A Very Delicious Thing & A Contest!
Happy 100 posts! To celebrate, we're having a blog contest! All you have to do to enter is leave a comment about your favorite kind of pizza. Deadline is February 29 (leap day!). I'll randomly pick a comment out of the hat and the winner will get something good! I can't tell you what the prize is, because it depends on who wins! But it will be good!
And now, for the Very Delicious Thing.
Homemade Deep Dish Pizza!
Inspired by
YumSugar 
It was quite tasty, if I do say so myself.
My "tutorial" follows, mostly so I can look back if I ever want to make this again!
Make dough from YumSugar recipe. This dough is enough for 2 pizzas, I think. I used a little more than half of it, but it was a touch too thick. Let rest covered for 4 hours.
While the dough rests, make a tomato sauce. You could use jar sauce, but I didn't want to drop the $4 for a jar of sauce, so I just whipped up a quick marinara.
When dough is almost done resting, pre-cook your Italian Sausage for 5ish minutes, mainly to flatten it out, and get some of the grease out.
Now that the dough has risen, punch it down and turn it out onto a clean surface. Knead just a bit.
Press dough into a well greased 10" springform pan.
Now you're ready to build the pizza. Layer in your cheese first. We used fresh mozzarella, that I sliced thin and squeezed between a couple paper towels to pull out any extra moisture.
Next, layer in the sausage. You'll want to take your slightly cooked, slightly cooled sausage and press between paper towels in small pieces. This does two things. First, it helps flatten out the sausage, so you can make a managably thin layer. Secondly, it helps get out quite a bit of the grease, to help prevent the crust from getting too soggy.
Cover with a generous layer of sauce, and pop in a 425 degree oven for 40 minutes.
I sprinkled it with some parmesan with about 5 minutes left in the cooking time.
After cooking, let sit for 10 minutes, so it won't explode when you cut it. Remove the ring from the springform pan. Don't freak out, the crust will hold in the ingredients, as long as you pushed it up the sides of the pan before cooking.
Slice, take lots of pictures, and enjoy!
Yum!
Don't forget to leave a comment!
Labels: cooking, deep dish, mozzarella, pizza
Yarn Barf
Dinner (and lunch, for that matter) was of the liquid variety today. Pomtinis to celebrate the end of Health of the Public!
I did rock some mac and cheese for a 9:00 dinner, though.
We sort of lost our appetite for dinner after a severe case of yarn barf. There's no reasonable explanation for this, so I'll just let the pictures do the talking.
We did get it untangled, have no fear.
Labels: knitting, yarn
Dinner
Pasta toss with Italian Sausage, marinara and roasted onion and red pepper. Topped with grated Romano.
Yum!
Not the best pictures, it is hard to take pictures of red food!
Labels: cooking, dinner, italian, pasta
Choose Your Own Adventure
Labels: pigs in a blanket
BBQ Heaven!
I think there is something to be said about the quality of BBQ based on the greasiness of the bag.
OK Joe's. BBQ Heaven.
Z-man for me. Pulled Pork for Jerm. Onion Rings. Delicious.
If we match somewhere else than KC, we will sorely miss this restaurant in a gas station!
Labels: BBQ, delicious
Leftover Makeover
Leftover mac & cheese with some chorizo added in. Tasty!
Labels: chorizo, food
Delicious Dinner!
We didn't have a good idea for dinner tonight- we wanted mexican, but I used up all the cheese making Mac & Cheese the other night, so traditional mexcian food was out of the question.
So, we improvised.
New tortilla press
Masa (corn flour)
Chili-lime shrimp
Mexican rice made from scratch
Some avocado "salsa"
DELICIOUS shrimp tacos. Every component made from scratch!
I went with a rice bowl, as I'm not a huge fan of corn tortillas.
Best shrimp tacos ever! Jerm declared this to be restaurant worthy!
Labels: cooking, food, rice, shrimp, tortilla
Snow Day
I am really getting tired of the constant crummy weather in KC.
Gizmo does not mind the bad weather.
Labels: cat, Gizmo, snow
Leftovers
Jerm was at work and I was out of town for a bridal shower, so dinner tonight was leftovers.
Alas.
Hopefully your regularly scheduled dinner programming will return tomorrow.
Gizzler
Labels: cat, Gizmo, lolcat
Mac & Cheese
Friday during Lent= no meat.
So I made Mac&Cheese from scratch. Pretty tasty, though I still haven't mastered how to avoid lumpiness in the sauce.
It would have been better with some ham or pancetta, but overall, I still give it a thumbs up!
Labels: dinner, food, mac and cheese
Happy Valentine's Day!
We decided to splurge and buy some expensive ingredients to make dinner tonight, rather than wasting money on so-so restaurant food!
We made grilled ribeye steak, bacon wrapped sea scallops, herbed rice pilaf and grilled asparagus.
Action shot:
Check out the grill marks!
The final product. Pretty tasty!
Labels: cooking, food, scallop, steak
Happy Birthday to the Knitsters!
Since my fellow knitters have all celebrated a recent birthday, I figured I should bring them some sweet treats! For knitting tonight, I made birthday cupcakes. The yarn ones feature knitting "needles" made from toothpicks and gummy candies.
Behold.
Yummy.
Labels: baking, cupcakes, knitting
Choose Your Own Adventure!
We had "Choose Your Own Adventure" night for dinner tonight, since I had knitting and Jerm had poker.
This is totally embarassing, but I feasted on one of my guilty pleasures for dinner tonight.
I'm not too proud to admit that I love me some Totino's frozen pizza.
Labels: food, pizza
Fried Rice
Pork fried rice. We've never made this before, but it turned out very well. Definitely getting added into the dinner rotation!
Labels: cooking, dinner, fried rice
Leftovers
Pasta e fagioli leftovers. It tastes better than in looks in this pic! Hopefully this daily posting will help to improve my pathetic food photography skills!
Labels: food, soup
No Pic Dinner Post
No pictures because I went to Grams' for a tasty dinner of pork roast and other assorted sides. And I didn't want to take a picture of my food, for fear of giving my family yet another reason to mock me. But the pork roast with cranberries atop would have made a delightful picture. Alas.
Jerm was at work and couldn't make it to dinner. So he had this:
Real food tomorrow, hopefully!
Labels: food
The Cure to What Ales You
I picked up a 6-pack of this stuff the other day, brewed out of Oregon.
Rogue Dead Guy Ale is some pretty tasty beer and definitely worth a try if you see some in your local store.
Labels: beer
Daily Dinner Post
Trying something new. A daily dinner post. We'll see how long this lasts! I hope to do it for at least a month!
Tonight was Reuben Sandwiches. Yum.
Labels: cooking, dinner, food, sandwich
While the dough rests, make a tomato sauce. You could use jar sauce, but I didn't want to drop the $4 for a jar of sauce, so I just whipped up a quick marinara.
Now that the dough has risen, punch it down and turn it out onto a clean surface. Knead just a bit.
Press dough into a well greased 10" springform pan.
Now you're ready to build the pizza. Layer in your cheese first. We used fresh mozzarella, that I sliced thin and squeezed between a couple paper towels to pull out any extra moisture.
Next, layer in the sausage. You'll want to take your slightly cooked, slightly cooled sausage and press between paper towels in small pieces. This does two things. First, it helps flatten out the sausage, so you can make a managably thin layer. Secondly, it helps get out quite a bit of the grease, to help prevent the crust from getting too soggy.
Cover with a generous layer of sauce, and pop in a 425 degree oven for 40 minutes.
I sprinkled it with some parmesan with about 5 minutes left in the cooking time.
Slice, take lots of pictures, and enjoy!
Yum!
