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Yummy Pizza, Bread and Pancakes with Greenfields

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Greenfields cheese

Greenfields cheese

 

 

I’m  sure you have heard and seen Greenfield’s  milk being sold in major supermarkets but do you know that they also have their own line of Mozzarella cheese? It is also made at their factory in  East Java. Sold at $6.35 at Giant supermarket as well as Giant Hypermarket, Cold Storage and Mustafa. It  is a really tasty treat and gives flavour to home baked pizza.

Hawaiian Pizza

Hawaiian Pizza

The cheeze oozes in your mouth when you bite into a slice of the pizza and it is really yummy. Making homemade pizza is not that difficult and with the correct cheese it makes it easier to have the prefect home baked pizza each time it is made.

The steps to making pizza.

The steps to making a home baked pizza.

The ingredients which you would need  are

For the base

– 1 (.25 ounce) package active dry yeast

-1 teaspoon white sugar

-1 cup warm water (110 degrees F/45 degrees C)

-2 1/2 cups bread flour

-2 tablespoons olive oil

-1 teaspoon salt

Toppings

– Tomato paste

– Sliced ham

– sliced pineapples

– mozzerella cheese

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C). In a medium bowl, dissolve yeast and sugar in warm water. Let stand until creamy, about 10 minutes.
  2. Stir in flour, salt and oil. Beat until smooth. Let rest for 5 minutes.
  3. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface and pat or roll into a round. Transfer crust to a lightly greased pizza pan or baker’s peel dusted with cornmeal. Spread with desired toppings and bake in preheated oven for 15 to 20 minutes, or until golden brown. Let baked pizza cool for 5 minutes before serving.

 

Doggie boy with Greenfields milk

Doggie boy with Greenfields milk

Besides pizza we have been making many other yummy treats with Greenfields milk.  The kids love the chocolate malt while  I opt for the low fat variety.

The kids have been using the milk to make Milk pudding and mashed potatoes while I’ve baked their favourite breakfast items using it.

Rasin bread

Raisin bread

The ingredients and steps for making raisin bread

The ingredients and steps for making raisin bread

It takes a few hours to make the bread but it certainly beats having store bought bread for breakfast.

Blueberry pancake

Blueberry pancake

Blueberry pancake is another common item on our breakfast menu. I normally make this on the weekend for the kids to eat for breakfast.

Making the blueberry pancake

Making the blueberry pancake

Ingredients

-1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

-1/2 teaspoon salt

-1 tablespoon baking powder

-1 1/4 teaspoons white sugar

-1 egg

– 1 cup milk

-1/2 tablespoon butter, melted

-fresh blueberries

-maple syrup (optional)

Directions

  1. In a large bowl, sift together flour, salt, baking powder and sugar. In a small bowl, beat together egg and milk. Stir milk and egg into flour mixture. Mix in the butter and fold in the blueberries. Set aside for 1 hour.
  2. Heat a lightly oiled frying pan over medium high heat. Pour or scoop the batter onto frying pan . Brown on both sides and serve hot.

 

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Greenfields  milk comes from our own scientifically-sourced and managed  herd and does not include additives, chemicals, antibiotics and hormones – just all natural honest milk. Their milk is produced, pasteurised and packed
within the dairy and it is single-pasteurised, ensuring optimal freshness. Their  MOZZARELLA CHEESE is made from 100% fresh cow’s milk. You can purchase Greenfield products from most major supermarkets and hypermarkets.

 

Disclaimer:I received sample packages of Greenfields products for review purposes. Originally posted on Dominique’s Desk. All opinions expressed on this website come straight from Dominique unless otherwise noted. This post has Compensation Levels of  2 . Please visit Dominique’s  Disclosure page for more information.

Social Media Engagement for Dummies

Book Cover

Book Cover

Social Media Engagement For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance) by Aliza Sherman and Danielle Elliott Smith is a book which will provide you will all the information that you need to be a Social Media pro.

The six sections of the book cover

– The basis of social media engagement

– Exploring the elements of social media engagement

– Examining the basic engagement tools

– Engaging through additional social channels

– Leveraging Audio and Visual for engagement

– The parts of ten.

 

It is important to attract the attention of your potential customer and get them to approach you. People need to be compel to take action and return if you want to build up a long term relationship with them. One needs to build up an engaged community to be able to promote their product/services efficiently.

While setting your goals for social media engagement one has to take note of the audience, content, reaction, interaction and action and also the outcomes and measurement. It is certainly quite a lot of things to understand.

There are many free/paid online tools where one can track the outcomes of social media campaigns ie: click through rates of URLs/tweets.

Amplification of your message is important especially if you want to get your message out to the masses. By effectively using the various social media channels available your message can reach the millions.

It is important to have a action plan on how you intend to use social media. This would optimize the time that you spend on each social media outlet and reduce time wastage.

My thoughts

It was interesting to read up about so many tools that were in existence which I was unaware off. Eg: Storify to track brain mentions in social networks. There were many more paid options then free options mentioned in the book which businesses could consider but being a blogger on a limited budget I will stick to the FREE options for the moment to get my blog and writing out to the masses.

I learned that it was important to build a social media editorial calendar. This would help me track my reach on the  social media platforms better. I haven’t really been taking note of the engagement levels of my blog posts/blog as most of my posting has been automated.

Do pick up a copy of the book if you want to know more about  Social Media Engagement.

 

Disclaimer: I received a copy of the book for review purposes. All opinions are 100% mine.This post has a compensation level of 3. Please visit Dominique’s Disclosure page for more information.