recipe – Open Source Pizza

Gluten-Free Pizza Recipe Trend

ospadmin — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:48:11 +0000

When I first heard about gluten-free pizza dough, I was thinking this is just another trend that will die out in a few months. I also felt very bad for anyone who normally can’t eat pizza!! Why is it that some people can’t eat pizza dough?

Celiac Disease or Gluten Intolerance

About 2.88 million or 1 in 133 Americans have celiac disease, also known as gluten intolerance. This means that the villi that line their small intestines get damaged from eating gluten, found in wheat, barley, and rye. A good article about the disease can be found here.

Recipes and Products Available

The 2011 International Pizza Expo offered more information on gluten-free products than ever before: gluten-free flour, pizza crusts, and recipes. The recipes are made with rice, potato and corn flours, guar or xanthan gums and/or tapioca/cassava starch. The dough is more like a thick batter and must be cooked differently. As more attention is paid to the issues, more options become available for the crust recipe so that it is more like traditional crusts instead of the texture of a cracker, as it has previously been. (Source)

Are you gluten intolerant or know of someone who is? How does it change your diet?

Browse Pizza Recipes, Pizza Reviews

ospadmin — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 02:09:47 +0000

I recently changed the theme of the Open Source Pizza website, and added several new pages that will hold great content and discussions.

Browse and Submit Pizza Recipes

On the Recipes page you’ll be able to browse, comment on, and submit pizza related recipes! You’ll be able to browse by category (pizza, stromboli, calzone, pasta, Hoagie/Sandwich, sauce, dough, etc) or search by tag. You can comment on recipes: mark them as Like or Dislike, specify the positives and negatives of the recipe, and suggest improvements. If you haven’t tried the recipe yet, you can specify if you are ‘interested’ or ‘not interested’ in trying the recipe and post your comments rather than a review. The highest rated recipes will be listed in a section on the Recipes page. You can also submit your own recipes. I’ve implemented an Open ID login system so you’ll need to log in with your Google account before commenting or submitting a recipe.

Pizza Reviews in Columbus, Ohio

On the Review page I’ll have reviews of pizza places in Columbus, OH. I’ll probably try to integrate with other reviews sites rather than have additional or separate reviews for the businesses. What review places do you use? I’ll definitely pull from Yelp and Google Places. I’d like to post some profile information about all the different pizza places in Columbus, Ohio as well, to have a comprehensive list.

Social Media and Discussions About Pizza

On the Connect page I’ll have all kinds of discussions and trends relating to pizza that can be found on social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, other cooking and food websites, etc. Wherever possible, I’ll try to pull data from feeds and use third-party APIs to integrate the content directly on the Open Source Pizza website. If that’s not possible, I’ll just post links to the external websites. But you won’t be able to post your own comments on this site directly. Let me know if you have a suggestion of a good website that has discussions about pizza related dishes.

Let me know if you have any suggestions or ideas of what you’d like to see on the website!

Where to Find Recipes

ospadmin — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:07:11 +0000

Where do you find recipes online?Â Here are just a few of the sites that provide recipes of all types:

AllRecipes

http://www.foodnetwork.com

http://www.myrecipes.com/recipes/

http://www.recipe.com/

http://www.cooks.com

http://www.recipesource.com/

http://www.food.com/

http://www.cooking.com/Recipes-And-More/

And one that has a name similar to Open Source Pizza: Open Source Food!

What tools do you use to organize your own recipes? What influences your decision to try the recipe? Let me know!