Everyone loves pizza. It is something you can order delivered at home for a football game, while you’re riding on Ray’s fantastical indoor MTB courses or even at the next Metro Mountain Bikers meeting which will be in November on Sunday; MTB movies to follow and a hot grill outdoors. It is election time for the club.
Palermo’s is a famous, or rather infamous frozen pizza producer in our valley. They have a public café at their production facility that serves beer which is so very important to many of the MTB affliction. I am not sure if the Fall Social Ride tomorrow will visit there, but places you have never been before (on a social ride) were promised last meeting. All are welcome. I rode out to Palermo’s yesterday and took a glide over the Three Bridges Park trail, connected to the Hank Aaron Trail. It is right behind Palermo’s. When I got there I found the battery in my camera was dead.
It is a nice ride,as is the Canal Street corridor. If a clear and convenient bike path can connect 6th street to the Lakefront it will be a convenient and enjoyable ride. You could actually ride from Lake Michigan almost all the way to Madison with little worry of automobile traffic. Though from this November until 2017 the trail will be closed from 94th Place to 116th Street while the freeway interchange is being reconstructed.
Sometimes we make pizza from scratch. Palermo’s sells frozen crust at their cafe. You can buy pizza dough fairly cheap at Trader Joe’s or other places. The traditional yeast based pizza dough can be a long somewhat tedious process to produce but there are several recipes for no yeast pizza dough (I think that is what Trader Joe’s sells) that take only a few minutes to prepare. You can find the recipes on the Internet and they are almost all identical. We were watching America’s Test Kitchen one Saturday and their no yeast pizza dough had one difference over all the others. You know they test and retest and then test again to find the very best recipes. They added 2 tablespoons of corn starch to the typical recipe. And I am no fan of big corn. I wouldn’t tell you that if I didn’t trust that it makes a difference.
My wife and I had to make a trip yesterday and without reservations I let her drive. Though when I told her to stop I had to repeat myself five times before she stopped. She also claims she stops completely at stop signs. So we were planning to try this no yeast dough pizza. You need to roll it out on parchment paper so you can slide it onto a preheated stone or pan (it bakes with the paper). So for several days I asked, “Did you buy the parchment paper?”
Over and over she confirmed to me that we had parchment paper. So she was mixing up the dough. I, always looking to help, asked “Where is the parchment paper?” I opened the drawer she directed me to and asked again, “Where?”
“This is wax paper.” I told my wife. Wax paper is much easier to remove from the bottom of a baked pizza after it is cold, like refrigerator cold. Pizza toppings are more common and inexpensive these days at the grocer.
The $38 question (see Charity Jackpot page): You all know that I have invested myself as a writer. (I will be providing my e-books for free in the near future) Who gave me my first typewriter and what is the make and model?
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