precious pizza

Here is a special delivery from filmmaker Monica Menez.



Precious from monica menez on Vimeo.

Another pizza warrior

No one will ever top the Pizza Samurai suit that my best friend, Will, and I made but kudos to this dude all the same.

 

via my food looks funny

Paulie Gee's - Best pizza I've ever eaten

100% without doubt Paulie Gee's has usurped 8 1/2

1/2 Hellified Porkpie White - Fior di Latte, Berkshire Sopressata Picante, Sweet Italian Fennel Sausage, Sliced Red Onion, Chopped Fresh Garlic, Fresh Basil and Mike's Hot Honey www.mikeshothoney.com


Anise and Anephew - Fior di Latte, Braised Fennel, Anisette Cream Drizzle, Berkshire Guanciale and Fennel Fronds


Greenpointer - Fior di Latte, Baby Arugula, Olive Oil, Fresh Lemon Juice and Shaved Parmigiano Reggiano


Monte Cristo - Mild Gouda, Canadian Bacon and a Pure Maple Syrup Drizzle


Baconmarmalade Picante – Fior di Latte, Spicy Baconmarmalade and Sliced Red Onion
www.baconmarmalade.com


Harry Belafontina - Fontina, Italian Tomatoes, Beef Meatballs, Sliced Crimini Mushrooms and Golden Raisins

Pizza Dabbers - CALL NOW!

monster slice

The guys at Leonardo's pizza in Gainesville got bored and cut a monster slice!

The Descendents are Pizzalicious

Here is a good one from Pizzalicious contributor, Harris Middleton(Saikyo78)

don't get saucy!

Degreaser Drip Station 9000

Yesterday I posted a video about degreasing pizza. That was just one method. Scott of Scott's Pizza Tours also muses on the best way to degrease a slice. I imagine he has seen a few degreasers in his pizza touring so surely he must know the way...

How to degrease pizza

Just another way to reduce your consumption of pizza grease...

 

Degreasing Pizza or Lose Weight! Eat (only) Pizza (for 15 years)!

My friend Will recently posted this video on Facebook. In it this dude talks about how he has only eaten pizza for the last 15 years and suspects he has lost weight (>30lbs) just from blotting the grease off his pizza. He explains, in detail, this amazing weight loss technique! Always consult a pizza doctor before implementing any pizza weight loss techniques.



from the original poster ulillillia

"For about 15 years, I've been degreasing pizza. That is, I soak up the grease on pizzas before I even start eating them. From my experiences, this is an effective weight loss technique and it works on many things. For a McDonald's hamburger (the really greasy ones, from what I remember before 2004, the last time I had meat), simply order the burger with all the components separate (the lettuce, tomatoes, ketchup, mustard, cheese, etc.). For a pizza, it's much easier... until you start adding certain toppings like spices, parmasean (sp. ?), or garlic as they tend to reduced. This can be done with French fries, steaks, roasts, and almost any meat or deep-fried foods (donuts anyone?), though best done before any toppings are added like salt, pepper, spices, powdered sugar, and other such things. This will not work, however, with drinks or other water-rich foods and foods with very little fat in the first place.

Doing this is actually very easy, though mastering it (preventing problems) takes some time. First, grab a few napkins or paper towels (Bounty and Brawny work very well) and begin dabbing the pizza. The more liquidy the cheese is, the more likely it is to stick to the napkin or paper towel which requires very short dabs or a brief cooling before starting. For best results, start when warm and go fast. You won't get everything, but as this video shows, that first run alone easily has about 20 grams of fat (estimated). Further runs could remove about 40 grams of fat out of the 65 total.

Each gram of fat is 9 calories (technically, it's kilocalories). Thus, with 40 grams of fat removed, that's 360 calories you won't be taking in. 453.6 grams of fat, 1 pound, is 4082.4 calories so that right there is already a tenth of a pound removed. Of course, some of that weight may actually be water and more yet may be spices, and sauce being taken out. I don't have any equipment to test what exactly I'm soaking up. Thus, I have a request for the Mythbusters. I would love to know if this technique I've used for 15 years (if not a little more) is an effective weight loss technique. 40 grams may not seem like much, but, carry this out over a whole month, just 30 days, and that's easily 1200 grams or about 2 pounds and 10 2/3 ounces (2.65 pounds) not being put in your body. Obviously, knowing the chemical make up of the paper towel before the degreasing is important as a control. The chemical makeup of the paper towel after degreasing would be the main test. Subsequent tests would also be interesting to know. It gets less effective for each subsequent one and with a pizza like this, after 3 rounds of it, there isn't much being soaked up - I get more of the sauce than I do the fat. Do note that in this video, I'm using 2 paper towels together. Subsequent dabs use only 1 paper towel. The grease definitely soaks through the first one very well and even gets quite a ways into the second one on top."

recipes!

Dr. Ho's Humble Pie - Charlottesville VA

Last weekend I went to the Wayside Center For Popular Education and cooked for about 200 people at the Wayside Commons Party! It was awesome. The Wayside Center is a great place for activists, organizers and all citizens to connect, make friends, learn, grow and relax - what could be more worthy of  celebration!? The menu didn't include pizza, but  rather some delicious lamb tacos from the Southwood Alliance, cucumber salad from Root Force Collective Farm, and  lots of other yummy ho-made things from me and the kitchen volunteers. quiche, apple cobbler, cheese grits, chili and more! Whew!

It was a lot of work for a great cause and I was happy to do it but by the end of the weekend I was kitchened out! I took a dip in the creek and then headed to Dr. Ho's Humble Pie for pizza with my friends!  JP and his friend from Norfolk Food Not Bombs, Niels and Emily from Root Force, Jeff and his son Ammon (who is planning C'villes first Horror Film Festival - The Blue Ride Bloodfest!) and Aaron, one of my oldest friends who was visiting from Toronto.

We split a couple of pies and they were ALL great. Jeff, Ammon and JP have been talking up Dr. Ho's for a while now and it was great to finally give it a try. The crust was chewey and delicious and although I usually favor sparse toppings on a pizza the pies we had were creative and balanced.  The dining room there is small but definitely has a great pizza parlour vibe with silly decorations all over the joint. The bathroom is covered floor to ceiling with crayon drawings on paper plates. Very cute. 

Dr. Ho's Humble Pie definitely gets the Pizzalicious seal of approval. Check it out  next time you are in C'ville or make a point to try Ammon's favorite  when you go to the Blue Ridge Bloodfest in September.

Here was the line up:

1 POPEYE - spinach, olive oil, artichoke hearts, onions, whole roasted garlic cloves, mozzarella, cheddar, feta. This pie is great! It was a little soggy but that is just the price of having artichokes on a pizza. The roasted garlic cloves were awesome and really added an extra punch to the deliciousness of this pie. 

1/2 DON JUAN - wild mushrooms, three cheeses, oven roasted roma tomatoes. MUSHROOMS! I'm so into mushrooms on pizza. salty feta and roasted tomatoes really shined on this one!

1/2 JOLLY RASTA - spinach, pineapple, onion, mozzarella, Swiss cheese.   I love pineapple on pizza! But the real surprise on this half was the Swiss cheese. It was mild, stretchy and a lovely accent to the pineapple.  Niels and I discovered a shared love of pineapple on pizza.

1/2 CROSSROADS CHEESEBURGER PIE - ground beef, hickory smoked bacon, cheddar.  This was Jeff's pick. It was great. The ground beef was nice and lean and (I think) the bacon was parcooked and drained before it went on the pie which cut down the grease a lot.  It was a great cheeseburger pie without being to literal (I've seen mayo, mustard and pickles on cheeseburger pies before, Yuck).
1/2 JACK LONDON - pepperoni,  sausage, Canadian bacon, smoked bacon , hamburger. This was Ammon's Pick. Meaty! Heavy! Filling! Yummy!

Dr. Ho's Hubble Pie

3586 Monacan Trail Road
North Garden, VA 22959
(434) 245-0000
Open Daily 11:30am-9pm
Directions


Here is a pic of Emily and Niels' Dog Ruffy! I <3 him