One of my favorite recipes in the world is this one, for scratch-made Margherita Pizza, from the "Delicious Dish Splendid Table" website. With a little practice, it's a light, delicious veggie pizza that makes a perfect appetizer or light dinner 'za.
I list it here both to pass it on to fellow Margharita 'za fans, and to see if regular commenter PB can find a way to divert the attendant comment thread to a discussion of Bush Administration conspiracy theories.
Enjoy the pizza and the rhetoric!
Posted by Mitch at October 26, 2005 12:05 PM | TrackBack
Margharita pizza is an ITALIAN dish.
Benito Mussolini WAS an Italian FASCIST.
George Bush is a FASCIST who LIED to get us into this ill conceived war.
Posted by: PB at October 26, 2005 11:04 AMWell played.
Posted by: mitch at October 26, 2005 11:16 AMThank YOU, Mitch.
Now GO and ENLIST you yellow elephant!
Posted by: PB at October 26, 2005 11:24 AMOh man, I think I know what my Friday night dinner will be this week... I've been looking for a good thin-crust dough recipe for a while.
Plus, it'll be green, white, and red, the colors of the Iraqi flag - ya know, the country that just created the first democratic constitution in the history of the Arab world. The flag of the country that's now fighting for its freedom and independence from terrorism - and the flag of the country that our appeasenik friends would sell out in a heartbeat...
(Hey, I couldn't resist either...)
Posted by: Jay Reding at October 26, 2005 11:42 AMThe red sauce of the pizza on your hands is an allegorical representation of the blood of the 2000 American dead from Bush's immoral, inept, insane, illegal, illegitimate, illogical, and ill-conceived war.
Posted by: PwannaB at October 26, 2005 03:06 PMAnd "margherita" reveals that Bush has taken to the drink again.
Posted by: Nancy at October 26, 2005 03:27 PMMitch,
Sounds tasty.
Eva Young,
Please don't post a gazillion links to other pizza recipes that are better than "Blogger Berg's" that are posted on your blog that you're trying to shamelessly promote.
Thanks in advance !!
Posted by: Just Me at October 26, 2005 03:56 PMPB, you're killin' me. ;)
Now...
Speaking as an official Dago, I gotta find out how to make a cream pizza. (I should know by instinct, so I feel a little ashamed.)
Punch (at Highland Park) has an Ala Panna pizza with proscuito, onions, and cream... and DAMN if it ain't a fine pizza.
I probably should ask them, but I'm hoping someone hear knows how to make it properly.
Posted by: badda-blogger at October 26, 2005 04:43 PMSince this has turned into recipe radi^H^H^H^H blogging (next up: Mike Edwards with Action Auction 1500), I've always enjoyed a layer of softened flavored cream cheese such as garlic and herb right on top of the dough before you put the sauce on.
Umm ... OK, depending on the toppings, some of them are imported from foreign lands such as California or Texas. Shame on you for not buying local! Just think of all the petrochemicals being consumed just so you can have tomato paste in December! Blood for oil, I say!
Posted by: Bill Haverberg at October 26, 2005 05:14 PMBill,
Blood for oil?!?!?! Surely you're mixing your arguements... that can't be attached to pizza toppings.
Now, olive oil... I hate to admit it, but you might have more ground underneath that arguement. (Damn Guineas... and the Spanish!)
Posted by: badda-blogger at October 26, 2005 05:59 PMbadda-blogger,
White/cream sauce for pizza (keep in mind I never use recipes so this is off the top of my head):
Saute a couple of cloves of garlic in a little olive oil on med heat. When they soften and turn lightly brown, chop them finely. Put them back into the pan along with 2 tablespoons of butter & 1/4 cup of chopped onion. Pour in about 2/3 cup of heavy cream (whipping cream). Again on med to med-high heat, bring the cream to a boil (you have to stir so it doesn't scorch). After a few minutes the cream will reduce down and thicken. Add a heaping tablespoon of grated parmesian and a pinch or two of oregano and basil. Stir until consistency is, well, consistent.
Have fun! You could also check out www.epicurious.com. Thousands of recipies online.
I'm enjoying Mitch's kitchen chat.
Before PB beats me to it. Your preference for a cream sauce pizza is symbolic of your imperialistic desire for white westerners to dominate other races.
Posted by: Nordeaster at October 28, 2005 09:13 AMThanks, Nordeaster... but the pizza doesn't use a cream sauce. It's actually cream.
That said, I'll be trying your cream sauce recipe for pasta sometime.
Now, that white Westerner business... I'm a Guinea, a Wop, a Dago. YOU folks are white. If anything I'm Olive-American.
(Aside from the dose of German and Norweigan that is... d'oh!!!)
Posted by: badda-blogger at October 28, 2005 12:21 PM