Home Made Pizza 2.0

My desire for ultimate pizza satisfaction can never be fully satiated. Pizza has become to me what hamburger was once to me. It is a curse, it is a blessing, it is an adventure. This is a thinner crust pizza than the last one I made, topped with prosciutto de parma, natural casing capa colla, and onions. (same cheeses as last time). I gave this one a more sauce than the last, and more time in the hot box resulting in more cheese browning and more crispy crust. It was delicious, though I prefer the lightness of the risen dough, I would eat this again, and again.

Yesterday when I told you I made bread sticks, I may not have been all the way honest. I mixed up some dough and twirled it into sticks, and brushed them with garlic olive oil, however, what I left out was that that dough was a pizza dough. Today I took that dough, now fully risen and developed and worked it into this lovely pizza. topped with a beautiful red sauce that I whipped up, some fresh mozzarella and a mix of Parmesan and Pecorino, Prosciutto de Parma, black olives, and onions. This pizza is the best pizza you have ever seen. I kid you not.

Garlic Bread Sticks

The most simple things are the best things in life. Bread is one of those things, so simple, so pure, and so difficult to make well. Today I made some garlic bread sticks. They are spectacular!

Homemade Chicken Nuggets

Chicken nuggets are the best. Not the ones from that one Irish sounding place, not the ones shaped like dinosaurs, but the ones made from dark meat, seasoned, breaded in Japanese Panko and pan fried. These crisp, moist, nuggets of chicken, they are delicious. 

Chocolate Marble Marsh Mallows

Marshmallows, you know, those puffy white semi-sweet things you sometimes burn over a campfire in a poor attempt at a s'more. I know you claim that you like them burnt on the outside, but if you're honest they taste terrible that way (have a s'more with me and I will learn you how they are meant to be). Well, those marshmallows, the ones from the store, are rubbish. Seriously, they suck. Above you see homemade chocolate marble marshmallows. They soft, fluffy, sweet, and chocolate all at the same time. I made them and they are incredible.

Mac N Cheese

You can't get this out of a box. And seriously, that box stuff has ruined Mac N Cheese for entire generations. All it takes is a little know how, simple ingredients, and a lot (seriously a lot) of sharp cheddar cheese. Here you see the ingenious use of Mac N Cheese left overs, cut into slices, toasted under the broiler, and drizzled with a little homemade creamy chipotle sauce. It was good. You can't have any.

Slow Smoke BBQ 2.0

Theory meet practice. Much thought has gone into this device, my backyard slow smoking mechanism. The heat retention and radiant nature of the terra cotta pot, the high smoldering temperature of natural hardwood charcoal, the high tech application of my duel read probe thermometer and a pot full of soaked cherry chips and chunks. It all comes together into a perfect days smoke.