Though many pizzaioli tend to make yeasted pizza, my aim is to go all natural with wild yeast. Below are shots of my last batch, made with a mix of low protein, white winter wheat grain milled along with standard A.P. flour and a sprouted wheat levain. Using a long...
In my eternal quest at the perfect sourdough Verace Napoletano pizza, I have tried various approaches. In my latest, I tried a autolyse of sorts; adding in salt at the last moment, a minimal mix, and with a bit of folding, then popping the whole lot into the fridge...
Pide can be called Turkish pizza. Here's my sourdough version, enhanced with suçuk from the best producer in Astoria, along with an egg.
Trying my buddy's Domenico's top-secret pizza flour, I had good luck with the texture and flavor on the first-go at dough. I also took two balls of dough and retarded them in the fridge overnight. Without enough time to let the dough come to temperature, I just...
Visiting my pizzaiolo friend Domenico, he shared a dough mix made and tested in Italy. It comes milled via Molini Pivetti, the same mill who, with Antonino Esposito, developed "skura flour." Using it at home, it proved a wonderfully extensible pizza dough with amazing...
Recently I made a Tuscan Schiacciata - which might be thought of as a grape pizza. The base was an untraditional, no-knead pizza sour dough. The filling was Pantelleria-grown dried raisins bought at Gustiamo. The flavor enhancers Nocellara Belice olive oil,...
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