aks801
04-22-2018, 09:39 PM
After cooking a steak dinner last night, I was happily full. At about 10 PM my wife reminded me that I had promised I would make pizza Sunday evening. So... dragged my butt to the kitchen and made the dough.
Cut to late Sunday afternoon. Got everything prepped up and ready for pizza making. The menu:
- NY style, hand-tossed, cheese
- NY style, hand-tossed, meatball and purple onion
- Sicilian, pepperoni and meatball
The Sicilian dough was prepared separately, as it is more like a focaccia bread, with olive oil in the dough.
I hadn't made pizza in well over a year, so I wondered how it might come out. Everyone seemed happy with it, and isn't that the real test?
Behold, the tools of ignorance:
https://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=1147&pictureid=11955
Cheese pizza. The king of all pizzas. For my pizza cheese blend, I like to use bagged mozzarella, then toss on some cubed fontina cheese. Here it is before the oven:
https://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=1147&pictureid=11956
We have a pizza! This one was mainly for the girls:
https://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=1147&pictureid=11957
Hey, Tony! A slice of cheese!
https://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=1147&pictureid=11958
Here's the meatball and onion ready to go in the oven:
https://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=1147&pictureid=11959
And here it is all ready for eatin'. Wife and I really liked this one:
https://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=1147&pictureid=11960
I'm ready for my close-up! This is my favorite pic of the batch:
https://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=1147&pictureid=11961
Sicilian love letter. You can see how the cheese goes directly on the dough, with a dollop of sauce on top for each slice.
https://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=1147&pictureid=11962
Ooh, now this is promising. I feel like I have a lot of work to do yet to get the Sicilian right. But I like this so far:
https://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=1147&pictureid=11963
One of my favorite aspects of a good Sicilian pizza is the burnt/crispy crust on the edges. This pizza had a fair amount of it, but not as much as I'd like. Still, it was a fair stab at it:
https://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=1147&pictureid=11964
Action shot of the Sicilian.
https://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=1147&pictureid=11965
So it was a good pizza dinner, and I'll probably start making them more regularly for family pizza nights. At some point I'd like to build a wood-fired oven in the backyard, but that is a different story for a different day.
Cut to late Sunday afternoon. Got everything prepped up and ready for pizza making. The menu:
- NY style, hand-tossed, cheese
- NY style, hand-tossed, meatball and purple onion
- Sicilian, pepperoni and meatball
The Sicilian dough was prepared separately, as it is more like a focaccia bread, with olive oil in the dough.
I hadn't made pizza in well over a year, so I wondered how it might come out. Everyone seemed happy with it, and isn't that the real test?
Behold, the tools of ignorance:
https://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=1147&pictureid=11955
Cheese pizza. The king of all pizzas. For my pizza cheese blend, I like to use bagged mozzarella, then toss on some cubed fontina cheese. Here it is before the oven:
https://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=1147&pictureid=11956
We have a pizza! This one was mainly for the girls:
https://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=1147&pictureid=11957
Hey, Tony! A slice of cheese!
https://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=1147&pictureid=11958
Here's the meatball and onion ready to go in the oven:
https://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=1147&pictureid=11959
And here it is all ready for eatin'. Wife and I really liked this one:
https://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=1147&pictureid=11960
I'm ready for my close-up! This is my favorite pic of the batch:
https://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=1147&pictureid=11961
Sicilian love letter. You can see how the cheese goes directly on the dough, with a dollop of sauce on top for each slice.
https://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=1147&pictureid=11962
Ooh, now this is promising. I feel like I have a lot of work to do yet to get the Sicilian right. But I like this so far:
https://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=1147&pictureid=11963
One of my favorite aspects of a good Sicilian pizza is the burnt/crispy crust on the edges. This pizza had a fair amount of it, but not as much as I'd like. Still, it was a fair stab at it:
https://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=1147&pictureid=11964
Action shot of the Sicilian.
https://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=1147&pictureid=11965
So it was a good pizza dinner, and I'll probably start making them more regularly for family pizza nights. At some point I'd like to build a wood-fired oven in the backyard, but that is a different story for a different day.