I made another Margherita pizza today, using the Neapolitan dough recipe in the KAF pizza book. The fresh mozzarella still made the top a bit soggy, but putting it under the broiler helped. Pressing the cheese between paper towels might help remove some of the water.
This is a much better dough for that style of pizza.
This one was still sort of sloppy, but good enough that we're looking forward to the second one on Sunday, probably using a somewhat drier mozzarella (not fresh, since I'm out of it.)
We had steaks again, buying 3 at a time is cheaper but makes the meals repetitive. I did them sous vide this time, just to see how it worked. Well enough that I'll probably do it again but unlike eye of round sous vide is not going to become my go-to method for steak.
We had tuna melts made with extra sharp cheddar cheese.
I was initially planning steak night, but Diane had a last-minute project that kept her at the office until around 6:30, so we went with sweet corn and sandwich meats. Steaks tomorrow.
I wound up with 15 small containers of tomato sauce, ranging from 2 ounces to 6 ounces each. Perfect for things like pizzas. They'll go in the freezer tomorrow.
I'm never sure whether to put pizza in 'baking' or 'cooking'. 🙂
Tonight's pizza was edible, but probably more of a learning experience than anything else. I've got enough dough to make 2 or 3 more pizzas this week, so I'll keep experimenting. The top was too soggy and the dough didn't rise as much as I had hoped, shaping probably contributed to that.
We're having a pretty good tomato season, unlike last year. I expect I'll get several more bonanza harvests like that before the outdoor season is over.
I didn't even use all the tomatoes I picked today or sauce.
I find mini muffins really easy to freeze, and with my banana nut mini muffins you don't even really need to thaw them out to eat them.
Steaks and sweet corn for dinner here today.
The first rule of projects: Everything costs more and takes longer than you planned for.
We picked up a rotisserie chicken from Sams Club.
You can save the string for vegetable stock. I have a bag in the freezer that I throw any edible veggie parts that I don't eat into for stock.
People cutting their hand when slicing bagels is so common it has its own diagnosis code in the ICD, the handbook of medical codes.
I hope your hand heals quickly and well.
I cut the palm of my right hand climbing over a chain link fence when I was in middle school and I still have a big scar from it. And the nerves healed strangely so there's places where if you touch part of my right hand it feels like you touched it somewhere else.
I was using their keto-friendly pizza mix for a while, but I've been experimenting with thin-crust pizza from the KAF pizza book lately.
We had eye of round with some potato salad for supper, and I sliced the rest of the meat up for sandwiches.
