New Years Homemade Pizza

Did the homemade pizza thing for New Years. I followed the recipe found in this forum.

Gino’s East Pizza Crust Recipe
1 cup of warm water w/touch of sugar
1 package yeast
1T cornmeal (I know it’s not really in there)
1 teaspoon salt
1T corn oil
1T olive oil
2 ½ to 3 cups bread flour
¼ tsp yellow food coloring

Take the water and put it in your mixer. add yeast and a touch of sugar. Let the yeast foam up to be sure that it is active. Then add the rest of the ingredients including 2 1/2 cups flour. Knead the dough until it is well combined. If the dough is sticky add a little more flour. The dough should be moist but not sticky. Knead the dough for 10 minutes. Put it in the oven to rise.

Here’s the crust after kneading.

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Here’s the crust after rising for two hours.

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Here’s the crust in the spring-form pan. The pan needs to be well greased and I tend to use some bread crumbs in the bottom.

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Cheese on the bottom (Chicago style).

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Pre-browned sausage. Reduces the amount of grease in the final product.

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Pepperoni on half.

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Sauce on top (Chicago style).

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45 minutes in the oven at 350 degrees.

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Spring-form pan makes for easy removal.

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January 2, 2009 | Filed Under personal | Comments Off 

MMJ – Chicago Theatre 12/28/08

Finally caught My Morning Jacket live. Great performance and fantastic set.

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At Dawn
It Beats
Evil Urges
I’m Amazed
Gideon
Wonderful Man
Golden
I Will Sing
Lowdown
Sooner   <- really nice live
Thank You Too
Anytime
Remnants
Lay Low
Highly Suspicious
Off the Record
Hell
Smokin From Shootin
Touch Me Pt 2
Run Thru

Encore:
Look at You (Acoustic)
Nashville to Kentucky
Steam Engine
Cobra
One Big Holiday

January 2, 2009 | Filed Under music, personal | Comments Off