(photo by Mark Luinenburg) If you’ve read any of our books, you know that this particularly photogenic fruit (or is it a vegetable?) seems to have captured our imagination. After a year of perfecting the basic tomato/basil/mozzarella topping, I did (believe it or not) get tired of Pizza Margherita. Enter the smoky and savory roasted red pepper. Continue reading
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This pizza is so thin and crackly that light shines through it! It’s much easier to achieve perfection with this Tuscan specialty than you might think. Plus, our TV segment in Charlotte, North Carolina, with former Saturday Night Live cast-member Colin Quinn. Continue reading
(photo by Mark Luinenburg) It has been suggested to me that the real reason I like to throw pizza dough into the air when I teach a class is not because throwing the dough improves the pizza, but because I am an incorrigible show-off. I will neither confirm nor deny this beastly rumor. But having now thrown a lot of dough, I truly can say how beautifully it thins the dough and relaxes the gluten. There’s more on this in Artisan Pizza and Flatbread in Five Minutes a Day, but here are some photos a video that show how it’s done. Continue reading
We had a blast in Denver, saw some fantastic views near the town of Nederland, and did a great segment yesterday on Daybreak-TV-2. On to Salt Lake City today for more TV on KUTV-2 News (CBS in Salt Lake)!
(color photo above by Mark Luinenburg) An interviewer recently asked me, “what’s new in your pizza & flatbread book that you didn’t already cover in “Artisan Bread…” and in “Healthy Bread…”? My answer: A lot! Like how ’bout this Braided Challah Flatbread that requires zero resting time before it goes into the oven? Braided enriched loaves like these are integral parts of many holiday traditions– Finnish Pulla, Swedish St. Lucia’s Bread, Jewish Sabbath bread, and others. So this busy holiday season, you can be ready with super-fast festive loaves like these. Detailed photos ahead… Continue reading
This was lunch today. If you want to get more vegetables into your diet (or sneak it into someone else’s), pizza is the way to do it. Nobody ever turns down homemade pizza. Here’s a vegetable pizza with lots of arugula baked right in, so this is different from what we did with arugula in the book (using it raw as soon as the pizza comes out of the oven)… Continue reading
(photo by Stephen Gross)
Where: On Twitter and here on our website.
When: November 15, 2011
Twitter Hosts: @ArtisanBreadin5 and @ZoeBakes
Please come– bake pizza from Artisan Pizza and Flatbread in Five Minutes a Day and tweet about it on November 15, 2011 (and through the weekend). Use the hashtag #PizzaPartyIn5 so we can re-tweet your pizzas. Looking for pizza party ideas? See our party video on YouTube? Bloggers, please include a link to your pizza posts and we’ll let the world know where to find you.
Zoe and I aren’t gluten-free, but some of our friends are, so our second and third books have a nice sampling of gluten-free doughs. The pizza above? A gluten-free Pear, Prosciutto, and Blue Cheese Pizza that we featured in the article we just wrote for Easy Eats Magazine (click here for a free sample download of the article). Easy Eats Magazine (EasyEats.com) is brand-new, and it’s specifically for gluten-free folks– there’s no wheat in this magazine. Our article isn’t just about pizza– there’s bread, breadsticks, pannetone muffins, and challah. We’re thrilled to be part of the inaugural issue!
(photo Mark Luinenburg) Growing up in New York in the 1960s and 70s, there were two options when you walked into a pizza place: “regular” (thin-crust) baked right on the hearth, or “Sicilian” (thick-crusted), baked in a pan. I’m fairly certain I didn’t know where Sicily actually was, and my parents were partial to “regular,” so that’s what we got. Eventually I started going by myself and tried the chewier, thicker stuff. It’s a hit with kids, and for many of our readers, a pan-built pizza is an easier trick than the traditional free-form pizza slid off a peel (see Zoe’s post on that).
But first, we have a winner… of the pizza baking giveaway package from October 25. The winner, picked randomly from among nearly 800 entrants is: Dave W, who favors a soppressata, peppadew, and onion creation. Dave, just answer my e-mail and we’ll ship out the package…
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