Bloggers Make Pizza at California Pizza Kitchen

If I were Michelangelo from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, I was going "Cowabunga!" the other night.

The California Pizza Kitchen invited several bloggers last September 10 to make pizzas based on CPK's signature California-style pizzas in their Glorietta 3 branch. Each was asked to draw recipes from several pizza boxes and we were to create a pizza based on our drawn list of ingredients. I drew the Mango Tandoori pizza, and it was a curry-based pizza inspired by Indian cuisine. Yeah, my recipe doesn't sound enticing, but it tasted pretty nice after it was done. :)

I never knew creating pizza was easy-- you had some ingredients like cheese, the sauce, onions, and you sprinkle them liberally over the crust. The art, as I was told by my chef mentor, was to put the toppings radially inward, since pizzas tend to "center," or be distorted towards the center point as it is being cooked in the oven.

The evening was lively as it was hosted by fellow blogger/TV personality RJ Ledesma and he was as witty as ever. Even the CPK Philippines head honcho was there to give a demo of how put the toppings on a pizza. There were lots of bloggers in attendance and some of them were:

1. Markku
   
2. Jayvee
3. Fritz 
4. Rico
5. Juned
   
6. Poyt
7. Mica
8. Marcelle
9. Karla and Sha (My girlfriend & I shared a table with them. :P)
10. Arpee 
11. AJ 
12. Eric
13. LA 
14. Allan
15. Gail
    
16. Benj

Please do chime in if you were there. :)

There was also a pick-up line competition where we were asked to write pizza inspired pick-up lines and write them on pizza boxes. I submitted "I have a CRUST on you" and it drew guffaws from the crowd. The winner was "Please stop topping me" (figure that out :P) and she won a nice Samsung media player.

The event was a nice but the venue was obviously too small for the crowd. it didn't help that the room was designed in such a way that everyone was funneled near the exit, which was also near the bar where bloggers made the pizzas. But all in all, it was nice experiencng different types of pizzas from the California Pizza Kitchen.


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