September 24, 2004
Pizza, Movie, and a Surprise
Last night I made my first pizza with toppings and it turned out pretty damn good. Using homemade tomato sauce again (also spicy), the pizza was topped with mushrooms and pepperoni. Just like a pizza at Grimaldi's, the mushroom made parts of the crust soggy. I had some issues getting the pizza off the peel, but that might be a combination of waiting too long to get the pizza into the oven and not enough flour.
While eating my tasty pizza, I watched In the Cut. Meg Ryan's in the movie, but it's no Sleepless in Seattle. It's more like the scene at Katz's from When Harry Met Sally - over and over and much more graphic. There's no denying that Meg looked good in this movie despite being 40+.
Towards the end of the movie, I was greeted with a surprise at the door that I thought was my idiot neighbor, but thankfully it was not. The surprise has given me a smile that will carry right up until Monday morning though.
I'll be out of town this weekend enjoying a football game in Michigan. See you when I get back.
Posted by tien mao in Food/Drink, Friends/Family, Movies at 7:53 AM
damn that looks SO good. it's 8:31 am and i'm thinking how i can make a pizza :)
Posted by: girlwonder at September 24, 2004 8:32 AM
i think i'm going to have to try making pizza this weekend. am i going to screw it all up without a pizza stone?
Posted by: corie at September 24, 2004 8:59 AM
ok. i'll bite. "uh, what's the surprise, tien?"
Posted by: rachelleb at September 24, 2004 9:08 AM
A big bag of weed?
Posted by: information leafblower at September 24, 2004 9:53 AM
corie, i'm going to say that the pizza stone is important, but prob not absolutely necessary. it helps heat the dough very fast so it cooks quickly.
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at September 24, 2004 10:42 AM
did somebody special show up at your door?
Posted by: corie at September 24, 2004 12:00 PM
I like pizza. I also like people at my door. no one visits me. I am hated. Whens' the Michigan game? Sunday? I will be sure to watch it at work and tell everyone that I know someone who knows someone who is at that game.
Posted by: Jason at September 24, 2004 3:29 PM
yes corie, somebody special showed up at my door.
and jason, the game is saturday at 3:30 eastern on abc.
Posted by: tien at September 24, 2004 3:31 PM
It's good to know that something other than pizza makes you giddy :)
Posted by: corie at September 24, 2004 3:54 PM
was it the special somebody at the door UPS? a visit from them always makes me happy.
Posted by: CJ at September 24, 2004 5:13 PM
i sounded like such a retard up there..sorry, that pic of the pizza is making me so hungry i cannot type correctly.
Posted by: CJ at September 24, 2004 5:14 PM
Re: soggy pizzas with mushrooms - I wonder if it has to do with how long you cook the pizza, as well as how thick the crust is. I made a pizza with a ton of stuff (sausage, mushroom, roasted red pepper, spinach, onion), and it turned out a little soggy. Then the next night, I made the exact same pizza , but adjusted the cooking time (shorter) and had a thicker, slightly more uniform crust and it wasn't soggy!
Posted by: Jen at September 26, 2004 7:53 PM
i eat cheese-less pizza (yes, i'm crazy) but your pizza looks so good that i would actually eat a pizza with cheese on it. :)
Posted by: wendy at September 29, 2004 12:20 AM
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