Monks Make Pizza!

As many of us know, our monks like to vary their culinary endeavors. While most of the week they enjoy food made in a simplified South Indian style, on their weekend nights they make a variety of world cuisines. Once a month artisan pizzas are made in the wood fired oven.

Natyam Jayanatha makes dough while Siddhanathaswami works the oven

the homemade dough is worked and flattened into crusts

Each crust gets about 50 seconds in the oven and awaits sauce and toppings

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After toppings, the pizzas each go in again. This one is plain cheese, but most are covered in veggies as well.

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