I haven't eaten anything (or anyone) all day. Now I'm hungry.

Great pizza, A.

Kevin

A moment on the lips; forever on the hips.

I made calzones last night. My first attempt a couple of weeks ago were too thick with the dough, but last night they were very very good.

Mmmmmm...fantastico.

With one exception: you Californians and your taste for pineapple on pizza, which CPK spread to the rest of the country, is one thing I will NEVER understand.

looks sooo good, I'am a cajun and i was wondering if anyone of you ever taseted a crawfish, shrimp, and andouille sausage pizza? Its great.

Ahhhh, beautiful! Subtract the crushed red pepper and add jalapeños and that's my standard pie and a vision of pizza perfection. Pizza stones are indeed the way to go -- I own two so I don't have to split my dough recipe. I also do a whole wheat crust and a cornmeal crust, which adds a really nice crunch when you want it. Do you go sauceless, or have you found a good sauce? That's the one thing I still haven't found a satisfactory recipe for that doesn't take all day to make. What's your solution?

God knows, there is the satisfaction of creation, but isn't there someone within delivery distance who can do this at a reasonable economy of scale?

Kyle, if we could get andouille in California, we'd be eating gumbo.

Finally, a suggestion, Annie, why don't you get together with Todd? You both seem to be channeling your sexual frustrations into food. Me? I've been cleaning house all weekend.

Try making the dough in a bread machine, it comes out great. ;-)

I'm glad I ate before I saw those pictures. I'd have to make a pizza right away otherwise, and it looks like I'm better off waitng until I get my own pizza stone. Thanks for posting the results, you've convinced me that I need one.

I'm still trying to figure out how I got through law school without even one pizza stone.

Clearly it is about to become a standard utensil for entering first year law students.

"Perfetto"

Pineapple on pizza? :|

Yeah, what Kyle said. You can keep your pineapple. Load that thing up with crawfish and shrimp. Now THAT's a pizza. Dang. Now I'm hungry for Pizza Shak... Opelousas, Louisiana. Where it's at.

Of course, now that I live in New York, it's my duty to make some sort of assinine comment about Chicago pizza not being the real thing and California pizza being ... well, kind of like a kindergarten kid's drawing.

But I won't do that. Pie is pie. We can like them all, right?

mmmmm. I have yet to get a stone, myself, and I've been meaning to for years! The best I've come up with is baking the pizza on a flat metal sheet for about 5 minutes until it's firm enough to be slid directly on the rack for the next 5-10 minutes at 475-500 degrees. It's not bad, but it's not great either.

And my usual toppings are pepperoni (the 1 1/2 inch diameter ones, not the big flat pre-sliced jobbers) and sliced cherry peppers. Yowsah! :)

Todd, how's about sharing your crust recipe? I make mine in the bread machine, and I'm interested in the cornmeal version.

I've got one of those stones too, and I love it dearly, but holy cow is that ever a good looking pie. Better than anything I've made I think.

I've had a version of the above-described Cajun pie. There's a chain out here (in NC) that makes it. "The Original Italian Pie" is the name of the place. It was pretty good, but I think there is more potential in those toppings than was captured by the one I've had.

Wow. That pizza looks awesome. And now I think I need a pizza stone immediately.

(For the record, pineapple has been one of my favorite pizza toppings ever since I was a kid growing up in Colorado. Yum. I actually had some last night.)

Three years in New Orleans (just sooooooo conducive to serious law school study, of course), so definitely add my endorsement to cajun pizza. And to the hilarious genius of Louisiana English: e.g., everywhere else in the world it's marinara sauce, but there it's "red gravy."

I remember when my friend Sid came back from college in Ohio. He couldn't stop ranting about the weird toppings out there. Ham, tuna, candy corn, you name it.