Pizza Party Redux Part 1
Posted: October 2, 2011 Filed under: recipes | Tags: baking, Dough, Metric on your Shizz, Pizza, Pizza Dough, Prepare ahead, Step-By-Step Dough 3 Comments »We`re gonna have a Pizza Party Tonight! Alright!
Well first we have to make some dough. The last Pizza Party had dough made, but it`s Saturday and dough needs to be made. The husband asked earlier today if we should start the dough. But the apt was not cleaned yet band gym not gone to. So we waited. As an aside, my friend Delphine just gave me some obnoxiously neoned pink/orange Nike dryfit tanks yesterday and I tried one out today and it rocks. I never buy fancy gym clothes and while I will never be hit by a car crossing in this thang, it is super comfy and sweatproof.
Then it was time to make the dough. I use Jamie Oliver`s recipe. It works well and seriously, just make your own dough. It totes angers me when I see recipes to buy dough. It doesn`t take long to make it and you are left with dough for 8 pizzas. It is better in the end and leaves you with dough for more Pizza Parties!!!!!
Roasted Beets + Marco Pierre White
Posted: September 23, 2011 Filed under: chef shame, Menus, random, rants, recipes | Tags: Cooking, oven, Prepare ahead, savory tarts, Speedy, vegetarian 1 Comment »I really enjoyed The Devil in the Kitchen, so imagine my disappointment when I started being inundated with Marco Pierre White starring in ads for Knorr. Worse, the upshot of the ad is that he pretends to use the preservative laden product in restaurants, which he, like every other “star chef,” don’t actually cook in, and worse, like he uses it in cooking at home. Maybe I am naïve (see Hal Hartley), but I kinda liked that White publicly stopped ended his restaurant chef career to pursue more money in endorsements/ad revenue/tv/etc. You know, I kinda respected the honesty, unlike every other name brand chef. But, now he’s pretending to work in the kitchen with this Knorr business. I`m disappointed.
Edit: a quick search today led me to this, and also that he has been shelling for them for years, the US ads are just new. Oops, though, still am disappointed.
Now on to the beets.
Pizza Party!
Posted: September 12, 2011 Filed under: recipes | Tags: Dough, fake-out, Mozzarella, Mushrooms, Pizza, Pizza Party, Pizza Sauce, Prepare ahead, Scratch, Tomato Sauce, TV Party 1 Comment »If it were 1981 and Black Flag were here they would be really really excited because We`re gonna have a Pizza Party Tonight – Alright! There`s no Black Flag but I can still pretend that Pizza Party and TV Party are the same thing.
Pizza Party can be either super fast or take some time, in this case it is fairly fast. Either way it is way cheaper, way better and way faster (kinda) than ordering up one. And you know there is no corn syrup in the sauce. I hate corn syrup. Even Lombardi`s corn syrups their sauce these days. At least I am convinced the do, it is way too sweet, if it isn’t corn sypup it is pretty sugary. Maybe you like sugary, then just make your sauce sweeter.
