It’s hard to call something as delicious as this a failure, but really we were unable to do what we set out to do so in my mind I mark it with an F. The goal was to make chicken tikka masala and put it on a raw naan dough. Cook that dough in the pizza oven and basically have an Indian pizza. The main problem here was that naan dough does not have the stretching capabilities that the pizza dough we make has. It is unable to hold all of those toppings and was falling apart in the oven. We should have done the trick of grilled pizza where you cook it on one side, flip and add the toppings, but we did not think of it at the time.

As my really O.G. fans would know, I made chicken tikka once before, but it wasn’t that good. The naan was crap and the flavor was bland. Now that I am a little more experienced in Indian cooking, I found this to be easy and much more delicious. I suggest this dish to anyone (just not the pizza part).

New round of wallpapers for ya! Some of these are pizza, but others are not. I thought this would be a good way to cap off the pizza posts so you can have some commemorative keepsakes. As always, a few tips. If you have dual monitors, remember to set it to 'tile'. Also, if you are new to the site, click the wallpaper tab on the left to see the older wallpapers. Comment and let me know if you are using any of these. Tomorrow it’s back to business as usual! No more pizza!

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Leftover pizza ravioli are a fairly new addition to our pizza making tradition that I am sure will be around for awhile because this meal was awesome. We took all of the leftover pizza toppings and stuck them into pasta dough and used the leftover sauce to eat them with. I can’t take any credit, this was all Mandi’s idea and I can’t thank her enough cause it was really great.

Whew. Pizza week was fun. And now it’s over. But as always, I have a few leftovers. What do you eat on the morning after a pizza party? The morning after a pizza party, I am always craving pizza! Why? Well because I didn’t get enough last night. I was too busy being a host, firing an oven, mixing drinks, and keeping things under control to be able to actually stop and enjoy the pizza. The next morning I get to casually cook a breakfast pizza or two and eat them all. I am not going back out and throwing logs into the fire; I cook these in my oven. I have a few bricks leftover from the pizza oven building that fit nicely on my normal oven’s top rack. These work as a pizza stone (if not better). I preheat my oven to 550 and wait about an hour for the bricks to be ready.

"It’s so hot. Burn your mouth.
Scar tissue. Make you go “ow!”
Cheese must cool and congeal.
Slice with a coke is a no joke meal.
It’s a quick bite that can’t be beat.
It’s a pie chart that you can eat.
It’s a done deal if you don’t delete,
so bust the calories with the pizza beat.
No oregano bits in your pretty little smile.
Not even garlic bread. No Chi-town style." -mc chris

If you haven’t clicked on any of the links for the songs, please at least check out this one! Anyway, today is sort of unfocused. I have a bunch of random pictures from pizza parties we have had over the years that I wanted to post as a thanks to everyone we have had over and a cap to pizza week. Don’t be sad about the end of pizza though, there will be leftovers next week starting Tuesday when I get back from Boston

"This was a Pizza Hut
Now it's all covered with daisies
you got it, you got it

And as things fell apart
Nobody paid much attention -Talking Heads

Prepare yourself, I have a lot of pictures today, and you better look at every single one! I normally like to max out my posts at about 35 to 40 pics, but today I couldn’t discriminate. I’m just so happy about my new oven! Honestly, if you have the space, you could easily make one too! It was just me and two of my friends who built this and none of us have any masonry experience. It cost me a little over 400 dollars (in Bermuda where everything costs more) and only took us a total of about 10 hours. The three of us got together after work once a week and worked for about 2 hours each time. About 5 weeks later it was completed. Honestly my two friends did most of the manual labor; I was the brains of the operation. I took lessons from my Grandfather who taught me a long time ago how to be a good foreman. Here are the pictures of the whole process. There’s not much else to tell you other than that the end result is totally worth it. I would have liked to add insulation to the outsides, but I couldn’t find the stuff in Bermuda and was also running out of money so I decided to just leave it. Because of this, it doesn’t stay hot for almost 24 hours on only one firing like many brick ovens do. Had I insulated it, it would have taken a lot more money, and way more time.

”I'm hungry yeah
I said I'm starving yeah
I want some Pizza,
Coke and ice cream popcorn.”– No Doubt

Ahhhh memories... the old Webber grill pizza oven. I loved this thing. When I first moved to Bermuda, it didn’t take me long to notice the lack of good pizza. Here, there are only two restaurants where you can get a semi-decent slice, but they are both sit-down, kind of expensive, and far from consistent. There is also one delivery place but their pizza quality ranks just below Domino's, and their price is about four times that of Domino's. Mandi and I quickly realized that if we wanted decent pizza, we would have to make it ourselves at home! So on that fateful day about one and a half years ago we embarked on a pizza-making journey and have been traveling down that road on our quest for pizza perfection ever since.

“Where’d the cheese go? I don’t know.” -Ween

Our pizza repertoire continues to grow with each party we hold. It seems like at each go-around either me or Mandi will have a genius idea of something new we want to put onto a pizza. Here is a list of what we have so far. Just to clarify, every pizza on here except the last two use tomato sauce and the Italian blend cheese. Just because I don’t mention it in the ingredient list doesn't mean it isn’t there.

Two side notes: First, incase you are wondering about the two different kitchens in the pictures, these photos were taken over many pizza parties which spanned a move to our new apartment. And second, if you noticed that everything seems even messier than usual in the shots... don't judge us. I mean come on these are pizza PARTIES of course they get a little messy!

"I love the dough, more than you know. Gotta let it show, I love the dough." – Notorious B.I.G.

The big day has finally arrived… it’s time to talk pizza! Mandi and I have really come to take a lot of pride in our pizza and so I wanted this post to be absolutely perfect. This has been in the works for quite some time. For months we’ve been gathering together pictures, subjecting our friends to countless pizza parties. When finally putting it all together I made the decision to do a full week rather than just trying to conquer it all in one post. Why? Well, I’d like to think that I have a lot to share with you guys about pizza. Trying to squeeze it all into just one post would be way too overwhelming and I’m sure that both you and I would probably lose focus pretty quickly. Now without further adieu, here it is, PIZZA WEEK! This week will be bigger than shark week, fashion week, and even best week ever! Today starts with the spotlight on dough and sauce. Please come back to read each installment of pizza week because I believe that this info is great and everyone can learn something useful from the casual pizza enjoyer, to even the most hard core pizzaiolo.