I mean what do you expect? Christmas turkey? No.

Come on be serious. Ramen? Ah, next year

Hey guys, salut it's Alex so this special episode I want to offer you a quirky alternative to

the traditional Christmas dinner

or at least, well, part of it. I want to make it lighter, more fun

yeah, I want to make pizza for Christmas. Is that sacrilege?

Not really.

I mean maybe

It's quite a mission so I am glad this whole episode is a collaboration with Google

and their brand new, smart little helper, the Google Home Mini.

and their brand new, smart little helper, the Google Home Mini.

That device is a gem in the kitchen especially when you're about to get

your hands dirty. Speaking of which,

let's make some pizza dough. OK so I'm going

to be using a very simple pizza dough which involves only three

ingredients: flour, instant yeast and

salt and

uh...[stumbles], ah dammit. You need

to use 520 grams of Tipo 00 flour

also known as superfine

high protein, wheat flour. Our dough is 70%

hydration, which means we'll need...hold on a second

OK Google [beeps], 70% of

520

"The answer is 364."

Ah! 364!

Dilute a gram of instant yeast

then you want to add a bit of the flour there is no exact proportion

a touch, we want to create a buffer before

adding the salt. Not to kill our instant yeast

Add the remaining flour and combine everything

properly. Oops! Let it rest covered for about

30 minutes. It allows the

dough to relax and to become more uniform

Ok so it is now kneading time. I'm gonna do it

All by hand just to set an example and to show you that

the old man's still got what it takes. But if you have a stand mixer

then please by all means, use it also if you feel that the wet

dough situation is just beyond you then

lower the hydration to about

60% then everything should be fine. 15 minutes

kneading starts now! Ok Google, [beeps]

play some music "Alright, music on Google Play music,

here you go!"

At the end the dough should be more elastic

less tacky, but still a bit sticky

let it proof in a warm environment until it has

doubled in size and for that usually I use my

oven without any, you know, heat or whatever, just

the light on

Ok Google, [beep], set up a 2 hour timer

"Alright, 2 hours! Starting now!"

Now let's talk about all thinks Christmas. And, spoiler alert!

I'm facing a humongous

dilemma. So basically, I want to do a Christmas pizza

Christmas is turkey. I should be doing turkey pizza

it's logical. It's never that easy, right?

The truth is I can hardly see anybody willing to swap

you know, that legendary bird for a slice

or two of pizza as good as as they might be, nah.

So, I think it's fair to say "Farewell" to turkey pizza and just

try to think of something else, let's

try to think of something else...

hmm, yeah I got nothing. So, let's just go and see the dough

Ohhhhhhh

that's what I call a proper rise

and I am now dividing it into 300 grams

dough balls. All you need to do now is build

up some tension by folding the edges back

a few times and then make it an actual dough ball

the dough feels great. It is super soft and pleasant

back in the container and in the fridge they go

yeah so that's basically the second proofing happening in the fridge

behind me, right now. It's super flexible that

part 3 hours up to 3 days, which, uh,

give you a lot of options just to wrap your own schedule

around this recipe

Uh which basically means we've got plenty of time to fix that pizza

topping situation...which is killing me

Yeah I might have thought of something else, like,

just listen, OK Google

What is a traditional Christmas dinner

"According to wikipedia, traditional Christmas dinner

features: turkey with stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy,

cranberry sauce, and vegetables such as carrots,

brussel sprouts, turnip, parsnips, etc"

Oooofff

And that's precisely my point. Instead of

you know, messing around with the holy main, let's just

play around with the side dishes, the vegetables.

Yeah so basically I'm thinking of 3 Christmas side pizzas

the first one will be made of potatoes

the second one will be made of stuffing and brussel sprouts,

bear with me on this one I've got some nice trick up my sleeve

and the third one, I know it said like

carrots and parsnips and [sigh]

turnips. I want to slightly express my

technical reservation, about you know, making a pizza with it

so let's not decide too quickly and just

you know start with the first two ones

the first Christmas side pizza is pizza con patate, it's a

classic italian pie. Get the dough out

of the fridge, dust it with flour and gentle open it up

by spreading it into a disc

you want to push the air out

usually that is made with rosemary unfortunately I couldn't

find it fresh so, uh, lets use that beautiful

thyme instead. Add a dash of

olive oil

A nice dusting of semolina on the

pizza peel, a few sprigs of thyme

then slice up a few potatoes

very finely and place them on the pizza

2 layers, sprinkle that with flakey salt and

another drizzle of olive oil and slide this in

the oven for about 5 minutes

Ok Google

Start a 5 minute timer, "Alright, starting now"

Always put your oven to the broiler mode or grill mode

and always, always the highest temperature available

then you want to

put the rack on the upper position and use

a pizza stone, or better, a pizza

steel. More heat capacity

and more heat transfer, so it's better

woooooowwwww

that's my job right here

Christmas dinner got so much better

funny because I was a bit worried about the potato doneness

yeah, absolutely fine

second christmas side pizza starts with stuffing

finely chop half an onion and a quarter of an apple

season with salt and roast in the oven for a few minutes

meanwhile remove the skin from a good quality sausage

now mix those ingredients together along with a bit of dried sage

now let's talk about something quite controversial

brussel sprouts. Ok Google,

brussel sprouts vitamins

"On the website whfoods.com, they say

they are an excellent source of vitamin C,

and vitamin K. They are a very good source of

numerous nutrients including folate, manganese,

vitamin B-6, dietary fibre, choline,

copper, vitamin B-1, potassium,

phosphorous, and omega 3 fatty acids

Yeah so basically you want to include those as much as possible

Within your christmas diet. The question is, how?

it smells green, it smells nutty, it smells fresh

instead of boiling them, or doing anything stupid that will

obviously get them over cooked

you should roast them at the

highest temperature possible and for

the shortest amount of time possible. Pizza

Cut them into slices, not too thin otherwise

They will just burn, a bit of olive oil and a

bit of salt

on the pizza they go along with the tiny stuffing meatballs

and pop that in the oven

oooohlalalalalala

The first flavour is the sage

then you've got the sausage, the sweetness, the chili

because we roasted it for a very short period of time even the brussel sprouts

still is a bit crunchy

ummm so

you know while we were baking the first

two pizzas I think I came up with the

perfect solution for the christmas carrot pizza

problem. It's so simple!

How could I have missed it in the first place

Let's not use carrots and use chestnuts instead

I said I had a solution I did not say it was fair

and so starts pizza number 3

add a generous amount of smoked cheese, I'm using

smoked raclette cheese here, I gotta be french somewhere

Crumble a few roasted chestnuts over it

and now pop that in the oven

you wanna finish that off with a few shavings of

mushrooms and a nice crack of black

pepper

I swear I wanted to say something in the first place but

I don't know what to say it's just good

Hello?

hello?

I really hope that you guys enjoyed those

recipes and if you did

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it's christmas right? Of course a big thank you goes to google and their brand new

smart google helper the google home mini

that thing is precious in the kitchen. Fun story but true fact

it does understand even a slight and you know subtle french accent

like mine, what? And last

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it's always bout trying to get

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anyways, take care, buh bye, merry christmas and salut!