Some additional ways to celebrate.
1 Like
We will be making a pie today, just haven’t decided which kind…pi, day, the perfect excuse to eat pie of any kind. 
2 Likes
Ok, I’ve planned to make a lemon curd pie one of these days. But you’ve persuaded me to do it today!
1 Like
Not making pie, but DH brought home slices of salted caramel mango, and rhuberry, from Know Reality Pie.
1 Like
Making pizza pie! Dough is rising now - I need to get the oven preheating!
1 Like
We are in total lockdown mode here but I have some lovely Spoon Foods Fruit Perfect cherries. So cherry pie, blackberry apple pie, pizza, whipped cream.
I prepped pretty well so we are eating well.
4 Likes
Today was a perfect pie making day. I made a big pot of soup for dinner but lunch was a pizza pie with spinach, olives and dried tomatoes.
I guess most of us is in this lockdown mode. Good that now we more time to cook, trying to do something nice as life isn’t particularly exciting. Thinking of baking some cakes…
I’m not so skilled with dessert pies (plus I don’t love them), so I decided to make a pizza pie. Lahey’s dough has been our standard, but we decided to give Beddia’s a whirl and are so glad we did! It may be the new house recipe. We used the ooni pizza oven and made classic margherita and a spring-ish pie with asparagus, shitakes, ricotta, a little gruyere and mozzarella.
1 Like
Your pizza sounds incredibly tasty 
I’d never heard of this restaurant (I’m a blinkered NYC-dweller), so I looked up the recipe. Can you confirm that 1 tbsp salt per 500 g flour is correct? That sounds like a lot.
In the book it is 1 tbs plus 1/2 tsp per 500 g of flour. I will attach a picture later so you can see what it looks like.
Thanks - that would be helpful, but I’m more interested in what it tastes like. As in, is the crust too salty?
Funny enough, my husband thought it could take a bit more. I didn’t think it needed it, but definitely did not find it salty.
Ok, then! Will try it. If I ever leave the house again to buy mozzarella.
That’s about 20g of salt to 500g of flour, or 4% in baker’s percentages. A bit higher than what you typically see in recipes but probably good for a simple margherita pizza where the crust really needs to be a star. I usually use about 2-3%, but my pizzas always have at least one salty meat topping so I don’t want the crust to be too assertively salty.
Nice! I was too sidetracked myself but I thank you for posting your beau ti ful pie.
Some cooking including an appreciation of hollandaise and mayonnaise; quite a lot more entertaining math; and many witty wry observations about life, including the author’s high school welding skills.
At page 33 is the answer to the vexing question of how one cuts seven pieces of a round cake using three straight cuts.
