“Everything about the process is a model for what it takes to succeed in our life together.”
I tell my husband, Every success and every failure brought me to you.
This story starts with a failure that brought us closer together.
Simply Recipes / Lisa Carpagnano
I was excited about the prospect of getting paid to write about oven-baked delicacies all day.
Eating and evaluating pizza has been one of my favorite hobbies since I’ve had teeth.
In the end, the company hired someone who lived closer to its Austin-based headquarters.
We immediately mixed our first batch of dough.
Tyson often gets a bug for kitchen projects.
During one phase, he baked layer cakes in delicate flavors like pistachio, rose, and saffron.
He then purchased a triangular bamboo steamer and metal pot to make Thai mango sticky rice the traditional way.
Crafting pizza wasnt easy.
The comparatively cheap oven was difficult to use.
Simply Recipes / Lisa Carpagnano
So, I emailed Andy Brown of the Washington, DC-area chain Andys Pizza.
Thanks to his help, we stopped putting too many toppings on our pies.
A ladleful of Cento tomato puree with a few pinches of salt became our sauce.
We grated blocks of mozzarella because the potato starch on pre-grated cheese prevents an even brown.
Meanwhile, our new marriage grew like ourproofing pizza dough.
Everything about the process is a model for what it takes to succeed in our life together.
Just before our belated honeymoon, Tyson gave me the Ooni oven wed been dreaming of.
Having excellent equipment sent our pizza-making into hyperdrive.
Our pizzas went from pitiful to pizzeria-quality.
The bottoms of the pies were leopard-spotted, and the edges bubbled up with elan.
We are more in love than ever with each other and with the pizza we make together.
Were constantly innovating with new-to-us methods, like brushing ghee on our crusts to achieve those coveted tiny bubbles.
Through every success and every failure, well always have pizzaand each other.
