Passionate About Pizza: Making Great Homemade Pizza (52 page)

Sticky Serving

Cheese and Topping Ooze All Over
– Try waiting five to ten minutes after the pizza comes out of the oven before cutting it.

Pizza Got Cold
– You can place the pizza in a 350 degree Fahrenheit oven on a pizza pan or cookie sheet for four to six minutes to heat it. Watch the pizza as it heats to avoid burning the pizza.

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Passionate About Pizza:
Making Great Homemade Pizza’
s goal is to show you how to create fantastic pizza, one pizza at a time. It will give you the guidance and advice necessary to make great homemade pizza a reality for yourself. Using the methods described in the book, you will enjoy making pizza so much that you will practice until you are confident making pizza any time, for anybody!

My father and I took all the pictures in this book of me making pizza in my kitchen using the Passionate About Pizza System. This is all homemade pizza and you can make it, too. I used the listed ingredients, the recommended equipment, and followed the instructions as written. I have made quite a number of pizzas and I have learned many tricks along the way. This book contains all my pizza-making knowledge and I am happy to share it with you! Using it will help you learn to make pizza much more quickly than I did.

Passionate About Pizza:
Making Great Homemade Pizza
will have you making great pizza in no time!
Copyright 2003, 2008, 2009 Curtis Evan Ide, All Rights Reserved.

www.passionateaboutpizzabook.com

Table of Contents

Passionate About Pizza: Making Great Homemade Pizza

Pizza-making Quick Start

Introduction

Part One: Foundation

Pizza-making Equipment

Pizza Ingredients

Preparation Techniques

Part Two: Recipes

Dough Recipes

Sauce Recipes

Thin-Style Pizza Recipes

Thick-Style Pizza Recipes

Pizza’s Close Relatives

Pizza Recipe Compendium

Part Three: Beyond the Basics

Troubleshooting Guide

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