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Pizza-Aficionado

A blog about my pizza infatuation, experiments, projects, travels and how it all boils down to food and life philosophy for me and anyone else that becomes interested.

Monday, September 7, 2009


These are a few pizzas that we made recently at Mount St. Vincents for the kids. I call the pizza on top the "taco bell delite" because it is made from ingredients that you would find at taco bell. The kids loved it. The base was re-fried beans covered with cheddar, jalapenos and taco meat. When it came out of the oven I squirted it with sour cream and covered the top with fresh tomatoes an d shredded lettuce.
The pizza on the lower left is a white pizza with bacon, mushrooms and truffle oil. Yeah... that's right... I feed the kids truffle oil. This was a stellar pie and it went over well with the kids.
The pizza on the lower right was beautiful to say the least. I was experimenting with thin crust and it turned out really nice. This pizza was a quintessential august pizza. It had a variety of heirloom tomatoes on it, pesto made with basil from the school garden and mozzarella cheese. It was a masterpiece.



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I work as a chef in Denver, CO at a children's home. After several years of restaurant work I went non-profit and I don't know if I will ever turn back. Pizza has become an infatuation of mine not just because I love a good slice but because I really appreciate how several artisan crafts can come together to create this internationally loved food. I hope to find others that have the same passion and to grow as a pizza-haulic.
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Pizza-Geek

Pizza-Geek

Move over Picasso!!

Move over Picasso!!
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Oven at Mount St. Vincents

Oven at Mount St. Vincents
I have no idea when this oven was really made but I believe it is from the pre-depression era. It still gets really hot and has

Home-oven Pizza

Home-oven Pizza
This pizza was made in a residential oven. It is a good looking pizza but because the oven could only get up to 500 degrees farehnheit the crust did not develop as well as it does in a blazing hot commercial oven. None the less it was still better than delivery.

Mushroom & Pepperoni

Mushroom & Pepperoni
These are some 18 inch mushroom and pepperoni pies. THey baked for about 5 minutes in a 750 degree oven and were just about perfect.

The Pepperoni Project

The Pepperoni Project
This is the second attempt. They are looking a little "rustic" but a lot better than the first round.

"Vince"

"Vince"
This is the starter that I have been using to make pizza at Mount St. Vincent where I work. We decided to call it "Vince" for obvious reasons. Mount St. Vincent has been operating for 125 years and they will probably be helping kids for another 125. I hope that Vince will still be around then to help make killer pizza long after I'm gone.

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