Jim’s idea for making a Pizza using the Epoxy Method 5/15/2012

I must say the “Epoxy Method” with the preferment and soaker worked great with Jim’s formulation. The dough ball seemed to ferment just enough until this afternoon. The dough ball was left out at room temperature of about 83 degrees F for about 1 ½ hrs to warm-up. The dough ball opened so easy and wasn’t sticky at all. The pizza slide off the peel easily and the bake went well. There was good oven spring, decent crust browning, a nice crispness on the bottom crust and the taste of the crust was really good. Steve and I thought the crust had a nice complex flavor better than using other methods. The pizza wasn’t like bread at all.


Thanks Jim for thinking of the “Epoxy Method” for us to try! I think it made a great pizza.

If anyone want to follow along on the journey to try and make a better crust, this is the thread where Jimmyg came up with the idea of the Epoxy Method for pizza.

http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,19129.0.html

Norma

The progress of the attempts for a Sicilian pizza for market 5/15/2012

The Sicilian dough that was bulk cold fermented for 3 days, then divided and balled and fermented one more day worked out reasonably well. I only made two pies out of the 3 dough balls and froze one to see how that works out. One dough ball that was used was from a plastic bag and one was from the plastic container. The taste of the crust was great since the dough had longer to ferment. The one problem I still am having is how much to stretch out the dough before putting it into the oiled steel pan. Either I stretch it too big or too small. When it is in the oil and the stretch is too small, it wants to slide around and takes some effort to get it stretched the full way in the steel pan without it wanting to stretch back, even after it is left to rest for awhile.


Steve brought some Orangecello to celebrate. The Orangecello went well with a slice of Sicilian pizza. :)

Formulation I am using.

 http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,18281.msg178345.html#msg178345

Norma
 

Mother's Day present from my granddaughter and family...A great pizza cutter! :) 5/13/2012

I had a great time yesterday with my family on Mother's Day! :)  We all had a picnic at my place and it sure was fun having 5 generations of my family together. 

It is always fun watching my grandson and great-granddaughter. 

My granddaughter and family gave me a really nice pizza cutter.

Norma

Root’s Car Show and Flea Market 5/12/2012

I went to Root’s Car Show and Flea Market today to look around. I always enjoy being outside when the weather is nice. I don’t get a lot of time to walk around at market when I am working at my small pizza stand. Of course, the inside of market wasn’t open today, or regular outside vendors weren’t there either.

I found a nice food mill for 5.00, which I thought was a bargain. I didn’t find any antiques that I thought were really nice. Someone had fresh made banana bread and I bought some for my mother and myself. I also got to talk to some outside food vendors that I know. My old funnel cake stand I used to own wasn’t open today, but I did take a picture of it. I really miss that stand I used to own.

I also checked on the 3 dough ball batch I am trying out for the Sicilian pizzas. I would like to start to try to sell Sicilian pizzas at my pizza stand. The dough batch seemed to be fermenting nicely.

The spring Car Show and Flea Market are for a good cause, with the profits going to the Clare House this year. I did give some gift certificates out for my small pizza stand.

After I walked around for awhile and talked to people, I left to go to an Amish farm that sells great BBQ chicken dinners. I purchased dinners for my mother, daughter and myself. The Amish farm also sells many kinds of flowers and I picked some up for my mother and myself. The Amish farm had fresh strawberries, but they were to expensive since they are the first one of this year. I will wait until the prices come down some.

There sure were some “hot” looking cars at the Car Show today.

I then went home and started planting vegetables, tomatoes and herbs in my small garden. Life is good in the country!

http://www.rootsmarket.com/pdfs/CarShowRegistration.pdf

https://www.facebook.com/RootsMarket

Norma

Green Dragon Farmer’s Market-Soft Pretzels, Caramel Corn and more

My daughter asked me to go along to Green Dragon Farmer’s Market because she wanted to purchase some beats by: dr dre (ear buds) for her cell phone. Since a lot of stuff is cheaper at Green Dragon I decided to go along. Green Dragon is the other farmers market where my husband and I used to have the caramel popcorn stand. There are also great soft pretzels at Green Dragon and I know the owner of that stand very well. We shopped for awhile at Green Dragon and I got to talk to the new owner of the caramel corn stand I used to own. It felt funny going inside the stand that my husband and I had run for many years. Wanda’s soft pretzels are still the best, in my opinion. The old fashioned conveyor that takes the soft pretzels though the lye bath and into the oven is very interesting. Wanda of the pretzel stand sells frozen dough pizzas. I told her if you ever wanted to learn to make regular pizzas I would help Wanda and her husband learn. They do have a big Blodgett oven in the soft pretzel stand.


If anyone has never been at Green Dragon these are some pictures from Green Dragon Farmers Market and a video of Wanda making the soft pretzels. The soft pretzel dough look a lot like pizza dough.

The pictures are only showing a small part of Green Dragon.

Video of making soft pretzels. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PC_39KXfJo&feature=channel&list=UL

Norma