Cowabunga!

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Aw, yeah, I know how to make a damn fine pizza.



I am finding that good pizza takes a lot of practice. I keep trying different recipes--but the most successful one I've found for thin crust, like the one up there, is snagged from the back of one of those bullshit cozy mystery books I periodically shelve.* I did hit a bit of a snag when the recipe suggested that I use my portable brick pizza oven for best results. Uh, yeah. Look, I'm surprised I have a pizza stone.** But even with the recipes, it takes a lot of work.***

On the plus side, if my appetite for pizza continues, all this kneading is going to give me some serious Popeye forearms. Who'd have thought pizza could make you a badass? The Ninja Turtles were right all along.


*But didn't actually read, because cozy mysteries are Not My Thing.

**Also I have this, thanks to my brother. That's all I really need.

***Getting the darn thing from the paddle onto the stone, for example. Which is why I had the fight with the oven.

Comments

[booksnchocolate.livejournal.com]

OMG that looks amazing! :D (Spoken as one who has just returned from Italy, the nirvana of all pizzerias) Props to you for making the crust yourself (I'm generally too lazy).

[westrider.livejournal.com]

My brother found a recipe for pizza dô in Cooks Magazine that worked pretty well, and was pretty much entirely done in the food processor. All he had to do by hand was roll it out.

[madripoor-rose.livejournal.com]

That looks good! So one of those recipes-inna-back works? I like a good cozy mystery for waiting room reading, but I find myself somewhat bewildered by these gimmick cozies.....it's not enough to have a witty amatuer sleuth and a decent whodunnit puzzle, now there has to be a craft project involved?

[stormteller.livejournal.com]

I have a bread machine, which makes pizza dough a trivial process. The sauce is easy to whip up in large quantities and chill between uses, though I tend to just buy a jar of something decent. After that, it's just a matter of using whatever ingredients are handy in the fridge at the time. Pizza-making is not really complicated.
Order of operations matters, though. I prefer to put the cheese on top of everything else, but sometimes you want certain ingredients to be a little broiled. And if you use a lot of fresh veggies, the pizza will tend to get a little watery.

[mel-redcap.livejournal.com]

*looks suspiciously at your pizza*

Aha! I see that you are one of those strange and warped people who like OLIVES. Bleaugh. No, no, awesome pizza has no olives and requires mushrooms. :P :) (My husband, however, would love your pizza, being also strange and warped. ;D)