Mini-Zoo in Neukölln

DAY 9

Aktivity: After having advertised the baby-ticket for the zoo yesterday, I figured I should present a possibility for people who either don't have a kid or a kid which has passed the baby-age. After or before a walk in the very nice park Hasenheide (nice before dark) you can visit for totally completely no money the mini-zoo. (They do take donations though - the donation box is close to the chicken.)

Lamas, kangaroos, emus, sheep, black swans, pigs, chicken and other animals live here.

Opening hours are: March - October: 9.00 - 18.00h, November - February: 9.00 - 15.30h and apperently you can ride a pony ("Ponyreiten") on Saturdays&Sundays between 15.00 - 16.00h but only if there is no rain, snow or ice. I haven't checked that out because I am a bit too old for it, so I don't know if you can just go or if you have to register beforehand. So I wish good luck with trying that:-)


That was basically the activity for today - going for a walk - so we can now turn to the food section of today:

 Food:


Breakfast: Müsli (with milk which I still had)

Lunch: Pizza (I know there was already pizza on the menu yesterday BUT this one is homemade)

This requires some multi-tasking skills but first here is the recipe for the pizza dough:
Of an 1kg bag of flour you take away 3 tablespoons full of flour and store them in a glass for another occasion
this makes
- 1kg flour minus 3 full tablespoons
- one dice of fresh yeast (a dice is always 42g)
- 500 ml of hand warm water
- 1 to 2 TEAspoons of salt
- a pinch of sugar
- a bit more than a small shot of olive oil

 Step 1: Mix everything together in a bowl - except the flour  

 Step 2: Add the flour and start kneading

 until the dough looks like that:

 Then you put a blanket (kitchentowel) over the dough and let it rest for about 30 minutes in a warm and cozy place.


In the meantime you could - at least that's what I did because I had 3 old dry Brötchen left from a few days ago - make breadcrumbs.

To make breadcrumbs you need this super-grinder. I once bought it on the fleamarket for 2,00€ and it's been a great tool ever since. You can also grind nuts and chocolate with it, which is great if you want to make a chocolate-hazelnut-cake - which I gonna show you another time.

 So back to the breadcrumbs: it's really easy. You just grind the dry bread and there you go. What do you need breadcrumbs for? I like to put them into meatballs, also if you want to make a Schnitzel yourself it tastes much better with homemade breadcrumbs.

I have this really big collection of glasses - in all possible sizes - because I never know when I need to store something and I like to be prepared:

The difficulty with self-stored food for me is that I never remember when I made what. When I make jam I label the glasses with a sticker but then if I want to reuse the glasses - the stickers don't go off so easily. So I invented this very easy technique: write with a non-permanent marker which you would usually use for a whiteboard.

Back to the pizza I was also making: The dough should look like this:

If you also want to make a toastbread at the same time you can cut the dough in half. One half of the dough can be put in a cake form and can rest again for a few minutes in a warm place.

  I baked the bread about 30 minutes at around 230 degrees Celsius and it looked like this:

Step 3: The remaining dough I cut into 6 equally big peaces

Step 4: make the sauce for the pizza - I used some tomatoe-juice and an italian herbmix and an onion which I still all had in my shelves. The yeast and flour I bought on DAY 1 so it's already in the budget.

Step 5: Put the sauce onto the pizzas you've made and add whatever toppings you would like.

We actually only had 2 of the 6 pizzas which I made. I made some homemade frozen pizzas from the rest. Just put them individually in the freezer until they are frozen and then you can put all of them into a plastic bag. I only freeze the pizza without toppings.

Dinner: Homemade toast with garlic and tomatoe and onions and a tad of olive oil plus salt&pepper

Transportation: Feet

I actually bought some potatoes and onions and a piece of poppy-seed-cake. To be honest - I could have saved half of the money for the cake because they had the offer "cake from yesterday for half the price" - but of course I took 2 pieces instead. :-P

Total spendings today:  2,89€

Just to sum a the price for the pizza ingredients: dice of yeast cost 0,09€, 1kg of flour cost about 0,60€ - basically speaking in round figures: you can either make 2 toastbreads or 1 toastbread and 6 pizzas or 12 pizzas for about 1,00€. But of course it costs "time" to make it...
I hope I inspired some pizza-bakers today!