Anything with "Z"s in it is Exciting

Zowie! We had dinner with pizzazz tonight. We dined at Delancey Pizza!

Delancey opened up earlier this summer on 70th in Ballard. It's located where The Guardsman used to be. For some reason, they chose to remove the dart board and the giant vat of pigs feet that used to sit on the bar. Now, they have replaced it with a custom made wood fired pizza oven. To each his own.

Tonight was Brandon's birthday (he's the owner)... so we had Brandon's special birthday pizza. "5 Lilies with Sausage and Ricotta Salata." If you clicked on the link to their Twitter page, they mention 8 Lilies, but by the time we arrived, 3 Lilies must have gone home. The lilies were a combination of two types of garlic, shallots, red onion, Walla Walla sweets, leeks, scallions and chives. Again, we name 8 here... 3 were AWOL according to the chalkboard specials menu.

We're not sure which three... but keep your eyes peeled. This was all accompanied by an olive oil base, sausage, and fresh mozzarella. G thinks that the acidity of a tomato base would have cut the richness of all of the caramelized lilies.

Our second pizza was the Padron... as in Padron chile peppers. This was a very simple, but very hot pizza. It was made with a pleasant tomato based sauce, two kinds of mozzarella cheese, and grana. Very tasty, albeit somewhat over powering for a Delicate Flower like G.

Each pizza is about 10-12 inches across. Did we really need two? No. But, we wanted to sample multiple kinds. Man of Action spent much time fretting that the couple next to us would scoff at our humongous appetites. At the beginning of their meal they exclaimed, "Why would we need to pizzas?" They then ordered an appetizer. And then a pizza. And then a pizza. And then a dessert. Pigs.

Of course, not to be outdone we topped off our meal with a large chocolate chip cookies with grey salt. Oink.

Two weekends ago, we made homemade pizzas with Mo & Tye. We probably had about 20 different topping options and enough dough to make about 4 personal pizzas for each person. It was truly a scary amount of food. But, having a meal where everybody can roll up their sleeves and create their own masterpiece is always worth it. It was exciting when we made it at home... and it was just as exciting tonight. "Z"s -- they bring the party every time.