fandomhigh | Make Your Own Pizza!, Monday, Period 2

"Let's talk sauce!" Raiden excitedly told his students today, because...why wouldn't he be excited? They were talking about pizza sauce! "Now, technically, you can use all sorts of things for your pizza sauce: there are white sauces, I've seen barbecue sauce, pesto...your earliest pizzas used olive oil, because they didn't have access to tomatoes in Italy yet. But when you're talking about your classic pizza experience, you're talking about a tomato-based sauce flavored with herbs and garlic."

Damn, he was getting hungry. Please hold while your teacher pulled out a giant bag of Cool Ranch Doritos, which he would be munching from for the rest of his intro today. "I picked out two options for you guys today as far as recipes. The first is a more classic recipe where you start with canned tomatoes and cook them down, but if you don't have time or feel like you have the cooking skills for that there's also a no-cook version. You can also, of course, start with fresh tomatoes, but they're not in season yet and it takes even longer, so I thought we could skip that option for now. The most important thing either way is to taste as you go and adjust your seasonings to achieve your version of pizza sauce perfection. And if you find yourself thinking, 'But Raiden, this is way too much sauce for one pizza,' that's the beautiful thing! You can freeze it! I would suggest in single-pizza servings, so you can just thaw one out any time you want to make pizza. So, pick what you're gonna do, and let me know if you need any help or have any questions."

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Pizza!

Eddie Diaz

Senshi

Henry

There's a no-cook pizza sauce hack, say what now?

Senshi tried not to look judgy about no-cook sauce. He might have only succeeded a little.

The kitchen is your oyster!

...don't put oysters in the pizza sauce, probably.

And his Doritos.

"Are those the Doritos?" he asked, mostly as a formality because he could, in fact, read the bag.

"Yeah!" Raiden exclaimed, possibly around a mouthful of said Doritos. "Here, try some!" He offered the bag to Senshi.

Senshi took a single chip, examined it closely, licked it once...and then put the whole thing in his mouth. He looked surprised and started nodding. "That tastes...like nothing I've ever had before," he noted.

"That's the Cool Ranch," Raiden agreed. "It's the kind of flavor explosion you only get with the aid of modern science."

"How...?" he asked. "This was a...flavor explosion."

Was there any other way to describe it?

"Oh, well, you see," Raiden said as he took another handful of chips from the bag, "what the food scientists at Frito-Lay did was, they took the flavor profile of ranch dressing, which is mostly garlic, onion, buttermilk, some herbs, usually dill, and they added some other stuff to it like tomato and assorted chemicals, intensified it by dehydrating and powdering it, and then put it on a corn chip. Now, if you want something really interesting, you should try Flamin' Hot Cool Ranch Doritos. It's a contradiction that should not exist." A beat. "Compels me, though."

"Hmmm," Senshi said thoughtfully. "Do you think this could serve as a pizza crust?"

You just kinda had to try, didn't you?

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