So last night I decided to be a good girlfriend and make dinner! I thought it would be cute to do a "make your own pizza night." The idea being like a fun, interactive cooking party. You get all the ingredients and then decide what you want to put on it and you can even have individual pizzas if you so choose. Didn't work out so well. Well, it's tough when we both had places to be later in the evening and he used to make pizzas for a living, so..he ended up taking over. I don't think he minded much. I didn't!
So I went to Whole Foods and picked up the ingredients. (I don't work there, and they don't pay me to shop, but where else will you find the most organic selection, really?) I wanted to make a caprese type pizza with fresh mozzarella, basil from his garden and the organic tomatoes we already had at home from the farmer's market. I also wanted shredded mozzarella for a veggie and sausage pizza. I spent so much time in the cheese area the guys at the nearby specialty cheese counter were looking at me funny. So WF has the "everyday 365" line which includes shredded cheese. Well every cheese EXCEPT mozzarella came in organic and non organic variety! Of course! And then there was some organic cheese line on sale, but the mozzarella was all sold out! Fine, I got the organic farms brand, more expensive, smaller packaging..grrr. Ok moving onto fresh buffalo mozzarella... yea not organic. I finally got one, and when I looked on the back it said it was produced by "XYZ organic dairy farm" but the cheese itself didn't say organic on it. Fine, I guess they are just marketing their company as organic but don't pass the test to actually be it? I don't think it's too small of a company (some small companies don't get certified because they can't afford it or it's too much work, i think, i'll look into that more) So, to make myself feel better I also picked up a small amount of organic locally grown goat cheese. yuum.
I got organic feta and spinach sausage. Organic mushrooms. I wanted bell pepper but there were no organic varieties. (so much for my theory that WF has an organic variety of most produce) We had organic squash and zucchini at home, as well as garlic and onion. So now on to dough. Well they make their own whole wheat dough..delicious, but not organic. My other option was organic corn meal crust. I should have gotten that, except I really like whole wheat dough. Plus! the bf wouldn't have been able to play with it and stretch it and even toss it a bit (nothing major, i told him he would be very sorry if it dropped)
So, my first pizza was the caprese: fresh tomatoes, garlic, fresh mozzarella and basil, but neither the crust nor the cheese was organic. (I didn't even want to ask anybody at the specialty cheese section for organic, they already thought I was crazy for staring at pre-package mozzarella for 20 minutes) The second pizza ended up being veggie AND sausage (was thinking of doing 3, but the first two took too long) So everything on that was organic, even the cheese (didn't want to use the other ball of fresh mozzarella..saving that) EXCEPT for the crust. Oh and BTW, it was delicious!! Seriously! I was really proud of us (well mostly me on the first pizza and him on the second..which explains why it was so big and heavy!)
Maybe i'll try the cornmeal next time. It will be organic and save lots of time! Or maybe, i'll make my own Organic whole what dough! crazy!!
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Almost all organic pizza!
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