Pesto and mozarela pizza

This is nice variation for basil lovers: use pesto instead tomato
souce. I also put some mozarela bufala. You do not need extra olive
oil: pesto have plenty. Pay atantion on nice bubble: indicator of high
temperature and good dough.

Note: if you do not like bubbles for some reason you can use special
roll that will perforate your pizza: that what restatant do to make
pizza more uniform, but I LOVE the way REAL pizza look.

Mario's work in progress

I visited Mario and snapped his work site. He did just great with his new cement
mixer. Looking forward to his pizza party.

Now we both have IR 'laser' termometers so Mario have to provide
temperature profiles for his pizzas and for oven preparation.

This aluminum cap have to go: as you know from my previose post it
will melt if used.

New chimney

After I finished my roof ... Rain started and I have to use atachment
I got in Home Deport. Few minutes latter I saw some thing strange
happened. When I came close I saw it melted :-) it is like aliens
blusted with power beam. Well... Aluminium is no match for that amount
of heat: big mistake: do not use any aluminium crap. I had to come
with improvised chimney to guard oven from rain: water on hot stone
can crack it. It worked realy well and with bursts of fire looked like
a dragon. I used 6 solid bricks and 2 so called standards with holes.
Regular red bricks even of the good quality I used can not be used :
they will flake with time. I will have to get fire bricks and
refractory concreat to finish a rain proof chimney.

Half roof is done!

It is a pity that super Mario can not make it in today, but we have pizza party anyway. Forecast turned wrong and we did not have that much rain ( correction - the moment I started the fire so the rain began!!!!), so I am outside now finishing oven roof : it is not a perfect arch, but you know what ? Hell with that! ;-) most important is what inside and outside it just have to look cool in my eyes;-) and it does look cool ;-) I like it . I will finish my beer and go back to finish second half ( dark side of the moon that you do not see):-) and than we will make fire and pizza: dough is in process of making : kudos to my wife!

Nobel Prize for pizza in space

Pizza: NASA can put a man on the moon but there is no way to get pizza on a space station or space shuttle mission. It just doesn't hold up. You can't freeze-dry pizza or dehydrate it very successfully and regular pizza delivery is probably a few decades off from becoming reality.

Astronaut Mike Massimino, a native New Yorker, misses good pizza. "It is hard to get good pizza in Texas. It is impossible in space we don't have it. Someone would get a Nobel Prize if they can figure out how to get pizza in space." There is also no ice cream in space. No freezer.

You can read a full story here but it made me laugh hard: may be me and Mario should figure out how to deliver pizza to space station from our back yards?

It look like a very profitable business: astronauts are hungry for pizza !

Btw, good pizza is hard to get not only in Texas,but in Washington as well. Till this time nothing beats our backyard pizzerias.

Pizza Margherita

This picture from this weekend party is posted here to course Mario some saliva;-) it
WAS VERY yammy! Note how nice mozzarella buffalo melts: you can even bake it for a bit longer if you like it slightly burned.

P.S. Don Mario read this blog. Bullet hit the target and salt was spread over his open wound :-)

Pizza party every weekend.

That is our life style and this week end was no exception : this is a
classical pizza "Margherita" in my hot oven. Mario DID NOT found excuse BUT
he missed this party again. It was my fault in communication. He is working on his new oven and keep himself
hungry for pizza or some thing.