by ben@ben-smith.net | Apr 1, 2013 | Uncategorised
Last weekend was my dad’s birthday and our family converged on the ‘Norf’ to celebrate. By conventional standards this was one of those ‘big birthdays’ although given my dad insists he stopped counting when he hit 40 we’ll call this...
by ben@ben-smith.net | Mar 13, 2013 | Uncategorised
I’m writing this on the train home from Dorset, turns out South West trains don’t have plugs by the seats and with the battery on my laptop fading this could well be brief. I wanted to write a post with some basic tips on using a peel, you know, the flat...
by ben@ben-smith.net | Feb 21, 2013 | Uncategorised
A couple of weeks ago I was asked what my favourite topping is: “Well you can’t beat a well made sourdough margherita, then again, I’m a sucker for anchovies and find it hard to look past them on a menu…” some time later...
by ben@ben-smith.net | Feb 18, 2013 | Uncategorised
Less of a post, more a set of pictures from the weekend’s tasting session. A couple of good friends came over on Saturday and we used the excuse to test out a few toppings we’d been wanting to try. I’m not going to ramble on about which was our...
by ben@ben-smith.net | Feb 3, 2013 | Uncategorised
It’d been ages since we’d made pizza, too long, ages since we’d even had pizza. But a Friday night in recovering from the dreaded lurgi seemed like the perfect excuse to try out some of the delivery places in the area. The restaurant of choice...