Great Recipes and Great Food

If you have ever been in a kitchen with a cooking pizza you will know the answer – the smell of the thing! it is always worth making your own dough, and the preparation is crucial. if you cannot afford the time to make your own dough, there is lots available at most supermarkets.

Any food that you can enjoy from home should fill the room and whet the appetite, such as pizza which has a unique freshness.

I haven’t been into cooking pizzas at home for long, but like many, my inspiration comes from particular takeaway or restaurant experiences. Nearby is restaurant on the seafront, which is known for its pizzas and its entertainment. I like the combination of tasty food and entertainment, and particularly in Europe, I think the Italians and Spanish are unbeatable. In the north of Spain, they have an unsual way of serving the cider or ’sidre’ to their customers. The waiter looks as if he is in a trance, whilst pouring the drink from above his head into a glass. Pointless – but great entertainment!

The Italians are great with dough preparation and like to display it, and how important the process is to the food. There are secrets to making a pizza according to these people – preparation to start followed by the correct oven temperature. This dough is unbelievably soft and pliable. I have first hand experience of this, because they bring it round to your table and let you try the technique for yourself! They have perfected their art which involves ’spinning’ the dough in the air, eventually producing something with a familiar shape.

it goes into the overn, when all the ingredients that were chosen are prepared and topped on the pizza. In about ten minutes your senses will be gripped by the delicious aroma, coming from the oven. You don’t have to enjoy your meal inside. If the weather is fine, you can still watch all the entertainment but take the food onto the beach! Great food, sunset on the beach and good company – marvellous!

When you speak about take away food, they are always considered as being fattening and bad for your health, but people never really realise that some of the menu is more healthy than others. Obviously choosing something like a vegetable curry will be more healthy than something greasy and wrapped in batter. It’s all simply knowing what’s good and what’s bad for you, then you will be able to be healthy while enjoying a meal treat.

Here is a little guide to help you choose the healthiest options next time you order in a takeaway.

Fish and Chips: Although you can’t really avoid them, chips tend to be the worst things at chip shops, as for the others, sausages and pies are the other worst offenders. On the other hand, the best items are mainly fish, try and have code, haddock or plaice as these are the least fatty.

Pizza: The worst choice you could have would be to have a deep pan base as these contain the most fat. As for the toppings of the pizza, try and stay away from having extra cheesy toppings or things like pepperoni. If you’re going for the healthy option, have a thing crust with either fish or vegetables on top.

Chinese: With this, try and avoid crispy and greasy items because it generally means they have been deep fried. The items to try and avoid would be sweet and sour battered pork balls, spring rolls, and specially fried rice. If you are going for the healthy line, stick with items that are steamed. Choosing items like boiled rice, beef, chicken, crab and corn soup, and steamed vegetables are the best for you.

Indian food: Just like Chinese, you should try and keep away from deep fried things and items that are creamy as these will have the most fat. The healthiest items are vegetable curry, chicken tikka, madras or bhuna. Boiled rice would be the healthiest item to have with these mains.

Hopefully when you order your next takeaway, you will change from your usual large chips and jumbo sausage to something a little healthier. As I wrote that, I was certainly shocked because I order all of the bad stuff, but I guess that’s the way it is. The food that is the best tasting is, more often than not, the wort for us.

One of the initial things that goes through your mind when you consider ordering a takeaway is having to phone through and pick it up. However, as the internet becomes a bigger part of your everyday life, the way you order your take away is beginning to change.

A new online company is started to become more of a player within the takeaway industry. The name of the company is Just-Eat and they give you the ability to order your takeaways via the internet. Only recently has the company made a £10.5 million investment deal for 30% of the company, making it the biggest deal within the food market since the start of the recession.

The owners of Just-eat have said that the money will be used to fund their new advertising campaign which is being launched near the end of this year. This deal should help the company become a larger player within the takeaway industry, it should also make the task of achieving their target of 8000 signed up takeaways simpler.

So far business is going well for the company as they turnover around £3 million every year within the UK, however, that’s not enough for them. A deal is currently being made between Just-Eat and 2 Canadian entrepreneurs who are after seting up a Canadian version. The deal struck up between the 2 sides is for a 50/50 split, this now means that once the Canadian version launches, Just-Eat will be a globally recognised company.

For many people this would be enough to start off with, however, Just-Eat are still searching for more ways to expand. A version for Norway has already been talked about and should be launching next year, then talk will move on to a possible US version.

By the looks of it, we will all soon be buying our pizza online rather than having to phone. I just hope they don’t run out of power for their website.