GoreMade Pizza

Saturday, August 13th, 2011, GoreMade Pizza was invited to be the "food vendor" for a mock-festival party at Hockenhaus. From 7-9 pm, I made pizza in Brian's lovely kitchen. By the way, his kitchen totally kicks ass! 

I made a total of 8 pizzas over the two hour happy hour. We were trying to figure out how to handle the monetary situation so that brian and I weren't footing the bill for 60 or so people to eat pizza. Brian suggested having a tip jar out for everyone to pay what they want. I was interested in how it would turn out, so we tried it.

It turns out that I got almost exactly what the ingredients cost me, which was awesome. I got to spread the GoreMade name around, got some really positive feedback from practically everyone who tried it out, and I got to step up my production, making more dough at one time that had ever previously been attempted. All of which encourage growth and a better understanding of the goals I am striving for!

Being the "opening act" of Hockenfest, there were some concerns that people wouldn't show up until much later (the scheduled performances went from 9:00pm-1:30am!) and that there would be a ton of pizza lying around. Turns out it was hard to keep up!

I always have a menu made up of all the pizzas that I plan on making. It's rarely followed 100%, but it helps me keep track of all the ingredients I was planning on preparing. The above pizza was made because people scarfed the first one up so quickly.

The above pizza was made using asparagus I picked earlier this summer. I ended up picking several pounds of asparagus and freezing most of it for a special day. Enter Hockenfest! The Asparagus and Kalamata Olive pizza was among the most talked about pizzas of the evening. 

I cooked my final pizza just around the 9 o'clock hour, in time for a little clean-up then headed out to watch the fire spinners in the fire camp amaze us with their undulating flames. The rest of the evening was one awesome thing after another! I was proud to be a part of the festivities!


There's talk of a Hocktoberfest this October. If it happens, you can guarantee that GoreMade Pizza'll be slingin some pies to kick it off again! 


(Thanks to Craig for the awesome photo documentation!)