Pizza Party

This Saturday, 7 of February, we will have a party. Hopefully a pizza party. We need sun and nice weather as we have it today.

Weather forecast is still ON ( but surrounded with two days of rain!)

Party starts at noon ( 12:00 ) - it is still dark early.

As usual, rules are simple: no street shoes in the house. :-) ( Japanese rule)

I will provide core ingredients and then some, but if you want to bring some thing special for you pizza or to make party "merry" you are welcome.

If you love my oven "Perestroika" you know what to bring to make it happy : round of seasoned wood ( easy to get in this cold season in almost any food store) it is balky item and I am glad when I can get it with guests ( oven is hungry for wood, especially when it is cold outside)

All friends are welcome!

If you can, please shoot me e-mail ( RSVP) so we know how much dough to make.

Come and let's have fun!

Pizza delivery business : difficulties of competition

Pizzeria Piano in Nara ( Japan ) - revisited

If you remember I spotted this place two years ago, but we did not eat there.
Here is a link ( in Japanese) to Piano

The place is very interesting and they use a correct Italian ingredients, as I saw, but pizza is lucking...

They have a very strange "split" between menu on first and second level it and menu itself is small. They also run out of ice cream flavors: like duh... It is Japan and super easy to get/make ( it takes me 30 minute to make a fresh ice cream from scratch).

Anyway, pizza looks more like it should be, but it does not seems/taste right. They also put too much cheese I think and some how crust turns out too soft. Oven also burns pie kind of uniformly ... but ... it does not look ... happy ?

Bottom line ?

This place and pizza luck "love" or "soul", may be, despite all efforts. I guess they picked up some of Italian "technology" but failed to contract any of Italian "spirit" :(

Cool song and video about Pizza Party by Wired Al Yankovic

Smoked staff

Before I went to Japan I borrowed a cool vacume packing gadget from my
friend. I used it on my smoked fish and cheese so I can take it with
me on the plane to Japan.I got carried on and packed local gifts as
well. This gadgets sucks! I mean air as it suppose to:-) and seal
these spesial type of bags it work with. I have to report that all
people who got my smoked gifts, both localy and in Japan were
pleased ... And most importantly:-) still alive ! Good job, vacume
packer!

This is Cnappe!

I made it to put next to my bread sushi so people make no mistake :-)

Bread Box Sushi

My last Japanese invention, inspired by Hako sushi in Kyoto: rice
replaced with bread soaked in sushi vinegar mix and same procces as
sushi is used: wasaby stick fish to base. You can deep it in soy
souce , but gently, bread get saturated easly as it much more spongy.
Japanese relatives liked the idea, after I spent some time explaning
that it is NOT a cnappe!