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I was too hungry. And greedy. Grilled the flat iron steak without turning it into a meatzza. Cooked it more than I would like but it was still moist and husband liked it.

After the multi-week below freezing period last month, we have been rewarded with several days in a row of high 50°s - low 60°sF temperatures. I waited a week for yesterday's unseasonably warm weather to unwrap the wood oven to make pizza. A couple of 14" New York style pizzas, one artichoke, mushroom, and goat cheese; the other pepperoni, mushroom, and black olive. Today's job is to clean and re-cover the oven and store the associated paraphernalia for a few more weeks until Spring. Oh well, the pizze were good!

I only started because I had a problem with freshly ground flour. Not to be unduly graphic, but also in England there must be country walks where there's a giant flat brown disk of bovine origin? When one doesn't adjust for green flour, that can be how a loaf comes out. Some people don't have this problem. Adding AA changes the limit on hydration. I'd turn this around: Only a moron would take typical doses of vitamin C after seeing the difference 60ppm makes in bread.

I found a few similar spreadsheets online so i will use one of those and start over. I really needed it for the pizza dough but i havent made pizza in awhile so it was no great loss. I'm retired so i guess i have the time to work on a new one

Yes, my spreadsheet was inspired by my bread spreadsheet, for sourdough batards from freshly ground flour. Various people here have adopted my method for producing steam in the KK. What I don't really understand is how my process is like releasing a marble in a spherical bowl; no matter how I start out, I end up a few iterations later with exactly the same recipe. I'd like a few variants in the rotation... Now that I'm retired I want to take the bread intensives at the San Francisco Baking Institute. Michel Suas wrote Advanced Bread and Pastry, a professional tome that makes it clear a well-trained French chef has a PhD understanding of cooking. That remains the only book I know that addresses the challenge of "green flour", freshly ground flour that hasn't aged. I now add 60 parts per million ascorbic acid.

I hear yah! We broke a record here yesterday from all the way back to 1911! It was 55F! I was outside without a jacket! We'll see if the "rodent" is correct and we'll get an early spring??

And I'll be stealing it back @C6Bill! I found out about meat pizza when I was searching online for how best to cook a matambre. I have tried it twice and both times the meat has not been as tender as I would have liked. Next try is going to be with a nice flat iron steak. Drooling at the thought.