Friday, February 20

Pizza all day long, from wake to sleep

In the morning, I spent a few hours prepping all the mise for dinner, including raw sauce, cauliflower puree and roasted cauliflower, dulce de leche ice cream mix, chopped salad, etc. After working up a new version of the Brooklyn Bridge restaurant menu, got there around 11:30 and spend the day with L and various figures involved in getting the business off the ground. It's a real education, unfolding in real time with a real business at stake. Got home a little after 6 and got my mise out, and the pizzas rolled out pretty smoothly.

NOON SNACK: 12pm, half a Manhattan Special, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5

LUNCH: 2:30pm, 1.5 margerita slices, small bottle sprite, 1 bowl, hunger 4/5

PM SNACK: 6:30pm, spoonful of nutella, spoonful of caramel ice cream

DINNER: 7:45pm, 4 slices of savory pizza, 2 mini slices of sweet pizza, ramekin of dulce de leche ice cream, 2 glasses wine, water, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5
Pictures speak louder than words, sooo....

First up, salad pizza. Crust sprinkled with parm, olive oil and salt. Salad is simply romaine, cucumber, grated carrot, dressed in olive oil, balsamic, salt and sprinkled with a little parm.

Classic marg. Raw tomato sauce, pulsed in a blender, though L insists it damages the tomato, and a food mill is the way to go (he may be right.) Seasoned lightly with salt, oregano, black pepper, olive oil, and let a stem of basil sit in it for the day. Fresh moz, basil leafs.

Cauliflower pizza, once was a special at the Prospect Heights resto. Layer of moz, topped by cauliflower puree (steamed cauliflower, heavy cream, butter, garlic, salt) and sliced of roasted cauliflower. Finished with sliced scallion.

Guests requested pepperoni, so here is a simple marg with pepperoni and caramelized onions. Too much oil rendered, making the middle a bit flibbidy flobbidy.

Divided a dough into 2 smaller pies, one with nutella and banana finished with powdered sugar, the other a layer of marshmallows over semisweet chocolate chips and a little olive oil and salt.

And on a final note, if anyone needs to buy me a pre-baby present, do not get me ANYTHING....except this:

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