The pizza class I took last summer is finally paying off! I got a bunch of great pizza supplies for Christmas, and Adam and I are putting them to good use. My dough is so much better (I used to just buy it from Whole Foods), I love the sauce. The key is setting the oven as high as it will go and putting the pizza stone (in our case a pizza steel) in the oven for an hour to heat up. Then we cook the pizzas right on the steel.
Tag: pizza
So this year for my birthday, Adam gave me a gift certificate for a class at Pizza a Casa pizza school in Manhattan. I didn’t get a chance to use until a few weeks ago, as an end-of-the-school-year extravaganza. And it was awesome.
I can tell that I’m ready for summer to be over because I’m having more cooking failures than usual. Distraction, stress, exhaustion–all culprits. A couple weeks ago I tried to make this great sounding salad with caramelized fennel and bacon from a Giada recipe. I followed her recipe exactly, but rather than check on the oven full of fennel and bacon like I normally would, I let it run until the timer binged. What I took out of the oven was a blackened sheet of charcoal that had once been something edible. It was like a nuclear holocaust on my dinner salad. It fused itself to the cookie sheet so badly that after 3 attempts at cleaning it I had to throw it out.
Our pizza cutter broke.
Pizza is my favorite food on earth. It is the one thing I would never be able to give up. So Adam always asks me why I don’t make pizza at home. I don’t have a lot of patience for making the dough, honestly. That’s something I need to get over, I know. But our neighborhood Whole Foods sells pizza dough in their deli department, and I decided to try that out. I’m off today and Adam’s working from home, so I made pizza for lunch. It was unbelievably good and easy! Now I may never learn to make dough if all I have to do is run to Whole Foods and pick some up.