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cgod  ·  4457 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What do you get on your pizza?

Check out lonesome pizza

Their web site is hard to look at but I think they know this, all the pizzas have several different names they go by. You can get a 'normal pizza' or go for something like the Brigitte Nielsen - A middle eastern dream, a white pie with fresh mint, braised leg of lamb, artichoke and goat cheese. I've liked everything I've had from them.

I mostly order from an italian place near my house. I get their house special, shredded pepperoni (it crisps nicely when thin cooked shredded) onion, black olive, mushroom, canadian bacon, spinach, feta and mozzarella. It seems kind of busy, but It's a pretty nice mix.

When I make pizza at home I like to use half whole wheat flour, seem to give it a bit of crunch. I'll use leftover ingredients from other things or go very traditional.





humanodon  ·  4457 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Some of those pizzas look pretty good. The Brigitte Nielsen sounds the best to me though. There's a place out here called When Pigs Fly that sometimes does a slow roasted lamb with medjool dates, goat cheese and hot honey, that knocked my socks off.

The last time I was in Oregon, my friend took me to Double Mountain Brewery for some pizza and some beer. I had a really awesome sausage pie there and some really great beer, too.

Out of curiosity, do you guys get Allagash beer out there? I had a Curieux the other day that would've gone great with some pizza.

cgod  ·  4457 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I feel like I've seen Allagash somewhere out here, but don't recall where. I really like Double Mountains beers.

humanodon  ·  4456 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Do you use a pizza stone when you make pizza at home? That can help add crunchiness to pizza without making it very heavy or adding that cardboard taste that can occur when subbing whole wheat for AP or bread flour.

On thing I tried recently was replacing the water in my dough recipe with buttermilk and letting the dough cold ferment for a week. Crunchy AND chewy with good hole structure. It got a decent char from the stone and came out kind of . . . glossy which was nice from a visual standpoint.

Keep in mind though, that I use a modified ciabatta dough as my base, so the hydration is pretty high. I don't know if using buttermilk in a conventional pizza dough would work out well or at all, but it might be worth a try.

Yes, three years later I still think about Hop Lava from Double Mountain. Oregon has a great beer (and wine) culture that I wish was present in New England. We're no slouches when it comes to microbrews, but it's just not on the same scale as it is on that side of the country. Allagash is some good shit though.

cgod  ·  4456 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Sometimes I use a stone but not all the time. I like the taste of a partial whole wheat for white flour substitution.