[CH] Pizza dough, a garlic press, and immature Super Chile pods
Alex Silbajoris (asilbajo@hotmail.com)
Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:57:05 +0000
Pods,
For last night's dinner I got a pair of pizza kits from our local bake-it-yourself shop (the original Momma Mimi's on Henderson). Sold as a "bambino" pizza it's intended for kids to learn how to make a pizza. For a flat $5 you get a ball of dough, a little tub of sauce, cheese, and one topping of your choice. Extra toppings are 50¢ each. So dinner for two was $10 even.
We have a lot of basil, and one super chile is heavily laden with pods - it wins the coveted First Pepper Plant to Fall Over 2008 Award. So I decided to make a "white pizza" without any red sauce. Normally this shop prepares the dough with a spiked roller and galic and olive oil, brushed onto the crust. I have an old Susi floating-piston garlic press, and garlic, but this time I tried something new.
I picked several small immature pods off the super chile, cut them into chunks, and ran them through the garlic press. If the seeds are still immature enough that they haven't hardened, they can dzzzzt through the press, along with the garlic, into some waiting olive oil. That was brushed onto the dough, and it smelled GREAT.
So that was the base of the pie. I paved the crust with fresh basil leaves and sliced crimini mushrooms, and some lacy slices of immature bells, then I diagonally sliced more pods, red and green, for color accents, and finally the mozzarella.
As for the fallen plant, I harvested off some of the pods and pushed three small stakes around it in a triangle pattern, to support it.
- A
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