Just a quick update on this. Here was the next version of my pizza sauce:
Pizza sauce version 1.1
28 oz can San Marzano tomatoes
¼ cup + 1 tbsp tomato paste
1 ½ tbsp sugar
½ tsp salt
1 tsp oregano
1 tsp thyme
½ tsp garlic powder
The result: Meh. It was a really good pizza sauce, just not at all what [...]

Now that I’m in love with my pizza dough recipe, it’s time to play with sauce.
Up until this point, I’ve just been puréeing a can of San Marzano tomatoes and throwing in whatever spices I felt like. I was more concerned with working on the crust, and therefore wasn’t really thinking about the sauce. But [...]

Oh man… I am getting really good at making pizza.
I’ll get to that in a moment. First, I’d like to report the sad death of my pizza stone…

It broke while I was baking a pizza on it, oven door closed, no drastic change in temperature… So I think it was just due to the fact [...]

New developments in the Great Pizza Dough Experiment! I made the dough using recipe version 1.1, which I outlined in my last post. It was a major improvement upon version 1.0, but I still want to do some tweaking.
First of all, greatly reducing the water in the recipe worked like a charm. The dough was [...]

I am on a pizza crusade.
I decided this… 5 minutes ago.
I’ve written a few things about pizza in the past. First about grilling pizza, then a recipe for pizza dough. More recently, I wrote an article about pairing beer and pizza for RateBeer’s Hop Press.
The dough recipe that I wrote about was from Fine Cooking, [...]

When I saw the tamales article in the last December/January issue of Fine Cooking, my first thought was, “Okay, I have to try this.” I’ve always loved tamales, and the sheer length of the directions intrigued me.
Tamales are made all over Latin America in various forms. Generally, they’re made with a corn-based dough, stuffed, wrapped, [...]

Christmas has once again come and gone… But we’re still eating the leftovers at our house! That’s because every Christmas Eve, my family has a traditional Scandinavian dinner, smorgasbord-style!
My grandparents on my father’s side are Scandinavian (Grandma is Swedish and Grandpa is Norwegian), so the traditions they had growing up carried over to our Christmas [...]

I’m all about food gifts for the holidays. I’m also all about FUDGE. So making fudge for Christmas gifts this year was a no-brainer for me!
Making fudge is all about getting the texture right, and since I always trust Fine Cooking, I decided to use their recipe for Creamy Chocolate Fudge.
I think the most important [...]