Friday, October 30, 2009

Da Herb'd Crust

Sometimes, it's good to spice things up from the ground up. Using wacky toppings is always fun (unless it's BBQ sauce. Fuck that), but there may come a time when crazy toppings just aren't doing it for you. SO, you gotta take that shit to the crust and re-invent the wheel.
I chose to make a classic Italian herb crust using parsley, basil, oregano, garlic, salt, and pepper, about a teaspoon of the first four ingredients and then a dash of the last two. The rest of the crust recipe was as follows:

3 and half cups of flour
a tablespoon of sugar
a packet of yeast
a cup of warm (not hot) water

Mix all of it together as you normally would. Now, for some reason, I can never get this dough to rise BEFORE baking it, so don't get all bent out of shape if you let it sit and it doesn't rise. However, in the oven, it creates a really light and bubbly crust that is really soft but has a crispy finish. It's easy to fuck up and get soggy, so keep an eye on that shit. Here are some pictures to show the progress of this masterpiece.




Tuesday, October 27, 2009

New Pizza's on the Horizon


That Red Orange ellipse that makes you feel warm on the inside isn't the Sun. It's a smoldering hot fresh pizza. I can see how you might fail to make that distinction.

Here's some shit I been making :

So called 'Mexican' Pizza as recommended by this guy.

This is the Intolerant Version of the "Four Cheese" Pizza. Wheat crust.

I've been experimenting with different Pizza Sauces to augment the tastes on my Pies. Using a fully prepared sauce is nice when you just wanna make a quick pie. Problem is every supermarket has like fifty different kinds. What to get? I'm there for you....

Pizza Sauce review #1


First up was Don Pepino :



I should have known this wasn't going to be good. I'm not going to deny that my major motivation to try this was that the cartoon character on the label appears to be pointing at his genitals. I thought "Finally a Pizza company that's channeling my vibe". They might have been right there with my highbrow dick humor, but way off with taste. It wasn't horrible or anything, but there wasn't much to this, and it was a bit too sweet. Really just diced tomatoes with minimal spices and some paste.

My heads looking for a can of fully prepared Pizza sauce should look elsewhere.

Intolerant rating of 3/10 .