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Reddit mentions of The Pizza Bible: The World's Favorite Pizza Styles, from Neapolitan, Deep-Dish, Wood-Fired, Sicilian, Calzones and Focaccia to New York, New Haven, Detroit, and More
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We found 4 Reddit mentions of The Pizza Bible: The World's Favorite Pizza Styles, from Neapolitan, Deep-Dish, Wood-Fired, Sicilian, Calzones and Focaccia to New York, New Haven, Detroit, and More. Here are the top ones.
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That's my monthly budget, too! (and as a 200 lb guy I do not have a dainty appetite so you can get plenty of food with that much)
Basically, this limits you from nice steaks and fresh seafood. Everything else is fair game.
My wife and I keep a list of what we've made so if we have trouble thinking of what to cook we can look through a bunch of options. (Note: the $200 monthly budget covers only me, not both me and my wife.)
In a given month, we'll eat:
A couple caveats: I buy very few prepared foods, very rarely have sandwiches so no lunch meat (it's spendy), and I don't eat breakfast. I do most of my shopping at Aldi and only go elsewhere for things they don't carry like specialty Asian ingredients. We have a couple big Asian groceries nearby that are good for that - we count a few basic sauces as staples that we find it's not too expensive to keep on hand that really open up our options for Asian recipes (soy sauce, sesame oil, rice vinegar, and fish sauce).
Edit: because this has gotten a good bit of attention I'll mention that we do have a good selection of cookbooks to work from. Not a huge number, but a well curated set that is mostly based on recommendations from friends and the internet, were gifts, or ones we knew were good because former housemates had them.
But if you don't have many and don't want to spend the cash don't worry! Your local library should have a bunch, and many resources (that are less hit-or-miss than e.g. allrecipes.com) are available online. Good and Cheap, budgetbytes, and seriouseats (The Food Lab) are in my top 3 (I do have a paper copy from all 3, because I want to support what they do). Other cookbooks that I like, also listed in the "Source" column of the linked google doc:
The Mecca, in my book.
(admittedly, my "book" is Tony's Pizza Bible, soo..)
Check out The Pizza Bible. It completely changed my pizza making. If you plan on making pizza regularly, that book will help you make really nice pizzas almost every time.
Regarding the raw dough on top, one thing the author recommends is to never use cold sauce. It should be at room temperature. I'm not sure what temperature your dough was when you rolled and topped, but that's another factor. Oven temp is another, as is having some method of providing lots of heat to the dough from the start (stone or steel). Your temp, at 250c is a bit low. Going to 285c if you can would be better.
That book does have some recipes where the dough is partially cooked before topping. I used to try that before I got the book. I haven't tried it since as I'm now making awesome pizzas using his directions.
As you can probably tell, I can't recommend that book enough if you want to really get serious about pizza making.
I used the Pizza Bible which is full of different dough recipes.