Second Opening

on 2022-09-18

Pizza Party🔗

If I haven't been blogging, I wouldn't notice it's been two months since the start of AnYYwAYY. Now we have the second opening to host our friends B and E. Usually it's a boardgame night. This time to have the main business of RoMo conspiracy planning. AnYYwaYY, it's the perfect opportunity to throw a pizza party.

Pre Pizza: Pretzel Crown Cheese Platter🔗

Fresh out of the oven baked goods are always a crowd pleaser. Especially for this festive shaped pretzel. It's called Pretzel Crown because legend says if pretzel kingdom has a queen, she will be wearing this. OK, I made it up. Nonetheless, bundt cake shaped pretzel is fun to eat (built-in fruit holder) and perfect for sharing (rip apart like dinner roll). It's part of the BrotBox big sample box1. Pair with grapes and cheese. It's the way to get party started.

First Pizza: Yellow Chive and Egg🔗

This is my very first trademarked creation that I'm proud to say it's uniquely me. It's heavily influenced and inspired by what I grew up with. As mentioned in Rice Extravaganza, yellow chive and egg is one of my all time favorite dishes. What if I were to recreate it on pizza? It's the Big Dipper in my milkyway of pizza creations. So ingenuous and elegant. The original version also has lotus root slices, making it into a poetic frame I call it summer lotus pond. This is the lite version, but still has the gist. It's very minimal like Margarita yet that's the beauty. You get to taste the amazing fragrance of yellow chive and how good it goes with egg.

  • Sauce
    • 1 egg, beaten
    • sour cream
    • S&P
  • Topping
    • yellow chives
    • 1 egg, whole in the center
  • Finish
    • parm

Second Pizza: Tuna and Grape🔗

It might be obvious to avid readers of this blog that this is a variation of "Got Any Grape?". As proof of concept there, anywhere you'd use pineapple as a sweet element to complement strong savory, grape is a great alternative, if not better IMO. It's easy to prep, just half it instead of dealing with a whole pineapple. I know you can use canned ones. But isn't seasonal fresh fruit tastier, fresher, all-in-all just better? Especially to pair with tomatoes, both from vines, hashtag matching type. OK, that's not important. The important part is that grapes are great!

It's our normal sardine pizza. Canned fish on red sauce. Except the red sauce has a special twist. Inspired by the pasta station at work, I picked the red sauce called Puttanesca with shrimp as topping and found it's a perfect pairing. Puttanesca is the normal tomato sauce augmented with strong flavored antipasto like olives, caper, etc. The acidity brightens the seafoody scent. The funkiness balances fishy saltiness. Overall, it's a more dynamic tomato sauce, hitting your tongue in multiples notes at the same time. With grapes permeating in the background, it's a true symphony.

  • Sauce
    • tomato sauce
    • kalamata olives spread
    • sauerkraut
    • Italian seasoning
  • Topping
    • tuna
    • grapes

Dessert🔗

  • Coolhaus Ice Cream Sandwich
  • Arnott's Biscuits
    • Tim Tam Original (Milk chocolate anything is too sweet for my taste. But chocolate covered wafer is a good idea. I can imagine I'd enjoy Tim Tam Dark. Come to the dark side.)
    • Mint Slice (Mint flavor is just weird in dessert. Still don't know why mint & chocolate is a thing. But I do like the darker chocolate coating. Even though from the ingredient list it's still 37% milk chocolate, the same as Tim Tam Original. But it tastes and looks so much darker. Anyway, with milk, mint is not that offending and overall quite enjoyable.)

Drink🔗

  • Non-Alcoholic: Organic Valley Whole Milk
  • Very Alcoholic Beer (To be shared): The Bruery - Scoop Scoop Scoop - Bourbon Barrel-Aged Imperial Stout with Strawberries, Cacao Nibs, and Madagascar Vanilla Beans (17.8%)
  • House Cocktail: Scoop Milkshake - The Bruery w/ Whole Milk

1 Thanks to J for recommendation. Full review to appear on bakerycritic soon.

2 Thanks to B and E for bringing Australian snacks.

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