I heart pizza!

Tomatoes and Pizza dough

Took a trip down to SLC today!!  Yippee!  Went to a few of our favorite spots.  One of them being Caputo's Italian market downtown.  I finally purchased some 00 flour to make real Naples style pizza.  Sure I've tried to make it before with not much success....for any of you that have read "Eat, Pray, Love" or even seen the movie, or been to Italy (especially Naples) understand the amazing, almost religious experience that is true Italian pizza.  I've researched it, read about it, scanned recipe after recipe, and still haven't managed to get it quite right.  Today is a new day, and I finally got the fine milled flour that is a must for this type of undertaking.  Canned Italian plum tomatoes, not the Hunt's ones you buy at your Safeway, the real deal Italian ones, it's an acid thing....real Italian plum tomatoes canned at the right time are virtually acid free.  Last but not least real, fresh mozzarella!  I don't have an outdoor pizza oven, so a stone in my gas oven that is preheated to 500 degrees for an hour will have to suffice.  Well got the first one out of the oven....looks pretty good.  Topped that pie with an spicy arugula salad dressed with olive oil and balsamic and sea salt.  So the verdict; Pretty darn good but not quite there yet....maybe you have to be in Naples?  Ill keep trying, definitely better then anything I could get at a local joint or chain pizza place.

Ava putting on the cheese

Pizza Margarita with Arugula Salad.