From scratch!
OK, so my version of scratch involves refrigerator section "fresh" pizza dough from Trader Joe's and pizza sauce from a jar. But nonetheless! I rolled out the dough! I grated the cheese! I sliced up the mushrooms! And by 10:30 pm, a mere 2 hours after I embarked on my mission, I had my first taste of my deliciously fresh, homemade pizza...
...and its' soft, undercooked dough.
Where had I gone wrong? Never mind that my oven is so old the temperature markings on the dial have worn away... I cleared that hurdle with an oven thermometer, an enterprising move on my part if I may say so myself. No, it was supposedly at the requisite 400 degrees farhenheit. The package of dough told me 10-12 minutes in the oven... but 15, 20, 25 minutes later... still chewy flour flavor. What the f, man?
So, finally, I'm starving, I've gone through 2 glasses of wine and half a script waiting for this thing, and I can't take it. I take my undercooked pizza out of the oven. The veggies have roasted to 1/4 their original size, the cheese is healthily browned, but the bottom of the crust? I can't take it anymore. I cut out a couple slices, and into the toaster oven with it.
Waiting.
Waiting.
[Do you know that feeling when you are just starving, and all you can think about is food?? I get that a lot.]
Freaking finally. It's so hot, I don't care. Thank God, it's still good. The charred veggies, the crispy cheese, it doesn't matter; it's still pretty damn edible. And I have that satisfaction of having made it myself! Tho, it is admittedly quite late... where did I go wrong?
I will never again take for granted the 30 minute delivery guarantee. Does anyone even promise that anymore?
1 comment:
This post reminds me of an old 80's game called "Pizza Party" and the commercial's catchy song:
"Party! Pizza Party!....Party! Pizza Party!"
That game also reminds me of another game called "Eat At Ralph's", which also featured a catchy theme:
"Eat at Ralph's! Ohhh Yeah! You know it's so much fun to eat at Ralph's Ohh yeah!"
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