The "Elusive" New York "Christmas Pizza"
At the end of last year there was a little chatter on here about a "Christmas Pizza" people saw on a Food Network show called The Secret Life Of and the topic of the show was Pizza. Everyone knows how we New Yorkers are about our pizza!!! Anyway, no one could remember what the "Christmas Pizza" was the owners of Ray Bari's made on the show, the name of the pizza, the name of the show, etc., etc. Well some of the answers are above and and the biggest answer is that I know the name of the pizza but not how to spell it. Phonetically it is said "SVEN-CHON-NI" or "SVEN-CHONI" or "SVEN-CHO-NEE". It's a thick sicilian style square pizza with thick, rich sauce. It's covered in breadcrumbs and baked covered most of its cooking time and uncovered for a few minutes at the end. I hope this puts some minds at ease and intrigues some new people. I have not tried it yet but the pizza looks killer. I could almost smell it through the T.V. If you search "Christmas Pizza" above you will find the original posting which I also answered.
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4 Comments:
The show "Secret Life of Pizza" is being run on FOODTV quite often lately. It was just on last night. I sauce had a lot of onions as an added ingredient, that was about the only thing that I paid much attention to. Cooking time also seemed to be important.
dmcavanagh at 10:31AM on 02/07/09
I'm the one who had asked the original question, and I agree that it appears to be a mouth-watering delight! Saw the rerun last night @ Food Network as well. Missed trying it over the holidays - I was hoping to get down to NYC and have some there, but holiday time is never easy to find! I do still plan to attempt it @ home @ some point, though.
Robbo at 1:25AM on 02/08/09
I believe the spelling is "sfincione" I had trouble finding it too, but I asked my husband who took a year of Italian in College and he came up with this spelling. There's a lot of hits with this spelling. Hope that helps!
gala_silverstar at 3:18PM on 02/08/09
@gala_silverstar - finally, finally, recipes for this "elusive pie." Thanks to all!!
And now I know why I could find NO hits @ Google, etc: I turned on the closed-caption viewer and used the spelling that came up @ it. Nuh-uh.
Robbo at 10:42PM on 02/08/09