Meet Lewis. He's a CPA, loves watching Jeopardy!, mixing plaids and coming home after a long day's work to a bud light and some chex mix. He has been living with us for the past week and was a little anxious to have his picture up on the blog until we told him it might help him find a special lady friend.
Lewis experienced his first pizza night this week. We had two pies, one trying to copy the ham and cheese pizza at Co., Jim Lahey's new pizza place on 24th and 9th Ave. His inspiration for the pizza comes from a ham and cheese sandwich on rye. The dough is brushed with olive oil, sprinkled with caraway seeds and topped with fontina, guyere, fresh mozzarella and pecorino romano cheeses.
Once the pie was out of the oven, we topped it with thin slices of prosciutto, which melts and wilts from the heat of the pizza. The pie is salty and delicious. The caraway seeds add nice flavor contrast to the pie and an interesting texture as well. One of my favorite parts about pizza night is the excuse it gives me to stop off at Murray's Cheese and Murray's Real Salami at the Grand Central Terminal Market. I cannot say enough good things about both places. The staff is always friendly, helpful and very generous with the samples. Not to mention the wonderful selection of product at both places. I would love to spend 6 months working at both Murray's Cheese and Murray's Salami broadening my knowledge about cured meats and the world of cheese.
The second pie of the night was a mushroom pie. We made some red sauce and sauteed some hen of the woods and shiitake mushrooms and topped the pie off with fresh mozzarella, fontina and a dusting of parmiggiano cheese.
All and all I think Lewis's first pizza night was a success. He enjoyed watching us toss the pizza dough into the air and learning about the pizza upskirt. Lewis said the only thing that would make pizza night better was if he could bring a date next time.
The finished mushroom pizza.
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