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5.3.07

the second nearest brick oven

This is a totally legitimate recipie because we went to this poorly lit brick-oven pizza shop full of full-breed Italians and this is what i got and it was fantastic.

It starts with very thin pancakes. i do not think that Bisquik would work because it would make excessively fluffy pancakes and these are more like the super-thin Hungarian ones, well browned on both sides but still absorbent. So. Step one: Pancakes. Big plate-sized ones. what else would work: whole wheat pancakes. Whole wheat tortillas fresh and fluffy from the little Mexican ladies. i miss Mexican food. have i said that?

Step two: Spinach artichoke dip. Seriously. Technically the one that i had did not have artichokes in it but the idea is nearly identical. Note that this is heavy on the cheese - it was, what, mascarpone? I have no idea. But i think soy things or tofu would also be fab (although i have yet to find tofu here, at all, and we don't eat it all that often, but still, there's none whatsoever, which makes me sad, because mmmmm). Mostly spinach, a little bit cheese, in the one that i had, but it's very d-i-y and customizable. Also they put bits of bacon or ham or something. There were two other kinds of fillings you could pick, one of which was mushroomy and one of which was tomatoey, and that is the limit of my German. but Italian, so garlic. More garlic. Yes.

Step Three: spinach artichoke dip goes in the pancake, and you wrap it up like a giant burrito, and put it in the broiler with extra bubbly cheeses on top so it gets crispity and delicious. Theoretically a lasagna-pancake format would also work (especially if the only oven pan i have is lasagna-shaped) but maybe not be as specifically traditionally Italian. They brought it out to me and it was still all broily and bubbling and of course the cheesy parts are best when they're just hot enough that you won't quite burn your mouth. Quite.

Step Four (optional): M orders a pizza, and one dips the pizza bones (note, please, that i did NOT make up this term) in the spinach artichoke dip (because there is no way that one person can eat one giant pancake full of spinach and cheese), and one appreciates that life is good.

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scrawled @ 14:41