Spelt Pizza

I'm feeling so good today. The sun is shining, 65 degrees in Oakland with a westerly breeze, how can you go wrong. It's cold enough at 6:30 am that I have to wear my walking gloves.

I have been thinking about making spelt pizza for a long time. I have written several blogs that I love the taste of spelt bread. For those people who have allergies to gluten spelt bread is one of the great alternatives, because man and woman, do live by bread, not alone, but by it for sure.

When I started working with spelt flour I realize why I haven't engaged in this experiment before. Spelt flour remind me of cake flour. I picked up 3 or 4 pounds at the Food Mill in east Oakland and when I squeezed the flour in the bag it held together in form. When I did the same thing with the 00 pizza flour it crumbles like dust.

It's rising now, nicely I might add, and we'll see what it tastes like. I doesn't have that baby bottom consistency like good pizza dough. It's much more dense and has a different smell to it also. I'm skeptical about the results, but to eat anything remotely close to a decent pizza is a treat. I'm not using the wood fired pizza oven either. I'm cooking these in the oven at 550 degrees on the bottom rack for around 6 minutes.

I'm running again tonight after dinner. Then I take the weekend off from running and Il'll continue a regular M, W, F  1/2 mile run until I can build myself up to 2 or 3 miles 3 days a week. If I'm lucky.


Peace,

Make Food/Not War


What I ate today:

Breakfast: Hash brown potato, 2 scrambled eggs,  2 pieces of toast, black tea w/1 brown sugar

Lunch: nothing

Dinner: Spelt pizzas, chicken, asparagus, red sauce, asiago cheese, cheddar, Romano cheeses,
             anchovies, Genoa salumi

Other stuff: 1 beer, refer

Exercise Today: 5.5 miles walking, 1/2 mile running