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Monday, September 24, 2012, 4:47:32 AM- Pizza My Way, part 1

The first thing to think about when making a pizza is the crust. Anything is only as good as it’s weakest component so it’s vital to get it right. A common problem with homemade pizza is a crust that bubbles up. This method will eliminate that.

I like to use a combination of semolina flour, white bread flour and whole wheat. You can use all white if you want to but the semolina makes the dough easier to handle and both the whole wheat and semolina add an additional layer of character to the crust.

Use cold water, I use water from the fridge, and just a small amount of yeast. The cold water and small measure of yeast will limit the yeast activity which is what will prevent the crust from bubbling up while baking.

This method requires you to make the dough at least a day ahead of time. The dough can stay in the fridge for up to 3 or 4 days. If you have leftover dough that you are not going to use within 3 or 4 days form it into a ball, flatten it, wrap it in lightly oiled plastic wrap and then a freezer bag and freeze it.

This dough will be somewhat sticky so it’s best to make it with a mixer. A food processor can also be used.

This recipe will make 2 thin crust or 1 thicker crust pizza.

Lets get started.

Measure by weight, 3 ounces semolina, 4 ounces whole wheat, 3 ounces white bread flour, 6 5/8 ounces cold water. Measure by volume, 1/4 teaspoon salt, ½ teaspoon yeast, 2 teaspoons olive oil (or any vegetable oil) and 1 teaspoon honey (or sugar).

Put all ingredients in the mixer bowl and start it up.

When it comes together cover it and let it rest 20 minutes.

Knead it for 8 minutes. If you are using a food processor it only takes a minute or two. Remove the dough from the mixer bowl, put into a very lightly oiled bowl, cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 24 hours.

On the day you make the pizza, remove the dough from the fridge an hour or two ahead of time so it can come up to room temp.

Part 2 will be in tomorrows blog.

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Most Recent Comment:	"make mine with Pesto base Lenny,tomatoes dont agree with me..." - Atrebates

Wednesday, September 5, 2012, 7:56:34 PM- Cable TV

My cable box died. They're going to send someone over to look at it. I know they'll probably replace it. But my box is also a DVR so that means I'll lose what I have on it. Most of it I can live without or replace but I have 2 classics on it that don't get shown too often, Eating Raoul and Spider Babe. Spider
Babe is about a young woman who gets bit by a radioactive spider and it turns her into a super hero. And it makes her super horny. And makes her largely a Lesbian. *sigh*

In the meantime I hooked up an antenna to the TV. Do you know what's on broadcast TV? Not much.

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Most Recent Comment:	"Good luck with your rabbit ears :D" - T4Texas

Tuesday, August 28, 2012, 6:26:20 AM- Peach Tree

My neighbor and me both have a peach tree. They're not good peach trees, the peaches are real small, real small. But this year both our trees are loaded. Well, my tree was loaded. This morning I went out there and found every single peach is gone. Even the ones that had fallen on the ground are gone. I wonder who got them. I know it's an animal or animals. No human thief would pick the insect bit ones off the ground. I looked over the fence at my neighbors tree and see his is still loaded. Why was my tree cleaned off and not his?

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Most Recent Comment:	"IVENSTIGATE, this mystery must be solved" - LordViking

Friday, August 24, 2012, 1:06:33 AM- The Forum

I'm talking about GD. I think NN is extremely tolerant. If I were running the site I'd be booting people left and right, lol.

On a more positive note, status is generally a fun place.

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Most Recent Comment:	"They really boot people off of this site??" - FLPhotoGuy

Friday, August 17, 2012, 4:23:26 AM- I found.....

I found some of my pics reposted on another site. I put a comment on them that they are stolen, they disappeared later. But who the f*ck steals pics of guys to repost? What's so hard about getting naked and pulling out your own camera and snap off a few? I'll be pasting my name on my pics from now on.

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Most Recent Comment:	"Welcome to the stolen picture club, Lenny. There are many members from here who have joined up." - chargingram

Friday, August 10, 2012, 4:27:44 AM- Cute video

I think this was staged but it's cute.

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Most Recent Comment:	"yeah totally staged ... you can see the dog stop as soon as the cat gets near the serfbored ... deffo staged :)" - Wodja

Friday, August 10, 2012, 1:59:12 AM- F*cking Fly!

I left a beer on the kitchen counter and when I came back I found a fly on it. Damn fly is now "drowning" his sorrows in said beer. Good thing I have another beer in the fridge.

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Most Recent Comment:	"I hope for his benefit, he's an alcoholic fly." - chargingram

Sunday, August 5, 2012, 6:52:40 PM- Bad timing, or, honey I really NEEDED that beer

Last week a guy from Minnesota travels to Chicago with his girlfriend and they go to a ball game at historic Wrigley Field. Unknown to her, her young man has made arrangements with the good folks at the ball park to flash "Erica, will you marry me?" on the electronic message display on the scoreboard. I don't know if he knew just when the message would come up but the announcers in the broadcast booth knew and so did the camera crew. The message comes up and the announcers tell the television viewers what is about to happen and the camera shows the message and then shows the couple, except there was no couple, just the guy sitting there next to an empty seat looking bummed. The message goes off and in a few moments later she is seen returning to her seat with the beers. Yup, she made a beer run and missed the proposal!

All's well that ends well though. At the end of the inning the message comes back up, this time the guy makes sure she is at her seat, he points to it, gets on his knees and offers her the ring.

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Most Recent Comment:	"Cubs go all the way in 2017" - By-the-Sea

Saturday, August 4, 2012, 7:39:47 PM- Can you guess?

Yay, guess what day today is? I'll give you a hint, President Obama shares this date with me.

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Most Recent Comment:	"happy bday, hope it was a great one!" - dirkwiggler99

Thursday, August 2, 2012, 5:32:54 AM- Looks like I turned green

As you may recall from a previous blog, I had to replace my central air conditioner in June. Everything available now is much more energy efficient than the systems of decades ago. None the less, I opted for a higher efficiency system than the minimum required. Everyone says I will save on my electric bill, but will I really? Well, the numbers for July are in. This July has been about the hottest I can recall in quite some time. We have had more 90 and 100 degree (f) days this July than all of last summer. There is no doubt that if I still had my old system my energy usage would be significantly higher than it was last July.

So did my new system save me anything? Yup. My usage for this July is exactly 1/3 less than it was in July 2011. A savings of more than 600 kilowatt hours. All without making any sacrifices with the thermostat.

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Most Recent Comment:	"Good to hear :)" - dirkwiggler99