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Video from Molly and Brandon of Orangette and Delancey: Two Tips For Making Great Pizza at Home
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We are planning on making pizza this weekend, and so we are excited to follow these two tips offered by Molly and Brandon in this video. You may know Molly Wizenberg as the author of the popular food blog Orangette and the recent book A Homemade Life. Her husband, Brandon, has a passion for pizza, and so this year they decided to open a pizza restaurant in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. Even though we don't generally cover restaurants, we're fascinated at the extension of home cooking that happens when a food blogger opens a restaurant.

We are going to have a peek at Delancey for you next week. Until then, listen to Molly and Brandon's good advice on making great pizza at home.

 
 

You can find the book that Molly mentions here:

Cucina Simpatica: Robust Trattoria Cooking From Al Forno, by Johanne Killeen and George Germon

You can also find out a little bit more about Delancey at their website:

Delancey

And finally, check out a few more examples of grilled pizza from The Kitchn:

Recipe: Grilled Potato, Gorgonzola and Prosciutto Pizza
Reader Inspiration: Grilled Pizza!
Mark's Grilled Pizza on the Balcony

Happy pizza-making!

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Video, Tips & Techniques, One Minute Tips, how to, Seattle, pizza, Orangette, Brandon Pettit, Delancey, Molly Wizenberg

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Comments (7)

Don't cook the sauce - genius!!! Thanks for the tip, can't wait to try it out :)

posted by STLcolleen on July 10th 2009 at 3:30pm
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Another great option is to use a cast iron griddle and your broiler to make your pizza, as demonstrated here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDrELqxz45w

posted by bynk on July 10th 2009 at 8:15pm
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Who in the world cooks their sauce before sticking it on the pizza?

posted by verily on July 11th 2009 at 2:07pm
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I generally use my standard tomato sauce on pizza--that not cooking it tip is great.

Apparently, verily, not everyone is as enlightened as you.

posted by meleyna on July 11th 2009 at 3:12pm
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Both are great tips!!

posted by annaland on July 12th 2009 at 1:08am
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I just hope that some of the pizzerias north of Connecticut are reading this...if they could only learn to not cook their sauce, I think I could actually go out for pizza some time!

posted by ziacd on July 13th 2009 at 7:23am
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Yeah - um - Goya canned tomato sauce - a lil basil and oregano - plain ole cheese - high end toppings - bella

posted by Vhision on July 16th 2009 at 10:51pm
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