{"id":17906,"date":"2018-04-04T08:45:26","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T13:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=17906"},"modified":"2018-04-04T08:45:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T13:45:26","slug":"pizza-sauces-compared-home-cooking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=17906","title":{"rendered":"Pizza Sauces Compared &#8211; Home Cooking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/3-pziza-sauce.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17910\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-17910\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/3-pziza-sauce-150x145.jpg\" alt=\"Pizza Sauces Compared \" width=\"150\" height=\"145\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It literally took me decades to figure out how to make a great pizza at home. Now I prefer my own to nearly any pizzeria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You have to pick and choose your ingredients, there are so many options in a standard pie, flour, sauce, cheese, meats, veggies.\u00a0 I&#8217;m really picky about Italian sausage and pepperoni brands.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I started making crusts at home, it&#8217;s very easy, here&#8217;s the ingredients:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 t yeast (jars work better for me than packets)<\/li>\n<li>4 t sugar<\/li>\n<li>1 T salt<\/li>\n<li>4 C flour (the best is designated as \u201c00\u201d which is used in Italy. Find it at good food stores.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kingarthurflour.com\/shop\/items\/king-arthur-italian-style-flour-3-lb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">King Arthur<\/a>\u00a0sells a version, too) but almost any white flour will do.<\/li>\n<li>1 C + more, water water, warmer than your finger<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 C EVOO<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Eight minutes in the Kitchenaid, a\u00a0 couple of rising periods, voila!\u00a0 But you know what? Here&#8217;s a shortcut.\u00a0 BUY THE DOUGH!\u00a0 Most big groceries and WalMart have it for sale now, around a buck.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For quite a while, (when I don&#8217;t make my own from garden tomatos) I was using Contadina, which comes in a squeeze bottle, very convenient, and no waste, because it keeps.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;ve previously tried <a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/2015\/01\/cento-pizza-sauce-review\/\">Cento<\/a>, which was satisfactory, pure, simple ingredients and it&#8217;s not annoyingly sweet (just a personal preference).\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/2014\/10\/pastorelli-pizza-sauce-review-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pastorelli<\/a>, a local Chicago brand, is outstanding. Also not &#8220;sweet&#8221; it&#8217;s a little thicker, heartier than most brands. I tried one from Italy, <a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/2014\/09\/mutti-pizza-sauce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mutti brand<\/a>, that was very pure and very thick.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This week I was on to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deifratelli.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dei Fratelli<\/a>, made by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hirzelfarms.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Herzel Family Farms<\/a> in Northwest Ohio.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve been in the biz since the 1920s.\u00a0 Again, a thicker one, kinda of sweet.\u00a0 Upside of both Pastorelli and Dei Fratelli is they offer a smaller size, perfect for one large pie. (Mine are rectangular, the size of a large cookie sheet).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Do I have a favorite? Well, I like to support hometown companies, and all things being equal, I&#8217;ll go with Pastorelli every time.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17911\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17911\" style=\"width: 267px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/5-20180330_144338.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17911\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-17911\" src=\"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/5-20180330_144338-267x400.jpg\" alt=\"Pizza Sauces Compared \" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17911\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>My pie<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It literally took me decades to figure out how to make a great pizza at home. Now I prefer my own to nearly any pizzeria. You have to pick and choose your ingredients, there are so many options in a standard pie, flour, sauce, cheese, meats, veggies.\u00a0 I&#8217;m really picky about Italian sausage and pepperoni&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=17906\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pizza Sauces Compared &#8211; Home Cooking<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,16,22],"tags":[1759,2677],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17906"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}