How To Make Pizza
I often get asked how to make pizza at home. I know it sounds kind of nutty how to make pizza but I still get emails asking me all the time about how to make pizza at home that is really delicious. Recently I was watching one of the people that I subscribe to on Youtube, here name is Lyndsay Wells and she is known as the Kitchen Witch. She made a lovely Neapolitan pizza with spinach, pine nuts, mushrooms and a nice tomato sauce. I have been watching Lyndsay for a long time now and I LOVE her recipes.
I told her that "You know what? I HATE baking and playing with dough!" Here I am a cook, a professional foodie and I HATE to bake! I told Lyndsay that in light of those facts I am going to make my own version of a Neapolitan pizza and I am going to use basically use her recipe with a few changes of my own. I am not going to use Pine nuts because I am allergic to them. If I feel to do it I will be using toasted walnuts as their flavor goes oh so well with gorgonzola cheese. So this week for all of my subbers that have asked me how to make pizza at home I am going to make one for you. It's really easier than you think and I am a firm believer that after you learn how to make pizza at home you will never call for take out again because the truth of the matter is that it's to much fun learning how to make pizza and it's fun to do for friends and family and you always get it the way you want it. Now alot of people want to know what Neapolitan is and so I am going to spend some time telling you because each part of Italy makes pizza a bit differently.
How To Make Pizza
So what is Neapolitan? Neapolitan refers to a part of Italy known as the city of Naples. It used to be called the kingdom of Naples or the kingdom of the Two Sicilies or the Neopolitan Republics of Italy. In New York City where I am originally from the people of Naples, Italy or the decendants of the people of Naples, Italy are called Nablidons! It's a New York thing. Deal with it! Neapolitan cuisine goes way back in European history to the period of the Greco-Romans. The food of the Neapolitans was influenced by the various powers that had controlled Naples and it's outlying kingdoms over time such as the areas of Aragon and France respectively.
Naples at the time was the capital of the kingdom known as Naples and like so many cultures in the world took culinary ideas from it's neighboors. Many of the culinary attributes you find in Neapolitan cuisine was influenced from the regions of Campania where there was a balance in food between dishes like pasta and seafood. Neapolitan cuisine takes ideas from all around Italy and other countries and incorporates it into their own. Isn't that what we all do? Of course it is! Generally an authentic Neapolitan pizza or Pizza Napoletana is made just using tomatoes and mozzarella cheese. The tomatoes are San Marzano or any tomato that you wish to use. Fresh basil and extra virgin olive oil is also used to make this type of pizza. So let's learn how to make pizza a Neapolitan pizza my way. Enjoy the video!
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