Howdy Food Lovers
I was excited to finally get to try out a new local pizza place this week.
Here in Fife on the east coast of Scotland, we didn't have any pizza places offering wood-fired traditional Neapolitan style pizza until this new place opened up.
This is the first time I have found truly great pizza outside of our capital city ,of Edinburgh.
A lovely wood-fired pepperoni pizza, look at that "leopard spotting" char, beautiful!
Until recently I would have had to drive for around half an hour to get to this place. This weekend I was delighted to find out they have started delivering to my postcode via the Just-eat website. The delivery and service charge adds a £6 fee to the total bill but even with that its still better value than some of the big city places I have been to recently.
I ordered a pepperoni pizza for myself which cost £9 and a chicken pizza for my parents which also cost £9. Adding the £6 fee the order total came to £24 for these 2 large pizzas.
The dough used for these pizzas was most likely made with 0-0 grade flour , it was very chewy, something I have never experienced before, from now on I am going to try and achieve this level of chewiness with my own pizzas.
The sauce is pretty much perfect ,there is certainly enough cheese ,the only thing stopping me from giving this pizza a perfect 10/10 score is that the pepperoni isn't cupped and charred.
Back in late April, I went for a job interview at a pizza place called Civirinos Slice on Forrest Road in Edinburgh. After the interview had ended I got a free slice of Detroit-style pizza which had the most beautifully cupped an charred pepperoni ,drizzled with honey/chilli oil and topped with some fresh parsley and grated parmesan cheese
Wood fired pepperoni done masterfully by Civirinos Slice
Seeing and tasting pepperoni like this has spoiled me, if I see a wood-fired pizza that doesn't have cupped and charred pepperoni Im gonna have to take a point of , so this pizza from The Oven Air Stream gets a solid 9/10 from me.
Pizza and beer ,a winning combination!