I need a career brassiere please.

LMAO...

Eliza Dushku at Comic-Con supportingly describes Joss Whedon as a "career brassiere."

That is so what he is. Him, James Cameron, Judd Apatow and J.J. Abrams. Guess you need to find a director whose name starts with a J and start sucking up!

I can't effing wait for "Dollhouse" btw.

Successful homemade pizza at last

I have FINALLY made decent homemade pizza, YAY. (Coming on the tail of my first free-form sourdough loaf attempt, which was kind of a failure. Sigh.) I didn't take a picture of it, because it honestly looked like crap (I suck at shaping pizza dough ... and most other doughs), but for the first time ever the crust was thin and tasted more like pizza instead of a thick, bread-like substance. Woot! All this sourdough knowledge has finally come in handy. There are a number of things that I was doing wrong before, but I don't suppose it's all that interesting to talk about. So instead I will just give the recipe/method for what I used, which I adapted from a simple recipe I found online, and a not-so-simple recipe from my new book The Bread Baker's Apprentice: Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread by Peter Reinhart.

This all came about because I had leftover ripe sourdough starter that I didn't know what to do with. So I deliberately used a recipe that used sourdough starter instead of anything that required the addition of active dry/instant yeast. The online recipes seemed too simplistic (like the other recipes I've tried in the past that were failures) while the recipe from the book didn't use sourdough starter at all. So I just kind of combined the two to make them work for my purposes.

( Sourdough Pizza Crust Recipe/Method )

I also had a bit of leftover starter this morning from feeding, and I'm going to make sourdough English muffins! Will let you know how those turn out.