Friday, January 23, 2009

Back to Kevin's pizza obsession..............

As you remember, Kevin got a pizza cookbook for Christmas. So pizza has become a weekly meal at our house. So far we've tried Chicago-style Deep Dish pizza (pictures a couple of posts ago), New York-style pizza, and this week we had Neapolitan-style pizza. I must say that I really like this pizza obsession so far (for the most part)! The pizza has been delicious! I think that this Neapolitan crust is definitely the best dough. I'm sure we'll use this recipe a lot from here on out. You have to know the story behind this Neapolitan pizza dough...............

One day last week, Kevin called me from the office and, after snickering in the phone, admitted to ordering 20-something pounds of Caputo flour off of the internet!! In the next few seconds, several things went through my mind beginning with.......ARE YOU KIDDING ME????? Then I couldn't help but laugh.......one of the things that I love most about Kevin is that when he decides to do something, he goes all out and does it well! The pizza is no exception! I'm sure you won't be surprised to find out that one of Kevin's "most wanted items" right now is a pizza peel. Click here to see what that is.........he claims that this is a much needed tool for his pizza kitchen. I think that a real peel will work better than my glass cutting board, the current make-shift one.

So what kind of pizza is next, you ask???? I'm not sure, but I won't be surprised if in my next post, I'm telling you about the shipment of tomatoes that we just received from Italy!

Enjoy these pictures of our pizza last night.........the Neapolitan recipe made 5 pizza's this size.........yummy.........is your mouth watering yet?





5 comments:

Dan and Amanda said...

Mmmmm! Every Friday night is pizza night for us. Looks delicious!!!!

Dana said...

Yum!! Kevin is becoming quite the cook! Casey, we make one with a garlic-olive oil base. We sautee some garlic in olive oil and brush the pizza with it, and then add ground beef, mozzerella (fresh works best if you can find it) and parmesean. It is SOOO good! I would love to taste all of Kevin's!!!!!!!!

We would love to have that recipe for the dough! Jeremy knows how to make it in big batches, but I don't know if he could translate it into big ones.

We would like a peel, too - and we're even thinking about putting a pizza oven in our backyard when we get our house built! Haha!

Casey said...

Dana......it's too bad we don't live closer! We could have pizza nights. All of our recipes have come from a new cookbook that Kevin got. This dough made 5 9" pizzas.....so it still wasn't a small amount. I'll get you the name of the cookbook....ya'll would like it!

Benji Ladd said...

20 lbs? that is freakin hilarious!! We miss u guys!

Jeff, Lauren, Graham & Miles said...

I have a pizza peel!! Never used it, but I have it for the day I find the time...