Pizza Night

Note: To get up to speed go to the blog dated 12-17-12 titled Chronicles of a food junkie.

Tonight our good friend Charlie Hagan is coming over, and we are going out for pizza. Charley is an ESL teacher, and we played in a band back in the late 80's called the Steaming Seaman. Charley teaches overseas, China, Korea, Saudi Arabia, that sort of thing.

This is my once a month pizza fling, and we are trying out Little Star Pizza on Solano Ave. in Albany. Apparently there are two other Little Star Pizzerias in the City. What do I know?

I've heard many praises about this place. The word from the bird is that their Chicago deep dish pie is better than Zachary's Pizza, but I'm skeptical about that review. As well I hear their Neapolitan is supposedly good. We're going to get both of course. I'm more of Neapolitan man myself, but I love Sicilian as well.

The Sicilian style pizza that is closest to the kind I grew up on in Connecticut is at Lanesplitter or Golden Boy in North Beach. My family is Calabrese, not Siciliano. I do love Zachary's, but their pie is considered Chicago style pizza. Calabria is a lot closer to Sicily than Chicago. Sicilians don't consider themselves Italians, but they all look like dago Ginnies to me.

Now, I know, I know, I'm way behind the curve on this one. Maybe there are a bunch of folks out there, just like me, who are also way behind the curve. So this blog is for you and me. I'm not new to Solano Ave. by any means. I've been going up and down this street for many years. Geri and I have partied at the street fair before. I love Indian food, and Ajanta on Solano is one of the best. I know I'm a delinquent for not getting over there to eat this pie, and I'm hoping I'm not going to be disappointed.

Solano Ave., for folks who don't know it, should know it. It's a world class street, one of the best ofstreets in the entire Bay Area.  If you live in this neighborhood you've got just about everything you could ever need or want, on or within walking distance of Solano Ave. When it comes to eating I like to stay at home and cook. That's no big secret. I have the wood fired oven now, and I can make as good a pie, or better, as anyone else can, wood fired oven or no wood fired oven. We love to call a bunch of friends up, and have a pizza party.

We won't be doing a pizza party here this month, so this is my one time pizza extravaganza for February, and it's time to try a different joint, something new.
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I'll do a review on this tomorrow.

After dinner: I hope people read the sequel to this blog tomorrow, or whenever I get it up, because  it's not good for Little star, and it's not good for you if you go there to eat. I will say this, they named it correctly, because it is not a big star in the galaxy of pizzas for sure. I'm sorry I built this place up, and I'm sorry I ever went to this place because the last two months I'm batting zero for my pizza night out. I'm the guy who ate a large pie for dinner for about 10 years of my life. If I'm going to sacrifice my waistline, and my one night for pizza, it needs to be top shelf pie. This restaurant is why I fear going out of my comforts zone when it comes to food in general and pizza specifically.

No mas poquito estrella!

Peace,

Make Food/Not War

Food Consumption: 2-8-13

Breakfast: Plain green tea,  cereal w/soy milk, blueberries, banana, orange juice

Lunch: Leftover mash potatoes, chicken and salad.

Dinner: Salad, 3 beers, too much mediocar  pizza

Exercise: 3.5 miles walking