My friend stretched the crusts, his wife and my daughter applied the toppings, he partly baked each pizza. The oven was 500F and we have a stone. When all the pies were parbaked, he quickly "flashed" them, my daughter cut each as it emerged from the oven, and we ate. We used two peels and two pizza pans. The parbaked pies were flashed on the stone, the bare rack, or the oven floor. This is shiitake mushroom and brie cheese. We only used a little red sauce on the pizzas. There was some Alfredo sauce used. This is pear and arugula. The arugula was tossed in salt and a plum vinegar, then scattered on the just-cooked pizza. The fresher the arugula, the more acid needed, I'm told. This is, I don't recall exactly, cremini mushroom and onions? We are all from Berkeley, where a collective called "Cheeseboard" has been making thin crust, mostly sauceless pizza for over fifty years (gosh, were the sixties that long ago?) In the morning people line up outside the store for parcooked pies. A few nights ago, one of the Cheeseboard guys stayed with us. His daughter is a friend of my daughter, and they were in Portland looking at a college. Our pies were an homage to Cheeseboard. They use a sourdough crust, which we couldn't duplicate, and they use varied and unusual cheeses - they also sell cheese, hence the name - and we just had mozz and Brie. This post was edited by johnliu on Sun, Apr 6, 14 at 8:31

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If no one minds that I hijack mtn's thread... we got back Monday night, actually 3 am Tuesday, from our Seattle/Vancouver trip. We had delays in Phoenix, so it took us a total of 21 hours to get from Vancouver to Boston! Ugh. We started in Seattle. Needless to say, meeting Mtn and Mr. Mtn was the best part. :) The funniest was seeing how quickly the DH's hit it off. Mtn and I could have wandered off and they wouldn't have noticed. Second best was the Chihuly museum and gardens. Really didn't expect to like it THAT much, but we were all so impressed. DH and sons really loved the EMP Museum. DD and I were more "meh" about it. Really just liked Seattle Center in general. Space Needle was cool. We had lunch at the Collections Café at Chihuly, which we also liked a lot. Also in Seattle, we did the Underground tour, which everyone enjoyed for the Seattle history lesson. We all loved Fremont! Shops, Sunday Market, lunch at the Cantina (not sure it that's the exact name). Even though it was chilly, we also enjoyed the Argosy Locks boat tour and later went back to Ballard to see the Locks and the salmon ladders, and browsed some shops. We walked thru part of the Olympic Sculpture Park but it was at the end of a long day, so I don't think we appreciated it as much as we should have. Went for a ride on the Great Wheel. Drove to Snowqualmie Falls and Gasworks Park (so cool!). Took the ferry to Bainbridge Island and had lunch there and poked in some shops. Oh! Of course we went to Pike Place Market several times. We had great meals everywhere, and the weather was perfect while we were there. Vancouver...rained almost the whole time. Gah. Still loved it, but would have loved it more if the weather were better. We carried on and did everything we'd planned to do. We stayed in the same floating home Mtn mentioned, and she kindly left us a pretty bouquet on the dining table! (Thanks, Mtn!) I asked for chocolates, but whatevs. We walked around downtown Vancouver a lot. (In both cities, we had 15,000-20,000 steps on the fitbit on most days.) We went to Capilano Suspension Bridge, which scared the --- out of me, especially in the rain because it seemed like it should be slippery, even though it actually wasn't. Such a neat place, and wish we could have seen it in better weather. DH and kids went white water rafting in Squamish, which was more hair-raising than their experience in Iceland, but they loved it. I stayed safely behind and shopped in Vancouver. Loved a store called Poppy & Rye for clothing and bought a couple of things there. We went on a whale watch, which was very different from the whale watch we did off Cape Cod many years ago. I was nervous when we had to get suited up in similar suits we wore for white water rafting in Iceland, and when the guide talked about procedures for when someone goes overboard...but it was all good! We saw many bald eagles and seals, but just one whale, and it was a humpback, not an orca. And we were out for 7 hours. So, while it was still enjoyable, it felt like a long day to see just one whale that we could have seen closer to home. On our last day, the sun came out and we walked to Stanley Park... we didn't have enough time to find/rent bikes but would love to return and do that one day. Again, we had lots of good meals, and I am sure we all gained a few lbs. All in all, it was a great trip. I would go back, and would stay longer to explore some of the surrounding areas.