Pizza Dough

It's a challenge. I bought it freshly made in a lump, coaxed it out of the bag and began trying to convince it to move into a large, round, pizza shaped disc on parchment. Oh yes, easy you say? I've heard of muscle memory, but hadn't heard of pizza dough memory. This means I stretch it out, it stretches out, and as soon as I let go, it remembers where we started, and promptly returns to a ball.

This would be excellent if I had suddenly remembered, "wait! I was going to make lasagna!" And wanted to scrap the project, but pizza really was my aim and I quickly discovered how to make all kinds of shapes that looked like letters from the alphabet....complete with holes...but, alas, nothing that looked like a circle.

Lesson learned: light a candle and call it romantic....and exotic...keep calm....and carry on!!