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These pizzas are insane

This Detroit Style Pizza Dough asks for a 48 to 72 hour cold proof. The reason is to make the crust airy like focaccia. Unfortunately, I did not read the fine print until yesterday morning so my dough making wife will get me a 24+ hour proof. Hoping to get the pizzas in the oven by Noon so I can nap during the once again crappy 1:00 PM games with RedZone on.

Prepping toppings now. Sliced up some Italian Sausage I BBQ'ed earlier in the week. Making a list for tomorrow morning's grocery shopping. I have all sorts of hot and sweet peppers from the garden and elsewhere. I will need a ton of cheese. Going to make 5 big sheets: (1) The 27 year old daughter's pizza I will do the dough for -- she can get off her ass and do the rest; (2) The wife's pizza that I will roll out and walk away in disgust -- probably Organic Kale, Peruvian Quinoa on a sauce of African Wachati Guano; (3) A pizza for a helpful neighbourhood buddy and his picky eating 12 year old son -- pepperoni and cheese; and (4) A Garlic Cream White Sauce Pizza (toppings to be determined) and (5) A Kitchen Sink Tomato Sauce Pizza for me.

Out of the cardboard box thinking.

We Bills Brethren will support your choices.

Prepped the 3 pizza sauces tonight -- (1) White Garlic Cream Sauce Avec Mushrooms, (2) 4 Meat Cooked Tomato Sauce with Meat Removed and (3) a Simple Uncooked Tomato Sauce with these...

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I love shanks -- beef, veal, lamb, etc. I bought 6 fresh Ontario lamb shanks for the wife last weekend which she braised and stewed up with mash potatoes for lunch on Sunday.

The wife uses pig tails in souse she makes as well. It is a thick soup in the end that has to be fattening since unlike the chicken or duck broth a routinely make, there is no skimming off the fat after cooling overnight. I can eat half a bowl and I am full and can feel my arteries hardening.

Mom never really used pigs feet in the pasta sauce. The wife uses them in souse but boils the living crap out of them. I will eat them but I prefer tripe, oxtail or beef tongue. Pigs feet are dirt cheap so I often bring the wife 5 lbs home.

I have a ton of that French Dip Gravy I made with mushrooms and sweet onions that is white. I could toss in a crap ton of garlic from the garden and a little cream. There is already plenty of sweet onions in that gravy so I do NOT know if I want to risk putting caramelized onions on the pizza in addition given I have discovered that the mix of high IBU hopped up IPA beer and onions has peeled paint off my walls this past week. The rest of those ingredients are very doable. I am going to make 3 pizzas. One I can do like that. I have homemade pasta sauce with huge turkey meat balls that I could use on on another. Finally I have Italian pork sausage I BBQ'ed and Beef Brisket that I smoked. Plenty of fresh peppers on site already. I just need some more good mozzarella and I think with the herbs from the garden I have all I need. Now to see if I can get the wife to make the 3 large crusts for me.

What an incredibly personal and thoughtful sole Christmas Gift for a Husband to give to his Wife. How long have you been married? The true meaning of Christmas in a carton box. It is like giving her Baby Jesus himself.

I love oxtail as well. The way it renders fat into the sauce is truly unique. Specifically from a Caribbean perspective. I am Northern Italian and I can maybe recall my Mother making oxtail 2 or 3 times while growing up. Tripe, Beef Tongue, Salted Cod anything else that could be sopped up by firm polenta however very very very rarely oxtail. My wife is from a Caribbean Island and even before I met her I have been cooking oxtail since before when I lived on a small Caribbean island for a year in 2009-10. Now we eat oxtail 1-2 times per month. The key is sourcing it at a decent price. My local grocery store is Italian centric. It charges $13.99 /lb CAN$ for oxtail and I will NOT pay that. I source my oxtail fresh from an Afghan butcher who cuts the whole tail up in front of me for $7.99 /lb. Anyone want to talk about pig tails or feet?

What is that called in Detroit? I am going to call it a CON MILLER.

I am going to put as much effort into this one as the Bills DL did getting to the Matt Stafford when they were NOT being held. Just going to make 3 big sheets of Detroit Style Pizzas. I have fond memories of Tunnel BBQ while entering from Windsor in the my 20's however the weather has turned up here and I am just going to slum it. Here isn't a bad recipe to use as a guide => https://alexandracooks.com/2021/08/13/detroit-style-pizza-two-ways-yeast-and-sourdough/ Any suggestions what to eat during this very tough challenge for Sean's Defence?

That's the spirit!!!

It is ironic that THE best meal I made this season was today and the Bills D just never showed up. I am NOT liking that Bills D against the Lions in Detroit next weekend. I may just slum it and make Detroit Style Pizza in the damn oven for that game.

McCollapsy gives me indigestion

You caught me however that is what your wife wants to watch. We really got some miserable pricks here. WTF do you think I am watching right now?

Lamb grilled and sandwiches assembled for Half Time.

That would be a NO GO for me. Strictly by invitation only for Bills games. If you are NOT on the Guest List, book another time with my people.

I think if you look in the mirror you will be taught something about yourself.

Had to make a fresh batch of Sweet Onion Gravy for French Dipping this morning. Threw in a lb. of Enoki mushrooms and some large Shiitakei mushrooms. I did not want to rely only on powder chicken stock so I also threw in 3 turkey wings into stock. Boiled it all for 3 hours. Served the turkey wings to my daughter before I blended the gravy. Tastes and looks gravy. Bought the baguettes fresh from the baker's oven this morning. I just need to grill the lamb chops and assemble the sandwiches Oh....score three 50% discounted balls of otherwise expensive Italian cheese.

Damn!!! I completely forgot about that. The Afghan butchers near me often have fresh sheep testicles. Made them half a dozen times. I even have the long grill swords so they don't spin while grilling them. I will make a call when they open and see if i can pick up half a dozen. It is actually a testy and interesting dish.

Fresh Bread tomorrow morning and it is a go. Temperatures rising overnight so I need this simple meal while I get drunk in the hot tub before the Bills game. Priorities.