Percitelli with Eggplant Parmesan
Veteran's Day this year I made another family favorite – Percitelli with Eggplant Parmesan in Meat Sauce.
This year has been a rough one with so many funerals and wakes in the past month or so. It got to the point that I was either at a wake or a funeral at least 5 days out of the week for several weeks.
I lost a few very close friends. One quite suddenly and unexpected. And it has not left me much time for anything at all.
With it being Veteran’s Day, of course I visited my dad’s grave, and my uncles and great uncles that all served our country. My paternal grandmother was a Gold Star mom. Three boys in the service, 2 in the Army and my dad in the Navy. Things were different in those days – there was no communication, computers, cell phones – just Gold Stars placed in the windows of the homes of those that were “missing”.
Yes, they did all come home – but there were many that didn’t. And I just can't imagine a mother having to hang that Gold Star in her window and not know if her son would ever be found.
After I got home I started today’s dinner –
Eggplant Parm with Percitelli in Meat Sauce
And since my head is still up my azzzz with all this going on – I of course forgot to take my ground chuck out of the freezer – so it ended up in the pan frozen. But it thawed as it cooked and didn't take all that much longer to cook. Heat large skillet, add some olive oil and heat the oil. Add 2+ pounds ground chuck and fry, breaking up, until it is all thawed and you can then season.
Meat seasonings:
Kosher salt
Fresh ground black pepper
Garlic
Parsley
Ground fennel
While that was cooking, I started my eggplant.
Peeled and sliced thick; dip in beaten egg, then coat well with seasoned bread crumbs -
Plain dry bread crumbs
Kosher salt
Fresh ground black pepper
Basil
Parsley
Garlic
Onion powder
Paprika
Skillet fried in olive oil.
Now – as you can notice – I did not salt the eggplant slices, etc. to remove any water. There is no need to do this. My eggplant wasn't bitter either. Nor did it soak up a lot of oil.
By the time my eggplant was fried, my sauce ingredients were in the pan:
Tomato puree – and a half can of water
Tomato paste – and a can of water
Pinch sugar
Kosher salt
Fresh ground black pepper
Parsley
Onion powder
Basil
Fresh grated Pecorino Romano cheese
Bring to simmer; allow to simmer while my pot of water came to a rolling boil for my percitelli. Add my generous helping of salt, wait for the water to return to a rolling boil, add my percitelli and cook al dente.
While the macaroni is cooking, I cut my provolone cheese into rounds to fit on the eggplant slices. It's hard these days to find a decent mozzarella cheese, and provolone is a great substitute.
Place the eggplant slices in a baking dish with a spoon of the sauce on top; top with a sliced of cheese. Placed in a preheated 350* F. oven just long enough to melt the cheese just a bit. We like our cheese ON our parm dishes, not melting off into the pan. Spoon a bit of sauce over for serving.
I sliced crusty Italian rolls to toast in the oven and added a piece of garlic/herb focaccia that I had made – just to heat through.
An authentic Neapolitan taste
In a city full of pizza, Marzano's, a Neapolitan Pizzeria, which opened in November, is a standout.
The Italian made beehive oven at Pizza Marzano, directly behind the bar, is fired from rails of oak and ash.
"The trick is to keep going, the flames that heat the tips of the pie," said Chris Eucalitto who owns the place with his nephew Jonathan Eucalitto.
The furnace averages 800 degrees is formed so in an amazing 90 seconds pizza baked - as delicious as it is authentically Neapolitan. The thin, crispy crust is tough and seasoned with just enough salt, and the fresh-tasting sauce with crushed San Marzano tomatoes (known for its low acid) was prepared. Premium toppings include ham, gourmets praise, Kalamata olives, mushrooms, buffalo mozzarella and caramelized onions.
All pies are 12 inches in diameter, and in addition to the typical eight red and six white cakes ($ 6 to $ 11), offers Marzano's 16 toppings ($ 1 to $ 3 each) for build-it-yourself. Highlights of a very modest selection of appetizers is a plate with meat, cheese, wood-roasted peppers and olives ($ 10) and focaccia with olive oil and sea salt and baked in a wood oven ($ 2) brushed. Of the four salads on the menu (from $ 5 to $ 7) are listed are served three with focaccia. Gorgonzola, a blend of greens, tomatoes, red onions, cucumber, walnuts and cheese is a meal in itself.
Unlike many pizzerias, Marzano spacious interior is attractive, topped with sepia photographs on the period of the mango-yellow walls and tables with marble or polished wood. In fine weather comes, the plan Eucalittos offer outdoor seating.
Christopher Brooks
Marzano Pizzeria, 1929 East Main Street, Torrington, (860) 618-0875. Open from 11.30 bis 09.00 clock, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday, 11.30 bis 22.00 clock, Friday and Saturday.
New York Pizza entering a Golden Age
New York's Pizza is now in a pizza era stretching. The wood stoves and rock-star Pizzaioli that not long ago seemed exotic always trusted. A bubble blowing 12-inch-Naples-style pizza, once hard to find pleasure, almost routine.
Three new pizzerias complement the wealth. They might have in common is not much, but they all follow the same textbook: focus on pizza and keep prices low so no one cares if you punt on the salads, side dishes and desserts.
The most ambitious newcomer is Olio e Più Pizza, 3 Greenwich Avenue (Sixth Avenue), Greenwich Village, (212) 243-6546, olionyc.com. The large restaurant has the feel of a generic Olive Garden, even though the sidewalk tables successfully colonized what a grim stretch of Greenwich Avenue. Now there is a Mediterranean vibrancy to the street, let alone the M10 waiting to change buses at the light.
Some nights, the furnace run by Giulio Adriani, an award-winning pizza chef, who splits his time between Olio e Pizza Alla Corte dei Più and Bourbons, his restaurant near Rome. Mr. Adriani is a ringer for Ali G - full goatee, Ferrari-red glasses, Lamborghini-yellow scarf "ADRIANI" from the back of his chef's jacket spelled - and consider some pizzas that flair. The Argento di Napoli, with edible silver is listed on the menu, but it is not yet available.
The best pizzas are less rich, such as the Caprese ($ 15), a riff on the classic Margherita with tomatoes and bufala mozzarella. He won the European Champions Cup (all prices are difficult on the menu stated), but whether you like it is a matter of taste. The charred crusts are so soft and floppy ears as Basset Hound, a true Neapolitan style, the play is not always good in New York.
There is no quarrel with the flavors. The arugula and thin slices of lemon in the Amalfi coast ($ 16) reflect the mozzarella and Parmesan a summery brightness. And the combination of smoked mozzarella, grilled pumpkin and bacon in the Vesuvio ($ 18) is so natural that it is a classic in the making.
The crust on Paulie Gee's, 60 Greenpoint Avenue (Franklin Street), Greenpoint, Brooklyn, (347) 987-3747, pauliegee.com has more body, though it is still thin and flexible. The dough also has a good story: Paul Giannone, a software developer and amateur pizzaiolo, was inspired by Roberta's in Bushwick, and decided his hobby was his calling.
In March, he opened a restaurant that is part of cavernous warehouse, part of farmhouse in a remote area near the East River. More impressive, Mr. Giannone, 56, is to begin at an age when some people consider a cozy lap of honor for a life well lived.
If only the pizzas were consistent. One night, the rooftop Pie ($ 17) was a winner, mozzarella and fennel sausage hunks covered with green cabbage through the furnace that Mr. Giannone had scorched built to his specifications. Another night of honey Jones ($ 16) was a wallflower, it tastes nothing despite the triple threat of Gorgonzola, prosciutto and honey "Megan the beekeeper." You want more from a restaurant so proud of his constituents, and that brings so much care into his food.
There is less reverence for Total Pizza, 36 St. Marks Place (Third Avenue), East Village, (212) 254-0180, totalepizza.com. It was opened from Eli and Oren Halali, the brothers behind 2 Bros. Pizza, a piece of joint a few meters. The tables are made of plastic. The waiters do not have the menu that has mastered nine elements. But the furnace is kept in a hellish temperature, and the pizzas are charred and bubbly. The Margherita with mozzarella bufala ($ 11.75) holds his own and Bianca ($ 9.75), with mozzarella, ricotta, garlic and the olive, creamy, intense and satisfying.
Total pizza can never inspire a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela as some make up or Motorino Co.. This is not the point. Instead, it adjusts to a Naples-style crust with New York-style comfort: a wood-fired pizza that is quick, cheap and easy.
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Where Pizza is a call
ANY mushy-slice-peddling corner pizzeria in the city has a legion of partisans, who by their candy-sweet tomato sauce and rubbery swear "mozzarell." That's the problem with education or pizza: it leads to the kind of specious "this place is better than" argument that never ends and to agree if the two parties involved happen.
So let's way for the political groups in the run and get the information about Una Pizza Napoletana out of the way quickly. It serves pies, not slices, the cakes formed bubbles and bubble out of a wood-burning stone oven, the pizza is not explicitly in the New York-style. At least half of you are probably pushing away the table already.
The pizzas are working at a time by Anthony Mangieri, a name that you are not immediately to the tattoo-covered 33-year-old Pizzaiolo attach oven. His two fists at a photo on the wall, concentrated on the words "Hope" and "Fede" immortalized Italian for faith, tattooed on his knuckles. These are two of the three theological virtues of Catholicism, and when the third, cited sometimes as charity or sometimes as love, is written by Mr. Mangieri body, it is not shown when he makes pizza.
But there are other signs of his faith: a cross set in the tile floor of the small dining room and closer to the entrance, illuminated Jesus look blue on a stretch of East 12th Street from the neon sign in a window next door.
Mr. Mangieri beliefs about pizza in a take-away menu that reads like a missionary tract are recorded call with passages such as "all square, round, thick, stuffed and over-topped pieces of dough can be to your liking, but don 't it pizza. "
The main attraction Una Pizza is the dough, the crust. The 12-inch pizzas, served a total of made from a dough unsullied by commercial yeast, a piece of leftover dough, salt, flour, water and 36 hours rising time are all that go in it.
When a friend of knowledge of both baking and Italy caught wind of Una Pizza's mission, he commented on how strange it seemed that a pizza man moved from Jersey (last month Mr. Mangieri of Una Pizza Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey, where he was a legend) is at pains to Neapolitan style pizza more to create "authentic" than most of the pizza in Naples.
Mr. Mangieri pounds out balls of dough, flattening them into circles with repeated strikes open palm. The pizzas are dressed lightly and slid into a wood-fired stone oven.
He constantly needed fuels the fire with logs, sticks and occasionally PIZZA BUCKET full of wood chips, the bump the oven up to nearly 900 degrees, the temperature, for a pizza in what he says is the right amount of cooking of time: two minutes.
The pizza is on your marble table later a second to eat hot. If you want to dig into the fork and flimsy serrated knife provided, you may find that the pizza charred bottom leaves a dusting of soot on the plate. The crust is crispy in spots, tender in others, with an appealing elasticity and a reassuring saltiness. The long fermentation imparts the dough with a fine acidity that gives the cake a well-rounded, complex flavor.
Una Pizza for four pizzas, period. They are variations on a theme: crushed San Marzano tomatoes color the marinara; real buffalo mozzarella adorns the classic Margherita and Bianca, this two and basil. My hands-down favorite is the Filetti, essentially a Margherita with a pinch of garlic and fresh tomatoes are made in the can. There is nothing else on the menu except bottled water, soft drinks and Italian a picture of St. Anthony.
The restaurant is currently BYOB to offset so the sticker shock of $ 16.95 pizzas, easily the most expensive in the city. It would continue to be helped along if the restaurant was slightly better than disposable cups for wine, you could bring. Mr. Mangieri says glassware will come in time, where he completed a short list of southern Italian wines.
But his is not a restaurant that makes excuses. It is focused, solely and in short supply, to an idealized style of pizza - can not sell what - and is led by an unusually clear objective. The menu says it: "There's too much pride behind this pizzeria - its life, heart and passion - nothing less to offer, it is Neapolitan, it is love .."
Una Pizza Napoletana
349 East 12th Street (Second Avenue), East Village, (212) 477-9950.
Best dishes pizzas, especially the Filetti.
PRICE RANGE $ 16.95 each.
CREDIT CARDS Cash only.
Clock hours 5 to "fresh dough" Thursday through Saturday, noon until "fresh dough" Sunday. Closed Monday to Wednesday.
WHEELCHAIR ACCESS Everything on one level.
The Road to Pizza Nirvana goes through Phoenix
PHOENIX''Was we can do is put up smoke signals and hope somebody reads them,''Chris Bianco said. ''That's all I can do all of us. When the pizza guy teaches you imagine anything that can do what the smart people.''
Mr. Bianco, the chef and proprietor of Pizzeria Bianco here and the only pizzaiolo the best regional chef designation of winning the James Beard Foundation was to search for words to describe what he does. He set the pizza baking industry in terms of a Zen master will know to appreciate.
''It's no secret that my pizza,''said Mr. Bianco, the Beard Award won last year. ''Sicilian oregano, organic flour, San Marzano tomatoes, purified water, mozzarella I learned from Mike's Deli in the Bronx, sea salt, yeast cake and a bit of dough from yesterday. In the end, great pizza, like anything else, is all about balance. It's that simple.''
But like a nice Italian boy came from the Bronx, a soulful high school dropout with a penchant for self-reflection and a ferocious intellectual curiosity, end up making what just might be the best pizza in America in a city which, in my estimation more golf courses than pizzerias?
I asked this question, and a few others, as Mr. Bianco was in his usual place, making pizza in his restaurant in an old house in Heritage Square.
His menu is disarmingly simple: one starter (skewers, cheese wrapped in ham), an antipasto plate and two salads. One is a simple green salad, while the other consists of whatever goodies one of his local suppliers drops off at his back door. That night, it was of juicy tangerines with a perfect sweet and acid balance written, paper-thin slices of fresh fennel, a splash of fruity olive oil and some Malden sea salt.
Then there are his pizzas. His bark is both thick and thin, puffy and crisp on the outside and soft and chewy on the inside, with hole structure like great bread. His mozzarella, which he and his staff every morning, is creamy and slightly tart. The sauce tastes like the ripest tomatoes in concentrated form. His sausage tastes fennel and pork, with just the right meat-fat ratio.
The Rosa, one of six pizzas, is made with red onions, Parmigiano-Reggiano, rosemary and Arizona pistachios, and how complex and intense as Mr. Bianco himself. The Wiseguy pie has smoked mozzarella (he smokes it every morning in his wood stove over pecan wood), roasted onions and fennel sausage.
My first bite of the Wiseguy melted in my mouth, as all great pizza does. The elements blended like a great jazz rhythm section.
''What I do is like a producer picking up the individual tracks of some unbelievable music,''said Mr. Bianco, who often expresses himself in musical terms. ''It could be Miles or Mozart. All you do is what I take it back to the studio and remix it.''
Mr. Bianco lived in the Bronx until he was 6 when his family to Ossining, NY His mother at Saks Fifth Avenue worked in bridal design, moves, and his father was a portrait painter, the family supported by the design of wine and spirits labels . His father paintings adorn the walls of the pizzeria and Bar Bianco, which are a patch of grass and Mr. Bianco herb garden separately. Pane Bianco, the four kinds of sandwiches one day serve on hot rolls baked in a wood oven, is located a few miles.
Mr. Bianco had asthma as a child, forcing him to stay home and let him spend hours watching his Aunt Margaret Koch. At 13 he was at a local pizzeria and after the 11th Working class, left school and went to work in restaurants. Cooking, he said, saved him.
''Most of my friends went one way, be to be the wrong way,''he said. ''I went another.''
In 1985 he won two plane tickets to anywhere in the United States, and he chose Phoenix. Why Phoenix? To this day he does not know. But, he said,''When I arrived, I felt somehow connected to this place.''
He said he began mozzarella in his apartment, selling to Italian restaurants at their back doors. Finally offered a specialty grocer in Phoenix, Guy Coscos, store it in a corner of his to put in a wood oven and make and sell pizza. Pizza, Mr. Bianco obsession:''I thought that maybe I could make a life out of him.''
Moving to Santa Fe, NM, in 1989 put him into the world of Deborah Madison, the vegetarian cookbook writer and her sous-chef, David Tanis. ''The whole thing was about food and what made it special,''he said.''
At the same time he found himself in the head of the American Food Revolution, which placed a premium on tradition, local pride and craftsmanship. Finally he was able to draw on his childhood experiences.
''At last I had something to offer from my past, a reverence for what was my family,''he said. ''I realized that what I had, what was in me, something of value.''
Armed with newfound confidence and a renewed sense of purpose, he opened Pizza Bianco in 1994.
Ten years on, pizza is still full of meaning, cosmic and otherwise, for Mr. Bianco. ''I have not invented,''he said. ''I'm just trying something to make a little something right. I'm on a mission, I have a responsibility to do something with integrity and dignity.
''My menu is small, but for me it's the greatest thing in the world. Pizza inspires me, fascinates me and gives me hope.''
Dominos Pizza Vouchers are a great way to one of the things you need to save the most
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If you're used to getting your pizza coupons from the Sunday paper special advertising section do you do, but most people do not like this solution because they forget to use the coupons. But cut them anyway, maybe you'll remember where they are when you need them.
Pizza is not something you necessarily plan to, sometimes you feel like pizza, or sometimes you do not have time to eat. The solution is to go to dominos_pizza_coupons.html and you can print coupons for pizza when you need them.
You can get money from the pizza, you can get a free topping, or you can get a free bottle of soda. Whatever you get, it will save you money and that means more pizza for you.
Even if one or two dollars from a pizza very much, often one of the best deals you can get Dominos Pizza coupons, free offer is the topping. You know you are paying for some additional increase that you can not do without, so getting it free is a real bonus. You would probably have paid for extra toppings in each case, and maybe now you will get two toppings.
Printable pizza coupons that you can get just by going to a website and localization of coupons and pressing the print button is a true today's computer-age marvel at. Sure, many of the things computers do today, but what really critical? True Pizza lovers need their pizza and save money, either with dollar coupons, or more juice or soda, and be able to get these things on a button, is great.
Wedding Reception Food idea: Pizza?
You want to have pizza at your wedding? As strange as that might sound, more and more people are opting to have pizza as a wedding dish. No matter what your wedding may be pizza make a great wedding reception food choice. After all, it's still your wedding and you should get in a position to which foods you want to receive. Here are some ideas on how to have pizza at your wedding and make it the talk of the party for all the right reasons.
It is a kind of pizza for each type of wedding. First, decide what type of wedding you have. Is it formal, informal or casual? Is it traditional, contemporary or unique? Next, inventory your likes and dislikes. If you could have your wedding, what would it be? Do you really want to grill your pizza haute-cuisine reception? With a little creativity you can make this happen.
For a formal wedding can be a part of the pizza appetizers before dinner in the form of mini-pizzas. Have goat cheese and dried tomatoes on crostini or Gouda on toast points with grape tomatoes. If you want to have pizza as a main course, he might be so again at a sit-down dinner. Offer the choice of spinach and smoked chicken, caramelized onions and salmon, filet mignon and Swiss cheese, roasted vegetables or pizza as a main course options. A good cook can be a very elegant meal with an arugula and goat cheese salad.
The above opportunities are very good for an appetizer buffet, which is a wonderful opportunity for every wedding style with the exception of the very formal. Add a Parmesan, mozzarella and Gouda fondue in a contemporary wedding or buffalo chicken skewers as pages in an intimate or casual buffet.
For a very intimate wedding, you could host the party at your favorite family-style Italian restaurant. Pizza could be accompanied by spaghetti and meatballs, lasagna and pasta Alfredo and Pesce and finished with tiramisu and dessert wine.
Very casual and family oriented Weddings can end with pitch-in barbecue or receptions. For a pitch-in, you could each person bring their favorite homemade pizza taste. For a barbecue, of course, guests can barbecue a chicken, sweet onion, pizza and pulled pork and cheddar next to the coleslaw are treated.
Pizza could nicely round destination or theme weddings. After a wedding on the beach, what could be better than Hawaiian pizza and pina colada and margaritas or Mexican Pizza?
Each of these ideas may sound like sacrilege, when everything you've heard is the standard beef, chicken, fish or sit-down dinner. It is well to remember, however, that it's your wedding, and if you set your heart on your pizza, you deserve it. Pizza With a little creativity can succeed in any type of wedding star. If your caterer is worth the rolling pin, they will be able to come to the perfect pizza for the wedding you have in mind.
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Hope you enjoy the home-made pizza dough recipe trials
Always remember eating a thing, the home-made each kind of food a hundred times better than the hotel. The reason is that these foods more fresh, nutritious and always healthy for the body. If you have a habit of eating spicy, delicious and tasty food of the hotel, then the home-made food is the right choice.
We can see the different kinds of pizza recipes from the Internet, which consists of the different types of pizza to get, and we can add our ideas to prepare this pizza at home. Therefore, there is no need to spend your time for the order and buying pizza from the shops and hotels. Always prefer pizza, a pleasant smell, delicious taste and it is fun to eat more home-made.
Typically, different types of pizza to make at home. We can make the pizza in 2 hours and 20 minutes in the rule. The main ingredients of pizza are plain white flour 180g, a tablespoon of salt, a tablespoon of yeast that is dried, half tablespoon of sugar, a tablespoon of olive oil, which is very important for pizza dough for baking. It should 120ml warm water, and polenta for dusting.
After taking the formulation material that cooking also important for making pizza dough. It consists of two bowls, a spoon, plastic wrap, a rolling pin and a jug for measuring, a round bowl and a sieve for baking the pizza dough.
After all the cooking material for pizza, the next process is on, how to make pizza. There are certain steps to prepare the pizza dough. First, you must be a sieve on a bowl and mix a little flour. After this procedure, you have smooth shake this mixture.
Now add in the bowl of medium size, you need the salt, yeast and sugar. You need to create a hole in the middle and then mix olive oil and hot water mix and the whole mixture very well. Now you have re-merge the entire mixture by hand to produce a rough paste.
Next, you need the dough in a bowl of fat, which should properly move and clean. You have to dish out then with the help of some Stick & Film that has been bowl for almost two hours climbing up to the size of the dough double in size substantially.
In the last phase, you need the dish and then you have to shake reveal about flour dough. Now, after removal of the shell she put on the smooth surface. Now, shake on some flour on the baked dough and roll dough out of hand. You also have dust with flour and then turn it to roll the other side.
Now finally you have to add some flour on the base of the baking sheet, which should have a round tray. Then move the dough to the front over trade and pressure on them from the outside rollers. So, now delicious baked pizza is ready to eat.
Pizza Delivery indicators – a tool for marketing
Car prime indication is the most powerful tool in marketing in today's world. The main use is to increase the market for a unique product. It helps to raise awareness among people about the solution. It serves as a resource of facts by the buyer with plenty of choices from which they may choose to offer a resolution of their choice.
In today's world people today are extremely busy catching up with the pace of life. Basically it is for that statement, won the pizza delivery service and other fast-food technologies have considerable importance. People in their hectic schedules often Munch in pizzas that are really tasty and filling. The details of pizza delivery vary depending on the amount that she would attract. For example, if a certain pizza company target group should be between three years to 15 years, then cartoon characters as auto leading indication.
It is important to use strong neo magnets with soft shoe covers as if it were the indications of much more stable. should be for pizza delivery service Advertising illuminated magnetic indicators actually used. These indicators are illuminated magnetic long and sustained that the main cause of it is used. But soft magnetic shoe car best known applied for increased durability. A car or truck early indicators for pizza deliveries which give extremely accurate facts. The details should really are the height of the center phone of exactly where the pizza is delivered. The logo of the organization should really be there. In addition, catchy lines are really crucial for the advertising. This catchy lines or jingles are critical instruments for recording the impression in the minds of consumers.
The pizza delivery service spots in the way of the automatic leading indications were the first of its kind shifting the course of time, the automobile organization Prime signal to other locations. But first, advertising for pizza delivery constituted a major aspect of the industry. This service speeds up delivery and thus adds up the profits. A recent survey has shown that the pizza delivery service have set fire to a taxi instructions increased the income of organizations from twenty%. An illuminated signal is required, or the advertising is not enough to be visible from a distance. Also, his attitude of a driver and delivery guy rewarding as it will help your business operates 24 hours a properly oiled machine venture.
In the pizza-delivery service organization of the competition at its peak, the prime automotive advertising would necessarily an edge to your organization. The website will present you with lucrative prime are in the car design. Get ready to buy your pizza delivery service signal in those days.
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