by ben@ben-smith.net | Jul 20, 2013 | Uncategorised
I’ve long been a fan of the Serious Eats pizza blog, Slice and in particular their Top This feature which in their own words “show[s] you how to replicate unusually topped restaurant pies at home”. Now I’m a pie fan but a pie to me is prefaced...
by ben@ben-smith.net | Jun 16, 2013 | Uncategorised
Well, not quite, more Return to the Pizza Jedis, but Ealing certainly felt like a galaxy far, far away from North London. It’d been ages since we’d been to Santa Maria, too long, but Ealing is a bit of a mission. It always took something special for me to...
by ben@ben-smith.net | May 24, 2013 | Uncategorised
There’s something deeply satisfying about ordering the whole menu. No faff, no compromise. Simple. We’ll just have it all. I’ve only managed this on a couple of occasions, normally it’s practically, financially and gastric…ly unfeasible. It’s also rare, even for...
by ben@ben-smith.net | Apr 21, 2013 | Uncategorised
Feels like we’ve had several seasons worth of weather condensed into the last couple of weeks. Last time I wrote I was making pizzas in the snow wearing all the layers I own and yesterday was well and truly shorts and t-shirt weather – has spring finally...
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...
