I think I’ve finally come up with a pizza sauce that I can believe in! This version took two tries since my last post (version 1.1). Version 1.2 was so close to what I wanted that it only needed a minor tweak — a lot more basil. So the final version (1.3) bumps up the [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]