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The N.Y. Times on pizza dough

May 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Food

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/19/dining/19pizza.html?pagewanted=1 The best part of the article comes at the very end: “Someday, you might build a wood-burning oven — right after you start making your own vinegar, raising honeybees and churning butter with cream from cows you milk. Until then, you can make pizzeria-quality pizza with the perfectly normal oven in your kitchen.” The [...]

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Pizza notebook – quick tip for the dough.

January 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Food

(this mainly applies to my home oven baked smaller pizzas but might be applicable to many others – and as always, this is an evolving process) After you make your dough, let it stay in the fridge to develop flavor for 2-3 days.  The 24 hour period is a minimum, but 2-3 days is optimal [...]

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Cast Iron Baked Pizza? I think not, Atlantic Monthly!

January 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Food

I don’t understand the popularity of the cast iron method of baking a pizza.  If done properly, a stone will do the trick just fine.  This new article on the Atlantic Monthly’s website feels otherwise.  I think I need to disspell the myth that this is somehow better and actually try it.  Anyone else do [...]

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Weekly Round Up

January 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Bloggish, Computery, Crosspost, Food, Local, Photography, stuff

Getting into the habit of reviewing the interesting Internetty / bloggy / foody / &tc.-y stuff from the week is something I would like to establish.  It gives me a chance to reflect and review all the garbage I saw all week, determine what was actually interesting and not heat-of-the-moment cool, and hopefully I can [...]

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Daily Photo Jan. 6 – a day late

January 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Food, Photography

Yep, I’m already late!  I have just been floored busy this week and have had no time.  I will make time this evening to get at least some sort of daily photo up.  The below pic was taken of one of the best pizzas I have ever made.  I’m very happy with the way my [...]

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Quick video teaching how to stretch pizza dough / toss pizza dough.

December 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · Food

This video is from a cooking school – showing the students how to properly stretch the Sourdough pizza dough, then how to toss properly.  I will try it out at home tonight and report back on my success or failure.  The part I took away from this video was to press down and make an [...]

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First (published) Pizza Test Night Results

July 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Food

If you know me, then it is no secret that I have been obsessed with finding a good pizza recipe for a long time now.  Looking at the sidebar of this blog, you can see my Delicious bookmarks, with many involving the dish.  I’m going to spend some more time documenting my experiments here. When [...]

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