{"id":1324,"date":"2022-09-18T18:02:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T18:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2022-09-18T18:02:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T18:02:56","slug":"summer-that-was-pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/summer-that-was-pizza\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer that was Pizza!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Making (and learning)\u2026<\/h3>\n

I followed a pizza making course on line this summer! \u00a0Specifically outdoor grilling pizza\u2014grilling flat bread, pizza, and finally Calzones. \u00a0I did my homework which meant I made a pizza thing each week.
\nIt turned out to be a team effort because I do not do fire, so Jim became the fire master. \u00a0We learned the hard way that this was especially important if you want the pizza thing to actually COOK.<\/p>\n

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Pizza dough is a thing of dreams! \u00a0The dough is soft and miraculous, rising, fragile, and resilient, a pleasure to work. \u00a0And you need a lot of semolina or it sticks to everything and doesn\u2019t want to come off the peel. \u00a0I know this from experience. \u00a0You may start out with a shape you are familiar with, and you may end up with a shape that defies logic.<\/p>\n

Flat bread is\u2026.flat. \u00a0And it should be crispy. \u00a0This is where we finally learned the importance of a hot fire.<\/p>\n

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The other thing about making pizza is that it doesn\u2019t allow a lot of time to think about taking pictures! \u00a0There were moments when checking the pizza thing was the ONLY thing I could focus on.<\/p>\n

But here it is when I finally managed to get a pizza that was round. \u00a0When grilling pizza, you put the dough on the grill and grill one side. \u00a0Then you remove it, flip it, add the toppings, and put it back on the grill to finish.<\/p>\n

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We were getting the hang of it!<\/p>\n

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Then came the week\u2019s assignment for Calzones. \u00a0I had to work myself up for this one\u2026. \u00a0This recipe called for a spinach and cheese filling, dough wrapped around and sealed. \u00a0On the peel it actually looks like a Calzone.<\/p>\n

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But on the grill they took on a shape of their own. \u00a0They may look a little odd and wonky\u2014another lesson in the dough sticking to the peel\u2026and not wanting to come off. \u00a0 But, oh my, these were good, especially the next day.<\/p>\n

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You will notice there are no pictures of us eating the various pizza things, but I can assure you we did eat them\u2014every single bit. \u00a0We devoured them, melting cheese and all.<\/p>\n

When it was too hot to cook in the house, the in door heat was perfect for rising pizza dough, and grilling was a good idea. \u00a0Though it was darn hot standing over the grill too. \u00a0The learning was fun! \u00a0The team work was fun! And the eating was good too.<\/p>\n

Next summer we will dough it again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Making (and learning)\u2026 I followed a pizza making course on line this summer! \u00a0Specifically outdoor grilling pizza\u2014grilling flat bread, pizza, and finally Calzones. \u00a0I did my homework which meant I made a pizza thing each week. It turned out to be a team effort because I do not do fire, so Jim became the fire … Continue reading “Summer that was Pizza!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1324"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1338,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324\/revisions\/1338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthiacorbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}