Deep-dish pizza

Almost everything you can get in the States you can get here in Canada.  Once exception, at least in our neck of the woods, is deep-dish pizza.  You can't even get the frozen ones that you can order from Chicago, because they have to cross the border.

I've been meaning to try making one here for a while, and last weekend I finally got around to it.

Here are the ingredients laid out.  Dough is on the left, the greased cookie sheet is to make breadsticks out of any remaining pizza dough.

The dough rises in the fridge over a 30 hour period, punched down once after around 8 hours.  It doesn't need to be rolled out, you just press it into the pan.  It doesn't like staying up the sides though, it would slip down again by the time I got around the whole rim, but eventually it stayed up far enough to make the pizzas.

Here is one of them (I made two), and it's baked in a genuine Lou Malnati (famous Chicago pizza place) pan, Ed had ordered it online a while back. 

Verdict?  Pretty good!  I think I even like my crust better than theirs.  Toppings were sausage and spinach, in addition to the cheeses (mozzarella, romano and parmesan) and the canned tomato/sauce mix.

I forgot to take pictures of the bread sticks (which I had double-brushed with garlic butter after they came out of the oven), but I think I might have liked them even more than the pizza.

I plan to make this again, but it takes planning ahead of time due to the long rise for the dough.

A few days in NYC

We spent a few days in New York City in late October, visiting family, and seeing a few sights.

At the Museum of the New York Historical Society, they have a great collection of Tiffany lamps.  These first 5 photos are of some of my favourite patterns:

This is of the Oculus at the World Trade Centre:

Here is One World Trade Center:

On the way back to Brooklyn, where we were staying in a condo rental, we walked across on the pedestrian level on the Williamsburg bridge:

View of lower Manhattan from the ferry:

One day we walked the High Line elevated garden walkway.  From it you could look down on this parking garage that stacks the cars:

This is the Vessel stairs, at the Hudson Yards end of the walkway.  We didn't get tickets in time to climb it on this visit, so we'll try to do it next time:

The much quieter northern end of the High Line.  It was so crowded on most of the route, you had to shuffle and couldn't pass the crowd!  It was a beautiful warm Sunday afternoon though, so I guess everyone else in the city wanted to walk it too:

On the flight home to Canada, most of the way was overcast, but I got some nice photos as we took off out of Newark of the Port of New Jersey and the tanks that are close to the port:

This is the southern tip of Manhattan, clouded over.  You can see the Freedom Tower (One World Trade Center) poking through the clouds:

That's just a sampling of the photos.  We'll be going back again we figure in around 6 months.

A stop in Inuvik, and home to Ottawa

Due to flight schedules, I had to overnight in Inuvik on September 10.  I took just a few photos while out on my walk that evening.  Here is the iconic igloo church:

Downtown Inuvik:

Home Hardware, on the outskirts of town:

The polar bear at the airport.  He looks kind of surprised or frightened:

I had to overnight in Edmonton.  I stayed at the airport Renaissance hotel, here is a photo from my window of the front of the terminal:

These 5 photos are from my flight home to Ottawa on September 12.  These fields are just east of Edmonton:

Over the prairies we had cloudy skies almost until we were over Ontario.  Here are some lakes in northwestern Ontario:

Meech Lake in Gatineau Park, just north of Ottawa:

Here's Ottawa.  We're still so high in altitude, and it's such a clear day, that a lot of the city is visible in this one:

Mud Lake and Britannia Beach, as we flew over the Ottawa river.  My old apartment building is in that cluster of high-rises in the upper left part of the photo.

This is the Rideau River as we are about to land from the west:

That concludes my short trip to the NWT.  I hope to go back, I liked working there.

Sachs Harbour

It's taken me a while to get back here to post my photos, but I did eventually make it to Sachs Harbour.  I was there in early September.  The weather was beautiful while I was there ... until the day I was to leave of course, and then the fog came in.

The photos are all taken between Sept 2 and 10, 2019.  The first is of the east end of town:

This is the cemetery:

East end of town again, from a slightly different angle:

These were taken around noon at the end of Mary Sachs road, which runs around 4 km west of town and ends up at the beach.  The first 2 photos are of a tidal pond, the one after is the beach itself out that way:

These were taken from the beach in front of town:

I don't know the history of this building, but it's at the western edge of town, looks like it was a museum at some point, maybe for cruise ship passengers:

These last two were taken on take-off as I headed back to Inuvik on my way home:

Fort McPherson

Thought I would post a couple more photos from my time in Fort McPherson.  These are from the end of August.

A couple of signs on the Dempster Highway:

Lakes just north of town:

A small cemetery, not the main one:

View of the mountains from my apartment, during a rare patch of sunshine:

And I couldn't resist taking a couple more photos of the church at Tsiigehtchic, as the taxi back to Inuvik crossed the Mackenzie river on Sept. 2: