Pizza Slow, Mastodon posts, page 61

the purpose of a bollard is what it does

our house spaghetti recipe was O.P. last week. I need to start making this sauce for pizza, I think it’d work fine.

garlic cloves from an entire head, enough basil, stem and all, to fill the rest of a small sauce pan, and a healthy pinch of red pepper flakes, frying in a quarter cup of olive oil

reserved sauce from a 22 ounce can of whole peeled san marzanos, add with finishings for brightness or earlier if the tomatoes start to burn, or split the difference

whole peeled san marzanos from a 22 ounce can and a pinches of red pepper and salt flakes frying in a few tablespoons of olive oil. turn to taste, once it’s where you like it, carefully use a wire potato masher or bladed dough cutter to break up the tomatoes, reduce heat to a simmer

pre-warmed heath commune ceramic shallow bowl full of al dente spaghetti noodles finished in the oil (use a fine mesh strainer and discard or re-purpose the garlic and basil) and tomatoes from the other photos with a tablespoon of unsalted butter, another tablespoon of olive oil, and two tablespoons of parmesan, topped with more parmesan and chiffonaded basil

I’m aware of and have tried the half-onion pan fried in butter approach to a simple red sauce and the subtlety of it is completely lost on me.

for mom and junior: mozz and pecorino over sauce, pep all over for junior, and add basil and olives on the other half, for mom

for me: tomato sauce, pecorino, basil, smoked provolone, hot Italian sausage

top down photo of the hugest oxo cutting board with two 12” neapolitan pizzas on it. top right is the sausage and cheese, bottom left is all pep, half olives

ECU photo half pep, olives, basil, half pep only, all over mozz and sauce - the red, green and black is on the left half of the photo, the red and white on the right half

ECU, sausage, leopard spotted smoked provolone, basil, w/ huge crust bubbles in the bottom-left corner

photo of plated slices, showing off the crust bubbles in the sausage/provolone pizza. p good tonight!

people who contain their aspirations (never demands) to what is immediately achievable think the rest of us are annoying as hell, but, in a surprise twist, guess what

finally checked biking up twin peaks off my list after a friend suggested I head up via glen park instead of the usual routes. it’s the same climb (and I hate climbing) but gradual over 5 miles instead of bunched up in the last mile and a half.

then, since I was already in spandex (very rare!), I tacked on a normal bay loop for the miles

photo from Christmas Tree Point in San Francisco, looking down on a switchback of Twin Peaks Boulevard in the bottom half of the photo. The entire top half of the photo contains downtown San Francisco, in theory, but is solid gray with fog

Selfie in a black and white giro helmet, transition glasses which are full tint black at this point, and a black cycling jesey with little red polka dots and a bright red zig zag across the front. My bike, a red and white gravel bike, is behind me, leaning up against the pink metal railing at Christmas Tree Point in San Francisco.

a photograph of the golden gate bridge, in san francisco, taken from below, in the parking lot of Fort Point, through a chain link fence. A black sign with yellow left and right hand prints at high-five height labeled HOPPERS HANDS is fixed to the fence as a touch point for people who walk, bike, hike, or whatever, to get here and then turn around as it is a dead end

Screen shot from Strava of my route, a red line over a map of san francisco through the mission, glen canyon, twin peaks, down 17th, across cesar chavez, and up around the bay to the golden gate bridge, then returning through the presidio, golden gate park, the wiggle, to the mission