Due to a whole lot of weird crazy stuff happening in my life that I won’t get into,
I’m having to postpone my Pizza De Mayo this year.
The important thing is that you have Pizza De Mayo… SOME TIME IN MAY!
Don’t go doing that weird Mayfest type thing where they hold it in June, or Octoberfest in September. Just don’t.
“All cheese, please!”
Webster’s dictionary defines pizza as:Deep dish pizza is also made like this, except for a few differences.
1) While most pizzas are baked directly on the stone floor or deck of a pizza oven, a deep dish pizza is baked in a pan. The original Chicago deep dish pizzas were made in round pans, very similar (possibly identical) to cake pans. (never start a sentence with…) Because Deep Dish was intended to be a more substantial version of pizza, it is made in a pan and constructed to have a high outer wall to contain the generous amount of ingredients put inside.
2) With a few exceptions (Jersey, I’m talking to you!), most modern pizzas are made with the dough on the bottom, then the sauce on top of that, and then cheese goes on the very top, along with any additional toppings.
Deep dish pizza is assembled in a very similar way to a New Jersey “Tomato Pie”.
Cheese goes down first, then toppings, and tomato sauce goes on top. For deep dish pizza, this is essential, because if you don’t put the sauce on top, the cheese and toppings will burn due to the longer baking time.
Remember when I smoked that brisket (that I only got a sandwich picture of)
and those ribs (that I posted a photo from LAST year’s attempt) that I cooked a little while back?
Oh right… that’s the OTHER blog.
Well, those of you who read that post might recall that I also smoked some sausages at the same time.
Here’s the last of the 6-hour smoked Italian sausages from that meaty endeavour,
sliced up and put into a deep dish pizza along with a few pepperoni slices.
Mozzarella and Provolone cheese bubbled up a bit to the top
and the sausage and pepperoni slices have a nice char on them.
I’ve redone the Deep Dish Anatomy Chart, in the style of a vintage hanging school chart.
It includes some additional information about each layer, and also contains some phrases in Latin, just for good measure.
Anatomy of a Deep Dish Pizza
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