Every few months, I have to fly to New York to eat pizza. It's genetic. My dad feels the same urge. When you grow up with NY pizza, nothing else really satisfies. So, I've been experimenting with various methods (pizza stone in oven, brick over hot coal, terra cotta stone in smoker) to stop the cravings, and nothing has quite worked.
Last night, my pizza making dreams took a step backward. I thought making my own dough would be the way forward. Unfortunately, I suck at baking. Therefore, my dough was...not great. It turned to crisp flatbread fairly quickly, but didn't cook all the way through for 25 minutes. Effort to delicious ratio was far too tilted to effort. Failure.
Back to the drawing board.
*I had a ton of leftover dough, so I threw it in a bread pan and made a loaf of bread. The bread was about as good as the pizza.
5 comments:
Don't worry, Hal. This will only fuel your inner fire to absolutely nail it. Remember: Michael Jordan was cut from his high-school basketball team.
(I'm the opposite: pizza from scratch is one of the /only/ things I can actually make... and it's a constant dialectic of trial and error. Like drawing the perfect circle)
I made pizza dough for the first time last week and I'm SO intimidated by yeast doughs. I tried two recipes, one failed (sadly, A. Brown's), and one was a moderate success (from the Fleishmanns Yeast packet, actually, the website they give on the packet).
I'm a Chicago pizza girl (and I don't mean deep dish--although it's good, too) so my success might very well be relative! ;)
Funny bc even before I saw Jordan's comment, I was going to tell you that my cousin makes the best homeade pizza I've ever had! I actually had it when he was living in NYC. He uses a stone thing so I thought that was the secret..but apparently there's more involved.. wish making good pizza crust was genetic too ; )
I'm going to have to try both of your pizzas one of these days. And steal your secrets, because, as of now, I have a long way to go to pizza dough success.
That bread looks good though.....
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