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Thursday, December 9
....Orr Maybe I'll Make Pizza
After a (literally) rousing jog in the foothills Saturday morning and my routine replenish breakfast at Flying Star of oatmeal with a side of turkey green chile sausage, I walked next door to attempt some eyelash-batting at the Foreman of Frommage. Alas, the fort was being manned by several other slaves on this day. My plan foiled, I still managed to escape with a hefty lobe of fresh mozzarella goodness.
Wonderful on its own, Johnny's mozz melts fairly well so I decided to use it on a homemade pizza that night. Under my strict lessons of "use it today and DON'T refrigerate" I rolled out the dough, misted it with oil, smoothed on fresh marinara sauce, and then covered 2/3 of the pie with thin slices of the cheese. Running out, I topped the rest with regular "part-skim" shredded supermarket mozzarella, and pepperoni because that's the half I won't be eating and I'm selfish enough to want all the good cheese to myself. On my half I also dabbed around fresh chopped basil I had preserved in olive oil.
After baking at 550 degrees for 8 minutes, here's what we had:
Crust/topping close-up:
How was everything? Well, the crust could have been better seasoned - it was somewhat bland. The texture was fine - chewy and light. The cheese? Pure heaven, and even more striking when contrasted with the motley mess of the "store-bought" mozzarella. That stuff tasted damn near toxic when put up against the real deal.
Note to Johnny: I cheated. I didn't use all the cheese the first day. BUT, I didn't refrigerate and it was just as good the next day, if a slightly different and more pungent specimen.
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