Wednesday, September 1

Slice of Love


Mastering the art of homemade pizza is definitely a labor of love.  Sure, if you have a fancy, outdoor wood-burning pizza oven, it's easy to make that perfectly blistered, charred, crispy-chewy crust every time.  But for those of us mortals who can't cook their pizza at 1000 degrees, it's inevitably a work in progress.   In our house, we use a pizza stone to get that crisp-bottomed loveliness we all strive for.  On the grill in the summer or in a hot oven in the winter, that round preheated stone does the trick.  Pizza dough is a virtual blank canvas for toppings and such an easy way to experiment with flavors.  Just throw a flattened piece of dough on a cornmeal dusted pizza peel, top with your favorite stuff, and sling that beauty into the screaming hot contraption of your choosing. Pizza at home, easy as pie.

Risen dough, spread on a cornmeal-dusted peel and covered in a base of fruity olive oil.   A tasty blank canvas.
{Try this pizza dough recipe, we love it}
Be sure to have plenty of Italian-inspired munchies to snack on while your pizzas cook.
A white pizza gets smothered in burrata,  fontina and goat cheese.  After cooking, it is topped with a lemony-dressed arugula salad for a cool bite of fresh, green flavor.
A potato, bacon, shallot and white cheddar pizza.  Finished with a drizzle of truffle oil, of course.
A classic margherita pizza topped with a simple roma tomato sauce, torn basil and milky burrata.  After cooking, finish with a light swirl of olive oil and some freshly grated Parmigiano Reggiano.  Simple flavors that combine to create an utterly delectible pizza. 

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