Amateur food porn for Pi Day
Earlier today, I posted photos of a coffee cake I made this afternoon. This evening I made pizza (a staple around here), and decided to take photos of that, too. And post them to my Picasa account – with commentary/ instructions.
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Each photo on this page is click-able, and I added comments for each stage.
Call it amateur food porn, but here’s how I do it… 😉
On those photo pages I left out the steps for making the dough, however, so I’ll add them now.
I like a thin crust pizza myself, but everyone’s different – which is why I didn’t put a recipe for dough on the photos page. You can probably go to your local bakery and buy some dough (I know I can do this at Bubby Rose‘s, for example).
My pizza dough is pretty basic:
3 cups of flour, 1 cup of water, some yeast, some sugar, a bit of salt, and olive oil.
Proof the yeast with the water [heated to lukewarm], add a bit of sugar. Once the yeast is puffy, add a tablespoon or so of olive oil, some salt, and start adding the flour bit by bit. Stir, then knead [I use a Kitchen Aid], keep it up and going for a while. If you can, make the dough a while ahead of time, which makes for a chewier dough since it “develops” more. That’s all. Easy as …pie.
March 14th, 2010 at 11:37 pm
Oh, that looks lovely. Thank you!
March 15th, 2010 at 3:39 pm
Thanks, Cheryl – it’s really easy to make pizza if you have the peel and a stone and an oven at 500 degrees F. 😉
March 18th, 2010 at 11:58 pm
The Italian deli on Blanshard sells a good pizza cheese that’s similar to mozzarella but good for slight change. But I forget its name. If you ask, they’ll tell you.
March 19th, 2010 at 8:52 am
Good to know, that deli has excellent stuff – I’ll have to remember their pizza cheese for when I run out of mozzarella. (I usually buy these huge blocks of part-skim/ low-moisture mozza at Costco and then cut into portions and freeze. Cheese freezes well.)
March 22nd, 2010 at 5:42 pm
I love a good pizza.