This recipe is easy to follow and very gourmet!
Another Smoked Salmon Pizza Idea
Tag: Pizza
You Too Can Bake A Gourmet Pizza Like Wolfgang Puck!
Well, I did and here’s the photos to prove it. Recipe below
Pizza Night
Been working on perfecting my homemade pizza, trying to recreate what I ate as a kid growing up in NYC area. First is a deep dish baked in a cast iron skillet it turned out to be too deep and doughy. The second one was a thinner crust and had actual air pockets in crust due to the fact I let the dough rise for over 24 hours! I baked this pizza on a pizza steel at 525 degrees for 12 minutes.
What Do Hurricane Mesa and The Flying Monkey Have in Common?
The Flying Monkey, a pizza joint in Springdale, Utah, derived its name from an Air Force test track on the top of nearby Hurricane Mesa just outside of Zion NP. In the 1950′s the U.S. Air Force constructed a 12,000 foot test track on nearby Hurricane Mesa. The track was constructed to test aircraft ejection systems using dummies.
In at least one test series the rocket sled dummy was replaced by apes to identify the g-force effects of this type of ejection on a live being. Hence the Flying Monkey name came into existence. They could have also called it the Screaming Monkey!
You can barely see in the image below a building or two at the top of Hurricane Mesa. Flying Monkey pizza is not just another pizzeria. It is wood-fired, thin crust, with aromas remindful of my days as a kid getting a slice from Alfonso’s in NJ.
