Another Greek Style Pizza, Made With the Preferment Lehmann Dough 9/13/2011

This was one of the Greek style pizzas I made yesterday with the preferment Lehmann dough.  I did grease my steel pan with 1 tablespoon of manteca.  It seems like my steel baking pans are getting better seasoned, because there is always oil left on the pan after the bake.  I will keep decreasing the amount of oil and see if I can get good crust coloration.  This bottom crust had a good crunch.

This Greek style pizza was dressed with garlic herb infused olive oil, my regular tomato sauce, dried green and red peppers, sausage, spinach, and mild white cheddar (that I purchased in a 43 lb. block).

Norma

Gardening and Les's Tomato Sauce from Fresh Tomatoes 9/11/2011

I did some gardening today and ripped out weeds and cut back some of my flowers that were done blooming. They was a praying mantis on my one tomato plant so I took a picture of the praying mantis.  There are also many beautiful butterflies in my area right now, but it is hard to take pictures of them, because they fly away when I get near.  I did get a few pictures of the butterflies.

I am not sure how many more times I will be able to make Les’s sauce this year, because my tomatoes that are ripening are getting smaller, and grasshoppers are also starting to eat chunks out of some of the tomatoes before they get ripe enough.  I have made Les’s sauce many times this summer, but guess it soon will be over for this year.  I was at Steve’s home for some bakes in his WFO on Friday evening.  He still has many big San Marzano tomatoes on his plants.  Steve told me he is finished canning his San Marzanos  and is going to dig them under probably this coming week.  I asked Steve if he minded if I picked some of his San Marzano’s and took them home to make more Les’s sauce. He said I could pick all I wanted. I don’t know why Steve’s San Marzano tomatoes got bigger than mine, except Steve is a better gardener than I am and he pumps water from the creek to feed his tomatoes.  Well, it was off to making more Les’s sauce yesterday with Steve’s San Marzano tomatoes and some of my smaller ones.  Les’s sauce did turn out well again, (with added Great Value crushed tomatoes) and now I have almost 3 more quarts to freeze for later use this fall and winter to use on pizzas or other foods I prepare.  I really love to eat the fresh slowed baked tomatoes right after they come out of the oven.  They are naturally sweet and have such a good taste, at least in my opinion.  If anyone is interested, this is where I posted on pizzamaking.com about making Les's sauce differen times. http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,11539.0.html 

Norma

10th Anniversary of the Tragedy at the World Trade Centers, Pentagon and Shanksville 9/11..In Loving Memory of all the people that lost their lives and their loved ones.

A day most people never will forgot.  Many people lost their lives or lost loves ones on that tragic day.  Many people were also injured and their lives all changed because of that one day. God Bless them all.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oOW-1OwtCA 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9jUEp_l7cE 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRYdRse76FM 

I know I remember exactly where I was that tragic day when I first heard about what happened.  I remembered wondering how my daughter was that lived in NY.  I didn’t get a hold of her for days, but thankfully she was okay.  I can’t imagine how horrible it was for all the families that had loved one that were hurt or that died that day.

My daughter, granddaughter and I traveled to NY about a month after that tragic day.  I remember being at the little church and seeing all the memorials on all the fences and everywhere.  It makes me appreciate I do live in a free country.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3791694/911-The-Sun-pays-br-tribute-to-the-victims.html

Norma

Same dough, different oven..Difference a deck oven and WFO make 9/09/2011

This pizza was made and baked from my mixed-up commingled dough ball (regular Lehmann and Preferment Lehmann) that I froze Tuesday night.  It was dressed with my same tomato sauce and blend of mozzarellas from market.  The finished pie sure turned out different than the pie that I baked in my deck oven at Reply 929 http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,9908.msg152245.html#msg152245

I find it fascinating how different the same dough can bake in a different oven.  My other post about the commigled dough and pizza.

http://learningknowledgetomakepizza.blogspot.com/2011/09/follow-up-on-doughs-balls-that-were.html

I also made a S’Mores pizza tonight with a frozen preferment Lehmann dough ball.  The S'Mores pizza was made by first pre-baking the skin, then taking it out of the oven, dressing it with Nutella, graham cracker crumbs, and miniature marshmallows.  Everyone like the S'Mores pizza.

Thanks, Steve for letting me bake in your WFO.  It is always a blast!

Norma

Welcome to Dough Doctor.com..Tom Lehmann! 9/08/2011

This is Tom Lehman’s website, information about Tom Lehmann, and how to make pizza dough.  Tom Lehmann has over 40 years of expert baking experience and knowledge.  I invite anyone to look at Tom Lehmann’s webstite.

http://doughdoctor.com/ 

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http://doughdoctor.com/bio.html 

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Norma

After all the rain in our area..Lancaster County, Pa. 9/8/2011

In our county and other nearby counties, we all had a lot of rain.  A lot of schools and businesses were closed, because of creeks and flooded roadways.  The river isn't supposed to crest until Saturday.  I feel sorry for all the people and families that have did and will have flooding, in their homes and basements.

My vent at market was leaking Tuesday from raining so hard.  Until the end of the night it was really leaking and the ceiling looked like it was almost ready to fall.

Hopefully the ceiling gets fixed until this coming Tuesday.

A video of how the small creek near where I live looks like it is a river from all the rain. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAEzdeE0pV8  Also a few still pictures of the creek and how it flooded around the trees.

This is a video of the flooding in our area, uploaded by someone else.  It shows the flooding at Hershey Park and Knoebels Amusement Parks.  Two bison at Zoo America at Hershey Park were lost in the flood.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IxnLmCAwZI

Norma

Same Chiques Creek on a normal day.  Edited 10/18/2011

Preferment Lehmann dough ball used with manteca in a square steel pan 9/06/2011

I decided to use a preferment Lehmann dough ball I had made yesterday, (not the regular Lehmann and preferment Lehmann dough mixed) and bake it in my square steel pan with manteca as the oil.  I also use 3 tablespoons of manteca to oil the square steel pan.  Steve, my other taste testers and I thought this pizza was very tasty.  As can be seen on the steel pan after the bake, there was a lot of manteca left that wasn’t soaked up by the bottom crust.  I didn’t use a paper towel to oil this time, but used the rubber spatula I had posted in my last post.


This is what dressings were used on the pizza made in the square steel pan with Mexican manteca.  The dressings where, my regular tomato sauce, spinach, Salami, Capicolla ham, sharp white cheddar, two kinds of mozzarella, 3 grated chesses, Feta, and Gorgonzola cheese.  I guess all those cheeses also gave the pie the good taste it had.


Norma