LIVESTRONG Day Recipe: Yellow Plum Mini-Pizzas and Poppy Seeds

A Taste of Yellow: Yellow Plum Mini-Pizzas and Poppy Seeds

Without giving much clues you probably know the answer to this question,

What is the world’s longest cycling event that usually runs more than 3,000 km that the route normally covers a circuit around France and other neighboring countries ?

You guess it right, Tour de France.

I I remember when I was still a student learning french for the first time in our language institute, the ffirst important things I’ve learned about french people was their love for good weather, good food, enjoying life and doing a good sport (I would say it’s perfectly described in Pink Martini’s song Je ne veux pas travailler (literally means I don’t want to work). And when it comes to sports three things that preoccupies them, their fondness for petanque, football and of course the pride of the french the Tour de France. I am not really a big fan of this sport (nor any other sports for that matter (you see I am more of a passive sportsman, hehehe I only love watching them) but Tour de France never cease to amaze me on human capacities to push their limit, really impressive !.

So why all this introduction on this biking event ? Well simply because today I am honoring and supporting LIVESTRONG Day a one-day initiative spearheaded by the Lance Armstrong Foundation to raise awareness and funds to fight against Cancer and this will be on May 13, 2008. In connivance to support this day, Barbara of Winos and Foodies is calling all food bloggers for « A TASTE OF YELLOW » food blogging event. You can check her site for more details.

Yellow is beautiful. Yellow is my favorite color. Yellow is the color of the first Sunday dress sewn by my mom. And the when the sky is yellow it is the day that angels are happy because I did a good act. So for a taste of something yellow, I'm sharing my recipe for Yellow Plum Mini-Pizza and poppy seeds. (Special thanks to Manggy for reminding me :-) that prune is plum in english )

Yellow Plum Mini Pizza and Poppy Seeds

for the dough:
400 g of flour
4 tbps of olive oil
1 sachet of dry yeast
a pinch of salt

for the garniture:
18 pcs of yellow prune (you can replace it with apricots)
75 g almond powder
120 g of brown sugar
80 g de butter
1 tsp of poppy seeds (optional)
1 tsp of Orange water (eau de fleur d’orange)

Mix the yeast with 25cl of warm water. In a bowl mix the flour, salt, the yeast diluted in water and oil. Knead the dough for 10 to 15 minutes or until the dough becomes smooth and elastic. Put it back in a bowl and cover with a slightly wet towel. Let it stand for an hour. Once the dough has doubled in volume, work on the dough and make 8 mini-pizza’s approximately 12 centimeters in diameter. Next prepare the yellow prune. Cut and remove the seeds and slice thinly . Cut in small cubes the butter and put it over the pizzas. Drizzle the almond powder over the pizza and decorate it with the sliced prune. And lastly powder it with sugar, poppy seeds and a little bit of orange water for perfume. Bake it for 20-25 at 180° celsius.

A plum a day keeps the doctor away...

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