It all started out simple enough

if the dough overhangs the peel all around by 2" you are about to make a ribbon pizza ;-)  I thought I could flip the front end up level with the peel, lay the front down on the stone and sort of work the dough off the peel somehow,  I now know that impossible things are more impossible for a doofus like me :-)  I wish I would have taken a picture of the ribbon but them it would have been a total loss.  Half of something is better than none in my book.

No more trying to make 20" pizza on a 18' stone either. Live and learn.

Happy baking Paul

to roll out the inside of pizza thin as could be.  When I brought this one home I told Lucy, I have a new apprentice who might eat you!  She thought it was a toy and took off with it:-)  She is too fast to catch as my age but she eventually brought it back.

Good luck with the Sunday Gravy on Tuesday.  I usually put country style ribs in mine and some smoked sausage too but didn't have any CS ribs and forgot the smoked sausage - my apprentice didn't remind me - again!.  Made great pizza sauce as your leftovers will. 

At least we get to eat our mistakes if they are edible :-)

Loved your GMA's post today too.

Happy baking

is fried chicken and gravy.  We don't do any fried food at all anymore except won tons and crab Rangoon's.  The gravy from fried chicken is the best gravy of any kind world wide and, as far as I am concerned nothing much comes close except duck or turkey gravy.  I'm like you and just love all kinds of gravy and try to make as much stuff as I can in it :-)

I don't think the margaritas had anything to do with the pizza ribbonization since I only had one but,  it had been a while since the last prickly pear one so it might have been a little stiffer than usual:-)  I'm afraid the pizza candy is more likely due to a huge case of nincompoopness in conjunction with latent insane thoughts..... of late.  This might be because of too much gravy or possibly old age ....or more likely, both.

I don't think the parchment paper would have helped the dough overhanging the peel problem - but it couldn't have hurt!  I was doing the shake, shake, shake thing all the way to the oven and it was moving fine but when i tried to flip the overhanging front portion up to lay flat on the stone I guess that motion was a little too strong and the exact same one you make ribbon candy with :-)  The front stuck to the stone as it hit it, like it does just for an instant and the rest just piled in on itself . I guess i didn't pull the peel back fast enough either.   I'm going to try and bake a flat bread into a ribbon one some day as a new technique!

I had a bad vision while day dreaming today where I had a perfect pizza on the peel and, when I went to slip if off, it slid perfectly right into a trash can.  No sense having that oven, stone step get in the way :-)

I like your WFO cover up method too!

Happy wfo baking Sylvia

what we have grown accustomed to but such is life.  It wasn't dog food, not that Lucy eats bad food, and it did disappear so I guess that says it all :-)

Poor Lucy.  Her native tongue is German, Spanish is her second language since AZ was part of Spain for a very long time and then comes English since AZ has only been a state since 1912.  Her Spanish with a German accent  is really a hoot to listen to.

Glad you like the food Khalid we did too!  Only made a quart of Greek yogurt and a jar of Dijon mustard today - a light food day.  Who knows what tomorrow will bring.

Can't wait to see your next bake Khalid.  Happy baking

to get fat around here, so we try to eat healthy most of the time.  Not much is ever left in the feed bag when the meal is over and cooking is even more fun than baking and with way more expansive variety and possibilities.

Loved your colorful beet pain de mie.  Beets make the best color in the crumb. 

Glad you liked the food and Happy baking evon

there are only 3 things that cause failure and two of them are pride and ego.  These two things keep people from doing .  They even keep people from taking the first baby steps at trying to solve a problem.  Sometimes you are the only one who can solve the problem and if you don't do it, like sweeping a dirty floor, it won't get done.  Guys and gals that reported to me would see me out in the warehouse with a broom sweeping away and they knew that if they didn't quickly grab a broom and help me sweep that would be their last day working for us and .....they wouldn't have to sweep the floor ever again,.  The willingness to do what ever it takes to get the job done is one of the great character attributes, among hundreds,  that one must have for success.  Pride and ego just get in the way of willingness.  Fear stops people from even taking the first baby steps at solving problems. Have no fear and you will do, if you are willing and don't have pride and and ego holding you back.

Oddly skill is not a character attribute and are not required for success.  All skills flow from good character attributes, Develop them and the skill will naturally follow.   Next thing you know you have no fear and you don't say no very often.  You could care less if anyone else sees you fail or succeed - you just want to do and solve the problem so you can go on to more important things and fail or succeed at them.

I'm glad you noticed that I do things, many things that others would not ever consider doing.  It is sad really.  That is why I have been able to experience so much more than most in life and have failed and succeed more than many.  If you don't say yes.... and do.... then you can't fail at anything  and nor can you succeed.   You just don't want to fail at things that will kill you.   So. even though you should hardly ever say no, the few times you do will likely be the most important decisions you will make over your lifetime.

You make my day John

Happy baking,