Post your favorite pizza recipe here

[Mickey-t]

Fair point David. Depends on my mood, sometimes it goes back in for a few seconds, sometimes not. Rocket definitely keeps its peppery taste better fresh and basil leaves don't shrivel up if not put back in the oven. Personally, I quite like a swirl of olive oil, and back in for literally a few seconds

[david s]

There's a healthy amount of torn basil in my tomato sauce David. Sometimes basil, sometimes rocket, sometimes both. I will be trying your suggestion soon. Sounds yum. :-)

Ahh, ok. Personally i find that cooking kills both basil and rocket. I prefer to chop it and add either or both fresh to the pizza after cooking.

[Mickey-t]

What! Margherita without basil?

There's a healthy amount of torn basil in my tomato sauce David. Sometimes basil, sometimes rocket, sometimes both. I will be trying your suggestion soon. Sounds yum. :-)

[david s]

My current fav is garlic and evoo (no tomato sauce), a little mozzarella, potato sliced with a potato peeler, feta, rosemary, more evoo drizzled on top.

[david s]

Margherita with buffalo mozzarella. Once cooked add fresh rocket and a slice of very thin prosciutto, a swirl of quality evoo and back in the oven for a few seconds. A twist of sea salt and black pepper. :-)

What! Margherita without basil?

[Mickey-t]

Margherita with buffalo mozzarella. Once cooked add fresh rocket and a slice of very thin prosciutto, a swirl of quality evoo and back in the oven for a few seconds. A twist of sea salt and black pepper. :-)

[v12spirit]

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My favorite pizza recipe is the Damascene pizzas.

[JoeBaker]

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For Dough
1 parcel dry yeast
1 cup temperate water
1 teaspoon sugar
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 cups all-purpose flour
Topping:
1 can tomato sauce
Italian sausage
1 can sliced mushrooms
Parmesan cheese
Preparation -
Put yeast in the water and mix until dissolved. Add sugar, oil, flour. Put mixing bowl full with dough in warm water for five minutes to rise. Put the dough on a pizza pan. Add the toppings. Cook in the oven at four hundred degree for about twenty minutes.

[softy]

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satay sauce fresh chicken breast snow peas broccoli cheese

[Tscarborough]

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Key point of recipe: buy double the amount required.

[hodgey1]

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This is my new favorite, it is a clone of the Bianca "Rosa". I have only made it a couple of times, but it was great both times, and was a crowd favorite.

It requires some prep, but it is worth it.

First I shave some good aged parm very thin, quite a bit actually; there is no sauce, so you can't see it on the pie, but it is well covered. Shave some red onion and sweat it with salt a bit. Roast some fresh pistachios (I break them up as I do so) in garlic oil.

Cover the dough with a liberal dose of EVOO, then the cheese, the pistachios, the onions and some fresh rosemary. Cook then give it a swirl of good truffle oil.

Try it!

Tscar
That looks like an awesome pie, very interesting. I'm not sure if I made it if there would be any pistachios left for the pie!

[hodgey1]

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Hodgey, we are 30 miles inland from Lake Michigan and have had over 100" of snow 2 out of the last 3 winters. I built my oven out of firebrick and have a couple of small cracks but I don't worry about them. I will occasionally light a pile of charcoal in my oven to help keep it dry. I don't think there is a hot/cold issue if you start with a small fire and gradually build... it takes 3 hours or so to get the oven ready and the cooling process takes 24 hours or more after you are done. Others can weigh in on this, but I say enjoy it..

Winter time firing still sounds a bit scary. I think if I do I will maybe warm it up with a light bulb during the week then day before a small fire and then the day of the party I'll fire slowly.

I appreciate you guys weighing in, and any other input is welcome.

[stonecutter]

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yep, that one looks like a good one for sure.

[Tscarborough]

Re: Post your favorite pizza recipe here

This is my new favorite, it is a clone of the Bianca "Rosa". I have only made it a couple of times, but it was great both times, and was a crowd favorite.

It requires some prep, but it is worth it.

First I shave some good aged parm very thin, quite a bit actually; there is no sauce, so you can't see it on the pie, but it is well covered. Shave some red onion and sweat it with salt a bit. Roast some fresh pistachios (I break them up as I do so) in garlic oil.

Cover the dough with a liberal dose of EVOO, then the cheese, the pistachios, the onions and some fresh rosemary. Cook then give it a swirl of good truffle oil.

Try it!

[stonecutter]

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In CT, the oven was used year round, and as stoneylake said, the firing should be eased along with greater caution. We lived in the NW corner in the Berkshires and it gets very cold there.

No worries in the current location...my problem was this summer. High 90's during our first firings, but an umbrella and a box fan with a bunch of cold ones helped.

These were just picked today, probably the last few Japs of the year. We have a pizza party on Sat...so that means a popper pie is mandatory. The chili peppers are for a new creation........