Big flavor, big savings (2)

Pizza is one of the most common dinners for us. It’s super easy to cook (just put it in an oven). It’s fun to decide what kind of pizza to make, depending on your mood. And pizza dough can be used to make garlic bread if you don’t feel like grating cheese. So, this time I want to talk about our pizza dough.

 

URL of the recipe: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/amish-white-bread/

 I talked about our bread in “big flavor, big saving (1)”, we basically use the same recipe, with a little different ingredients.

Ingredients for 6-8 pizza dough:
2 cups of water
1/3 cup of white sugar
1.5 table spoon of active dry yeast
1.5 teaspoon of salt
2 table spoon of olive oil
5 cups of Semolina flour
1 cup of all-purpose flour

Semolina flour is a little more expensive than all-purpose flour. It costs about $3.50 for a bag which contains 5 cups. So 1 cup of semolina is about 70 cents. And 1 cup of flour costs about 12 cents. So, the flour cost for this recipe is $3.62. Total cost for the recipe is about $4.00.

If you make 6 servings of dough out of it, 1doughball is less than 70 cents. By the way, 1doughball is large enough for 2 adults to share for sure.

I was curious how much it costs if we buy pizza dough at shop. So, we went to check it out. The dough costs $1.85 per crust at a supermarket nearby.  

The most important ingredient to make pizza is cheese, right? We can get 1 block of cheese for $2, which is big enough to cover 1 pizza. And let’s say, if we will make a chicken pizza, 1 chicken breast costs about $2. Considering all other vegetables you want to put on a pizza, 1 large sized pizza cost should be about $5 to $6.

We can get 1 small 4 slice pizza for $5 from “Little Ceaser” for $5. But the size is much smaller than our pizza, and has no vegetables on it. When we order almost the same size one from a pizza delivery with vegetables, it costs $12 at least.

We have been looking for easy and yummy desserts. One day we saw a Panna Cotta’s picture in a restaurant.  So we found this recipe, and fell in love! It tastes super rich so that a little piece makes me feel “enough” quickly. Ingredients are simple enough to not scare us away, and cooking time is amazingly short, like 10 minutes!

Recipe URL: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/giada-de-laurentiis/panna-cotta-with-fresh-berries-recipe.html

Ingredients for 6 cups of Panna Cotta:
1 cup of whole milk
3 cups of whipping cream
1 tablespoon of gelatin
1/3 cup of honey
1 tablespoon of sugar
Pinch of salt
Garnish with fruits as you like (We love strawberries, bananas, and green apples.)

1 gallon of milk costs $2.39 here. And 1 gallon is equal to 16 cups. So 1 cup of milk costs 15 cents.

4 cups of whipping cream is $1.39. So 3 cups costs about $1. Including other cost except for fruits should be about $1.50 for 6 cups. 1 cup is like 25 cents.

By the way, the price of the Panna Cotta we saw in the restaurant was $3.99, which is 16 times more expensive than the cost. Thief! Rip off! Police!