I found this cool long bread at the grocery store the other day so I used it to make a pizza.The toppings here were riccota cheese, chicken apple sausage (de-cased
and pan fried,) red peppers (fried with the sausage,) mozzarella, cheddar and Parmesean shavings added at the
very end. I didn't put any sauce on at all other than a brushing of olive oil at the beginning.
I don't know why, but I love it when a pizza deviates from roundness. It somehow suggests to me "rustic-ness" and "peasant-ness" and even, dare I say it, "Tuscan-ness." The current reigning food joke at our house (Yes. We have food jokes.) is that I call everything "Tuscan." Like the subject of this Onion article, I think everything tastes better if you give it name that includes the "region-specific culinary modifier" Tuscan, so I whenever I bring anything to the table, be it pasta, pizza, hot dogs, or the hoisin-glazed chicken wings below I will say something like, "Ah! This is justa likea my mama useda to makea when I was a boy in Tuscana!"
The other culinary joke, while we're on the subject, that we are very fond of making around here is refering to everything, everything! as "Simple. Fresh." This is motivated by the chefs on cooking shows who insist that everything they do is simple and fresh. They talk about their incredibly complex, nuanced preparations as if they were just tossing some salt and lemon juice on a peeled carrot. "Oh, I just took 90 pounds of lump crabmeat, formed it into a stunning replica of the wine god Baccus, then I glazed it with white truffle oil and baked in at 127 degrees for six days in an underground oven the size of a schoolbus that's made of Lebanese clay soaked in the blood of virigin goats. I used dates for the eyes. You know, just simple, fresh home cooking."
If you were planning to watch any of the many sporting events on the docket today and this evening, either the pizza, or the wings would be good snakin'. The pizza's pretty self explanitory. (Simple. Fresh.) And the wings recipe came from here. Go Heels. Go Yanks.
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