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Serious Cocktails: Pining for Pimm's
Café des Artistes has a great Pimm's drink too. I think it's called the Tarzen or something. Made with fresh, mixed berries. Yum!
Sunday Brunch: Peanut Butter and Jelly Turnovers
@tracychin Peanut butter is absolutely safe to eat (and a great source of protein). Just an FYI...jarred peanut butter was never affected by the recall, so go ahead and make these turnovers and enjoy.
This recipe looks like the perfect dish to make for Mother's Day!
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Bazbeaux Pizza: Indy's Best is Just Eauxkay
I went to school in Indy and enjoyed Bazbeaux's Broad Ripple location many times. I'm a big fan of their wheat crust - I know it's nontraditional, but I liked it more than the regular.
Serious Cocktails: Pining for Pimm's
Café des Artistes has a great Pimm's drink too. I think it's called the Tarzen or something. Made with fresh, mixed berries. Yum!
Sunday Brunch: Peanut Butter and Jelly Turnovers
@tracychin Peanut butter is absolutely safe to eat (and a great source of protein). Just an FYI...jarred peanut butter was never affected by the recall, so go ahead and make these turnovers and enjoy.
This recipe looks like the perfect dish to make for Mother's Day!
Bazbeaux Pizza: Indy's Best is Just Eauxkay
@Daniel: Bakers Pride gas deck ovens.....two sets of 2 deck set ups sitting side by side for a total of 4 ovens.
The pizzas at the Carmel location are cooked on a screen, as mine had the diamond cross hatching pathern on the bottom.
Bazbeaux Pizza: Indy's Best is Just Eauxkay
@allot: Thanks, I didn't know that. How far across upstate New York does the square cut go?
@ndfanwabashman: Rocco's sounds delicious, but it's going to take a lot more than a Notre Dame football game to get me to South Bend. Perhaps if they rent out the stadium to two footballl teams that aren't grossly overrated every year, I'll make it there again.
@Mad Ernie and Pizzablogger: I can't be sure because I didn't look inside the oven, but it looked like a standard pizza oven to me. Pizzablogger, did you happen to notice what kind of oven Bazbeaux used?
@Barry Foy: Interesting theory. As I said in the review, next time I'm in Indy, if I'm getting pizza, I'm trying Maria's. Any place that's been open for 50 plus years and sells a sauerkraut pizza has to be good.
@Nick: What do you remember the crust being like?
Bazbeaux Pizza: Indy's Best is Just Eauxkay
When I went to college in Indy, Bazbeaux was certainly my favorite in town, but like most poor students, it was more often Pizza Express for me. After living in Brooklyn and Chicago, I can't really go back to any of the pizza options in Indy. Even the Bazbeaux Special, which I used to LOVE, was a big disappointment when I went back a year ago. I'm hoping maybe they've changed the crust recipe or something because it does not live up to my memories at all.
@ndfanwabashman: I couldn't agree more!
Bazbeaux Pizza: Indy's Best is Just Eauxkay
Without trying to sound too harsh, I'll say this: Indpls has been getting pretty foodish pretty fast, and there is an ever-growing number of people there who know their stuff. However, that's all happened over a relatively few recent years. Because of that, the facts that Bazbeaux's (1) dates back to 1986 and (2) was a popular favorite for so long, are probably cause enough in themselves for lowered expectations. If you're looking in Indpls for the kind of food that might impress this site's readers, you'd better track down something that started up more recently (or much, much earlier, and didn't change with the times).
Bazbeaux Pizza: Indy's Best is Just Eauxkay
To avoid getting anyone in trouble I will not say where, but one night we put a cooking stone on a conveyor oven and put the cooking settings to a 800°F with a 2:00 run. While the somewhat forlorn sounding squeeky wheeled run could have been about 15 or so seconds longer, the pizza itself turned out pretty good overall, and a literal moon shot better than the rubbish they usually cranked out at the 475°F and 6:45 run time usually used.
It was definitely a note to self, do not pick up red hot pizza stone with tongs after coming out of the oven moment.....crack!
Bazbeaux Pizza: Indy's Best is Just Eauxkay
I grew up in Indianapolis and was never a Bazbeaux's fan. If you are still in Indy, try Eh! Formaggio at 5510 Lafayette Road. It's a far sight better.
Bazbeaux Pizza: Indy's Best is Just Eauxkay
I also lived in Indy for a couple years and had a few Bazbeaux's pizzas at the Broad Ripple location. Maybe the location makes a difference. Judging by the overturned slice, it looks like they use pizza screens with probably conveyor ovens. I am not a fan of the conveyor ovens, although occasionally there is a pizza place that can surprise me. I thought I remember the Bazbeaux's in Broad Ripple using standad gas Blodgett ovens, but we're talking early-to-mid 90's. My overall feeling about Bazbeaux's was about like yours: somewhat underwhelmed. I only went a few times, but whenever I was really craving pizza (which was at least weekly), there were not a whole lot of options in Indy. I think ndfan's assessment of the pizza options in Indy is pretty much right on. I tried Noble Roman's there once and never went back. I've heard there is a pub in town called Union Jack (or something like that) that supposedly has good pizza. As I recall, I had to resort to Pizza Hut too often when I lived in Indy.
Serious Cocktails: Pining for Pimm's
From the horse country of Virginia I would like to add that Pimms makes the scene at many a race and polo match, as it should, of course. I love to take a couple of bottles along for a full afternoon of races, and believe me everyone who stops by leaves smiling. My recipe involves making my own sour mix of simple syrup, lemon AND lime juices, then pouring in a bit of that for each drink, add the Pimms, top with soda water, stir with the cuke. YUM.
Will be trying out adding mint and strawberries soon, sounds wonderful.
Serious Cocktails: Pining for Pimm's
I am a true Pimm's Cup devotee. I've only seen it on offer in one Indian restaurant I frequented on a business trip in downtown San Francisco. That was thirty years ago and I have long ago forgotten the name of the restaurant but not their food or drink. I wonder if anyone knows which establishment I am talking about. Seems in was down in a basement setting...
I ramble, over the years I have maintained my love affair whenever I would find Pimm's in our local state liquor store; a rare occasion (Seattle). From my perspective, it is more refreshing and appropriate for hot summer days than a Mint Julip. Now my southern ancestors are spinning in their graves.
Serious Cocktails: Pining for Pimm's
tanaya...the state liquor store at U-Village has Pimms.
Serious Cocktails: Pining for Pimm's
The thought of Pimms and Creole Shrubb is quite intriguing. That could almost be a Serious Cocktails post in itself.
Serious Cocktails: Pining for Pimm's
When I studied abroad in England, I used to drink this all the time! Anytime I see it in a liquor store in the US, I buy it! It taskes great with ginger ale and a squeeze of lemon juice.
Serious Cocktails: Pining for Pimm's
Please tell me where I can get Pimms in Seattle. I've been looking everywhere!
Serious Cocktails: Pining for Pimm's
Here in the UK we now get Winter Pimms which is slightly spicy and you drink it with warm apple juice - all year round Pimms fun for all!
Serious Cocktails: Pining for Pimm's
I don't care for the stuff myself, but the wife likes it.
A good dash of Pimm's, fizzy lemonade, chopped cucumber, lemon wedge, strawberries and mint leaves.
Serious Cocktails: Pining for Pimm's
I tried introducing some Alaskans to Pimm's here two weeks ago - no dice. But it's amazing.
I also happen to love the Pimm's Royale - swap champagne in for the lemonade.
Serious Cocktails: Pining for Pimm's
My mom loves a good classic Pimm's Cup, but I am more partial to a Porch Swing, a drink invented at Blue Smoke that I read about the recipe online.
The Porch Swing:
1/2 oz. Hendrick's gin
1/2 oz. Pimm's No. 1
4 oz. homemade lemonade
Add a splash of 7-Up
Finish with finely sliced half-moon cucumbers
Serious Cocktails: Pining for Pimm's
they'll serve you a pitcher of pimm's cup with mint and strawberries at the Darlo Bar in Sydney. a perfect way to spend an afternoon.
Serious Cocktails: Pining for Pimm's
I had my first one in Colonial Williamsburg and have been hooked ever sense. To me the cucumber seals it!
Serious Cocktails: Pining for Pimm's
Napolen House in New Orleans the Pimm's Cup is awesome.
Serious Cocktails: Pining for Pimm's
We encountered a very veggie-centric Pimm's Cup while on vacation in Maine. We spent a few nights in Damariscotta, and ended up at King Eider's Pub. Not only was the food there quite surprising, but the bar was very well equipped. After hearing the bartender gripe about how complicated their Pimm's Cup was to make we couldn't help but order one... :)
Serious Cocktails: Pining for Pimm's
PIMMS...in our liquor control state its unavailiable, so at my bar we make our own, affectionately called PIMMSIES...try 2 parts gin, 2 parts sweet vermouth, and 1 part orange curacao...mmmm...fools the most die hard fans.
Serious Cocktails: Pining for Pimm's
Oooh Pimm's Cup at Napoleon House, you helped me survive many a hangover in the crushing New Orleans heat.
Serious Cocktails: Pining for Pimm's
The saying here in jolly ol' is "(crikey) it's Pimm's o'clock!" Very popular here, you can even get a tshirt that says that.
If you want to be authentically English, you say Pimm's and lemonade (which is more like 7up and Sprite), or simply Pimm's, not Pimm's cup.
Sunday Brunch: Peanut Butter and Jelly Turnovers
Ah, no. I have one. It's a sandwich maker.
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I went to school in Indy and enjoyed Bazbeaux's Broad Ripple location many times. I'm a big fan of their wheat crust - I know it's nontraditional, but I liked it more than the regular.