Railroaders place to shoot the shit.

All this pizza talk got me to get out the breadmachine
and make some pizza dough. Usually make a couple
pizzas when I go to all the trouble. Pizza leftovers
keep well in the fridge so you can eat it for the next
four days. While making it this time I remembered a
few other tricks/tactics that I use. My pizza sauce
source is my home canned pasta sauce. I open up
a jar and pour it into a pan and cook/reduce it to a
bit thicker sauce. Add perhaps a short squeeze of ketchup
for sweetness, put about a half dozen whole star anise
and a couple tbsp of whole fennel seed into a spice grinder
and grind into powder. Dump this into your sauce plus
a dash of salt and plenty of fresh ground black pepper.
The sauce was mega tastey. The pizzas were fantastic.
I'm just going to have to respect/trust your opinions
of the pizza chain pizzas as I can't see the point of eating
any of them. When I want a pizza, I'll make my own.
I mentioned about taking a chance on a Freshetta frozen
pizza, well for 5-6 bucks it's worth having one in the freezer.
The notion that gobs of cheese, sodium nitrate cured meats,
enough white flour to make 2 loaves of bread is a healthy meal.
I love pizza a whole lot. I also used to love eating hot dogs
but there is a force field around the frankfurters in the grocery
store that I shop at that I'm unable to penetrate. The burger joints,
the pizza joints, the snack food industry, store bought processed
foods are leading many to an early grave or worse. I couldn't
fucking believe (after standing at the cooking oil section of my
local mega mart trying to make a decision) that "vegetable oil"
is now "soybean oil". Soybeans are all genetically modified. Canola
which has been excepted as good (is hazardous to human health,
formally known as "rapeseed oil") was a penetrating oil used for
lubracation purposes is now somehow in our foodchain. You can
bet that anything deep fried in the USA today is a combination
of the cheapest and worst oil available. Olive oil is expensive.
Corn oil is likely to be genetically modified. I use Safflower oil myself.
I've grown safflowers in my garden for a few years just to learn
something about them. Peanut oil is another choice but the price
has jumped considerably the last few years. Fast food comes with
a price...much more than you pay the cashier.