Tag: Homemade
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The Well-Done, No-Regrets Rectangle
A large, oblong pizza with a seriously charred crust — this one pushed further into “well-done” territory than almost anything else in the archive. Late March 2018, and someone clearly wasn’t afraid of a dark crust that week. Some people call that burnt. This household apparently calls it flavor. I’ll invent that the oven ran…
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The Skillet Pizza Nobody Photographed Well
A round pizza in a metal pan or skillet, photographed in low light with what survives in the archive as a fairly low-resolution shot — March 2018, and this one clearly wasn’t the priority documentation-wise, but it still earned a photo, so here it is. I’ll invent that this was a cast-iron-skillet pizza experiment, deep-dish…
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Basil, Tomato, and a Margherita Moment
Fresh basil leaves scattered across a red-sauce pizza, photographed just eleven days after the white pizza above — January 2018 was apparently a two-pizza-in-two-weeks kind of month. This one leans margherita, and the basil placement looks almost deliberate, which for this archive counts as high styling effort. Invented detail: I’ll guess the basil came from…
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White Pizza on Dark Parchment
Ricotta dollops scattered across a round white pizza, photographed on dark parchment paper in January 2018 — a full seven years after the archive’s first pizza photo, and the white-pizza-with-ricotta formula is clearly still in the regular rotation. Some combinations just work and stay in the lineup. Recipe inspiration for anyone inspired to start their…
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A Perfectly Unremarkable Tuesday
No occasion, no experiment, no new sauce — just a plain white plate of wings on what the timestamp insists was a Tuesday in April 2017. Some of the best home cooking happens exactly like this: not for anyone, not for content, just because it was Tuesday and wings sounded right. Recipe inspiration: Inspired Taste’s…
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Wings at the Desk: A Working Lunch, Sort Of
There’s a keyboard in this photo, which tells you everything about the state of my work-life balance in March 2017. Somewhere between emails, I apparently decided the responsible move was a plate of home-cooked wings eaten at my desk, mid-afternoon, no plans to stop working. Efficient, if not exactly ergonomic. I’d like to say I’ve…
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The One That Started It All (Probably)
Every obsession has an origin story, and as far as this archive goes, this might be it — a blue plate, a Belmont kitchen, October 2016. No fanfare, no dry rub philosophy yet, just a home cook figuring out that oven-baked wings could be genuinely good if you stopped babying them and cranked the heat.…
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The Dark, Moody, Cheese-Forward One
A small, cheese-heavy round pizza photographed in low light — five shots from this session, most of them too dark to make out much topping detail beyond “there is a lot of melted cheese happening here.” January 2016, deep winter, the kind of month where you cook indoors and don’t worry too much about photography…
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The Rustic One That Tried Something New
An irregularly-shaped, chunky-topped pizza on a wooden peel — this one breaks from the round-pizza-on-a-rack formula that dominates the rest of the archive. The shape alone suggests some kind of free-form, no-pan, straight-onto-the-stone technique being attempted for the first time. I’ll invent that this was an early attempt at a more “artisan” style, stone-baked and…
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Belmont Pizza Night, Take Two (Same Month, Practically)
Less than a month after the previous Belmont pizza, another one shows up — sparse toppings this time, photographed on a plate on the same granite counter. Two pizza nights within four weeks in the same house isn’t a coincidence, it’s a pattern. Invented detail: I’ll guess July got hot enough that turning on the…