Stefan 🇺🇦

@bassclefstef

I'm a trombonist- performer and educator- based in the Midwestern USA. Besides that, I cook a lot, hang out with my lovely wife, enjoy movies and video games, reading and walking, building Legos, cars, football, etc.

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Stefan 🇺🇦@bassclefstef· Jul 9

Homemade pizza you say?

Homemade pizza- a large new york-ish pizza with toppings inspired by a Cubano sandwich- carnitas, ham, pickles, and dill, with a mustard sauce under the cheese. It was tasty.

A homemade pizza- another large, new york-ish style pie, with toppings inspired by a muffaletta sandwich- ham, salami, and an olive salad (chopped olives, capers, shallots, roasted red peppers, and lots of basil). This one was super tasty, but I scretched the dough too thin, so there was a bit of a hole it in towards the front. Still- pizza with a little (1") hole in it is still pizza.

Stefan 🇺🇦@bassclefstef· Mar 21

Oh my gosh guys, I think the ducks might be coming back

A pair of Mallard ducks check out the duck nest outside our living room window from last year. We live in a garden-level apartment, and there's a little alcove outside the living room window- two out of the last three springs, a duck as nested and successfully hatched a brood of ducklings, and I really hope they settle there again this year, it's so cute.

Stefan 🇺🇦@bassclefstef· Mar 4

Fuck, it stuck on the tray. I think it's some combination of the dough being too thin and too many toppings for that thickness. 😪

Finished pizza, with holes torn in it because it stuck to the backing dish. Super sad.

Stefan 🇺🇦@bassclefstef· Mar 4

Final pizza, pre-bake.

Unbaked pizza, now topped with spicy salami, sliced baby sweet peppers, basil chiffonade, and capers

Stefan 🇺🇦@bassclefstef· Mar 4

Cheese!

Stefan 🇺🇦@bassclefstef· Mar 4

OK time to assemble. Base layer- sauce, Canadian bacon (not usually part of a muffaletta, but i think it works, plus, I had it), and the olive salad

Pizza crust, covered with a thin layer of tomato sauce

Crust and sauce, layered with torn pieces of Canadian bacon (my dad and I get it from a cool little family butcher and smoked meat shop down in Ohio, we go visit once or twice a year. It's a good excuse to take the corvette out for a day)

Crust layered with sauce, Canadian bacon, and the olive salad

Stefan 🇺🇦@bassclefstef· Mar 4

More toppings- sliced spicy salami, a teeny bit of provolone cheese, and cute baby sweet peppers

A wording cutting board with a pile of sliced salami, provolone cheese shreds, and a few baby sweet peppers- red, orange, and yellow

Stefan 🇺🇦@bassclefstef· Mar 4

Going along with this week's theme of sandwich-inspired pizzas, this one is going to be inspired by the Muffaletta sandwich, a classic New Orleans deli sandwich, featuring cold cuts and an olive salad. I'm starting with some spicy giardenera that my dad made as the base for the salad:

A pile of spicy giardenera- a collection of pickled carrots, onions, celery, cauliflower, and cute little peppers, sitting on a cutting board. I'm going to chop it up fine and add some other stuff.

The other stuff I'm going to chop up and add- capers, kalamata olives, basil (Thai basil, in this case), and some spicy pickles garlic cloves

The finished olive salad, chopped fine and sitting in a cute little wooden mixing bowl

Stefan 🇺🇦@bassclefstef· Mar 3

Today's pizza photo diary- I've got the dough stretched out and ready to go- I'll get it topped once I know my wife is on her way home. With my limited dough-making skills, I made a no-knead dough, with about 65% hydration.

Pizza dough, stretched out onto a 16" inch pizza pan. This is about a 510g dough ball, so it's stretched out pretty thin. I'm not very good at this, so the dough thickness isn't as even as I'd like, but no big deal.

Stefan 🇺🇦@bassclefstef· Mar 3

Make pizza not war

A pretty big new york-ish style pizza that juat came out of the oven. This one is kind of an experimental set of toppings- inspired by a Cubano sandwich, it has a mustard sauce (a mix of yellow and Dijon, a little crema for body, salt, pepper, cayenne, a little sugar, and lots of dill), ham (well, actually Canadian bacon from a lovely little family butcher and smoked meat shop), a mix of mozzarella and gruyere, roast pork (carnitas from our neighborhood Mexican grocery), and dill pickle slices, finished with a sprinkle of fresh dill. It was really good

Stefan 🇺🇦@bassclefstef· Mar 2

*really* big dogs

A husky and a wolf sitting side-by-side- the wolf is about 50% bigger

Stefan 🇺🇦@bassclefstef· Feb 24

I get to play a really big trombone this week and next

Me (a 6'2" late 30's white man, with long hair, glasses, and a beard, in a gold and blue checked flannel shirt) with a contrabass trombone, which is nearly as big as me

Stefan 🇺🇦@bassclefstef· Feb 16

My sister's goofy little dog isn't especially fluffy on his own, but he does like fluffy blankets. Hope everything is OK.

My sister's goofy little dog- a skinny, short-haired tan colored... dog, with floppy ears, about 10lbs ish. Lying on his back with his legs sticking in the air, the rest of him tucked in under a blanket

Stefan 🇺🇦@bassclefstef· Jan 31

Oh I sure can

A pair of stainless steel mixing bowls, one with a mango-passionfruit salsa (with diced mango, passionfruit pulp, minced red onion, Serrano chiles, and cilantro), and the other bowl has a teeny batch of shredded brussel sprouts coleslaw (just a mix of a shredded sprouts, plus a little mayonnaise and Mexican crema)

Stefan 🇺🇦@bassclefstef· Jan 11

Oh dang I play there all the time

My bass trombone sitting on a trombone stand, with the 3rd trombone part to Mahler 5 behind it, and a large auditorium in the background

Stefan 🇺🇦@bassclefstef· Nov 16

Time to cook. Sautée the sausage in a big pot until its got some nice color all over.

Sausage slices sauteeing in a big soup pot

Stefan 🇺🇦@bassclefstef· Nov 16

I've got half a smoked sausage from a cool little family butcher shop in Ohio that my dad and I visit now and then- I'll chop it into quarter coins.

Said sausage cut into thin quarter-coins

Stefan 🇺🇦@bassclefstef· Nov 16

Other odds and ends- a whole lot of garlic, and a bunch of picked fresh thyme leaves

Stefan 🇺🇦@bassclefstef· Nov 16

I want all of the vegetables to basically dissappear into the final dish, so I'm chopping everything to a pretty small dice

Another mixing bowl filled with a mix of celery, peppers, and onions, chopped to a fine dice

Stefan 🇺🇦@bassclefstef· Nov 16

Ok, bean time! Here's the vegetables for the base- a mix of celery, onions, and peppers. Yes, green bell peppers would be more authentic, but I'm using poblanos and a few sweet red peppers, cause I've got them in the fridge.