More Spiritual Pizza
Robert writes:
In your article on spiritual pizza making you say:" Spiritual pizza is made when you connect with your
pizza on a higher level. You put a part of yourself into each pizza.
Make all of your pizza, Spiritual Pizza. Your pizza will taste better. Your pizza will be better."
That really hit home with me, you wouldn't believe what I put into my pizza making and it really shows in
the pizza. If I'm making a pizza for company and really want it to be its best I will turn on the oven
light and keep looking in at it to make sure it is just right, my wife laughs at me but the pizza is
always great.
I've spent years now trying to perfect the crust, after all it's the crust that makes the pizza, everything else
is just toppings, right?. A couple of very important things I have learned along the way.
If you are going to experiment away from a recipe,
WRITE DOWN THE CHANGES YOU MAKE! Otherwise who can
remember what they did the next time.
I've found that "Hotel and Restaurant" flour seems to provide the most "Pizzeria" taste and consistency I
believe it is the extra Gluten.
More yeast and sugar (or honey) in the mix than is
usually called for seems to work well for me as far as a nice light dough that tastes great.
Let the pizza rise! at least once but even better twice and at least an hour each time, then roll it out
at least half an hour before you put a topping on it of any sort and cover it with plastic wrap so it can
rise a bit before you squash it with toppings.
5. And finally, make sure you preheat the oven and get it as hot as you can for the amount of toppings you
have on it. More toppings, less temperature so it can have a chance to cook all the way through, raw dough
is nasty. the reason for the hot oven is that the dough does an initial rise just after it
is exposed to the heat and that makes for a much better crust I think than you get with lower temps.
Yipes, and I don't even do this for a living! but if you look in my pantry and fridge and freezer you would
swear I did.
Anyway yep, pizza is a spiritual experience for me and everyone that tastes it begs me to open a pizza
parlor.
Pizza on Earth and Good Will to All!
Robert Cotterill
My Response:
Thanks so very much for sharing your great advice, Robert.
I received many wonderful comments about Spiritual Pizza. I feel to do anything worthwhile, we must put our heart and soul
into it. We will then connect with a higher spiritual power.
We must realize there is a greater power that we can connect with. Thanks everyone for your wonderful positive energy.
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