the Unexpressed Advantage

Right now I am loving flour. Any recipe I see that requires flour, even a little, and I get excited.

Grandma's Hash Browns – 1/4 cup flour
Pancakes – 3 cups flour
Country Sausage Gravy – 1/4 cup flour

This excitement about flour pinnacled in the recent pizza night experience. Last Saturday I went with some friends to a "James Bond-a-thon." The meal of the evening was to be pizza, I was to provide the crust. Apart from using a bread maker, I've never made a pizza crust from scratch before (6 cups flour), so I was a bit nervous. But I've been a little extra-confident on the baking front lately so I thought I'd give it a whirl.

I found the greatest recipe from allrecipes.com and proceeded. Having never made bread before, I was understandably fascinated when my little loaf started doubling, then almost tripling in size. I don't know what they put in that "active dry yeast" stuff, but I'm pretty sure it's a form of magic.

Well my dough was big and everything was set. A little twirling, rolling, and shaping (yep, I can twirl pizza dough), and It was good to go.

I have to say that I couldn't have been more pleased. I've been a pizza making guy all my life, but this was no question the best crust I've ever used. It tasted divine. So that's what I did, on the day before my 30th birthday, I made pizza crust and listened to Goldfinger point out, in regard to the electrified fence surrounding Fort Knox,

"IT WILL BE DYNAMITED!" Indeed it will. Indeed it was. But all the military men you tried to gas to death; well, they were faking. Drat. Foiled again. – dan.

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