Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Pizza X Prize fund is about to send DOC pizza to space




"This is a small pizza for one oven, but a huge step for a humanity."
(Mario, co-founder)

"Yo!Beam me up, Scotty!""
(Vadim, founder)

PizzaXPrize fund is here to send pizza to space!

Here is a mission statement:

"Our mission is to deliver a real Italian D.O.C. pizza to space. We aim for the low Earth orbit first and will deliver pizza to ISS. Our next step will be the Moon. We will go on and will deliver a fresh, hot, pizza pie to other Premium Solar System destinations and beyond, as technology advances. Beam me up, Scotty!"

Friday, March 27, 2009

How to make home Sauerkraut ( pickled cabbage )

In Russia we call it 'kislaia kapusta' that translates to soure or
pickled cabbage. It is great to reduce hangover after pizza party and
helps to restore and mantain a good germs or microflora in your
belly: preparing it for next pizza party.

It is super easy to make and the only bummer is that it takes a few
days, while disapears very fast: so start a new batch when you unload
first to the refrigirator.

I started to make pikles again after huge inspiration I got from
pickling bible: Wild Fermentation - absolutely FANTASTIC book ( just get it if you like pickles ! )

Here is how I make it:

1. Wash and cut a nice juice cabbage
2. Shred some carrot
3. Sprinkle with salt( one without iod is best for pickles)
4. Use you hands to squise and mix it all in a bowl.
5. Staff it in some glass container
6. Put some plate on top and weight it so it will squise juice
7. Press on weight once in a while to add presure: juice should apper
and cover top
8. Cover it with some light towel.
9. In a few days it is ready: transfer it to some glass container and
put to frizer and enjoy: use you taste to find out when it is soure
enough.

Tips:
1) you can put some cabbage from previose batch on top: to introduce
the calture and make fermentation faster
2) add garlic one paprika if you like kimchi
3) other Vegies and even apple can be added
4) if cabbage will not produce juice after a day it is not good, but
try to add water with salt
5) use as much salt as you like but not much

Enjoy!!!

Sunday, March 22, 2009

German spring pizza

This pizza was done per Rita request. It has a tomato souse base, red
and yellow bell papers, anchovi and green scalions. I dressed it with
some Mozarela Bufala and Italian olive oil. It looks very happy and
springy: this is Eqiniox pizza party, ya! Chears!

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Japanese pizza commercial



I would say it is very ... dramatic :-) commercial and I think we should record one of our own :)

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

We like to party, party

Moto Moto in the house. Last Satarday we had a party. It was a fight
with weather, all without Mario, that slucked in warmer place. I
managed to bake about 10 diferent pizzas: guests were happy with
results.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Snow: no pizza today

Yeah it is wet snow: we can probably snowboard over oven, but I doubt
fire will catch up in such conditions;-)

Sunday, February 8, 2009

Pizza from Antarctica

It was wet and cold despite a good weather. Mario worked extra shifts
with shovel moving coals in and out. We managed to bake 10 pizzas ,
but it was a slow start: we had feed from grill and salad bar first.
Overall, party itself was crowded and a lot of fun. I even got drunk
despite that I was not intended to and started to play air guitar and
swing my hair in my kilt with Korn music in background. I was already
warmed up after karuoki session with 'O Sole Mia' that Mario and
others orcestrated very well. Great Success!