Tag: Homemade
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Christmas Eve Pizza, As Is Tradition Apparently
Four photos taken in under twenty seconds on December 24, 2011 — dark, a little blurry, clearly shot fast in a busy kitchen mid-holiday-prep. Details are hard to make out in low light, but the timestamp doesn’t lie: pizza on Christmas Eve was already a thing in this house over a decade ago. I’ll invent…
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The One With the Char Spots and a Collage to Prove It
March 2011 gets the full documentary treatment: a wide shot of a well-charred pepperoni pizza on a wire rack, plus a multi-panel collage covering the whole process from multiple angles. Someone was really invested in getting this one right, and by the look of the leopard-spotted crust, it worked. Invented detail: I’m going to say…
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The Close-Up Slice Selfie
A hand holding up a pepperoni slice for the camera, dark plate below, and a matching wide shot of the same pizza on a rack. February 2011, and someone was clearly proud enough of this one to document it two different ways — the overview and the money shot. I’ll guess this was the first…
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Plain Cheese, No Apologies
A thin-crust, plain-cheese round pizza photographed on a white surface — possibly a pizza box lid doubling as a cutting board, which is a time-honored home-kitchen tradition. No toppings drama here, just cheese and crust doing their jobs. Sometimes the most honest pizza is the one with nothing to prove. I’ll invent that this was…
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Two Days Later, Same Rack, Different Pizza
Barely two days after the previous entry, another pizza, another wire rack — a rectangular one this time with visible red sauce showing through a lighter layer of cheese. Whatever November 2010 was going through, it apparently involved a lot of pizza. Made-up backstory: this looks like a “we have half a block of mozzarella…
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A Very Ordinary Wednesday in November 2010
One photo, one round pizza, one wire rack, no further context. This is the pizza equivalent of a photo taken purely for the record — not because anything special happened, just because a pizza existed and someone had a camera nearby. I’ll invent a detail since that’s the deal: this one probably used up the…
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The White Pizza That Nearly Didn’t Make It
A pale, minimally-sauced square pizza with charred edges — this one lived dangerously close to the broiler element, by the look of that crust color. Two shots exist, both close-up enough to suggest someone was genuinely worried about how it turned out. Reader, I choose to believe it turned out fine. Char on the edges…
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The Olive-and-Green-Pepper Experimental Phase
Black olives AND green peppers on the same pie — someone was clearly branching out from plain pepperoni in February 2010. The crust looks nicely browned on a wire rack, which suggests this household figured out the “rack, not pan” trick for a crisp bottom fairly early on. I’m going to guess this was a…
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Cutting Board Pizza, Vintage 2010
Two photos, one pepperoni pizza, sliced up on a wooden cutting board in what was apparently the go-to serving method before anyone owned a proper pizza peel. The crust looks thin and a little unevenly browned in the classic home-oven way — hot spots are a home baker’s eternal nemesis. Cook’s note, entirely fabricated: this…
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The One With the Green Peppers and No Witnesses
January 2010, and somewhere in this archive’s home kitchen, a rectangular pan pizza came out topped with pepperoni and green pepper and got photographed on what looks like a baking tray still on the stovetop. No plate. No table setting. Just straight documentation of the moment it left the oven, which honestly says more about…