeast
500g flour, plus extra for dusting
Directions
Place two-thirds of the water in a large bowl. In a saucepan, bring the other third of water to a boil, then add it to the cold water in the bowl. This creates the correct temperature for activating yeast. Whisk the salt and yeast into the warm water.
Place the flour in a large bowl and pour the yeast mixture into it. Stir with a wooden spoon until a dough starts to form. Continue mixing by hand until the dough comes together in a ball. Turn it onto a lightly floured surface and knead with both hands for about 10 minutes, until it is firm and stretchy. Return the dough to the bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and leave to rise in a warm place for 1-2 hours.
When the dough has roughly doubled in size, divide it into 5 equal pieces. Place each piece of dough in a separate bowl or tray, cover with plastic wrap and leave to rise for another 20 minutes, or until doubled in size.
Note: you can also cold-prove your dough, a technique that allows the yeast to work on the sugars in the flour for longer, helping the dough develop a deeper flavor. To do this, use half the amount of yeast listed in the ingredients, and leave the dough to prove (rise) in the fridge for 24-72 hours. Divide the dough and cover as described in the main recipe, then set aside (not in the fridge) for at least 5 hours, until it is room temperature. We're trying the cold-prove technique.
More
Tip: check out last month’s post for a tip on cooking with an Ooni Fyra oven.
Sauce: head over to February’s post for a pizza sauce recipe.
Pepperoni Pizza: go to January’s post for a pepperoni pizza recipe.
