(6585,1,'2011-03-04 18:18:50','2011-03-05 00:18:50','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1915/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6546  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<em>This post is the first in a series here at TDT celebrating St. Patrick\'s Day, one of Tulsa\'s very favorite holidays. Erin go Bragh!</em>\r\n\r\nIn case you can\'t tell by the endcaps at your local big box store, which are no doubt filled with all things leprechaun and shamrocks and lucky this-and-thats by now, St. Patrick\'s Day is coming.\r\n\r\nAnd you know what that means: Beer is about to happen. Lots and lots of beer.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"24\"]</p>\r\nWith the passing of each St. Pat\'s, more and more beer drinkers are opting for craft-style beers over the ol\'-reliable, mass-produced varieties. Hand in hand with that has come beer lovers who are enthusiastic about learning how what is probably the world\'s oldest alcoholic beverage is made, and they\'re making beer of their own by the gallon at home.\r\n\r\nWhen it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky. On the southwest corner of the 71st Street and Memorial Drive intersection is <a href=\"http://www.highgravitybrew.com/\">High Gravity</a>, a homebrewing and winemaking supply shop. The folks who own it, Dave and Desiree Knott, host a free homebrewing workshop at the store each month.\r\n\r\nA group of friends and I went to one a couple of weeks ago, and here\'s what we learned: Whipping up a batch of homebrewed beer is a pretty easy process. The only tricky part? Waiting until the beer reaches drinkable perfection.\r\n\r\nSo if you can boil water, and if you can sit around and delay gratification for long periods of time, you can make beer.\r\n\r\nEmpowering, isn\'t it?\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6547\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1862-3/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6547  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1862.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nThe first step in making a batch of beer, then, is that whole boiling-of-the-water thing I just mentioned.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1855/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6548  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6549\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1857-2/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6549  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nNext comes the malt, or grain (usually barley) which has been sprouted and then halted by heating in a kiln. This is the stuff that provides the fermentable sugars and body of beer, both of which are pretty awesome things.\r\n\r\nSteeping the malt in the boiling water for an hour or so is what converts the starch into fermentable sugars. This step is called mashing.\r\n\r\nBy the way, malt can be purchased as a liquid extract, and in powder form, too. What you see used below is the liquid malt extract; above, actual grain, because Dave is a certifiable bad ass.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6550\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1865-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" />\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6551  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1868.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></p>\r\nAnd then there are hops. Let\'s not forget about those.\r\n\r\nKnow what a hop looks like?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6552\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1864-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6552\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nKinda like that. They\'re these beautiful little cone flowers from the hop plant that add that lovely bitter taste for which beer is so widely known. Hops can also add citric and floral flavors to a beer, as well as a variety of aromas, just depending on the hops you decide to use.\r\n\r\nFor the record, I like hops. I like hops a lot.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1915/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6546  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nSomething else cool about hops is that how they\'re used in beer is, as Dave at High Gravity put it, like building a good spaghetti sauce. Know how garlic or basil can taste vastly different in a spaghetti sauce depending on when you add it to the pot? With hops and beer, it\'s the same sort of thing. So, hops are added to beer in stages to sort of build the flavor profile of the finished product.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1840-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAfter you bring that mixture to a rolling boil, cool it rapidly to about room temperature. Then, transfer the whole mess to a fermenting vessel. Which is, in the case of many homebrewers, a good, old-fashioned five-gallon bucket.\r\n\r\nAt this point, you\'ve got a big, plastic bucket full of something called wort. While that sounds pretty gross, it\'s just a word that means unfermented beer.\r\n\r\nThen, add yeast. This is when the magic happens.\r\n\r\nI\'ll be frank: Yeast is the freak in the family of beer ingredients. I mean, it\'s a living, unicellular mico-organism that eats the sugar produced during the brewing process of your beer. It metabolizes those sugars into alcohol, carbon dioxide and a huge range of flavors, depending on which type you use. Another fun yeast fact: It multiplies by a type of asexual production called budding.\r\n\r\nYeah. You just got scienced. Yeast will do that to you.\r\n\r\nYou can add other ingredients to your beer, too - not fried chicken or Mike &amp; Ikes or anything like that, but within reason, there are still lots of options. It all depends on the type of brew you\'d like to end up with.\r\n\r\nThen comes the hard part: Waiting. It\'s time to let this bucket-o-ale ferment at room temperature for 7-10 days or so.\r\n\r\nThe process would be a bit different at this point if we were making a lager (another type of beer that\'s fermented differently than is ale), but rather than go into how so here at TDT, you can read more <a href=\"http://www.dougfishback.com/\">here</a>.\r\n\r\nAfter that first week you might opt to transfer the beer to a secondary vessel. This can help to clear the beer of yeast sediment and avoid any off-flavors that could happen should you decide to stick with using just one bucket.\r\n\r\nLet the beer spend another week at least in this secondary vessel. After that you can move the beer to a bottling bucket. Add priming sugar (after yeast, this is a way of naturally carbonating the beer), bottle and leave at room temperature again for 7-10 days.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6554\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1905/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6554  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1905.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6555\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1910/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6555  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1910.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6556\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1912/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6556  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1912.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nOr? Drink.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6561\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1917/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6561  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1917.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nHi, <a href=\"http://havesporkwilltravel.blogspot.com/\">@travelingspork</a>!\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6562\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1918/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6562  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1918.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nActually, Dave at High Gravity said that it\'s best to wait for another few weeks before throwing a few of these babies back. The flavors and complexity of the beer can only improve for a good while at this point.\r\n\r\nBut, yeah right. We\'re amateurs. We can\'t wait. We just learned to make our own beer, for Pete\'s sake.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1916/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6563  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nSee that face? That\'s the smile of someone who doesn\'t usually like beer finally tasting one that she likes.\r\n\r\nPrecious, isn\'t it?\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1855/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6548  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nWant to learn more about the art of homebrewing? It\'d be a good idea to check out a meeting of FOAM, or the <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">Fellowship of Oklahoma Ale Makers</a>. They\'ve had a thing about teaching others about how beer is made and promoting the art of homebrewing since 1984. If you\'re looking for some community instruction, with these folks would be a good place to find it.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1840-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTheir next meeting is Thursday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. Find it at the Unitarian Church Log Cabin, at 8432 S. Sheridan Road here in Tulsa. The doors open at 7pm. The next meeting after that is April 1.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t have time for a meeting, check out <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">the FOAM website</a>. It\'s chock full of beer and beer making information in the form of forums, recipes, news, quotes, homebrewing links and more.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t want to dip your toe that far into the vast pond that is homebrewing, you can always attend the free workshop at High Gravity. The next one\'s on Saturday, March 19, at 11 a.m. You might want to check out their home brew starter kits while you\'re there.\r\n\r\nEither way, when St. Patrick\'s Day rolls around, you\'ll have lots to talk about after those first few green beers. Like how certain specialty malts affect head structure. Or how many HBUs (Home Bittering Units) you like in a beer. Or, you know, the asexual nature of yeast. It\'s all fair game.\r\n\r\nBecause thanks to the folks at High Gravity and my rudimentary research, you now have a pretty good idea of how to make beer. And knowledge, my friends, is power.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1916/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6563  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nAnd refreshing.\r\n\r\nHave you ever made your own beer? How would you describe the process? 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Erin go Bragh!</em>\r\n\r\nIn case you can\'t tell by the endcaps at your local big box store, which are no doubt filled with all things leprechaun and shamrocks and lucky this-and-thats by now, St. Patrick\'s Day is coming.\r\n\r\nAnd you know what that means: Beer is about to happen. Lots and lots of beer.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"24\"]</p>\r\nWith the passing of each St. Pat\'s, more and more beer drinkers are opting for craft-style beers over the ol\'-reliable, mass-produced varieties. Hand in hand with that has come beer lovers who are enthusiastic about learning how what is probably the world\'s oldest alcoholic beverage is made, and they\'re making beer of their own by the gallon at home.\r\n\r\nWhen it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky. On the southwest corner of the 71st Street and Memorial Drive intersection is <a href=\"http://www.highgravitybrew.com/\">High Gravity</a>, a homebrewing and winemaking supply shop. The folks who own it, Dave and Desiree Knott, host a free homebrewing workshop at the store each month.\r\n\r\nA group of friends and I went to one a couple of weeks ago, and here\'s what we learned: Whipping up a batch of homebrewed beer is a pretty easy process. The only tricky part? Waiting until the beer reaches drinkable perfection.\r\n\r\nSo if you can boil water, and if you can sit around and delay gratification for long periods of time, you can make beer.\r\n\r\nEmpowering, isn\'t it?\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6547\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1862-3/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6547  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1862.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nThe first step in making a batch of beer, then, is that whole boiling-of-the-water thing I just mentioned.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1855/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6548  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6549\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1857-2/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6549  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nNext comes the malt, or grain (usually barley) which has been sprouted and then halted by heating in a kiln. This is the stuff that provides the fermentable sugars and body of beer, both of which are pretty awesome things.\r\n\r\nSteeping the malt in the boiling water for an hour or so is what converts the starch into fermentable sugars. This step is called mashing.\r\n\r\nBy the way, malt can be purchased as a liquid extract, and in powder form, too. What you see used below is the liquid malt extract; above, actual grain, because Dave is a certifiable bad ass.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6550\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1865-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" />\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6551  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1868.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></p>\r\nAnd then there are hops. Let\'s not forget about those.\r\n\r\nKnow what a hop looks like?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6552\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1864-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6552\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nKinda like that. They\'re these beautiful little cone flowers from the hop plant that add that lovely bitter taste for which beer is so widely known. Hops can also add citric and floral flavors to a beer, as well as a variety of aromas, just depending on the hops you decide to use.\r\n\r\nFor the record, I like hops. I like hops a lot.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1915/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6546  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nSomething else cool about hops is that how they\'re used in beer is, as Dave at High Gravity put it, like building a good spaghetti sauce. Know how garlic or basil can taste vastly different in a spaghetti sauce depending on when you add it to the pot? With hops and beer, it\'s the same sort of thing. So, hops are added to beer in stages to sort of build the flavor profile of the finished product.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1840-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAfter you bring that mixture to a rolling boil, cool it rapidly to about room temperature. Then, transfer the whole mess to a fermenting vessel. Which is, in the case of many homebrewers, a good, old-fashioned five-gallon bucket.\r\n\r\nAt this point, you\'ve got a big, plastic bucket full of something called wort. While that sounds pretty gross, it\'s just a word that means unfermented beer.\r\n\r\nThen, add yeast. This is when the magic happens.\r\n\r\nI\'ll be frank: Yeast is the freak in the family of beer ingredients. I mean, it\'s a living, unicellular mico-organism that eats the sugar produced during the brewing process of your beer. It metabolizes those sugars into alcohol, carbon dioxide and a huge range of flavors, depending on which type you use. Another fun yeast fact: It multiplies by a type of asexual production called budding.\r\n\r\nYeah. You just got scienced. Yeast will do that to you.\r\n\r\nYou can add other ingredients to your beer, too - not fried chicken or Mike &amp; Ikes or anything like that, but within reason, there are still lots of options. It all depends on the type of brew you\'d like to end up with.\r\n\r\nThen comes the hard part: Waiting. It\'s time to let this bucket-o-ale ferment at room temperature for 7-10 days or so.\r\n\r\nThe process would be a bit different at this point if we were making a lager (another type of beer that\'s fermented differently than is ale), but rather than go into how so here at TDT, you can read more <a href=\"http://www.dougfishback.com/\">here</a>.\r\n\r\nAfter that first week you might opt to transfer the beer to a secondary vessel. This can help to clear the beer of yeast sediment and avoid any off-flavors that could happen should you decide to stick with using just one bucket.\r\n\r\nLet the beer spend another week at least in this secondary vessel. After that you can move the beer to a bottling bucket. Add priming sugar (after yeast, this is a way of naturally carbonating the beer), bottle and leave at room temperature again for 7-10 days.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6554\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1905/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6554  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1905.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6555\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1910/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6555  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1910.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6556\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1912/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6556  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1912.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nOr? Drink.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6561\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1917/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6561  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1917.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nHi, <a href=\"http://havesporkwilltravel.blogspot.com/\">@travelingspork</a>!\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6562\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1918/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6562  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1918.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nActually, Dave at High Gravity said that it\'s best to wait for another few weeks before throwing a few of these babies back. The flavors and complexity of the beer can only improve for a good while at this point.\r\n\r\nBut, yeah right. We\'re amateurs. We can\'t wait. We just learned to make our own beer, for Pete\'s sake.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1916/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6563  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nSee that face? That\'s the smile of someone who doesn\'t usually like beer finally tasting one that she likes.\r\n\r\nPrecious, isn\'t it?\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1855/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6548  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nWant to learn more about the art of homebrewing? It\'d be a good idea to check out a meeting of FOAM, or the <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">Fellowship of Oklahoma Ale Makers</a>. They\'ve had a thing about teaching others about how beer is made and promoting the art of homebrewing since 1984. If you\'re looking for some community instruction, with these folks would be a good place to find it.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1840-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTheir next meeting is Thursday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. Find it at the Unitarian Church Log Cabin, at 8432 S. Sheridan Road here in Tulsa. The doors open at 7pm. The next meeting after that is April 1.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t have time for a meeting, check out <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">the FOAM website</a>. It\'s chock full of beer and beer making information in the form of forums, recipes, news, quotes, homebrewing links and more.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t want to dip your toe that far into the vast pond that is homebrewing, you can always attend the free workshop at High Gravity. The next one\'s on Saturday, March 19, at 11 a.m. You might want to check out their home brew starter kits while you\'re there.\r\n\r\nEither way, when St. Patrick\'s Day rolls around, you\'ll have lots to talk about after those first few green beers. Like how certain specialty malts affect head structure. Or how many HBUs (Home Bittering Units) you like in a beer. Or, you know, the asexual nature of yeast. It\'s all fair game.\r\n\r\nBecause thanks to the folks at High Gravity and my rudimentary research, you now have a pretty good idea of how to make beer. And knowledge, my friends, is power.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1916/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6563  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nAnd refreshing.\r\n\r\nHave you ever made your own beer? How would you describe the process? Most important, did you like the outcome?','How to Make Beer: High Gravity Shows How (St. Patrick\'s Day 2011)','When it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky.','inherit','open','open','','6545-revision-25','','','2011-03-04 18:18:50','2011-03-05 00:18:50','',6545,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6545-revision-25/',0,'revision','',0),(6594,1,'2011-03-05 12:00:06','2011-03-05 18:00:06','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1915/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6546  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<em>This post is the first in a series here at TDT celebrating St. Patrick\'s Day, one of Tulsa\'s very favorite holidays. Erin go Bragh!</em>\r\n\r\nIn case you can\'t tell by the endcaps at your local big box store, which are no doubt filled with all things leprechaun and shamrocks and lucky this-and-thats by now, St. Patrick\'s Day is coming.\r\n\r\nAnd you know what that means: Beer is about to happen. Lots and lots of beer.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"24\"]</p>\r\nWith the passing of each St. Pat\'s, more and more beer drinkers are opting for craft-style beers over the ol\'-reliable, mass-produced varieties. Hand in hand with that has come beer lovers who are enthusiastic about learning how what is probably the world\'s oldest alcoholic beverage is made, and they\'re making beer of their own by the gallon at home.\r\n\r\nWhen it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky. On the southwest corner of the 71st Street and Memorial Drive intersection is <a href=\"http://www.highgravitybrew.com/\">High Gravity</a>, a homebrewing and winemaking supply shop. The folks who own it, Dave and Desiree Knott, host a free homebrewing workshop at the store each month.\r\n\r\nA group of friends and I went to one a couple of weeks ago, and here\'s what we learned: Whipping up a batch of homebrewed beer is a pretty easy process. The only tricky part? Waiting until the beer reaches drinkable perfection.\r\n\r\nSo if you can boil water, and if you can sit around and delay gratification for long periods of time, you can make beer.\r\n\r\nEmpowering, isn\'t it?\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6547\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1862-3/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6547  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1862.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nThe first step in making a batch of beer, then, is that whole boiling-of-the-water thing I just mentioned.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1855/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6548  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6549\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1857-2/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6549  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nNext comes the malt, or grain (usually barley) which has been sprouted and then halted by heating in a kiln. This is the stuff that provides the fermentable sugars and body of beer, both of which are pretty awesome things.\r\n\r\nSteeping the malt in the boiling water for an hour or so is what converts the starch into fermentable sugars. This step is called mashing.\r\n\r\nBy the way, malt can be purchased as a liquid extract, and in powder form, too. What you see used below is the liquid malt extract; above, actual grain, because Dave is a certifiable bad ass.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6550\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1865-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" />\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6551  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1868.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></p>\r\nAnd then there are hops. Let\'s not forget about those.\r\n\r\nKnow what a hop looks like?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6552\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1864-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6552\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nKinda like that. They\'re these beautiful little cone flowers from the hop plant that add that lovely bitter taste for which beer is so widely known. Hops can also add citric and floral flavors to a beer, as well as a variety of aromas, just depending on the hops you decide to use.\r\n\r\nFor the record, I like hops. I like hops a lot.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1915/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6546  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nSomething else cool about hops is that how they\'re used in beer is, as Dave at High Gravity put it, like building a good spaghetti sauce. Know how garlic or basil can taste vastly different in a spaghetti sauce depending on when you add it to the pot? With hops and beer, it\'s the same sort of thing. So, hops are added to beer in stages to sort of build the flavor profile of the finished product.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1840-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAfter you bring that mixture to a rolling boil, cool it rapidly to about room temperature. Then, transfer the whole mess to a fermenting vessel. Which is, in the case of many homebrewers, a good, old-fashioned five-gallon bucket.\r\n\r\nAt this point, you\'ve got a big, plastic bucket full of something called wort. While that sounds pretty gross, it\'s just a word that means unfermented beer.\r\n\r\nThen, add yeast. This is when the magic happens.\r\n\r\nI\'ll be frank: Yeast is the freak in the family of beer ingredients. I mean, it\'s a living, unicellular mico-organism that eats the sugar produced during the brewing process of your beer. It metabolizes those sugars into alcohol, carbon dioxide and a huge range of flavors, depending on which type you use. Another fun yeast fact: It multiplies by a type of asexual production called budding.\r\n\r\nYeah. You just got scienced. Yeast will do that to you.\r\n\r\nYou can add other ingredients to your beer, too - not fried chicken or Mike &amp; Ikes or anything like that, but within reason, there are still lots of options. It all depends on the type of brew you\'d like to end up with.\r\n\r\nThen comes the hard part: Waiting. It\'s time to let this bucket-o-ale ferment at room temperature for 7-10 days or so.\r\n\r\nThe process would be a bit different at this point if we were making a lager (another type of beer that\'s fermented differently than is ale), but rather than go into how so here at TDT, you can read more <a href=\"http://www.dougfishback.com/\">here</a>.\r\n\r\nAfter that first week you might opt to transfer the beer to a secondary vessel. This can help to clear the beer of yeast sediment and avoid any off-flavors that could happen should you decide to stick with using just one bucket.\r\n\r\nLet the beer spend another week at least in this secondary vessel. After that you can move the beer to a bottling bucket. Add priming sugar (after yeast, this is a way of naturally carbonating the beer), bottle and leave at room temperature again for 7-10 days.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6554\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1905/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6554  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1905.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6555\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1910/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6555  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1910.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6556\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1912/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6556  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1912.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nOr? Drink.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6561\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1917/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6561  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1917.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nHi, <a href=\"http://havesporkwilltravel.blogspot.com/\">@travelingspork</a>!\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6562\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1918/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6562  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1918.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nActually, Dave at High Gravity said that it\'s best to wait for another few weeks before throwing a few of these babies back. The flavors and complexity of the beer can only improve for a good while at this point.\r\n\r\nBut, yeah right. We\'re amateurs. We can\'t wait. We just learned to make our own beer, for Pete\'s sake.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1916/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6563  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nSee that face? That\'s the smile of someone who doesn\'t usually like beer finally tasting one that she likes.\r\n\r\nPrecious, isn\'t it?\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1855/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6548  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nWant to learn more about the art of homebrewing? It\'d be a good idea to check out a meeting of FOAM, or the <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">Fellowship of Oklahoma Ale Makers</a>. They\'ve had a thing about teaching others about how beer is made and promoting the art of homebrewing since 1984. If you\'re looking for some community instruction, with these folks would be a good place to find it.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1840-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTheir next meeting is Thursday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. Find it at the Unitarian Church Log Cabin, at 8432 S. Sheridan Road here in Tulsa. The doors open at 7pm. The next meeting after that is April 1.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t have time for a meeting, check out <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">the FOAM website</a>. It\'s chock full of beer and beer making information in the form of forums, recipes, news, quotes, homebrewing links and more.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t want to dip your toe that far into the vast pond that is homebrewing, you can always attend the free workshop at High Gravity. The next one\'s on Saturday, March 19, at 11 a.m. You might want to check out their home brew starter kits while you\'re there.\r\n\r\nEither way, when St. Patrick\'s Day rolls around, you\'ll have lots to talk about after those first few green beers. Like how certain specialty malts affect head structure. Or how many HBUs (Home Bittering Units) you like in a beer. Or, you know, the asexual nature of yeast. It\'s all fair game.\r\n\r\nBecause thanks to the folks at High Gravity and my rudimentary research, you now have a pretty good idea of how to make beer. And knowledge, my friends, is power.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1916/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6563  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nAnd refreshing.\r\n\r\nHave you ever made your own beer? How would you describe the process? Most important, did you like the outcome?\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"25\"]</p>','How to Make Beer: High Gravity Shows How (St. Patrick\'s Day 2011)','When it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky.','inherit','open','open','','6545-revision-26','','','2011-03-05 12:00:06','2011-03-05 18:00:06','',6545,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6545-revision-26/',0,'revision','',0),(6595,1,'2011-03-05 12:00:07','2011-03-05 18:00:07','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1915/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6546  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<em>This post is the first in a series here at TDT celebrating St. Patrick\'s Day, one of Tulsa\'s very favorite holidays. Erin go Bragh!</em>\r\n\r\nIn case you can\'t tell by the endcaps at your local big box store, which are no doubt filled with all things leprechaun and shamrocks and lucky this-and-thats by now, St. Patrick\'s Day is coming.\r\n\r\nAnd you know what that means: Beer is about to happen. Lots and lots of beer.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"24\"]</p>\r\nWith the passing of each St. Pat\'s, more and more beer drinkers are opting for craft-style beers over the ol\'-reliable, mass-produced varieties. Hand in hand with that has come beer lovers who are enthusiastic about learning how what is probably the world\'s oldest alcoholic beverage is made, and they\'re making beer of their own by the gallon at home.\r\n\r\nWhen it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky. On the southwest corner of the 71st Street and Memorial Drive intersection is <a href=\"http://www.highgravitybrew.com/\">High Gravity</a>, a homebrewing and winemaking supply shop. The folks who own it, Dave and Desiree Knott, host a free homebrewing workshop at the store each month.\r\n\r\nA group of friends and I went to one a couple of weeks ago, and here\'s what we learned: Whipping up a batch of homebrewed beer is a pretty easy process. The only tricky part? Waiting until the beer reaches drinkable perfection.\r\n\r\nSo if you can boil water, and if you can sit around and delay gratification for long periods of time, you can make beer.\r\n\r\nEmpowering, isn\'t it?\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6547\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1862-3/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6547  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1862.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nThe first step in making a batch of beer, then, is that whole boiling-of-the-water thing I just mentioned.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1855/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6548  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6549\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1857-2/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6549  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nNext comes the malt, or grain (usually barley) which has been sprouted and then halted by heating in a kiln. This is the stuff that provides the fermentable sugars and body of beer, both of which are pretty awesome things.\r\n\r\nSteeping the malt in the boiling water for an hour or so is what converts the starch into fermentable sugars. This step is called mashing.\r\n\r\nBy the way, malt can be purchased as a liquid extract, and in powder form, too. What you see used below is the liquid malt extract; above, actual grain, because Dave is a certifiable bad ass.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6550\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1865-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" />\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6551  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1868.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></p>\r\nAnd then there are hops. Let\'s not forget about those.\r\n\r\nKnow what a hop looks like?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6552\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1864-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6552\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nKinda like that. They\'re these beautiful little cone flowers from the hop plant that add that lovely bitter taste for which beer is so widely known. Hops can also add citric and floral flavors to a beer, as well as a variety of aromas, just depending on the hops you decide to use.\r\n\r\nFor the record, I like hops. I like hops a lot.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1915/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6546  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nSomething else cool about hops is that how they\'re used in beer is, as Dave at High Gravity put it, like building a good spaghetti sauce. Know how garlic or basil can taste vastly different in a spaghetti sauce depending on when you add it to the pot? With hops and beer, it\'s the same sort of thing. So, hops are added to beer in stages to sort of build the flavor profile of the finished product.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1840-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAfter you bring that mixture to a rolling boil, cool it rapidly to about room temperature. Then, transfer the whole mess to a fermenting vessel. Which is, in the case of many homebrewers, a good, old-fashioned five-gallon bucket.\r\n\r\nAt this point, you\'ve got a big, plastic bucket full of something called wort. While that sounds pretty gross, it\'s just a word that means unfermented beer.\r\n\r\nThen, add yeast. This is when the magic happens.\r\n\r\nI\'ll be frank: Yeast is the freak in the family of beer ingredients. I mean, it\'s a living, unicellular mico-organism that eats the sugar produced during the brewing process of your beer. It metabolizes those sugars into alcohol, carbon dioxide and a huge range of flavors, depending on which type you use. Another fun yeast fact: It multiplies by a type of asexual production called budding.\r\n\r\nYeah. You just got scienced. Yeast will do that to you.\r\n\r\nYou can add other ingredients to your beer, too - not fried chicken or Mike &amp; Ikes or anything like that, but within reason, there are still lots of options. It all depends on the type of brew you\'d like to end up with.\r\n\r\nThen comes the hard part: Waiting. It\'s time to let this bucket-o-ale ferment at room temperature for 7-10 days or so.\r\n\r\nThe process would be a bit different at this point if we were making a lager (another type of beer that\'s fermented differently than is ale), but rather than go into how so here at TDT, you can read more <a href=\"http://www.dougfishback.com/\">here</a>.\r\n\r\nAfter that first week you might opt to transfer the beer to a secondary vessel. This can help to clear the beer of yeast sediment and avoid any off-flavors that could happen should you decide to stick with using just one bucket.\r\n\r\nLet the beer spend another week at least in this secondary vessel. After that you can move the beer to a bottling bucket. Add priming sugar (after yeast, this is a way of naturally carbonating the beer), bottle and leave at room temperature again for 7-10 days.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6554\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1905/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6554  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1905.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6555\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1910/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6555  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1910.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6556\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1912/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6556  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1912.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nOr? Drink.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6561\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1917/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6561  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1917.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nHi, <a href=\"http://havesporkwilltravel.blogspot.com/\">@travelingspork</a>!\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6562\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1918/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6562  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1918.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nActually, Dave at High Gravity said that it\'s best to wait for another few weeks before throwing a few of these babies back. The flavors and complexity of the beer can only improve for a good while at this point.\r\n\r\nBut, yeah right. We\'re amateurs. We can\'t wait. We just learned to make our own beer, for Pete\'s sake.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1916/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6563  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nSee that face? That\'s the smile of someone who doesn\'t usually like beer finally tasting one that she likes.\r\n\r\nPrecious, isn\'t it?\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1855/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6548  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nWant to learn more about the art of homebrewing? It\'d be a good idea to check out a meeting of FOAM, or the <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">Fellowship of Oklahoma Ale Makers</a>. They\'ve had a thing about teaching others about how beer is made and promoting the art of homebrewing since 1984. If you\'re looking for some community instruction, with these folks would be a good place to find it.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1840-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTheir next meeting is Thursday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. Find it at the Unitarian Church Log Cabin, at 8432 S. Sheridan Road here in Tulsa. The doors open at 7pm. The next meeting after that is April 1.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t have time for a meeting, check out <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">the FOAM website</a>. It\'s chock full of beer and beer making information in the form of forums, recipes, news, quotes, homebrewing links and more.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t want to dip your toe that far into the vast pond that is homebrewing, you can always attend the free workshop at High Gravity. The next one\'s on Saturday, March 19, at 11 a.m. You might want to check out their home brew starter kits while you\'re there.\r\n\r\nEither way, when St. Patrick\'s Day rolls around, you\'ll have lots to talk about after those first few green beers. Like how certain specialty malts affect head structure. Or how many HBUs (Home Bittering Units) you like in a beer. Or, you know, the asexual nature of yeast. It\'s all fair game.\r\n\r\nBecause thanks to the folks at High Gravity and my rudimentary research, you now have a pretty good idea of how to make beer. And knowledge, my friends, is power.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1916/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6563  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nAnd refreshing.\r\n\r\nHave you ever made your own beer? How would you describe the process? Most important, did you like the outcome?\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"25\"]</p>','How to Make Beer: High Gravity Shows How (St. Patrick\'s Day 2011)','When it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky.','inherit','open','open','','6545-revision-27','','','2011-03-05 12:00:07','2011-03-05 18:00:07','',6545,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6545-revision-27/',0,'revision','',0),(6596,1,'2011-03-05 12:02:59','2011-03-05 18:02:59','<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1915/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6546  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<em>This post is the first in a series here at TDT celebrating St. Patrick\'s Day, one of Tulsa\'s very favorite holidays. Erin go Bragh!</em>\r\n\r\nIn case you can\'t tell by the endcaps at your local big box store, which are no doubt filled with all things leprechaun and shamrocks and lucky this-and-thats by now, St. Patrick\'s Day is coming.\r\n\r\nAnd you know what that means: Beer is about to happen. Lots and lots of beer.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"24\"]</p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[adrotate banner=\"25\"]</p>\r\n\r\nWith the passing of each St. Pat\'s, more and more beer drinkers are opting for craft-style beers over the ol\'-reliable, mass-produced varieties. Hand in hand with that has come beer lovers who are enthusiastic about learning how what is probably the world\'s oldest alcoholic beverage is made, and they\'re making beer of their own by the gallon at home.\r\n\r\nWhen it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky. On the southwest corner of the 71st Street and Memorial Drive intersection is <a href=\"http://www.highgravitybrew.com/\">High Gravity</a>, a homebrewing and winemaking supply shop. The folks who own it, Dave and Desiree Knott, host a free homebrewing workshop at the store each month.\r\n\r\nA group of friends and I went to one a couple of weeks ago, and here\'s what we learned: Whipping up a batch of homebrewed beer is a pretty easy process. The only tricky part? Waiting until the beer reaches drinkable perfection.\r\n\r\nSo if you can boil water, and if you can sit around and delay gratification for long periods of time, you can make beer.\r\n\r\nEmpowering, isn\'t it?\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6547\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1862-3/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6547  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1862.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nThe first step in making a batch of beer, then, is that whole boiling-of-the-water thing I just mentioned.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1855/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6548  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6549\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1857-2/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6549  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1857.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nNext comes the malt, or grain (usually barley) which has been sprouted and then halted by heating in a kiln. This is the stuff that provides the fermentable sugars and body of beer, both of which are pretty awesome things.\r\n\r\nSteeping the malt in the boiling water for an hour or so is what converts the starch into fermentable sugars. This step is called mashing.\r\n\r\nBy the way, malt can be purchased as a liquid extract, and in powder form, too. What you see used below is the liquid malt extract; above, actual grain, because Dave is a certifiable bad ass.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6550\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1865-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" />\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6551  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1868.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></p>\r\nAnd then there are hops. Let\'s not forget about those.\r\n\r\nKnow what a hop looks like?\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6552\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1864-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6552\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1864-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nKinda like that. They\'re these beautiful little cone flowers from the hop plant that add that lovely bitter taste for which beer is so widely known. Hops can also add citric and floral flavors to a beer, as well as a variety of aromas, just depending on the hops you decide to use.\r\n\r\nFor the record, I like hops. I like hops a lot.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6546\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1915/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6546  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1915.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nSomething else cool about hops is that how they\'re used in beer is, as Dave at High Gravity put it, like building a good spaghetti sauce. Know how garlic or basil can taste vastly different in a spaghetti sauce depending on when you add it to the pot? With hops and beer, it\'s the same sort of thing. So, hops are added to beer in stages to sort of build the flavor profile of the finished product.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1840-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAfter you bring that mixture to a rolling boil, cool it rapidly to about room temperature. Then, transfer the whole mess to a fermenting vessel. Which is, in the case of many homebrewers, a good, old-fashioned five-gallon bucket.\r\n\r\nAt this point, you\'ve got a big, plastic bucket full of something called wort. While that sounds pretty gross, it\'s just a word that means unfermented beer.\r\n\r\nThen, add yeast. This is when the magic happens.\r\n\r\nI\'ll be frank: Yeast is the freak in the family of beer ingredients. I mean, it\'s a living, unicellular mico-organism that eats the sugar produced during the brewing process of your beer. It metabolizes those sugars into alcohol, carbon dioxide and a huge range of flavors, depending on which type you use. Another fun yeast fact: It multiplies by a type of asexual production called budding.\r\n\r\nYeah. You just got scienced. Yeast will do that to you.\r\n\r\nYou can add other ingredients to your beer, too - not fried chicken or Mike &amp; Ikes or anything like that, but within reason, there are still lots of options. It all depends on the type of brew you\'d like to end up with.\r\n\r\nThen comes the hard part: Waiting. It\'s time to let this bucket-o-ale ferment at room temperature for 7-10 days or so.\r\n\r\nThe process would be a bit different at this point if we were making a lager (another type of beer that\'s fermented differently than is ale), but rather than go into how so here at TDT, you can read more <a href=\"http://www.dougfishback.com/\">here</a>.\r\n\r\nAfter that first week you might opt to transfer the beer to a secondary vessel. This can help to clear the beer of yeast sediment and avoid any off-flavors that could happen should you decide to stick with using just one bucket.\r\n\r\nLet the beer spend another week at least in this secondary vessel. After that you can move the beer to a bottling bucket. Add priming sugar (after yeast, this is a way of naturally carbonating the beer), bottle and leave at room temperature again for 7-10 days.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6554\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1905/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6554  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1905.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6555\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1910/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6555  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1910.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6556\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1912/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6556  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1912.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nOr? Drink.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6561\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1917/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6561  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1917.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nHi, <a href=\"http://havesporkwilltravel.blogspot.com/\">@travelingspork</a>!\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6562\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1918/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6562  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1918.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nActually, Dave at High Gravity said that it\'s best to wait for another few weeks before throwing a few of these babies back. The flavors and complexity of the beer can only improve for a good while at this point.\r\n\r\nBut, yeah right. We\'re amateurs. We can\'t wait. We just learned to make our own beer, for Pete\'s sake.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1916/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6563  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nSee that face? That\'s the smile of someone who doesn\'t usually like beer finally tasting one that she likes.\r\n\r\nPrecious, isn\'t it?\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6548\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1855/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6548  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1855.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nWant to learn more about the art of homebrewing? It\'d be a good idea to check out a meeting of FOAM, or the <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">Fellowship of Oklahoma Ale Makers</a>. They\'ve had a thing about teaching others about how beer is made and promoting the art of homebrewing since 1984. If you\'re looking for some community instruction, with these folks would be a good place to find it.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6553\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1840-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6553\" title=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1840-500x332.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Winemaking and Homebrewing Supplies\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" /></a>\r\n\r\nTheir next meeting is Thursday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. Find it at the Unitarian Church Log Cabin, at 8432 S. Sheridan Road here in Tulsa. The doors open at 7pm. The next meeting after that is April 1.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t have time for a meeting, check out <a href=\"http://www.alemakers.com/\">the FOAM website</a>. It\'s chock full of beer and beer making information in the form of forums, recipes, news, quotes, homebrewing links and more.\r\n\r\nIf you don\'t want to dip your toe that far into the vast pond that is homebrewing, you can always attend the free workshop at High Gravity. The next one\'s on Saturday, March 19, at 11 a.m. You might want to check out their home brew starter kits while you\'re there.\r\n\r\nEither way, when St. Patrick\'s Day rolls around, you\'ll have lots to talk about after those first few green beers. Like how certain specialty malts affect head structure. Or how many HBUs (Home Bittering Units) you like in a beer. Or, you know, the asexual nature of yeast. It\'s all fair game.\r\n\r\nBecause thanks to the folks at High Gravity and my rudimentary research, you now have a pretty good idea of how to make beer. And knowledge, my friends, is power.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6563\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/how-to-make-beer-high-gravity-shows-how-st-patricks-day-2011/dsc_1916/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6563  aligncenter\" title=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC_1916.jpg\" alt=\"High Gravity Homebrewing Tulsa\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\r\nAnd refreshing.\r\n\r\nHave you ever made your own beer? How would you describe the process? Most important, did you like the outcome?','How to Make Beer: High Gravity Shows How (St. Patrick\'s Day 2011)','When it comes to figuring out how to put a beer together, we Tulsans are lucky.','inherit','open','open','','6545-revision-28','','','2011-03-05 12:02:59','2011-03-05 18:02:59','',6545,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6545-revision-28/',0,'revision','',0),(6597,1,'2011-03-05 12:17:23','2011-03-05 18:17:23','','Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street','','inherit','open','open','','dsc01560','','','2011-03-05 12:17:23','2011-03-05 18:17:23','',6507,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01560.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(6598,1,'2011-03-05 12:49:37','2011-03-05 18:49:37','','Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street','','inherit','open','open','','dsc01580','','','2011-03-05 12:49:37','2011-03-05 18:49:37','',6507,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01580.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(6599,1,'2011-03-05 12:50:13','2011-03-05 18:50:13','','Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street','','inherit','open','open','','dsc01583-2','','','2011-03-05 12:50:13','2011-03-05 18:50:13','',6507,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015831.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(6600,1,'2011-03-05 12:52:31','2011-03-05 18:52:31','','Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street','','inherit','open','open','','dsc01586','','','2011-03-05 12:52:31','2011-03-05 18:52:31','',6507,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01586.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(6601,1,'2011-03-05 12:57:40','2011-03-05 18:57:40','','Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street','','inherit','open','open','','dsc01581','','','2011-03-05 12:57:40','2011-03-05 18:57:40','',6507,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01581.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(6602,1,'2011-03-05 13:10:08','2011-03-05 19:10:08','','Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street','','inherit','open','open','','dsc01583-3','','','2011-03-05 13:10:08','2011-03-05 19:10:08','',6507,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015832.jpg',0,'attachment','image/jpeg',0),(6603,1,'2011-03-05 13:31:51','2011-03-05 19:31:51','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6589\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6589\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6589\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01583-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\n\nThere are Tulsans who take pride in admitting they don\'t emerge from the bounds of their neighborhoods. They\'re the same people who grin when they say they avoid 51st Street like the plague, whether they\'re coming from the north or the south. They\'re the ones who say they\'d never leave downtown if it had a grocery store. The ones who claim that the 15-minute drive from Jenks to Brookside is too long to drive to try a popular new restaurant.\n\nI admit that I, too, sometimes fall into this verve-limiting lifestyle. Humans, like water, will always be drawn the to path of least resistance.\n\nBut an empty belly, combined with the hooting and hollering of the citizen fooderati of the metro, has a way of shaking me out of my funk and putting me on the road in search of whatever is unfamiliar.\n\nThat\'s what had happened when my husband, our son and I pointed our car toward 96th Street North in Owasso. Our destination? Andolini\'s Pizzeria.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nAndolini\'s wasn\'t exactly a new name for me. I\'d interviewed them for <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/main.asp?Search=1&amp;ArticleID=51060&amp;SectionID=21&amp;SubSectionID=77&amp;S=1\">a Tulsa Business Journal Story in May of last year about their expansion to Tulsa\'s Cherry Street</a> (more on that in a minute), and I\'d heard from far and wide the Bausch brothers, the masterminds behind the pies, are sticklers about using fresh and house-made ingredients.\n\nWhen someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner, 50-mile round trip be damned.\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6590\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6590\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6590  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01590.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\n\nIt\'s easy to notice that Andolini\'s is a family-friendly restaurant. Our server greeted us with a smile and a bowl of pizza dough for our son to play in. And, as we can all see in the photo above, play in it he did.\n\nIt seems like there are some restaurants serving high-quality food that are starting to understand that being family friendly doesn\'t necessarily have to mean compromising on atmosphere. I\'ve written about a few of them in my column on Tulsa\'s family-friendly restaurants in <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/\">TulsaKids Magazine</a>, and I always love adding new places to the list.\n\nBefore you order anything else at Andolini\'s, order these:\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6597\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6597\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6597  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01560.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" /></a></p>\nGarlic knots. The folks at Andolini\'s give them away all the time on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their highly active Facebook page</a>, but I\'d pay full price ($5.95) for them any day. Especially since one order is enough to fill up on before your pizza has a chance to make it to your table.\n\nWhat can I say? I like my garlic knots how I like my men: Light and fluffy on the inside, crisp, buttery and garlicky on the outside.\n\nHeh.\n\nOther Andolini\'s appetizers that caught my eye were Appian Way Meatballs ($6.95); the Panzanella Salad ($9.95), mixed field greens, prosciutto, balsamic dressing and shaved Pecorino Romano; and the Satriale\'s Salad ($6.95), a Romaine salad with prosciutto, Genoa salami, fresh mozz and a balsamic vinaigrette dressing.\n\nI have a little saying: These items are on my list. Which means everything I just mentioned will one day be commanded to get in my belly.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6588\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\n\nAndolini\'s serves a smattering of Italian dishes, but who are we trying to kid - you all want to hear about the pizza first, right? Right. So, here\'s the deal: Pizza at Andolini\'s comes as small as ten inches across or as large as 20 (the Oh-Wow-That\'s-Big size - their words, not mine), and toppings range from cheese and pepperoni to eggplant, Gorgonzola and portabello mushroom. Base prices for pizzas with a single topping range about $10 to $23.\n\nAndolini\'s has a list of their own pizza creations, too. One of them puts pepperoni, Canadian bacon, Genoa salami, pastrami, ground beef and Italian sausage all on one pizza. Another is sauced with pistachio pesto. And there\'s one called the Spring Street, the making of which inspired the Bausches to create a video.\n\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\n\nThere you go, New York-style pizza lovers.\n\nAnother is called the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPQR\">SPQR</a>.\n\nRemember that? From The Gladiator? When Russell Crowe was scraping these letters from the tattoo on his upper arm? Hardcore.\n\nI mention this mostly because I want you all to think that I\'m cool enough to know these things. I\'m fragile like that.\n\nAnd there\'s the pizza we ordered: the Pizza Rustica. Here\'s how it\'s described on the menu:\n<blockquote>Long before pizza became what it is today, it was a staple of rural Italian villages. Families would layer the freshest ingredients of the day on flatbread and bake it for dinner. The Pizza Rustica is made in that same style, filled with ricotta, mozzarella, prosciutto, sliced sausage and spinach. It is then given a large crust folded over the top of the filling. Truly a PIZZA PIE!</blockquote>\nThough after I read this description I turned to my husband and said something like, \"Honey, it says, \'Truly a PIZZA PIE\'. You know how I feel about pie. We have to get it,\' but I was sort of preaching to the choir at that point.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6598\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6598\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6598\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01580-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\n\nWhy, hello.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6599\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6599\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6599\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015831-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\n\nSee this? After a few garlic knots and this slice of Pizza Rustica, I was stuffed. Stuffed as in, I had to drive home with my pants unbuttoned. And unzipped. OK, I\'ll just say it: I completely removed my pants to drive home.\n\nNot really. But I wanted to. My full tummy wanted me to. My Spanx are no match for Andolini\'s Pizza Rustica.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6600\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6600\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6600\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01586-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\n\nAndolini\'s also offers calzones and strombolis (one of which is named Kona, another after Plato), sandwiches, pasta entrees (yes, including mac and cheese) and dessert, including an Italian butter cake. Which of course I didn\'t have because Pizza Rustica and my lungs were competing fiercely for space in my thoracic cavity by the time for dessert, but oh, man, it sounds pretty good. Especially the part where butter is mentioned.\n\nThe kids\' menu is nice and simple: Chicken bites and fries, a kid-sized portion of spaghetti with meatballs and a mini pizza, with nothing over $5.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6601\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6601\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6601\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01581-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\n\nWe\'re pizza lovers, the Ball family. We\'re mutts with deep roots in the British Isles and the south-central American plains, but even so, we love the bread, the sauce and the cheese in the tradition of the Italians and the northeastern U.S.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6602\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6602\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6602\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015832-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\n\nMore on Andolinis:\n<ul>\n	<li>A Cherry Street location of Andolini\'s Pizzeria will open this month. I heard they were slated to be open by now, but the twin blizzards we had back in February delayed many a construction schedule, and the folks at Andolini\'s were not immune. Soon, though, find them at 1552 E. 15th Street.</li>\n	<li>Mike Bausch scored No. 5 in the nation and No. 2 in the midwest in the non-traditional category of the 2011 International Pizza Challenge in Las Vegas with his Semper Fi pizza. Big time stuff.</li>\n	<li>Andolini\'s posts contests just about every day on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their Facebook page</a>. Fans can win stuff ranging from an order of garlic knots to $50 Andolini\'s gift certificates.</li>\n	<li>Andolini\'s offers a mailing list. It\'s how I found out that on Tuesday, the second pizza you order is $2. As in, less than the price of a good cup of coffee. Find the sign-up form on <a href=\"http://www.andopizza.com/\">their website</a>.</li>\n	<li>Looking for something to do with the kids? Andolini\'s offers pizza tours. Mike will teach your kids\' group about the history of pizza, and then he\'ll impart to you his award-winning dough-throwing skills. After, the kids get to help make their own pizzas. Cost is $5 per kiddo.</li>\n	<li>Andolini\'s serves <a href=\"http://www.marshallbrewing.com/\">Marshall IPA</a>. Why should you care? Because it\'s my favorite beer ever to drink with pizza, that\'s why. Also, because Marshall is brewed right here in Tulsa.</li>\n	<li>Andolini\'s delivers. Also, you can <a href=\"http://andopizza.hungerrush.com/\">order online</a>.</li>\n	<li>Also? <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDUjhwyjPs\">Fresh</a>.</li>\n</ul>\nAndolini\'s is open at their Owasso location daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m - Cherry Street hours to come.\n\n<strong>Andolini\'s Pizzeria</strong>\nOwasso: 12140 E. 96th St.\nCherry Street: 1552 E. 15th Street\nPhone (Owasso): (918) 272-9328\nHours: 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. daily\n\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630029/restaurant/Tulsa/Andolinis-Pizzeria-Owasso\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/630029/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria on Urbanspoon\" /></a>','Andolini\'s Pizzeria: Owasso Beginnings, a Cherry Street Debut and the Pizza Rustica that wouldn\'t quit','When someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner.','inherit','open','open','','6507-revision-3','','','2011-03-05 13:31:51','2011-03-05 19:31:51','',6507,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6507-revision-3/',0,'revision','',0),(6605,1,'2011-03-05 13:33:05','2011-03-05 19:33:05','\nThere are Tulsans who take pride in admitting they don\'t emerge from the bounds of their neighborhoods. They\'re the same people who grin when they say they avoid 51st Street like the plague, whether they\'re coming from the north or the south. They\'re the ones who say they\'d never leave downtown if it had a grocery store. The ones who claim that the 15-minute drive from Jenks to Brookside is too long to drive to try a popular new restaurant.\n\nI admit that I, too, sometimes fall into this verve-limiting lifestyle. Humans, like water, will always be drawn the to path of least resistance.\n\nBut an empty belly, combined with the hooting and hollering of the citizen fooderati of the metro, has a way of shaking me out of my funk and putting me on the road in search of whatever is unfamiliar.\n\nThat\'s what had happened when my husband, our son and I pointed our car toward 96th Street North in Owasso. Our destination? Andolini\'s Pizzeria.\n\n<!--more-->\n\nAndolini\'s wasn\'t exactly a new name for me. I\'d interviewed them for <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/main.asp?Search=1&amp;ArticleID=51060&amp;SectionID=21&amp;SubSectionID=77&amp;S=1\">a Tulsa Business Journal Story in May of last year about their expansion to Tulsa\'s Cherry Street</a> (more on that in a minute), and I\'d heard from far and wide the Bausch brothers, the masterminds behind the pies, are sticklers about using fresh and house-made ingredients.\n\nWhen someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner, 50-mile round trip be damned.\n\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6590\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6590\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6590  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01590.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\n\nIt\'s easy to notice that Andolini\'s is a family-friendly restaurant. Our server greeted us with a smile and a bowl of pizza dough for our son to play in. And, as we can all see in the photo above, play in it he did.\n\nIt seems like there are some restaurants serving high-quality food that are starting to understand that being family friendly doesn\'t necessarily have to mean compromising on atmosphere. I\'ve written about a few of them in my column on Tulsa\'s family-friendly restaurants in <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/\">TulsaKids Magazine</a>, and I always love adding new places to the list.\n\nBefore you order anything else at Andolini\'s, order these:\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6597\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6597\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6597  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01560.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\nGarlic knots. The folks at Andolini\'s give them away all the time on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their highly active Facebook page</a>, but I\'d pay full price ($5.95) for them any day. Especially since one order is enough to fill up on before your pizza has a chance to make it to your table.\n\nWhat can I say? I like my garlic knots how I like my men: Light and fluffy on the inside, crisp, buttery and garlicky on the outside.\n\nHeh.\n\nOther Andolini\'s appetizers that caught my eye were Appian Way Meatballs ($6.95); the Panzanella Salad ($9.95), mixed field greens, prosciutto, balsamic dressing and shaved Pecorino Romano; and the Satriale\'s Salad ($6.95), a Romaine salad with prosciutto, Genoa salami, fresh mozz and a balsamic vinaigrette dressing.\n\nI have a little saying: These items are on my list. Which means everything I just mentioned will one day be commanded to get in my belly.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6588\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\n\nAndolini\'s serves a smattering of Italian dishes, but who are we trying to kid - you all want to hear about the pizza first, right? Right. So, here\'s the deal: Pizza at Andolini\'s comes as small as ten inches across or as large as 20 (the Oh-Wow-That\'s-Big size - their words, not mine), and toppings range from cheese and pepperoni to eggplant, Gorgonzola and portabello mushroom. Base prices for pizzas with a single topping range about $10 to $23.\n\nAndolini\'s has a list of their own pizza creations, too. One of them puts pepperoni, Canadian bacon, Genoa salami, pastrami, ground beef and Italian sausage all on one pizza. Another is sauced with pistachio pesto. And there\'s one called the Spring Street, the making of which inspired the Bausches to create a video.\n\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\n\nThere you go, New York-style pizza lovers.\n\nAnother is called the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPQR\">SPQR</a>.\n\nRemember that? From The Gladiator? When Russell Crowe was scraping these letters from the tattoo on his upper arm? Hardcore.\n\nI mention this mostly because I want you all to think that I\'m cool enough to know these things. I\'m fragile like that.\n\nAnd there\'s the pizza we ordered: the Pizza Rustica. Here\'s how it\'s described on the menu:\n<blockquote>Long before pizza became what it is today, it was a staple of rural Italian villages. Families would layer the freshest ingredients of the day on flatbread and bake it for dinner. The Pizza Rustica is made in that same style, filled with ricotta, mozzarella, prosciutto, sliced sausage and spinach. It is then given a large crust folded over the top of the filling. Truly a PIZZA PIE!</blockquote>\nThough after I read this description I turned to my husband and said something like, \"Honey, it says, \'Truly a PIZZA PIE\'. You know how I feel about pie. We have to get it,\' but I was sort of preaching to the choir at that point.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6598\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6598\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6598\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01580-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\n\nWhy, hello.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6599\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6599\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6599\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015831-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\n\nSee this? After a few garlic knots and this slice of Pizza Rustica, I was stuffed. Stuffed as in, I had to drive home with my pants unbuttoned. And unzipped. OK, I\'ll just say it: I completely removed my pants to drive home.\n\nNot really. But I wanted to. My full tummy wanted me to. My Spanx are no match for Andolini\'s Pizza Rustica.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6600\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6600\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6600\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01586-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\n\nAndolini\'s also offers calzones and strombolis (one of which is named Kona, another after Plato), sandwiches, pasta entrees (yes, including mac and cheese) and dessert, including an Italian butter cake. Which of course I didn\'t have because Pizza Rustica and my lungs were competing fiercely for space in my thoracic cavity by the time for dessert, but oh, man, it sounds pretty good. Especially the part where butter is mentioned.\n\nThe kids\' menu is nice and simple: Chicken bites and fries, a kid-sized portion of spaghetti with meatballs and a mini pizza, with nothing over $5.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6601\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6601\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6601\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01581-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\n\nWe\'re pizza lovers, the Ball family. We\'re mutts with deep roots in the British Isles and the south-central American plains, but even so, we love the bread, the sauce and the cheese in the tradition of the Italians and the northeastern U.S.\n\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6602\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6602\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6602\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015832-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\n\nMore on Andolinis:\n<ul>\n	<li>A Cherry Street location of Andolini\'s Pizzeria will open this month. I heard they were slated to be open by now, but the twin blizzards we had back in February delayed many a construction schedule, and the folks at Andolini\'s were not immune. Soon, though, find them at 1552 E. 15th Street.</li>\n	<li>Mike Bausch scored No. 5 in the nation and No. 2 in the midwest in the non-traditional category of the 2011 International Pizza Challenge in Las Vegas with his Semper Fi pizza. Big time stuff.</li>\n	<li>Andolini\'s posts contests just about every day on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their Facebook page</a>. Fans can win stuff ranging from an order of garlic knots to $50 Andolini\'s gift certificates.</li>\n	<li>Andolini\'s offers a mailing list. It\'s how I found out that on Tuesday, the second pizza you order is $2. As in, less than the price of a good cup of coffee. Find the sign-up form on <a href=\"http://www.andopizza.com/\">their website</a>.</li>\n	<li>Looking for something to do with the kids? Andolini\'s offers pizza tours. Mike will teach your kids\' group about the history of pizza, and then he\'ll impart to you his award-winning dough-throwing skills. After, the kids get to help make their own pizzas. Cost is $5 per kiddo.</li>\n	<li>Andolini\'s serves <a href=\"http://www.marshallbrewing.com/\">Marshall IPA</a>. Why should you care? Because it\'s my favorite beer ever to drink with pizza, that\'s why. Also, because Marshall is brewed right here in Tulsa.</li>\n	<li>Andolini\'s delivers. Also, you can <a href=\"http://andopizza.hungerrush.com/\">order online</a>.</li>\n	<li>Also? <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDUjhwyjPs\">Fresh</a>.</li>\n</ul>\nAndolini\'s is open at their Owasso location daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m - Cherry Street hours to come.\n\n<strong>Andolini\'s Pizzeria</strong>\nOwasso: 12140 E. 96th St.\nCherry Street: 1552 E. 15th Street\nPhone (Owasso): (918) 272-9328\nHours: 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. daily\n\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630029/restaurant/Tulsa/Andolinis-Pizzeria-Owasso\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/630029/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria on Urbanspoon\" /></a>','Andolini\'s Pizzeria: Owasso Beginnings, a Cherry Street Debut and the Pizza Rustica that wouldn\'t quit','When someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner.','inherit','open','open','','6507-revision-5','','','2011-03-05 13:33:05','2011-03-05 19:33:05','',6507,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6507-revision-5/',0,'revision','',0),(6604,1,'2011-03-05 13:32:00','2011-03-05 19:32:00','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6589\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6589\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6589\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01583-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThere are Tulsans who take pride in admitting they don\'t emerge from the bounds of their neighborhoods. They\'re the same people who grin when they say they avoid 51st Street like the plague, whether they\'re coming from the north or the south. They\'re the ones who say they\'d never leave downtown if it had a grocery store. The ones who claim that the 15-minute drive from Jenks to Brookside is too long to drive to try a popular new restaurant.\r\n\r\nI admit that I, too, sometimes fall into this verve-limiting lifestyle. Humans, like water, will always be drawn the to path of least resistance.\r\n\r\nBut an empty belly, combined with the hooting and hollering of the citizen fooderati of the metro, has a way of shaking me out of my funk and putting me on the road in search of whatever is unfamiliar.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what had happened when my husband, our son and I pointed our car toward 96th Street North in Owasso. Our destination? Andolini\'s Pizzeria.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s wasn\'t exactly a new name for me. I\'d interviewed them for <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/main.asp?Search=1&amp;ArticleID=51060&amp;SectionID=21&amp;SubSectionID=77&amp;S=1\">a Tulsa Business Journal Story in May of last year about their expansion to Tulsa\'s Cherry Street</a> (more on that in a minute), and I\'d heard from far and wide the Bausch brothers, the masterminds behind the pies, are sticklers about using fresh and house-made ingredients.\r\n\r\nWhen someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner, 50-mile round trip be damned.\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6590\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6590\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6590  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01590.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\n\r\nIt\'s easy to notice that Andolini\'s is a family-friendly restaurant. Our server greeted us with a smile and a bowl of pizza dough for our son to play in. And, as we can all see in the photo above, play in it he did.\r\n\r\nIt seems like there are some restaurants serving high-quality food that are starting to understand that being family friendly doesn\'t necessarily have to mean compromising on atmosphere. I\'ve written about a few of them in my column on Tulsa\'s family-friendly restaurants in <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/\">TulsaKids Magazine</a>, and I always love adding new places to the list.\r\n\r\nBefore you order anything else at Andolini\'s, order these:\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6597\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6597\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6597  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01560.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nGarlic knots. The folks at Andolini\'s give them away all the time on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their highly active Facebook page</a>, but I\'d pay full price ($5.95) for them any day. Especially since one order is enough to fill up on before your pizza has a chance to make it to your table.\r\n\r\nWhat can I say? I like my garlic knots how I like my men: Light and fluffy on the inside, crisp, buttery and garlicky on the outside.\r\n\r\nHeh.\r\n\r\nOther Andolini\'s appetizers that caught my eye were Appian Way Meatballs ($6.95); the Panzanella Salad ($9.95), mixed field greens, prosciutto, balsamic dressing and shaved Pecorino Romano; and the Satriale\'s Salad ($6.95), a Romaine salad with prosciutto, Genoa salami, fresh mozz and a balsamic vinaigrette dressing.\r\n\r\nI have a little saying: These items are on my list. Which means everything I just mentioned will one day be commanded to get in my belly.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6588\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s serves a smattering of Italian dishes, but who are we trying to kid - you all want to hear about the pizza first, right? Right. So, here\'s the deal: Pizza at Andolini\'s comes as small as ten inches across or as large as 20 (the Oh-Wow-That\'s-Big size - their words, not mine), and toppings range from cheese and pepperoni to eggplant, Gorgonzola and portabello mushroom. Base prices for pizzas with a single topping range about $10 to $23.\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s has a list of their own pizza creations, too. One of them puts pepperoni, Canadian bacon, Genoa salami, pastrami, ground beef and Italian sausage all on one pizza. Another is sauced with pistachio pesto. And there\'s one called the Spring Street, the making of which inspired the Bausches to create a video.\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nThere you go, New York-style pizza lovers.\r\n\r\nAnother is called the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPQR\">SPQR</a>.\r\n\r\nRemember that? From The Gladiator? When Russell Crowe was scraping these letters from the tattoo on his upper arm? Hardcore.\r\n\r\nI mention this mostly because I want you all to think that I\'m cool enough to know these things. I\'m fragile like that.\r\n\r\nAnd there\'s the pizza we ordered: the Pizza Rustica. Here\'s how it\'s described on the menu:\r\n<blockquote>Long before pizza became what it is today, it was a staple of rural Italian villages. Families would layer the freshest ingredients of the day on flatbread and bake it for dinner. The Pizza Rustica is made in that same style, filled with ricotta, mozzarella, prosciutto, sliced sausage and spinach. It is then given a large crust folded over the top of the filling. Truly a PIZZA PIE!</blockquote>\r\nThough after I read this description I turned to my husband and said something like, \"Honey, it says, \'Truly a PIZZA PIE\'. You know how I feel about pie. We have to get it,\' but I was sort of preaching to the choir at that point.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6598\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6598\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6598\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01580-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhy, hello.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6599\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6599\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6599\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015831-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee this? After a few garlic knots and this slice of Pizza Rustica, I was stuffed. Stuffed as in, I had to drive home with my pants unbuttoned. And unzipped. OK, I\'ll just say it: I completely removed my pants to drive home.\r\n\r\nNot really. But I wanted to. My full tummy wanted me to. My Spanx are no match for Andolini\'s Pizza Rustica.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6600\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6600\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6600\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01586-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s also offers calzones and strombolis (one of which is named Kona, another after Plato), sandwiches, pasta entrees (yes, including mac and cheese) and dessert, including an Italian butter cake. Which of course I didn\'t have because Pizza Rustica and my lungs were competing fiercely for space in my thoracic cavity by the time for dessert, but oh, man, it sounds pretty good. Especially the part where butter is mentioned.\r\n\r\nThe kids\' menu is nice and simple: Chicken bites and fries, a kid-sized portion of spaghetti with meatballs and a mini pizza, with nothing over $5.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6601\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6601\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6601\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01581-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe\'re pizza lovers, the Ball family. We\'re mutts with deep roots in the British Isles and the south-central American plains, but even so, we love the bread, the sauce and the cheese in the tradition of the Italians and the northeastern U.S.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6602\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6602\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6602\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015832-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMore on Andolinis:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>A Cherry Street location of Andolini\'s Pizzeria will open this month. I heard they were slated to be open by now, but the twin blizzards we had back in February delayed many a construction schedule, and the folks at Andolini\'s were not immune. Soon, though, find them at 1552 E. 15th Street.</li>\r\n	<li>Mike Bausch scored No. 5 in the nation and No. 2 in the midwest in the non-traditional category of the 2011 International Pizza Challenge in Las Vegas with his Semper Fi pizza. Big time stuff.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s posts contests just about every day on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their Facebook page</a>. Fans can win stuff ranging from an order of garlic knots to $50 Andolini\'s gift certificates.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s offers a mailing list. It\'s how I found out that on Tuesday, the second pizza you order is $2. As in, less than the price of a good cup of coffee. Find the sign-up form on <a href=\"http://www.andopizza.com/\">their website</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Looking for something to do with the kids? Andolini\'s offers pizza tours. Mike will teach your kids\' group about the history of pizza, and then he\'ll impart to you his award-winning dough-throwing skills. After, the kids get to help make their own pizzas. Cost is $5 per kiddo.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s serves <a href=\"http://www.marshallbrewing.com/\">Marshall IPA</a>. Why should you care? Because it\'s my favorite beer ever to drink with pizza, that\'s why. Also, because Marshall is brewed right here in Tulsa.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s delivers. Also, you can <a href=\"http://andopizza.hungerrush.com/\">order online</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Also? <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDUjhwyjPs\">Fresh</a>.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nAndolini\'s is open at their Owasso location daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m - Cherry Street hours to come.\r\n\r\n<strong>Andolini\'s Pizzeria</strong>\r\nOwasso: 12140 E. 96th St.\r\nCherry Street: 1552 E. 15th Street\r\nPhone (Owasso): (918) 272-9328\r\nHours: 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. daily\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630029/restaurant/Tulsa/Andolinis-Pizzeria-Owasso\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/630029/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria on Urbanspoon\" /></a>','Andolini\'s Pizzeria: Owasso Beginnings, a Cherry Street Debut and the Pizza Rustica that wouldn\'t quit','When someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner.','inherit','open','open','','6507-revision-4','','','2011-03-05 13:32:00','2011-03-05 19:32:00','',6507,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6507-revision-4/',0,'revision','',0),(6606,1,'2011-03-05 13:33:32','2011-03-05 19:33:32','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6588\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThere are Tulsans who take pride in admitting they don\'t emerge from the bounds of their neighborhoods. They\'re the same people who grin when they say they avoid 51st Street like the plague, whether they\'re coming from the north or the south. They\'re the ones who say they\'d never leave downtown if it had a grocery store. The ones who claim that the 15-minute drive from Jenks to Brookside is too long to drive to try a popular new restaurant.\r\n\r\nI admit that I, too, sometimes fall into this verve-limiting lifestyle. Humans, like water, will always be drawn the to path of least resistance.\r\n\r\nBut an empty belly, combined with the hooting and hollering of the citizen fooderati of the metro, has a way of shaking me out of my funk and putting me on the road in search of whatever is unfamiliar.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what had happened when my husband, our son and I pointed our car toward 96th Street North in Owasso. Our destination? Andolini\'s Pizzeria.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s wasn\'t exactly a new name for me. I\'d interviewed them for <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/main.asp?Search=1&amp;ArticleID=51060&amp;SectionID=21&amp;SubSectionID=77&amp;S=1\">a Tulsa Business Journal Story in May of last year about their expansion to Tulsa\'s Cherry Street</a> (more on that in a minute), and I\'d heard from far and wide the Bausch brothers, the masterminds behind the pies, are sticklers about using fresh and house-made ingredients.\r\n\r\nWhen someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner, 50-mile round trip be damned.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6590\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6590\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6590  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01590.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nIt\'s easy to notice that Andolini\'s is a family-friendly restaurant. Our server greeted us with a smile and a bowl of pizza dough for our son to play in. And, as we can all see in the photo above, play in it he did.\r\n\r\nIt seems like there are some restaurants serving high-quality food that are starting to understand that being family friendly doesn\'t necessarily have to mean compromising on atmosphere. I\'ve written about a few of them in my column on Tulsa\'s family-friendly restaurants in <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/\">TulsaKids Magazine</a>, and I always love adding new places to the list.\r\n\r\nBefore you order anything else at Andolini\'s, order these:\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6597\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6597\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6597  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01560.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nGarlic knots. The folks at Andolini\'s give them away all the time on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their highly active Facebook page</a>, but I\'d pay full price ($5.95) for them any day. Especially since one order is enough to fill up on before your pizza has a chance to make it to your table.\r\n\r\nWhat can I say? I like my garlic knots how I like my men: Light and fluffy on the inside, crisp, buttery and garlicky on the outside.\r\n\r\nHeh.\r\n\r\nOther Andolini\'s appetizers that caught my eye were Appian Way Meatballs ($6.95); the Panzanella Salad ($9.95), mixed field greens, prosciutto, balsamic dressing and shaved Pecorino Romano; and the Satriale\'s Salad ($6.95), a Romaine salad with prosciutto, Genoa salami, fresh mozz and a balsamic vinaigrette dressing.\r\n\r\nI have a little saying: These items are on my list. Which means everything I just mentioned will one day be commanded to get in my belly.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6588\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s serves a smattering of Italian dishes, but who are we trying to kid - you all want to hear about the pizza first, right? Right. So, here\'s the deal: Pizza at Andolini\'s comes as small as ten inches across or as large as 20 (the Oh-Wow-That\'s-Big size - their words, not mine), and toppings range from cheese and pepperoni to eggplant, Gorgonzola and portabello mushroom. Base prices for pizzas with a single topping range about $10 to $23.\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s has a list of their own pizza creations, too. One of them puts pepperoni, Canadian bacon, Genoa salami, pastrami, ground beef and Italian sausage all on one pizza. Another is sauced with pistachio pesto. And there\'s one called the Spring Street, the making of which inspired the Bausches to create a video.\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nThere you go, New York-style pizza lovers.\r\n\r\nAnother is called the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPQR\">SPQR</a>.\r\n\r\nRemember that? From The Gladiator? When Russell Crowe was scraping these letters from the tattoo on his upper arm? Hardcore.\r\n\r\nI mention this mostly because I want you all to think that I\'m cool enough to know these things. I\'m fragile like that.\r\n\r\nAnd there\'s the pizza we ordered: the Pizza Rustica. Here\'s how it\'s described on the menu:\r\n<blockquote>Long before pizza became what it is today, it was a staple of rural Italian villages. Families would layer the freshest ingredients of the day on flatbread and bake it for dinner. The Pizza Rustica is made in that same style, filled with ricotta, mozzarella, prosciutto, sliced sausage and spinach. It is then given a large crust folded over the top of the filling. Truly a PIZZA PIE!</blockquote>\r\nThough after I read this description I turned to my husband and said something like, \"Honey, it says, \'Truly a PIZZA PIE\'. You know how I feel about pie. We have to get it,\' but I was sort of preaching to the choir at that point.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6598\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6598\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6598\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01580-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhy, hello.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6599\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6599\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6599\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015831-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee this? After a few garlic knots and this slice of Pizza Rustica, I was stuffed. Stuffed as in, I had to drive home with my pants unbuttoned. And unzipped. OK, I\'ll just say it: I completely removed my pants to drive home.\r\n\r\nNot really. But I wanted to. My full tummy wanted me to. My Spanx are no match for Andolini\'s Pizza Rustica.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6600\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6600\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6600\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01586-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s also offers calzones and strombolis (one of which is named Kona, another after Plato), sandwiches, pasta entrees (yes, including mac and cheese) and dessert, including an Italian butter cake. Which of course I didn\'t have because Pizza Rustica and my lungs were competing fiercely for space in my thoracic cavity by the time for dessert, but oh, man, it sounds pretty good. Especially the part where butter is mentioned.\r\n\r\nThe kids\' menu is nice and simple: Chicken bites and fries, a kid-sized portion of spaghetti with meatballs and a mini pizza, with nothing over $5.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6601\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6601\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6601\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01581-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe\'re pizza lovers, the Ball family. We\'re mutts with deep roots in the British Isles and the south-central American plains, but even so, we love the bread, the sauce and the cheese in the tradition of the Italians and the northeastern U.S.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6602\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6602\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6602\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015832-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMore on Andolinis:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>A Cherry Street location of Andolini\'s Pizzeria will open this month. I heard they were slated to be open by now, but the twin blizzards we had back in February delayed many a construction schedule, and the folks at Andolini\'s were not immune. Soon, though, find them at 1552 E. 15th Street.</li>\r\n	<li>Mike Bausch scored No. 5 in the nation and No. 2 in the midwest in the non-traditional category of the 2011 International Pizza Challenge in Las Vegas with his Semper Fi pizza. Big time stuff.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s posts contests just about every day on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their Facebook page</a>. Fans can win stuff ranging from an order of garlic knots to $50 Andolini\'s gift certificates.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s offers a mailing list. It\'s how I found out that on Tuesday, the second pizza you order is $2. As in, less than the price of a good cup of coffee. Find the sign-up form on <a href=\"http://www.andopizza.com/\">their website</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Looking for something to do with the kids? Andolini\'s offers pizza tours. Mike will teach your kids\' group about the history of pizza, and then he\'ll impart to you his award-winning dough-throwing skills. After, the kids get to help make their own pizzas. Cost is $5 per kiddo.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s serves <a href=\"http://www.marshallbrewing.com/\">Marshall IPA</a>. Why should you care? Because it\'s my favorite beer ever to drink with pizza, that\'s why. Also, because Marshall is brewed right here in Tulsa.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s delivers. Also, you can <a href=\"http://andopizza.hungerrush.com/\">order online</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Also? <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDUjhwyjPs\">Fresh</a>.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nAndolini\'s is open at their Owasso location daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m - Cherry Street hours to come.\r\n\r\n<strong>Andolini\'s Pizzeria</strong>\r\nOwasso: 12140 E. 96th St.\r\nCherry Street: 1552 E. 15th Street\r\nPhone (Owasso): (918) 272-9328\r\nHours: 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. daily\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630029/restaurant/Tulsa/Andolinis-Pizzeria-Owasso\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/630029/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria on Urbanspoon\" /></a>','Andolini\'s Pizzeria: Owasso Beginnings, a Cherry Street Debut and the Pizza Rustica that wouldn\'t quit','When someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner.','inherit','open','open','','6507-revision-6','','','2011-03-05 13:33:32','2011-03-05 19:33:32','',6507,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6507-revision-6/',0,'revision','',0),(6607,1,'2011-03-05 13:33:32','2011-03-05 19:33:32','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6588\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThere are Tulsans who take pride in admitting they don\'t emerge from the bounds of their neighborhoods. They\'re the same people who grin when they say they avoid 51st Street like the plague, whether they\'re coming from the north or the south. They\'re the ones who say they\'d never leave downtown if it had a grocery store. The ones who claim that the 15-minute drive from Jenks to Brookside is too long to drive to try a popular new restaurant.\r\n\r\nI admit that I, too, sometimes fall into this verve-limiting lifestyle. Humans, like water, will always be drawn the to path of least resistance.\r\n\r\nBut an empty belly, combined with the hooting and hollering of the citizen fooderati of the metro, has a way of shaking me out of my funk and putting me on the road in search of whatever is unfamiliar.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what had happened when my husband, our son and I pointed our car toward 96th Street North in Owasso. Our destination? Andolini\'s Pizzeria.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s wasn\'t exactly a new name for me. I\'d interviewed them for <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/main.asp?Search=1&amp;ArticleID=51060&amp;SectionID=21&amp;SubSectionID=77&amp;S=1\">a Tulsa Business Journal Story in May of last year about their expansion to Tulsa\'s Cherry Street</a> (more on that in a minute), and I\'d heard from far and wide the Bausch brothers, the masterminds behind the pies, are sticklers about using fresh and house-made ingredients.\r\n\r\nWhen someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner, 50-mile round trip be damned.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6590\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6590\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6590  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01590.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nIt\'s easy to notice that Andolini\'s is a family-friendly restaurant. Our server greeted us with a smile and a bowl of pizza dough for our son to play in. And, as we can all see in the photo above, play in it he did.\r\n\r\nIt seems like there are some restaurants serving high-quality food that are starting to understand that being family friendly doesn\'t necessarily have to mean compromising on atmosphere. I\'ve written about a few of them in my column on Tulsa\'s family-friendly restaurants in <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/\">TulsaKids Magazine</a>, and I always love adding new places to the list.\r\n\r\nBefore you order anything else at Andolini\'s, order these:\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6597\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6597\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6597  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01560.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nGarlic knots. The folks at Andolini\'s give them away all the time on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their highly active Facebook page</a>, but I\'d pay full price ($5.95) for them any day. Especially since one order is enough to fill up on before your pizza has a chance to make it to your table.\r\n\r\nWhat can I say? I like my garlic knots how I like my men: Light and fluffy on the inside, crisp, buttery and garlicky on the outside.\r\n\r\nHeh.\r\n\r\nOther Andolini\'s appetizers that caught my eye were Appian Way Meatballs ($6.95); the Panzanella Salad ($9.95), mixed field greens, prosciutto, balsamic dressing and shaved Pecorino Romano; and the Satriale\'s Salad ($6.95), a Romaine salad with prosciutto, Genoa salami, fresh mozz and a balsamic vinaigrette dressing.\r\n\r\nI have a little saying: These items are on my list. Which means everything I just mentioned will one day be commanded to get in my belly.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6588\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s serves a smattering of Italian dishes, but who are we trying to kid - you all want to hear about the pizza first, right? Right. So, here\'s the deal: Pizza at Andolini\'s comes as small as ten inches across or as large as 20 (the Oh-Wow-That\'s-Big size - their words, not mine), and toppings range from cheese and pepperoni to eggplant, Gorgonzola and portabello mushroom. Base prices for pizzas with a single topping range about $10 to $23.\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s has a list of their own pizza creations, too. One of them puts pepperoni, Canadian bacon, Genoa salami, pastrami, ground beef and Italian sausage all on one pizza. Another is sauced with pistachio pesto. And there\'s one called the Spring Street, the making of which inspired the Bausches to create a video.\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nThere you go, New York-style pizza lovers.\r\n\r\nAnother is called the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPQR\">SPQR</a>.\r\n\r\nRemember that? From The Gladiator? When Russell Crowe was scraping these letters from the tattoo on his upper arm? Hardcore.\r\n\r\nI mention this mostly because I want you all to think that I\'m cool enough to know these things. I\'m fragile like that.\r\n\r\nAnd there\'s the pizza we ordered: the Pizza Rustica. Here\'s how it\'s described on the menu:\r\n<blockquote>Long before pizza became what it is today, it was a staple of rural Italian villages. Families would layer the freshest ingredients of the day on flatbread and bake it for dinner. The Pizza Rustica is made in that same style, filled with ricotta, mozzarella, prosciutto, sliced sausage and spinach. It is then given a large crust folded over the top of the filling. Truly a PIZZA PIE!</blockquote>\r\nThough after I read this description I turned to my husband and said something like, \"Honey, it says, \'Truly a PIZZA PIE\'. You know how I feel about pie. We have to get it,\' but I was sort of preaching to the choir at that point.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6598\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6598\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6598\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01580-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhy, hello.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6599\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6599\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6599\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015831-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee this? After a few garlic knots and this slice of Pizza Rustica, I was stuffed. Stuffed as in, I had to drive home with my pants unbuttoned. And unzipped. OK, I\'ll just say it: I completely removed my pants to drive home.\r\n\r\nNot really. But I wanted to. My full tummy wanted me to. My Spanx are no match for Andolini\'s Pizza Rustica.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6600\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6600\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6600\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01586-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s also offers calzones and strombolis (one of which is named Kona, another after Plato), sandwiches, pasta entrees (yes, including mac and cheese) and dessert, including an Italian butter cake. Which of course I didn\'t have because Pizza Rustica and my lungs were competing fiercely for space in my thoracic cavity by the time for dessert, but oh, man, it sounds pretty good. Especially the part where butter is mentioned.\r\n\r\nThe kids\' menu is nice and simple: Chicken bites and fries, a kid-sized portion of spaghetti with meatballs and a mini pizza, with nothing over $5.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6601\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6601\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6601\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01581-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe\'re pizza lovers, the Ball family. We\'re mutts with deep roots in the British Isles and the south-central American plains, but even so, we love the bread, the sauce and the cheese in the tradition of the Italians and the northeastern U.S.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6602\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6602\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6602\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015832-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMore on Andolinis:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>A Cherry Street location of Andolini\'s Pizzeria will open this month. I heard they were slated to be open by now, but the twin blizzards we had back in February delayed many a construction schedule, and the folks at Andolini\'s were not immune. Soon, though, find them at 1552 E. 15th Street.</li>\r\n	<li>Mike Bausch scored No. 5 in the nation and No. 2 in the midwest in the non-traditional category of the 2011 International Pizza Challenge in Las Vegas with his Semper Fi pizza. Big time stuff.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s posts contests just about every day on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their Facebook page</a>. Fans can win stuff ranging from an order of garlic knots to $50 Andolini\'s gift certificates.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s offers a mailing list. It\'s how I found out that on Tuesday, the second pizza you order is $2. As in, less than the price of a good cup of coffee. Find the sign-up form on <a href=\"http://www.andopizza.com/\">their website</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Looking for something to do with the kids? Andolini\'s offers pizza tours. Mike will teach your kids\' group about the history of pizza, and then he\'ll impart to you his award-winning dough-throwing skills. After, the kids get to help make their own pizzas. Cost is $5 per kiddo.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s serves <a href=\"http://www.marshallbrewing.com/\">Marshall IPA</a>. Why should you care? Because it\'s my favorite beer ever to drink with pizza, that\'s why. Also, because Marshall is brewed right here in Tulsa.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s delivers. Also, you can <a href=\"http://andopizza.hungerrush.com/\">order online</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Also? <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDUjhwyjPs\">Fresh</a>.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nAndolini\'s is open at their Owasso location daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m - Cherry Street hours to come.\r\n\r\n<strong>Andolini\'s Pizzeria</strong>\r\nOwasso: 12140 E. 96th St.\r\nCherry Street: 1552 E. 15th Street\r\nPhone (Owasso): (918) 272-9328\r\nHours: 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. daily\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630029/restaurant/Tulsa/Andolinis-Pizzeria-Owasso\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/630029/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria on Urbanspoon\" /></a>','Andolini\'s Pizzeria: Owasso Beginnings, a Cherry Street Debut and the Pizza Rustica that wouldn\'t quit','When someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner.','inherit','open','open','','6507-revision-7','','','2011-03-05 13:33:32','2011-03-05 19:33:32','',6507,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6507-revision-7/',0,'revision','',0),(6608,1,'2011-03-05 13:35:15','2011-03-05 19:35:15','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6588\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThere are Tulsans who take pride in admitting they don\'t emerge from the bounds of their neighborhoods. They\'re the same people who grin when they say they avoid 51st Street like the plague, whether they\'re coming from the north or the south. They\'re the ones who say they\'d never leave downtown if it had a grocery store. The ones who claim that the 15-minute drive from Jenks to Brookside is too long to drive to try a popular new restaurant.\r\n\r\nI admit that I, too, sometimes fall into this verve-limiting lifestyle. Humans, like water, will always be drawn the to path of least resistance.\r\n\r\nBut an empty belly, combined with the hooting and hollering of the citizen fooderati of the metro, has a way of shaking me out of my funk and putting me on the road in search of whatever is unfamiliar.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what had happened when my husband, our son and I pointed our car toward 96th Street North in Owasso. Our destination? Andolini\'s Pizzeria.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s wasn\'t exactly a new name for me. I\'d interviewed them for <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/main.asp?Search=1&amp;ArticleID=51060&amp;SectionID=21&amp;SubSectionID=77&amp;S=1\">a Tulsa Business Journal Story in May of last year about their expansion to Tulsa\'s Cherry Street</a> (more on that in a minute), and I\'d heard from far and wide the Bausch brothers, the masterminds behind the pies, are sticklers about using fresh and house-made ingredients.\r\n\r\nWhen someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner, 50-mile round trip be damned.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6590\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6590\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6590  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01590.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nIt\'s easy to notice that Andolini\'s is a family-friendly restaurant. Our server greeted us with a smile and a bowl of pizza dough for our son to play in. And, as we can all see in the photo above, play in it he did.\r\n\r\nIt seems like there are some restaurants serving high-quality food that are starting to understand that being family friendly doesn\'t necessarily have to mean compromising on atmosphere. I\'ve written about a few of them in my column on Tulsa\'s family-friendly restaurants in <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/\">TulsaKids Magazine</a>, and I always love adding new places to the list.\r\n\r\nBefore you order anything else at Andolini\'s, order these:\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6597\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6597\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6597  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01560.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nGarlic knots. The folks at Andolini\'s give them away all the time on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their highly active Facebook page</a>, but I\'d pay full price ($5.95) for them any day. Especially since one order is enough to fill up on before your pizza has a chance to make it to your table.\r\n\r\nWhat can I say? I like my garlic knots how I like my men: Light and fluffy on the inside, crisp, buttery and garlicky on the outside.\r\n\r\nHeh.\r\n\r\nOther Andolini\'s appetizers that caught my eye were Appian Way Meatballs ($6.95); the Panzanella Salad ($9.95), mixed field greens, prosciutto, balsamic dressing and shaved Pecorino Romano; and the Satriale\'s Salad ($6.95), a Romaine salad with prosciutto, Genoa salami, fresh mozz and a balsamic vinaigrette dressing.\r\n\r\nI have a little saying: These items are on my list. Which means everything I just mentioned will one day be commanded to get in my belly.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6588\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s serves a smattering of Italian dishes, but who are we trying to kid - you all want to hear about the pizza first, right? Right. So, here\'s the deal: Pizza at Andolini\'s comes as small as ten inches across or as large as 20 (the Oh-Wow-That\'s-Big size - their words, not mine), and toppings range from cheese and pepperoni to eggplant, Gorgonzola and portabello mushroom. Base prices for pizzas with a single topping range about $10 to $23.\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s has a list of their own pizza creations, too. One of them puts pepperoni, Canadian bacon, Genoa salami, pastrami, ground beef and Italian sausage all on one pizza. Another is sauced with pistachio pesto. And there\'s one called the Spring Street, the making of which inspired the Bausches to create a video.\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nThere you go, New York-style pizza lovers.\r\n\r\nAnother is called the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPQR\">SPQR</a>.\r\n\r\nRemember that? From The Gladiator? When Russell Crowe was scraping these letters from the tattoo on his upper arm? Hardcore.\r\n\r\nI mention this mostly because I want you all to think that I\'m cool enough to know these things. I\'m fragile like that.\r\n\r\nAnd there\'s the pizza we ordered: the Pizza Rustica. Here\'s how it\'s described on the menu:\r\n<blockquote>Long before pizza became what it is today, it was a staple of rural Italian villages. Families would layer the freshest ingredients of the day on flatbread and bake it for dinner. The Pizza Rustica is made in that same style, filled with ricotta, mozzarella, prosciutto, sliced sausage and spinach. It is then given a large crust folded over the top of the filling. Truly a PIZZA PIE!</blockquote>\r\nThough after I read this description I turned to my husband and said something like, \"Honey, it says, \'Truly a PIZZA PIE\'. You know how I feel about pie. We have to get it,\' but I was sort of preaching to the choir at that point.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6598\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6598\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6598\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01580-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhy, hello.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6599\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6599\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6599\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015831-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee this? After a few garlic knots and this slice of Pizza Rustica, I was stuffed. Stuffed as in, I had to drive home with my pants unbuttoned. And unzipped. OK, I\'ll just say it: I completely removed my pants to drive home.\r\n\r\nNot really. But I wanted to. My full tummy wanted me to. My Spanx are no match for Andolini\'s Pizza Rustica.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6600\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6600\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6600\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01586-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s also offers calzones and strombolis (one of which is named Kona, another after Plato), sandwiches, pasta entrees (yes, including mac and cheese) and dessert, including an Italian butter cake. Which of course I didn\'t have because Pizza Rustica and my lungs were competing fiercely for space in my thoracic cavity by the time for dessert, but oh, man, it sounds pretty good. Especially the part where butter is mentioned.\r\n\r\nThe kids\' menu is nice and simple: Chicken bites and fries, a kid-sized portion of spaghetti with meatballs and a mini pizza, with nothing over $5.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6601\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6601\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6601\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01581-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe\'re pizza lovers, the Ball family. We\'re mutts with deep roots in the British Isles and the south-central American plains, but even so, we love the bread, the sauce and the cheese in the tradition of the Italians and the northeastern U.S.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6602\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=6602\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6602\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015832-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMore on Andolinis:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>A Cherry Street location of Andolini\'s Pizzeria will open this month. I heard they were slated to be open by now, but the twin blizzards we had back in February delayed many a construction schedule, and the folks at Andolini\'s were not immune. Soon, though, find them at 1552 E. 15th Street.</li>\r\n	<li>Mike Bausch scored No. 5 in the nation and No. 2 in the midwest in the non-traditional category of the 2011 International Pizza Challenge in Las Vegas with his Semper Fi pizza. Big time stuff.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s posts contests just about every day on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their Facebook page</a>. Fans can win stuff ranging from an order of garlic knots to $50 Andolini\'s gift certificates.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s offers a mailing list. It\'s how I found out that on Tuesday, the second pizza you order is $2. As in, less than the price of a good cup of coffee. Find the sign-up form on <a href=\"http://www.andopizza.com/\">their website</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Looking for something to do with the kids? Andolini\'s offers pizza tours. Mike will teach your kids\' group about the history of pizza, and then he\'ll impart to you his award-winning dough-throwing skills. After, the kids get to help make their own pizzas. Cost is $5 per kiddo.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s serves <a href=\"http://www.marshallbrewing.com/\">Marshall IPA</a>. Why should you care? Because it\'s my favorite beer ever to drink with pizza, that\'s why. Also, because Marshall is brewed right here in Tulsa.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s delivers. Also, you can <a href=\"http://andopizza.hungerrush.com/\">order online</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Also? <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDUjhwyjPs\">Fresh</a>.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nAndolini\'s is open at their Owasso location daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m - Cherry Street hours to come.\r\n\r\n<strong>Andolini\'s Pizzeria</strong>\r\nOwasso: 12140 E. 96th St.\r\nCherry Street: 1552 E. 15th Street\r\nPhone (Owasso): (918) 272-9328\r\nHours: 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. daily\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630029/restaurant/Tulsa/Andolinis-Pizzeria-Owasso\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/630029/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria on Urbanspoon\" /></a>','Andolini\'s Pizzeria: Owasso Beginnings, a Cherry Street Debut and the Pizza Rustica that wouldn\'t quit','When someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner.','inherit','open','open','','6507-revision-8','','','2011-03-05 13:35:15','2011-03-05 19:35:15','',6507,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6507-revision-8/',0,'revision','',0),(6609,1,'2011-03-05 13:35:15','2011-03-05 19:35:15','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThere are Tulsans who take pride in admitting they don\'t emerge from the bounds of their neighborhoods. They\'re the same people who grin when they say they avoid 51st Street like the plague, whether they\'re coming from the north or the south. They\'re the ones who say they\'d never leave downtown if it had a grocery store. The ones who claim that the 15-minute drive from Jenks to Brookside is too long to drive to try a popular new restaurant.\r\n\r\nI admit that I, too, sometimes fall into this verve-limiting lifestyle. Humans, like water, will always be drawn the to path of least resistance.\r\n\r\nBut an empty belly, combined with the hooting and hollering of the citizen fooderati of the metro, has a way of shaking me out of my funk and putting me on the road in search of whatever is unfamiliar.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what had happened when my husband, our son and I pointed our car toward 96th Street North in Owasso. Our destination? Andolini\'s Pizzeria.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s wasn\'t exactly a new name for me. I\'d interviewed them for <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/main.asp?Search=1&amp;ArticleID=51060&amp;SectionID=21&amp;SubSectionID=77&amp;S=1\">a Tulsa Business Journal Story in May of last year about their expansion to Tulsa\'s Cherry Street</a> (more on that in a minute), and I\'d heard from far and wide the Bausch brothers, the masterminds behind the pies, are sticklers about using fresh and house-made ingredients.\r\n\r\nWhen someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner, 50-mile round trip be damned.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6590\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01590/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6590  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01590.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nIt\'s easy to notice that Andolini\'s is a family-friendly restaurant. Our server greeted us with a smile and a bowl of pizza dough for our son to play in. And, as we can all see in the photo above, play in it he did.\r\n\r\nIt seems like there are some restaurants serving high-quality food that are starting to understand that being family friendly doesn\'t necessarily have to mean compromising on atmosphere. I\'ve written about a few of them in my column on Tulsa\'s family-friendly restaurants in <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/\">TulsaKids Magazine</a>, and I always love adding new places to the list.\r\n\r\nBefore you order anything else at Andolini\'s, order these:\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6597\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01560/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6597  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01560.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nGarlic knots. The folks at Andolini\'s give them away all the time on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their highly active Facebook page</a>, but I\'d pay full price ($5.95) for them any day. Especially since one order is enough to fill up on before your pizza has a chance to make it to your table.\r\n\r\nWhat can I say? I like my garlic knots how I like my men: Light and fluffy on the inside, crisp, buttery and garlicky on the outside.\r\n\r\nHeh.\r\n\r\nOther Andolini\'s appetizers that caught my eye were Appian Way Meatballs ($6.95); the Panzanella Salad ($9.95), mixed field greens, prosciutto, balsamic dressing and shaved Pecorino Romano; and the Satriale\'s Salad ($6.95), a Romaine salad with prosciutto, Genoa salami, fresh mozz and a balsamic vinaigrette dressing.\r\n\r\nI have a little saying: These items are on my list. Which means everything I just mentioned will one day be commanded to get in my belly.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s serves a smattering of Italian dishes, but who are we trying to kid - you all want to hear about the pizza first, right? Right. So, here\'s the deal: Pizza at Andolini\'s comes as small as ten inches across or as large as 20 (the Oh-Wow-That\'s-Big size - their words, not mine), and toppings range from cheese and pepperoni to eggplant, Gorgonzola and portabello mushroom. Base prices for pizzas with a single topping range about $10 to $23.\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s has a list of their own pizza creations, too. One of them puts pepperoni, Canadian bacon, Genoa salami, pastrami, ground beef and Italian sausage all on one pizza. Another is sauced with pistachio pesto. And there\'s one called the Spring Street, the making of which inspired the Bausches to create a video.\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nThere you go, New York-style pizza lovers.\r\n\r\nAnother is called the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPQR\">SPQR</a>.\r\n\r\nRemember that? From The Gladiator? When Russell Crowe was scraping these letters from the tattoo on his upper arm? Hardcore.\r\n\r\nI mention this mostly because I want you all to think that I\'m cool enough to know these things. I\'m fragile like that.\r\n\r\nAnd there\'s the pizza we ordered: the Pizza Rustica. Here\'s how it\'s described on the menu:\r\n<blockquote>Long before pizza became what it is today, it was a staple of rural Italian villages. Families would layer the freshest ingredients of the day on flatbread and bake it for dinner. The Pizza Rustica is made in that same style, filled with ricotta, mozzarella, prosciutto, sliced sausage and spinach. It is then given a large crust folded over the top of the filling. Truly a PIZZA PIE!</blockquote>\r\nThough after I read this description I turned to my husband and said something like, \"Honey, it says, \'Truly a PIZZA PIE\'. You know how I feel about pie. We have to get it,\' but I was sort of preaching to the choir at that point.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6598\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01580/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6598\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01580-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhy, hello.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6599\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6599\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015831-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee this? After a few garlic knots and this slice of Pizza Rustica, I was stuffed. Stuffed as in, I had to drive home with my pants unbuttoned. And unzipped. OK, I\'ll just say it: I completely removed my pants to drive home.\r\n\r\nNot really. But I wanted to. My full tummy wanted me to. My Spanx are no match for Andolini\'s Pizza Rustica.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6600\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01586/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6600\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01586-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s also offers calzones and strombolis (one of which is named Kona, another after Plato), sandwiches, pasta entrees (yes, including mac and cheese) and dessert, including an Italian butter cake. Which of course I didn\'t have because Pizza Rustica and my lungs were competing fiercely for space in my thoracic cavity by the time for dessert, but oh, man, it sounds pretty good. Especially the part where butter is mentioned.\r\n\r\nThe kids\' menu is nice and simple: Chicken bites and fries, a kid-sized portion of spaghetti with meatballs and a mini pizza, with nothing over $5.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6601\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01581/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6601\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01581-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe\'re pizza lovers, the Ball family. We\'re mutts with deep roots in the British Isles and the south-central American plains, but even so, we love the bread, the sauce and the cheese in the tradition of the Italians and the northeastern U.S.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6602\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6602\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015832-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMore on Andolinis:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>A Cherry Street location of Andolini\'s Pizzeria will open this month. I heard they were slated to be open by now, but the twin blizzards we had back in February delayed many a construction schedule, and the folks at Andolini\'s were not immune. Soon, though, find them at 1552 E. 15th Street.</li>\r\n	<li>Mike Bausch scored No. 5 in the nation and No. 2 in the midwest in the non-traditional category of the 2011 International Pizza Challenge in Las Vegas with his Semper Fi pizza. Big time stuff.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s posts contests just about every day on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their Facebook page</a>. Fans can win stuff ranging from an order of garlic knots to $50 Andolini\'s gift certificates.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s offers a mailing list. It\'s how I found out that on Tuesday, the second pizza you order is $2. As in, less than the price of a good cup of coffee. Find the sign-up form on <a href=\"http://www.andopizza.com/\">their website</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Looking for something to do with the kids? Andolini\'s offers pizza tours. Mike will teach your kids\' group about the history of pizza, and then he\'ll impart to you his award-winning dough-throwing skills. After, the kids get to help make their own pizzas. Cost is $5 per kiddo.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s serves <a href=\"http://www.marshallbrewing.com/\">Marshall IPA</a>. Why should you care? Because it\'s my favorite beer ever to drink with pizza, that\'s why. Also, because Marshall is brewed right here in Tulsa.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s delivers. Also, you can <a href=\"http://andopizza.hungerrush.com/\">order online</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Also? <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDUjhwyjPs\">Fresh</a>.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nAndolini\'s is open at their Owasso location daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m - Cherry Street hours to come.\r\n\r\n<strong>Andolini\'s Pizzeria</strong>\r\nOwasso: 12140 E. 96th St.\r\nCherry Street: 1552 E. 15th Street\r\nPhone (Owasso): (918) 272-9328\r\nHours: 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. daily\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630029/restaurant/Tulsa/Andolinis-Pizzeria-Owasso\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/630029/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria on Urbanspoon\" /></a>','Andolini\'s Pizzeria: Owasso Beginnings, a Cherry Street Debut and the Pizza Rustica that wouldn\'t quit','When someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner.','inherit','open','open','','6507-revision-9','','','2011-03-05 13:35:15','2011-03-05 19:35:15','',6507,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6507-revision-9/',0,'revision','',0),(6610,1,'2011-03-05 13:37:59','2011-03-05 19:37:59','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThere are Tulsans who take pride in admitting they don\'t emerge from the bounds of their neighborhoods. They\'re the same people who grin when they say they avoid 51st Street, which acts as a sort of gateway from the north side of town to the south and vice versa, like the plague. They\'re the ones who say they\'d never leave downtown if it had a grocery store. The ones who claim that the 15-minute drive from Jenks to Brookside is too long to drive to try a popular new restaurant.\r\n\r\nI admit that I, too, sometimes fall into this verve-limiting lifestyle. Humans, like water, will always be drawn the to path of least resistance.\r\n\r\nBut an empty belly, combined with the hooting and hollering of the citizen fooderati of the metro, has a way of shaking me out of my funk and putting me on the road in search of whatever is unfamiliar.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what had happened when my husband, our son and I pointed our car toward 96th Street North in Owasso. Our destination? Andolini\'s Pizzeria.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s wasn\'t exactly a new name for me. I\'d interviewed them for <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/main.asp?Search=1&amp;ArticleID=51060&amp;SectionID=21&amp;SubSectionID=77&amp;S=1\">a Tulsa Business Journal Story in May of last year about their expansion to Tulsa\'s Cherry Street</a> (more on that in a minute), and I\'d heard from far and wide the Bausch brothers, the masterminds behind the pies, are sticklers about using fresh and house-made ingredients.\r\n\r\nWhen someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner, 50-mile round trip be damned.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6590\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01590/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6590  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01590.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nIt\'s easy to notice that Andolini\'s is a family-friendly restaurant. Our server greeted us with a smile and a bowl of pizza dough for our son to play in. And, as we can all see in the photo above, play in it he did.\r\n\r\nIt seems like there are some restaurants serving high-quality food that are starting to understand that being family friendly doesn\'t necessarily have to mean compromising on atmosphere. I\'ve written about a few of them in my column on Tulsa\'s family-friendly restaurants in <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/\">TulsaKids Magazine</a>, and I always love adding new places to the list.\r\n\r\nBefore you order anything else at Andolini\'s, order these:\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6597\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01560/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6597  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01560.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nGarlic knots. The folks at Andolini\'s give them away all the time on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their highly active Facebook page</a>, but I\'d pay full price ($5.95) for them any day. Especially since one order is enough to fill up on before your pizza has a chance to make it to your table.\r\n\r\nWhat can I say? I like my garlic knots how I like my men: Light and fluffy on the inside, crisp, buttery and garlicky on the outside.\r\n\r\nHeh.\r\n\r\nOther Andolini\'s appetizers that caught my eye were Appian Way Meatballs ($6.95); the Panzanella Salad ($9.95), mixed field greens, prosciutto, balsamic dressing and shaved Pecorino Romano; and the Satriale\'s Salad ($6.95), a Romaine salad with prosciutto, Genoa salami, fresh mozz and a balsamic vinaigrette dressing.\r\n\r\nI have a little saying: These items are on my list. Which means everything I just mentioned will one day be commanded to get in my belly.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s serves a smattering of Italian dishes, but who are we trying to kid - you all want to hear about the pizza first, right? Right. So, here\'s the deal: Pizza at Andolini\'s comes as small as ten inches across or as large as 20 (the Oh-Wow-That\'s-Big size - their words, not mine), and toppings range from cheese and pepperoni to eggplant, Gorgonzola and portabello mushroom. Base prices for pizzas with a single topping range about $10 to $23.\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s has a list of their own pizza creations, too. One of them puts pepperoni, Canadian bacon, Genoa salami, pastrami, ground beef and Italian sausage all on one pizza. Another is sauced with pistachio pesto. And there\'s one called the Spring Street, the making of which inspired the Bausches to create a video.\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nThere you go, New York-style pizza lovers.\r\n\r\nAnother is called the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPQR\">SPQR</a>.\r\n\r\nRemember that? From The Gladiator? When Russell Crowe was scraping these letters from the tattoo on his upper arm? Hardcore.\r\n\r\nI mention this mostly because I want you all to think that I\'m cool enough to know these things. I\'m fragile like that.\r\n\r\nAnd there\'s the pizza we ordered: the Pizza Rustica. Here\'s how it\'s described on the menu:\r\n<blockquote>Long before pizza became what it is today, it was a staple of rural Italian villages. Families would layer the freshest ingredients of the day on flatbread and bake it for dinner. The Pizza Rustica is made in that same style, filled with ricotta, mozzarella, prosciutto, sliced sausage and spinach. It is then given a large crust folded over the top of the filling. Truly a PIZZA PIE!</blockquote>\r\nThough after I read this description I turned to my husband and said something like, \"Honey, it says, \'Truly a PIZZA PIE\'. You know how I feel about pie. We have to get it,\' but I was sort of preaching to the choir at that point.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6598\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01580/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6598\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01580-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhy, hello.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6599\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6599\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015831-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee this? After a few garlic knots and this slice of Pizza Rustica, I was stuffed. Stuffed as in, I had to drive home with my pants unbuttoned. And unzipped. OK, I\'ll just say it: I completely removed my pants to drive home.\r\n\r\nNot really. But I wanted to. My full tummy wanted me to. My Spanx are no match for Andolini\'s Pizza Rustica.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6600\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01586/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6600\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01586-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s also offers calzones and strombolis (one of which is named Kona, another after Plato), sandwiches, pasta entrees (yes, including mac and cheese) and dessert, including an Italian butter cake. Which of course I didn\'t have because Pizza Rustica and my lungs were competing fiercely for space in my thoracic cavity by the time for dessert, but oh, man, it sounds pretty good. Especially the part where butter is mentioned.\r\n\r\nThe kids\' menu is nice and simple: Chicken bites and fries, a kid-sized portion of spaghetti with meatballs and a mini pizza, with nothing over $5.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6601\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01581/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6601\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01581-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe\'re pizza lovers, the Ball family. We\'re mutts with deep roots in the British Isles and the south-central American plains, but even so, we love the bread, the sauce and the cheese in the tradition of the Italians and the northeastern U.S.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6602\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6602\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015832-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMore on Andolinis:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>A Cherry Street location of Andolini\'s Pizzeria will open this month. I heard they were slated to be open by now, but the twin blizzards we had back in February delayed many a construction schedule, and the folks at Andolini\'s were not immune. Soon, though, find them at 1552 E. 15th Street.</li>\r\n	<li>Mike Bausch scored No. 5 in the nation and No. 2 in the midwest in the non-traditional category of the 2011 International Pizza Challenge in Las Vegas with his Semper Fi pizza. Big time stuff.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s posts contests just about every day on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their Facebook page</a>. Fans can win stuff ranging from an order of garlic knots to $50 Andolini\'s gift certificates.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s offers a mailing list. It\'s how I found out that on Tuesday, the second pizza you order is $2. As in, less than the price of a good cup of coffee. Find the sign-up form on <a href=\"http://www.andopizza.com/\">their website</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Looking for something to do with the kids? Andolini\'s offers pizza tours. Mike will teach your kids\' group about the history of pizza, and then he\'ll impart to you his award-winning dough-throwing skills. After, the kids get to help make their own pizzas. Cost is $5 per kiddo.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s serves <a href=\"http://www.marshallbrewing.com/\">Marshall IPA</a>. Why should you care? Because it\'s my favorite beer ever to drink with pizza, that\'s why. Also, because Marshall is brewed right here in Tulsa.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s delivers. Also, you can <a href=\"http://andopizza.hungerrush.com/\">order online</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Also? <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDUjhwyjPs\">Fresh</a>.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nAndolini\'s is open at their Owasso location daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m - Cherry Street hours to come.\r\n\r\n<strong>Andolini\'s Pizzeria</strong>\r\nOwasso: 12140 E. 96th St.\r\nCherry Street: 1552 E. 15th Street\r\nPhone (Owasso): (918) 272-9328\r\nHours: 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. daily\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630029/restaurant/Tulsa/Andolinis-Pizzeria-Owasso\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/630029/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria on Urbanspoon\" /></a>','Andolini\'s Pizzeria: Owasso Beginnings, a Cherry Street Debut and the Pizza Rustica that wouldn\'t quit','When someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner.','inherit','open','open','','6507-revision-10','','','2011-03-05 13:37:59','2011-03-05 19:37:59','',6507,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6507-revision-10/',0,'revision','',0),(6611,1,'2011-03-05 13:37:59','2011-03-05 19:37:59','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThere are Tulsans who take pride in admitting they don\'t emerge from the bounds of their neighborhoods. They\'re the same people who grin when they say they avoid 51st Street, which acts as a sort of gateway from the north side of town to the south and vice versa, like the plague. They\'re the ones who say they\'d never leave downtown if it had a grocery store. The ones who claim that the 15-minute drive from Jenks to Brookside is too long to drive to try a popular new restaurant.\r\n\r\nI admit that I, too, sometimes fall into this verve-limiting lifestyle. Humans, like water, will always be drawn the to path of least resistance.\r\n\r\nBut an empty belly, combined with the hooting and hollering of the citizen fooderati of the metro, has a way of shaking me out of my funk and putting me on the road in search of whatever is unfamiliar.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what had happened when my husband, our son and I pointed our car toward 96th Street North in Owasso. Our destination? Andolini\'s Pizzeria.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s wasn\'t exactly a new name for me. I\'d interviewed them for <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/main.asp?Search=1&amp;ArticleID=51060&amp;SectionID=21&amp;SubSectionID=77&amp;S=1\">a Tulsa Business Journal Story in May of last year about their expansion to Tulsa\'s Cherry Street</a> (more on that in a minute), and I\'d heard from far and wide the Bausch brothers, the masterminds behind the pies, are sticklers about using fresh and house-made ingredients.\r\n\r\nWhen someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner, 50-mile round trip be damned.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6590\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01590/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6590  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01590.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nIt\'s easy to notice that Andolini\'s is a family-friendly restaurant. Our server greeted us with a smile and a bowl of pizza dough for our son to play in. And, as we can all see in the photo above, play in it he did.\r\n\r\nIt seems like there are some restaurants serving high-quality food that are starting to understand that being family friendly doesn\'t necessarily have to mean compromising on atmosphere. I\'ve written about a few of them in my column on Tulsa\'s family-friendly restaurants in <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/\">TulsaKids Magazine</a>, and I always love adding new places to the list.\r\n\r\nBefore you order anything else at Andolini\'s, order these:\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6597\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01560/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6597  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01560.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nGarlic knots. The folks at Andolini\'s give them away all the time on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their highly active Facebook page</a>, but I\'d pay full price ($5.95) for them any day. Especially since one order is enough to fill up on before your pizza has a chance to make it to your table.\r\n\r\nWhat can I say? I like my garlic knots how I like my men: Light and fluffy on the inside, crisp, buttery and garlicky on the outside.\r\n\r\nHeh.\r\n\r\nOther Andolini\'s appetizers that caught my eye were Appian Way Meatballs ($6.95); the Panzanella Salad ($9.95), mixed field greens, prosciutto, balsamic dressing and shaved Pecorino Romano; and the Satriale\'s Salad ($6.95), a Romaine salad with prosciutto, Genoa salami, fresh mozz and a balsamic vinaigrette dressing.\r\n\r\nI have a little saying: These items are on my list. Which means everything I just mentioned will one day be commanded to get in my belly.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s serves a smattering of Italian dishes, but who are we trying to kid - you all want to hear about the pizza first, right? Right. So, here\'s the deal: Pizza at Andolini\'s comes as small as ten inches across or as large as 20 (the Oh-Wow-That\'s-Big size - their words, not mine), and toppings range from cheese and pepperoni to eggplant, Gorgonzola and portabello mushroom. Base prices for pizzas with a single topping range about $10 to $23.\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s has a list of their own pizza creations, too. One of them puts pepperoni, Canadian bacon, Genoa salami, pastrami, ground beef and Italian sausage all on one pizza. Another is sauced with pistachio pesto. And there\'s one called the Spring Street, the making of which inspired the Bausches to create a video.\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nThere you go, New York-style pizza lovers.\r\n\r\nAnother is called the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPQR\">SPQR</a>.\r\n\r\nRemember that? From The Gladiator? When Russell Crowe was scraping these letters from the tattoo on his upper arm? Hardcore.\r\n\r\nI mention this mostly because I want you all to think that I\'m cool enough to know these things. I\'m fragile like that.\r\n\r\nAnd there\'s the pizza we ordered: the Pizza Rustica. Here\'s how it\'s described on the menu:\r\n<blockquote>Long before pizza became what it is today, it was a staple of rural Italian villages. Families would layer the freshest ingredients of the day on flatbread and bake it for dinner. The Pizza Rustica is made in that same style, filled with ricotta, mozzarella, prosciutto, sliced sausage and spinach. It is then given a large crust folded over the top of the filling. Truly a PIZZA PIE!</blockquote>\r\nThough after I read this description I turned to my husband and said something like, \"Honey, it says, \'Truly a PIZZA PIE\'. You know how I feel about pie. We have to get it,\' but I was sort of preaching to the choir at that point.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6598\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01580/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6598\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01580-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhy, hello.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6599\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6599\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015831-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee this? After a few garlic knots and this slice of Pizza Rustica, I was stuffed. Stuffed as in, I had to drive home with my pants unbuttoned. And unzipped. OK, I\'ll just say it: I completely removed my pants to drive home.\r\n\r\nNot really. But I wanted to. My full tummy wanted me to. My Spanx are no match for Andolini\'s Pizza Rustica.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6600\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01586/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6600\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01586-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s also offers calzones and strombolis (one of which is named Kona, another after Plato), sandwiches, pasta entrees (yes, including mac and cheese) and dessert, including an Italian butter cake. Which of course I didn\'t have because Pizza Rustica and my lungs were competing fiercely for space in my thoracic cavity by the time for dessert, but oh, man, it sounds pretty good. Especially the part where butter is mentioned.\r\n\r\nThe kids\' menu is nice and simple: Chicken bites and fries, a kid-sized portion of spaghetti with meatballs and a mini pizza, with nothing over $5.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6601\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01581/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6601\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01581-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe\'re pizza lovers, the Ball family. We\'re mutts with deep roots in the British Isles and the south-central American plains, but even so, we love the bread, the sauce and the cheese in the tradition of the Italians and the northeastern U.S.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6602\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6602\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015832-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMore on Andolinis:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>A Cherry Street location of Andolini\'s Pizzeria will open this month. I heard they were slated to be open by now, but the twin blizzards we had back in February delayed many a construction schedule, and the folks at Andolini\'s were not immune. Soon, though, find them at 1552 E. 15th Street.</li>\r\n	<li>Mike Bausch scored No. 5 in the nation and No. 2 in the midwest in the non-traditional category of the 2011 International Pizza Challenge in Las Vegas with his Semper Fi pizza. Big time stuff.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s posts contests just about every day on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their Facebook page</a>. Fans can win stuff ranging from an order of garlic knots to $50 Andolini\'s gift certificates.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s offers a mailing list. It\'s how I found out that on Tuesday, the second pizza you order is $2. As in, less than the price of a good cup of coffee. Find the sign-up form on <a href=\"http://www.andopizza.com/\">their website</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Looking for something to do with the kids? Andolini\'s offers pizza tours. Mike will teach your kids\' group about the history of pizza, and then he\'ll impart to you his award-winning dough-throwing skills. After, the kids get to help make their own pizzas. Cost is $5 per kiddo.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s serves <a href=\"http://www.marshallbrewing.com/\">Marshall IPA</a>. Why should you care? Because it\'s my favorite beer ever to drink with pizza, that\'s why. Also, because Marshall is brewed right here in Tulsa.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s delivers. Also, you can <a href=\"http://andopizza.hungerrush.com/\">order online</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Also? <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDUjhwyjPs\">Fresh</a>.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nAndolini\'s is open at their Owasso location daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m - Cherry Street hours to come.\r\n\r\n<strong>Andolini\'s Pizzeria</strong>\r\nOwasso: 12140 E. 96th St.\r\nCherry Street: 1552 E. 15th Street\r\nPhone (Owasso): (918) 272-9328\r\nHours: 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. daily\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630029/restaurant/Tulsa/Andolinis-Pizzeria-Owasso\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/630029/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria on Urbanspoon\" /></a>','Andolini\'s Pizzeria: Owasso Beginnings, a Cherry Street Debut and the Pizza Rustica that wouldn\'t quit','When someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner.','inherit','open','open','','6507-revision-11','','','2011-03-05 13:37:59','2011-03-05 19:37:59','',6507,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6507-revision-11/',0,'revision','',0),(6612,1,'2011-03-05 13:39:24','2011-03-05 19:39:24','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThere are Tulsans who take pride in admitting they don\'t emerge from the bounds of their neighborhoods. They\'re the same people who grin when they say they avoid 51st Street, which acts as a sort of gateway from the north side of town to the south and vice versa, like the plague. They\'re the ones who say they\'d never leave downtown if it had a grocery store. The ones who claim that the 15-minute drive from Jenks to Brookside is too long to drive to try a popular new restaurant.\r\n\r\nI admit that I, too, sometimes fall into this verve-stunting lifestyle. Humans, like water, will always be drawn the to path of least resistance.\r\n\r\nBut an empty belly, combined with the hooting and hollering of the citizen fooderati of the metro, has a way of shaking me out of my funk and putting me on the road in search of whatever is unfamiliar.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what had happened when my husband, our son and I pointed our car toward 96th Street North in Owasso. Our destination? Andolini\'s Pizzeria.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s wasn\'t exactly a new name for me. I\'d interviewed them for <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/main.asp?Search=1&amp;ArticleID=51060&amp;SectionID=21&amp;SubSectionID=77&amp;S=1\">a Tulsa Business Journal Story in May of last year about their expansion to Tulsa\'s Cherry Street</a> (more on that in a minute), and I\'d heard from far and wide the Bausch brothers, the masterminds behind the pies, are sticklers about using fresh and house-made ingredients.\r\n\r\nWhen someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner, 50-mile round trip be damned.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6590\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01590/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6590  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01590.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nIt\'s easy to notice that Andolini\'s is a family-friendly restaurant. Our server greeted us with a smile and a bowl of pizza dough for our son to play in. And, as we can all see in the photo above, play in it he did.\r\n\r\nIt seems like there are some restaurants serving high-quality food that are starting to understand that being family friendly doesn\'t necessarily have to mean compromising on atmosphere. I\'ve written about a few of them in my column on Tulsa\'s family-friendly restaurants in <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/\">TulsaKids Magazine</a>, and I always love adding new places to the list.\r\n\r\nBefore you order anything else at Andolini\'s, order these:\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6597\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01560/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6597  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01560.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nGarlic knots. The folks at Andolini\'s give them away all the time on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their highly active Facebook page</a>, but I\'d pay full price ($5.95) for them any day. Especially since one order is enough to fill up on before your pizza has a chance to make it to your table.\r\n\r\nWhat can I say? I like my garlic knots how I like my men: Light and fluffy on the inside, crisp, buttery and garlicky on the outside.\r\n\r\nHeh.\r\n\r\nOther Andolini\'s appetizers that caught my eye were Appian Way Meatballs ($6.95); the Panzanella Salad ($9.95), mixed field greens, prosciutto, balsamic dressing and shaved Pecorino Romano; and the Satriale\'s Salad ($6.95), a Romaine salad with prosciutto, Genoa salami, fresh mozz and a balsamic vinaigrette dressing.\r\n\r\nI have a little saying: These items are on my list. Which means everything I just mentioned will one day be commanded to get in my belly.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s serves a smattering of Italian dishes, but who are we trying to kid - you all want to hear about the pizza first, right? Right. So, here\'s the deal: Pizza at Andolini\'s comes as small as ten inches across or as large as 20 (the Oh-Wow-That\'s-Big size - their words, not mine), and toppings range from cheese and pepperoni to eggplant, Gorgonzola and portabello mushroom. Base prices for pizzas with a single topping range about $10 to $23.\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s has a list of their own pizza creations, too. One of them puts pepperoni, Canadian bacon, Genoa salami, pastrami, ground beef and Italian sausage all on one pizza. Another is sauced with pistachio pesto. And there\'s one called the Spring Street, the making of which inspired the Bausches to create a video.\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nThere you go, New York-style pizza lovers.\r\n\r\nAnother is called the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPQR\">SPQR</a>.\r\n\r\nRemember that? From The Gladiator? When Russell Crowe was scraping these letters from the tattoo on his upper arm? Hardcore.\r\n\r\nI mention this mostly because I want you all to think that I\'m cool enough to know these things. I\'m fragile like that.\r\n\r\nAnd there\'s the pizza we ordered: the Pizza Rustica. Here\'s how it\'s described on the menu:\r\n<blockquote>Long before pizza became what it is today, it was a staple of rural Italian villages. Families would layer the freshest ingredients of the day on flatbread and bake it for dinner. The Pizza Rustica is made in that same style, filled with ricotta, mozzarella, prosciutto, sliced sausage and spinach. It is then given a large crust folded over the top of the filling. Truly a PIZZA PIE!</blockquote>\r\nThough after I read this description I turned to my husband and said something like, \"Honey, it says, \'Truly a PIZZA PIE\'. You know how I feel about pie. We have to get it,\' but I was sort of preaching to the choir at that point.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6598\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01580/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6598\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01580-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhy, hello.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6599\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6599\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015831-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee this? After a few garlic knots and this slice of Pizza Rustica, I was stuffed. Stuffed as in, I had to drive home with my pants unbuttoned. And unzipped. OK, I\'ll just say it: I completely removed my pants to drive home.\r\n\r\nNot really. But I wanted to. My full tummy wanted me to. My Spanx are no match for Andolini\'s Pizza Rustica.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6600\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01586/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6600\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01586-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s also offers calzones and strombolis (one of which is named Kona, another after Plato), sandwiches, pasta entrees (yes, including mac and cheese) and dessert, including an Italian butter cake. Which of course I didn\'t have because Pizza Rustica and my lungs were competing fiercely for space in my thoracic cavity by the time for dessert, but oh, man, it sounds pretty good. Especially the part where butter is mentioned.\r\n\r\nThe kids\' menu is nice and simple: Chicken bites and fries, a kid-sized portion of spaghetti with meatballs and a mini pizza, with nothing over $5.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6601\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01581/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6601\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01581-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe\'re pizza lovers, the Ball family. We\'re mutts with deep roots in the British Isles and the south-central American plains, but even so, we love the bread, the sauce and the cheese in the tradition of the Italians and the northeastern U.S.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6602\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6602\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015832-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMore on Andolinis:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>A Cherry Street location of Andolini\'s Pizzeria will open this month. I heard they were slated to be open by now, but the twin blizzards we had back in February delayed many a construction schedule, and the folks at Andolini\'s were not immune. Soon, though, find them at 1552 E. 15th Street.</li>\r\n	<li>Mike Bausch scored No. 5 in the nation and No. 2 in the midwest in the non-traditional category of the 2011 International Pizza Challenge in Las Vegas with his Semper Fi pizza. Big time stuff.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s posts contests just about every day on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their Facebook page</a>. Fans can win stuff ranging from an order of garlic knots to $50 Andolini\'s gift certificates.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s offers a mailing list. It\'s how I found out that on Tuesday, the second pizza you order is $2. As in, less than the price of a good cup of coffee. Find the sign-up form on <a href=\"http://www.andopizza.com/\">their website</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Looking for something to do with the kids? Andolini\'s offers pizza tours. Mike will teach your kids\' group about the history of pizza, and then he\'ll impart to you his award-winning dough-throwing skills. After, the kids get to help make their own pizzas. Cost is $5 per kiddo.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s serves <a href=\"http://www.marshallbrewing.com/\">Marshall IPA</a>. Why should you care? Because it\'s my favorite beer ever to drink with pizza, that\'s why. Also, because Marshall is brewed right here in Tulsa.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s delivers. Also, you can <a href=\"http://andopizza.hungerrush.com/\">order online</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Also? <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDUjhwyjPs\">Fresh</a>.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nAndolini\'s is open at their Owasso location daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m - Cherry Street hours to come.\r\n\r\n<strong>Andolini\'s Pizzeria</strong>\r\nOwasso: 12140 E. 96th St.\r\nCherry Street: 1552 E. 15th Street\r\nPhone (Owasso): (918) 272-9328\r\nHours: 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. daily\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630029/restaurant/Tulsa/Andolinis-Pizzeria-Owasso\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/630029/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria on Urbanspoon\" /></a>','Andolini\'s Pizzeria: Owasso Beginnings, a Cherry Street Debut and the Pizza Rustica that wouldn\'t quit','When someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner.','inherit','open','open','','6507-revision-12','','','2011-03-05 13:39:24','2011-03-05 19:39:24','',6507,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6507-revision-12/',0,'revision','',0),(6613,1,'2011-03-05 13:39:24','2011-03-05 19:39:24','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThere are Tulsans who take pride in admitting they don\'t emerge from the bounds of their neighborhoods. They\'re the same people who grin when they say they avoid 51st Street, which acts as a sort of gateway from the north side of town to the south and vice versa, like the plague. They\'re the ones who say they\'d never leave downtown if it had a grocery store. The ones who claim that the 15-minute drive from Jenks to Brookside is too long to drive to try a popular new restaurant.\r\n\r\nI admit that I, too, sometimes fall into this verve-stunting lifestyle. Humans, like water, will always be drawn the to path of least resistance.\r\n\r\nBut an empty belly, combined with the hooting and hollering of the citizen fooderati of the metro, has a way of shaking me out of my funk and putting me on the road in search of whatever is unfamiliar.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what had happened when my husband, our son and I pointed our car toward 96th Street North in Owasso. Our destination? Andolini\'s Pizzeria.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s wasn\'t exactly a new name for me. I\'d interviewed them for <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/main.asp?Search=1&amp;ArticleID=51060&amp;SectionID=21&amp;SubSectionID=77&amp;S=1\">a Tulsa Business Journal Story in May of last year about their expansion to Tulsa\'s Cherry Street</a> (more on that in a minute), and I\'d heard from far and wide the Bausch brothers, the masterminds behind the pies, are sticklers about using fresh and house-made ingredients.\r\n\r\nWhen someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner, 50-mile round trip be damned.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6590\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01590/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6590  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01590.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nIt\'s easy to notice that Andolini\'s is a family-friendly restaurant. Our server greeted us with a smile and a bowl of pizza dough for our son to play in. And, as we can all see in the photo above, play in it he did.\r\n\r\nIt seems like there are some restaurants serving high-quality food that are starting to understand that being family friendly doesn\'t necessarily have to mean compromising on atmosphere. I\'ve written about a few of them in my column on Tulsa\'s family-friendly restaurants in <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/\">TulsaKids Magazine</a>, and I always love adding new places to the list.\r\n\r\nBefore you order anything else at Andolini\'s, order these:\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6597\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01560/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6597  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01560.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nGarlic knots. The folks at Andolini\'s give them away all the time on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their highly active Facebook page</a>, but I\'d pay full price ($5.95) for them any day. Especially since one order is enough to fill up on before your pizza has a chance to make it to your table.\r\n\r\nWhat can I say? I like my garlic knots how I like my men: Light and fluffy on the inside, crisp, buttery and garlicky on the outside.\r\n\r\nHeh.\r\n\r\nOther Andolini\'s appetizers that caught my eye were Appian Way Meatballs ($6.95); the Panzanella Salad ($9.95), mixed field greens, prosciutto, balsamic dressing and shaved Pecorino Romano; and the Satriale\'s Salad ($6.95), a Romaine salad with prosciutto, Genoa salami, fresh mozz and a balsamic vinaigrette dressing.\r\n\r\nI have a little saying: These items are on my list. Which means everything I just mentioned will one day be commanded to get in my belly.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s serves a smattering of Italian dishes, but who are we trying to kid - you all want to hear about the pizza first, right? Right. So, here\'s the deal: Pizza at Andolini\'s comes as small as ten inches across or as large as 20 (the Oh-Wow-That\'s-Big size - their words, not mine), and toppings range from cheese and pepperoni to eggplant, Gorgonzola and portabello mushroom. Base prices for pizzas with a single topping range about $10 to $23.\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s has a list of their own pizza creations, too. One of them puts pepperoni, Canadian bacon, Genoa salami, pastrami, ground beef and Italian sausage all on one pizza. Another is sauced with pistachio pesto. And there\'s one called the Spring Street, the making of which inspired the Bausches to create a video.\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nThere you go, New York-style pizza lovers.\r\n\r\nAnother is called the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPQR\">SPQR</a>.\r\n\r\nRemember that? From The Gladiator? When Russell Crowe was scraping these letters from the tattoo on his upper arm? Hardcore.\r\n\r\nI mention this mostly because I want you all to think that I\'m cool enough to know these things. I\'m fragile like that.\r\n\r\nAnd there\'s the pizza we ordered: the Pizza Rustica. Here\'s how it\'s described on the menu:\r\n<blockquote>Long before pizza became what it is today, it was a staple of rural Italian villages. Families would layer the freshest ingredients of the day on flatbread and bake it for dinner. The Pizza Rustica is made in that same style, filled with ricotta, mozzarella, prosciutto, sliced sausage and spinach. It is then given a large crust folded over the top of the filling. Truly a PIZZA PIE!</blockquote>\r\nThough after I read this description I turned to my husband and said something like, \"Honey, it says, \'Truly a PIZZA PIE\'. You know how I feel about pie. We have to get it,\' but I was sort of preaching to the choir at that point.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6598\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01580/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6598\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01580-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhy, hello.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6599\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6599\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015831-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee this? After a few garlic knots and this slice of Pizza Rustica, I was stuffed. Stuffed as in, I had to drive home with my pants unbuttoned. And unzipped. OK, I\'ll just say it: I completely removed my pants to drive home.\r\n\r\nNot really. But I wanted to. My full tummy wanted me to. My Spanx are no match for Andolini\'s Pizza Rustica.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6600\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01586/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6600\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01586-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s also offers calzones and strombolis (one of which is named Kona, another after Plato), sandwiches, pasta entrees (yes, including mac and cheese) and dessert, including an Italian butter cake. Which of course I didn\'t have because Pizza Rustica and my lungs were competing fiercely for space in my thoracic cavity by the time for dessert, but oh, man, it sounds pretty good. Especially the part where butter is mentioned.\r\n\r\nThe kids\' menu is nice and simple: Chicken bites and fries, a kid-sized portion of spaghetti with meatballs and a mini pizza, with nothing over $5.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6601\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01581/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6601\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01581-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe\'re pizza lovers, the Ball family. We\'re mutts with deep roots in the British Isles and the south-central American plains, but even so, we love the bread, the sauce and the cheese in the tradition of the Italians and the northeastern U.S.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6602\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6602\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015832-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMore on Andolinis:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>A Cherry Street location of Andolini\'s Pizzeria will open this month. I heard they were slated to be open by now, but the twin blizzards we had back in February delayed many a construction schedule, and the folks at Andolini\'s were not immune. Soon, though, find them at 1552 E. 15th Street.</li>\r\n	<li>Mike Bausch scored No. 5 in the nation and No. 2 in the midwest in the non-traditional category of the 2011 International Pizza Challenge in Las Vegas with his Semper Fi pizza. Big time stuff.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s posts contests just about every day on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their Facebook page</a>. Fans can win stuff ranging from an order of garlic knots to $50 Andolini\'s gift certificates.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s offers a mailing list. It\'s how I found out that on Tuesday, the second pizza you order is $2. As in, less than the price of a good cup of coffee. Find the sign-up form on <a href=\"http://www.andopizza.com/\">their website</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Looking for something to do with the kids? Andolini\'s offers pizza tours. Mike will teach your kids\' group about the history of pizza, and then he\'ll impart to you his award-winning dough-throwing skills. After, the kids get to help make their own pizzas. Cost is $5 per kiddo.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s serves <a href=\"http://www.marshallbrewing.com/\">Marshall IPA</a>. Why should you care? Because it\'s my favorite beer ever to drink with pizza, that\'s why. Also, because Marshall is brewed right here in Tulsa.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s delivers. Also, you can <a href=\"http://andopizza.hungerrush.com/\">order online</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Also? <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDUjhwyjPs\">Fresh</a>.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nAndolini\'s is open at their Owasso location daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m - Cherry Street hours to come.\r\n\r\n<strong>Andolini\'s Pizzeria</strong>\r\nOwasso: 12140 E. 96th St.\r\nCherry Street: 1552 E. 15th Street\r\nPhone (Owasso): (918) 272-9328\r\nHours: 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. daily\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630029/restaurant/Tulsa/Andolinis-Pizzeria-Owasso\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/630029/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria on Urbanspoon\" /></a>','Andolini\'s Pizzeria: Owasso Beginnings, a Cherry Street Debut and the Pizza Rustica that wouldn\'t quit','When someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner.','inherit','open','open','','6507-revision-13','','','2011-03-05 13:39:24','2011-03-05 19:39:24','',6507,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6507-revision-13/',0,'revision','',0),(6614,1,'2011-03-05 13:40:16','2011-03-05 19:40:16','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThere are Tulsans who take pride in admitting they don\'t emerge from the bounds of their neighborhoods. They\'re the same people who grin when they say they avoid 51st Street, which acts as a sort of gateway from the north side of town to the south and vice versa, like the plague. They\'re the ones who say they\'d never leave downtown if it had a grocery store. The ones who claim that the 15-minute drive from Jenks to Brookside is too long to try a popular new restaurant.\r\n\r\nI admit that I, too, sometimes fall into this verve-stunting lifestyle. Humans, like water, will always be drawn the to path of least resistance.\r\n\r\nBut an empty belly, combined with the hooting and hollering of the citizen fooderati of the metro, has a way of shaking me out of my funk and putting me on the road in search of whatever is unfamiliar.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what had happened when my husband, our son and I pointed our car toward 96th Street North in Owasso. Our destination? Andolini\'s Pizzeria.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s wasn\'t exactly a new name for me. I\'d interviewed them for <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/main.asp?Search=1&amp;ArticleID=51060&amp;SectionID=21&amp;SubSectionID=77&amp;S=1\">a Tulsa Business Journal Story in May of last year about their expansion to Tulsa\'s Cherry Street</a> (more on that in a minute), and I\'d heard from far and wide the Bausch brothers, the masterminds behind the pies, are sticklers about using fresh and house-made ingredients.\r\n\r\nWhen someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner, 50-mile round trip be damned.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6590\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01590/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6590  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01590.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nIt\'s easy to notice that Andolini\'s is a family-friendly restaurant. Our server greeted us with a smile and a bowl of pizza dough for our son to play in. And, as we can all see in the photo above, play in it he did.\r\n\r\nIt seems like there are some restaurants serving high-quality food that are starting to understand that being family friendly doesn\'t necessarily have to mean compromising on atmosphere. I\'ve written about a few of them in my column on Tulsa\'s family-friendly restaurants in <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/\">TulsaKids Magazine</a>, and I always love adding new places to the list.\r\n\r\nBefore you order anything else at Andolini\'s, order these:\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6597\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01560/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6597  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01560.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nGarlic knots. The folks at Andolini\'s give them away all the time on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their highly active Facebook page</a>, but I\'d pay full price ($5.95) for them any day. Especially since one order is enough to fill up on before your pizza has a chance to make it to your table.\r\n\r\nWhat can I say? I like my garlic knots how I like my men: Light and fluffy on the inside, crisp, buttery and garlicky on the outside.\r\n\r\nHeh.\r\n\r\nOther Andolini\'s appetizers that caught my eye were Appian Way Meatballs ($6.95); the Panzanella Salad ($9.95), mixed field greens, prosciutto, balsamic dressing and shaved Pecorino Romano; and the Satriale\'s Salad ($6.95), a Romaine salad with prosciutto, Genoa salami, fresh mozz and a balsamic vinaigrette dressing.\r\n\r\nI have a little saying: These items are on my list. Which means everything I just mentioned will one day be commanded to get in my belly.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s serves a smattering of Italian dishes, but who are we trying to kid - you all want to hear about the pizza first, right? Right. So, here\'s the deal: Pizza at Andolini\'s comes as small as ten inches across or as large as 20 (the Oh-Wow-That\'s-Big size - their words, not mine), and toppings range from cheese and pepperoni to eggplant, Gorgonzola and portabello mushroom. Base prices for pizzas with a single topping range about $10 to $23.\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s has a list of their own pizza creations, too. One of them puts pepperoni, Canadian bacon, Genoa salami, pastrami, ground beef and Italian sausage all on one pizza. Another is sauced with pistachio pesto. And there\'s one called the Spring Street, the making of which inspired the Bausches to create a video.\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nThere you go, New York-style pizza lovers.\r\n\r\nAnother is called the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPQR\">SPQR</a>.\r\n\r\nRemember that? From The Gladiator? When Russell Crowe was scraping these letters from the tattoo on his upper arm? Hardcore.\r\n\r\nI mention this mostly because I want you all to think that I\'m cool enough to know these things. I\'m fragile like that.\r\n\r\nAnd there\'s the pizza we ordered: the Pizza Rustica. Here\'s how it\'s described on the menu:\r\n<blockquote>Long before pizza became what it is today, it was a staple of rural Italian villages. Families would layer the freshest ingredients of the day on flatbread and bake it for dinner. The Pizza Rustica is made in that same style, filled with ricotta, mozzarella, prosciutto, sliced sausage and spinach. It is then given a large crust folded over the top of the filling. Truly a PIZZA PIE!</blockquote>\r\nThough after I read this description I turned to my husband and said something like, \"Honey, it says, \'Truly a PIZZA PIE\'. You know how I feel about pie. We have to get it,\' but I was sort of preaching to the choir at that point.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6598\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01580/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6598\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01580-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhy, hello.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6599\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6599\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015831-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee this? After a few garlic knots and this slice of Pizza Rustica, I was stuffed. Stuffed as in, I had to drive home with my pants unbuttoned. And unzipped. OK, I\'ll just say it: I completely removed my pants to drive home.\r\n\r\nNot really. But I wanted to. My full tummy wanted me to. My Spanx are no match for Andolini\'s Pizza Rustica.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6600\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01586/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6600\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01586-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s also offers calzones and strombolis (one of which is named Kona, another after Plato), sandwiches, pasta entrees (yes, including mac and cheese) and dessert, including an Italian butter cake. Which of course I didn\'t have because Pizza Rustica and my lungs were competing fiercely for space in my thoracic cavity by the time for dessert, but oh, man, it sounds pretty good. Especially the part where butter is mentioned.\r\n\r\nThe kids\' menu is nice and simple: Chicken bites and fries, a kid-sized portion of spaghetti with meatballs and a mini pizza, with nothing over $5.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6601\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01581/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6601\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01581-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe\'re pizza lovers, the Ball family. We\'re mutts with deep roots in the British Isles and the south-central American plains, but even so, we love the bread, the sauce and the cheese in the tradition of the Italians and the northeastern U.S.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6602\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6602\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015832-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMore on Andolinis:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>A Cherry Street location of Andolini\'s Pizzeria will open this month. I heard they were slated to be open by now, but the twin blizzards we had back in February delayed many a construction schedule, and the folks at Andolini\'s were not immune. Soon, though, find them at 1552 E. 15th Street.</li>\r\n	<li>Mike Bausch scored No. 5 in the nation and No. 2 in the midwest in the non-traditional category of the 2011 International Pizza Challenge in Las Vegas with his Semper Fi pizza. Big time stuff.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s posts contests just about every day on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their Facebook page</a>. Fans can win stuff ranging from an order of garlic knots to $50 Andolini\'s gift certificates.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s offers a mailing list. It\'s how I found out that on Tuesday, the second pizza you order is $2. As in, less than the price of a good cup of coffee. Find the sign-up form on <a href=\"http://www.andopizza.com/\">their website</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Looking for something to do with the kids? Andolini\'s offers pizza tours. Mike will teach your kids\' group about the history of pizza, and then he\'ll impart to you his award-winning dough-throwing skills. After, the kids get to help make their own pizzas. Cost is $5 per kiddo.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s serves <a href=\"http://www.marshallbrewing.com/\">Marshall IPA</a>. Why should you care? Because it\'s my favorite beer ever to drink with pizza, that\'s why. Also, because Marshall is brewed right here in Tulsa.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s delivers. Also, you can <a href=\"http://andopizza.hungerrush.com/\">order online</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Also? <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDUjhwyjPs\">Fresh</a>.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nAndolini\'s is open at their Owasso location daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m - Cherry Street hours to come.\r\n\r\n<strong>Andolini\'s Pizzeria</strong>\r\nOwasso: 12140 E. 96th St.\r\nCherry Street: 1552 E. 15th Street\r\nPhone (Owasso): (918) 272-9328\r\nHours: 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. daily\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630029/restaurant/Tulsa/Andolinis-Pizzeria-Owasso\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/630029/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria on Urbanspoon\" /></a>','Andolini\'s Pizzeria: Owasso Beginnings, a Cherry Street Debut and the Pizza Rustica that wouldn\'t quit','When someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner.','inherit','open','open','','6507-revision-14','','','2011-03-05 13:40:16','2011-03-05 19:40:16','',6507,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6507-revision-14/',0,'revision','',0),(6615,1,'2011-03-05 13:40:16','2011-03-05 19:40:16','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThere are Tulsans who take pride in admitting they don\'t emerge from the bounds of their neighborhoods. They\'re the same people who grin when they say they avoid 51st Street, which acts as a sort of gateway from the north side of town to the south and vice versa, like the plague. They\'re the ones who say they\'d never leave downtown if it had a grocery store. The ones who claim that the 15-minute drive from Jenks to Brookside is too long to try a popular new restaurant.\r\n\r\nI admit that I, too, sometimes fall into this verve-stunting lifestyle. Humans, like water, will always be drawn the to path of least resistance.\r\n\r\nBut an empty belly, combined with the hooting and hollering of the citizen fooderati of the metro, has a way of shaking me out of my funk and putting me on the road in search of whatever is unfamiliar.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what had happened when my husband, our son and I pointed our car toward 96th Street North in Owasso. Our destination? Andolini\'s Pizzeria.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s wasn\'t exactly a new name for me. I\'d interviewed them for <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/main.asp?Search=1&amp;ArticleID=51060&amp;SectionID=21&amp;SubSectionID=77&amp;S=1\">a Tulsa Business Journal Story in May of last year about their expansion to Tulsa\'s Cherry Street</a> (more on that in a minute), and I\'d heard from far and wide the Bausch brothers, the masterminds behind the pies, are sticklers about using fresh and house-made ingredients.\r\n\r\nWhen someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner, 50-mile round trip be damned.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6590\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01590/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6590  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01590.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nIt\'s easy to notice that Andolini\'s is a family-friendly restaurant. Our server greeted us with a smile and a bowl of pizza dough for our son to play in. And, as we can all see in the photo above, play in it he did.\r\n\r\nIt seems like there are some restaurants serving high-quality food that are starting to understand that being family friendly doesn\'t necessarily have to mean compromising on atmosphere. I\'ve written about a few of them in my column on Tulsa\'s family-friendly restaurants in <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/\">TulsaKids Magazine</a>, and I always love adding new places to the list.\r\n\r\nBefore you order anything else at Andolini\'s, order these:\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6597\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01560/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6597  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01560.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nGarlic knots. The folks at Andolini\'s give them away all the time on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their highly active Facebook page</a>, but I\'d pay full price ($5.95) for them any day. Especially since one order is enough to fill up on before your pizza has a chance to make it to your table.\r\n\r\nWhat can I say? I like my garlic knots how I like my men: Light and fluffy on the inside, crisp, buttery and garlicky on the outside.\r\n\r\nHeh.\r\n\r\nOther Andolini\'s appetizers that caught my eye were Appian Way Meatballs ($6.95); the Panzanella Salad ($9.95), mixed field greens, prosciutto, balsamic dressing and shaved Pecorino Romano; and the Satriale\'s Salad ($6.95), a Romaine salad with prosciutto, Genoa salami, fresh mozz and a balsamic vinaigrette dressing.\r\n\r\nI have a little saying: These items are on my list. Which means everything I just mentioned will one day be commanded to get in my belly.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s serves a smattering of Italian dishes, but who are we trying to kid - you all want to hear about the pizza first, right? Right. So, here\'s the deal: Pizza at Andolini\'s comes as small as ten inches across or as large as 20 (the Oh-Wow-That\'s-Big size - their words, not mine), and toppings range from cheese and pepperoni to eggplant, Gorgonzola and portabello mushroom. Base prices for pizzas with a single topping range about $10 to $23.\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s has a list of their own pizza creations, too. One of them puts pepperoni, Canadian bacon, Genoa salami, pastrami, ground beef and Italian sausage all on one pizza. Another is sauced with pistachio pesto. And there\'s one called the Spring Street, the making of which inspired the Bausches to create a video.\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nThere you go, New York-style pizza lovers.\r\n\r\nAnother is called the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPQR\">SPQR</a>.\r\n\r\nRemember that? From The Gladiator? When Russell Crowe was scraping these letters from the tattoo on his upper arm? Hardcore.\r\n\r\nI mention this mostly because I want you all to think that I\'m cool enough to know these things. I\'m fragile like that.\r\n\r\nAnd there\'s the pizza we ordered: the Pizza Rustica. Here\'s how it\'s described on the menu:\r\n<blockquote>Long before pizza became what it is today, it was a staple of rural Italian villages. Families would layer the freshest ingredients of the day on flatbread and bake it for dinner. The Pizza Rustica is made in that same style, filled with ricotta, mozzarella, prosciutto, sliced sausage and spinach. It is then given a large crust folded over the top of the filling. Truly a PIZZA PIE!</blockquote>\r\nThough after I read this description I turned to my husband and said something like, \"Honey, it says, \'Truly a PIZZA PIE\'. You know how I feel about pie. We have to get it,\' but I was sort of preaching to the choir at that point.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6598\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01580/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6598\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01580-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhy, hello.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6599\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6599\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015831-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee this? After a few garlic knots and this slice of Pizza Rustica, I was stuffed. Stuffed as in, I had to drive home with my pants unbuttoned. And unzipped. OK, I\'ll just say it: I completely removed my pants to drive home.\r\n\r\nNot really. But I wanted to. My full tummy wanted me to. My Spanx are no match for Andolini\'s Pizza Rustica.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6600\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01586/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6600\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01586-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s also offers calzones and strombolis (one of which is named Kona, another after Plato), sandwiches, pasta entrees (yes, including mac and cheese) and dessert, including an Italian butter cake. Which of course I didn\'t have because Pizza Rustica and my lungs were competing fiercely for space in my thoracic cavity by the time for dessert, but oh, man, it sounds pretty good. Especially the part where butter is mentioned.\r\n\r\nThe kids\' menu is nice and simple: Chicken bites and fries, a kid-sized portion of spaghetti with meatballs and a mini pizza, with nothing over $5.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6601\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01581/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6601\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01581-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe\'re pizza lovers, the Ball family. We\'re mutts with deep roots in the British Isles and the south-central American plains, but even so, we love the bread, the sauce and the cheese in the tradition of the Italians and the northeastern U.S.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6602\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6602\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015832-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMore on Andolinis:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>A Cherry Street location of Andolini\'s Pizzeria will open this month. I heard they were slated to be open by now, but the twin blizzards we had back in February delayed many a construction schedule, and the folks at Andolini\'s were not immune. Soon, though, find them at 1552 E. 15th Street.</li>\r\n	<li>Mike Bausch scored No. 5 in the nation and No. 2 in the midwest in the non-traditional category of the 2011 International Pizza Challenge in Las Vegas with his Semper Fi pizza. Big time stuff.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s posts contests just about every day on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their Facebook page</a>. Fans can win stuff ranging from an order of garlic knots to $50 Andolini\'s gift certificates.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s offers a mailing list. It\'s how I found out that on Tuesday, the second pizza you order is $2. As in, less than the price of a good cup of coffee. Find the sign-up form on <a href=\"http://www.andopizza.com/\">their website</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Looking for something to do with the kids? Andolini\'s offers pizza tours. Mike will teach your kids\' group about the history of pizza, and then he\'ll impart to you his award-winning dough-throwing skills. After, the kids get to help make their own pizzas. Cost is $5 per kiddo.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s serves <a href=\"http://www.marshallbrewing.com/\">Marshall IPA</a>. Why should you care? Because it\'s my favorite beer ever to drink with pizza, that\'s why. Also, because Marshall is brewed right here in Tulsa.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s delivers. Also, you can <a href=\"http://andopizza.hungerrush.com/\">order online</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Also? <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDUjhwyjPs\">Fresh</a>.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nAndolini\'s is open at their Owasso location daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m - Cherry Street hours to come.\r\n\r\n<strong>Andolini\'s Pizzeria</strong>\r\nOwasso: 12140 E. 96th St.\r\nCherry Street: 1552 E. 15th Street\r\nPhone (Owasso): (918) 272-9328\r\nHours: 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. daily\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630029/restaurant/Tulsa/Andolinis-Pizzeria-Owasso\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/630029/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria on Urbanspoon\" /></a>','Andolini\'s Pizzeria: Owasso Beginnings, a Cherry Street Debut and the Pizza Rustica that wouldn\'t quit','When someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner.','inherit','open','open','','6507-revision-15','','','2011-03-05 13:40:16','2011-03-05 19:40:16','',6507,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6507-revision-15/',0,'revision','',0),(6616,1,'2011-03-05 13:40:25','2011-03-05 19:40:25','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThere are Tulsans who take pride in admitting they don\'t emerge from the bounds of their neighborhoods. They\'re the same people who grin when they say they avoid 51st Street, which acts as a sort of gateway from the north side of town to the south and vice versa, like the plague. They\'re the ones who say they\'d never leave downtown if it had a grocery store. The ones who claim that the 15-minute drive from Jenks to Brookside is too long, even to try a popular new restaurant.\r\n\r\nI admit that I, too, sometimes fall into this verve-stunting lifestyle. Humans, like water, will always be drawn the to path of least resistance.\r\n\r\nBut an empty belly, combined with the hooting and hollering of the citizen fooderati of the metro, has a way of shaking me out of my funk and putting me on the road in search of whatever is unfamiliar.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what had happened when my husband, our son and I pointed our car toward 96th Street North in Owasso. Our destination? Andolini\'s Pizzeria.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s wasn\'t exactly a new name for me. I\'d interviewed them for <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/main.asp?Search=1&amp;ArticleID=51060&amp;SectionID=21&amp;SubSectionID=77&amp;S=1\">a Tulsa Business Journal Story in May of last year about their expansion to Tulsa\'s Cherry Street</a> (more on that in a minute), and I\'d heard from far and wide the Bausch brothers, the masterminds behind the pies, are sticklers about using fresh and house-made ingredients.\r\n\r\nWhen someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner, 50-mile round trip be damned.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6590\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01590/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6590  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01590.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nIt\'s easy to notice that Andolini\'s is a family-friendly restaurant. Our server greeted us with a smile and a bowl of pizza dough for our son to play in. And, as we can all see in the photo above, play in it he did.\r\n\r\nIt seems like there are some restaurants serving high-quality food that are starting to understand that being family friendly doesn\'t necessarily have to mean compromising on atmosphere. I\'ve written about a few of them in my column on Tulsa\'s family-friendly restaurants in <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/\">TulsaKids Magazine</a>, and I always love adding new places to the list.\r\n\r\nBefore you order anything else at Andolini\'s, order these:\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6597\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01560/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6597  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01560.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nGarlic knots. The folks at Andolini\'s give them away all the time on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their highly active Facebook page</a>, but I\'d pay full price ($5.95) for them any day. Especially since one order is enough to fill up on before your pizza has a chance to make it to your table.\r\n\r\nWhat can I say? I like my garlic knots how I like my men: Light and fluffy on the inside, crisp, buttery and garlicky on the outside.\r\n\r\nHeh.\r\n\r\nOther Andolini\'s appetizers that caught my eye were Appian Way Meatballs ($6.95); the Panzanella Salad ($9.95), mixed field greens, prosciutto, balsamic dressing and shaved Pecorino Romano; and the Satriale\'s Salad ($6.95), a Romaine salad with prosciutto, Genoa salami, fresh mozz and a balsamic vinaigrette dressing.\r\n\r\nI have a little saying: These items are on my list. Which means everything I just mentioned will one day be commanded to get in my belly.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s serves a smattering of Italian dishes, but who are we trying to kid - you all want to hear about the pizza first, right? Right. So, here\'s the deal: Pizza at Andolini\'s comes as small as ten inches across or as large as 20 (the Oh-Wow-That\'s-Big size - their words, not mine), and toppings range from cheese and pepperoni to eggplant, Gorgonzola and portabello mushroom. Base prices for pizzas with a single topping range about $10 to $23.\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s has a list of their own pizza creations, too. One of them puts pepperoni, Canadian bacon, Genoa salami, pastrami, ground beef and Italian sausage all on one pizza. Another is sauced with pistachio pesto. And there\'s one called the Spring Street, the making of which inspired the Bausches to create a video.\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nThere you go, New York-style pizza lovers.\r\n\r\nAnother is called the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPQR\">SPQR</a>.\r\n\r\nRemember that? From The Gladiator? When Russell Crowe was scraping these letters from the tattoo on his upper arm? Hardcore.\r\n\r\nI mention this mostly because I want you all to think that I\'m cool enough to know these things. I\'m fragile like that.\r\n\r\nAnd there\'s the pizza we ordered: the Pizza Rustica. Here\'s how it\'s described on the menu:\r\n<blockquote>Long before pizza became what it is today, it was a staple of rural Italian villages. Families would layer the freshest ingredients of the day on flatbread and bake it for dinner. The Pizza Rustica is made in that same style, filled with ricotta, mozzarella, prosciutto, sliced sausage and spinach. It is then given a large crust folded over the top of the filling. Truly a PIZZA PIE!</blockquote>\r\nThough after I read this description I turned to my husband and said something like, \"Honey, it says, \'Truly a PIZZA PIE\'. You know how I feel about pie. We have to get it,\' but I was sort of preaching to the choir at that point.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6598\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01580/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6598\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01580-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhy, hello.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6599\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6599\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015831-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee this? After a few garlic knots and this slice of Pizza Rustica, I was stuffed. Stuffed as in, I had to drive home with my pants unbuttoned. And unzipped. OK, I\'ll just say it: I completely removed my pants to drive home.\r\n\r\nNot really. But I wanted to. My full tummy wanted me to. My Spanx are no match for Andolini\'s Pizza Rustica.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6600\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01586/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6600\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01586-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s also offers calzones and strombolis (one of which is named Kona, another after Plato), sandwiches, pasta entrees (yes, including mac and cheese) and dessert, including an Italian butter cake. Which of course I didn\'t have because Pizza Rustica and my lungs were competing fiercely for space in my thoracic cavity by the time for dessert, but oh, man, it sounds pretty good. Especially the part where butter is mentioned.\r\n\r\nThe kids\' menu is nice and simple: Chicken bites and fries, a kid-sized portion of spaghetti with meatballs and a mini pizza, with nothing over $5.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6601\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01581/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6601\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01581-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe\'re pizza lovers, the Ball family. We\'re mutts with deep roots in the British Isles and the south-central American plains, but even so, we love the bread, the sauce and the cheese in the tradition of the Italians and the northeastern U.S.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6602\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6602\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015832-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMore on Andolinis:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>A Cherry Street location of Andolini\'s Pizzeria will open this month. I heard they were slated to be open by now, but the twin blizzards we had back in February delayed many a construction schedule, and the folks at Andolini\'s were not immune. Soon, though, find them at 1552 E. 15th Street.</li>\r\n	<li>Mike Bausch scored No. 5 in the nation and No. 2 in the midwest in the non-traditional category of the 2011 International Pizza Challenge in Las Vegas with his Semper Fi pizza. Big time stuff.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s posts contests just about every day on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their Facebook page</a>. Fans can win stuff ranging from an order of garlic knots to $50 Andolini\'s gift certificates.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s offers a mailing list. It\'s how I found out that on Tuesday, the second pizza you order is $2. As in, less than the price of a good cup of coffee. Find the sign-up form on <a href=\"http://www.andopizza.com/\">their website</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Looking for something to do with the kids? Andolini\'s offers pizza tours. Mike will teach your kids\' group about the history of pizza, and then he\'ll impart to you his award-winning dough-throwing skills. After, the kids get to help make their own pizzas. Cost is $5 per kiddo.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s serves <a href=\"http://www.marshallbrewing.com/\">Marshall IPA</a>. Why should you care? Because it\'s my favorite beer ever to drink with pizza, that\'s why. Also, because Marshall is brewed right here in Tulsa.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s delivers. Also, you can <a href=\"http://andopizza.hungerrush.com/\">order online</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Also? <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDUjhwyjPs\">Fresh</a>.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nAndolini\'s is open at their Owasso location daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m - Cherry Street hours to come.\r\n\r\n<strong>Andolini\'s Pizzeria</strong>\r\nOwasso: 12140 E. 96th St.\r\nCherry Street: 1552 E. 15th Street\r\nPhone (Owasso): (918) 272-9328\r\nHours: 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. daily\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630029/restaurant/Tulsa/Andolinis-Pizzeria-Owasso\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/630029/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria on Urbanspoon\" /></a>','Andolini\'s Pizzeria: Owasso Beginnings, a Cherry Street Debut and the Pizza Rustica that wouldn\'t quit','When someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner.','inherit','open','open','','6507-revision-16','','','2011-03-05 13:40:25','2011-03-05 19:40:25','',6507,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6507-revision-16/',0,'revision','',0),(6617,1,'2011-03-05 13:40:25','2011-03-05 19:40:25','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThere are Tulsans who take pride in admitting they don\'t emerge from the bounds of their neighborhoods. They\'re the same people who grin when they say they avoid 51st Street, which acts as a sort of gateway from the north side of town to the south and vice versa, like the plague. They\'re the ones who say they\'d never leave downtown if it had a grocery store. The ones who claim that the 15-minute drive from Jenks to Brookside is too long, even to try a popular new restaurant.\r\n\r\nI admit that I, too, sometimes fall into this verve-stunting lifestyle. Humans, like water, will always be drawn the to path of least resistance.\r\n\r\nBut an empty belly, combined with the hooting and hollering of the citizen fooderati of the metro, has a way of shaking me out of my funk and putting me on the road in search of whatever is unfamiliar.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what had happened when my husband, our son and I pointed our car toward 96th Street North in Owasso. Our destination? Andolini\'s Pizzeria.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s wasn\'t exactly a new name for me. I\'d interviewed them for <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/main.asp?Search=1&amp;ArticleID=51060&amp;SectionID=21&amp;SubSectionID=77&amp;S=1\">a Tulsa Business Journal Story in May of last year about their expansion to Tulsa\'s Cherry Street</a> (more on that in a minute), and I\'d heard from far and wide the Bausch brothers, the masterminds behind the pies, are sticklers about using fresh and house-made ingredients.\r\n\r\nWhen someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner, 50-mile round trip be damned.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6590\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01590/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6590  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01590.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nIt\'s easy to notice that Andolini\'s is a family-friendly restaurant. Our server greeted us with a smile and a bowl of pizza dough for our son to play in. And, as we can all see in the photo above, play in it he did.\r\n\r\nIt seems like there are some restaurants serving high-quality food that are starting to understand that being family friendly doesn\'t necessarily have to mean compromising on atmosphere. I\'ve written about a few of them in my column on Tulsa\'s family-friendly restaurants in <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/\">TulsaKids Magazine</a>, and I always love adding new places to the list.\r\n\r\nBefore you order anything else at Andolini\'s, order these:\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6597\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01560/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6597  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01560.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nGarlic knots. The folks at Andolini\'s give them away all the time on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their highly active Facebook page</a>, but I\'d pay full price ($5.95) for them any day. Especially since one order is enough to fill up on before your pizza has a chance to make it to your table.\r\n\r\nWhat can I say? I like my garlic knots how I like my men: Light and fluffy on the inside, crisp, buttery and garlicky on the outside.\r\n\r\nHeh.\r\n\r\nOther Andolini\'s appetizers that caught my eye were Appian Way Meatballs ($6.95); the Panzanella Salad ($9.95), mixed field greens, prosciutto, balsamic dressing and shaved Pecorino Romano; and the Satriale\'s Salad ($6.95), a Romaine salad with prosciutto, Genoa salami, fresh mozz and a balsamic vinaigrette dressing.\r\n\r\nI have a little saying: These items are on my list. Which means everything I just mentioned will one day be commanded to get in my belly.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s serves a smattering of Italian dishes, but who are we trying to kid - you all want to hear about the pizza first, right? Right. So, here\'s the deal: Pizza at Andolini\'s comes as small as ten inches across or as large as 20 (the Oh-Wow-That\'s-Big size - their words, not mine), and toppings range from cheese and pepperoni to eggplant, Gorgonzola and portabello mushroom. Base prices for pizzas with a single topping range about $10 to $23.\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s has a list of their own pizza creations, too. One of them puts pepperoni, Canadian bacon, Genoa salami, pastrami, ground beef and Italian sausage all on one pizza. Another is sauced with pistachio pesto. And there\'s one called the Spring Street, the making of which inspired the Bausches to create a video.\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nThere you go, New York-style pizza lovers.\r\n\r\nAnother is called the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPQR\">SPQR</a>.\r\n\r\nRemember that? From The Gladiator? When Russell Crowe was scraping these letters from the tattoo on his upper arm? Hardcore.\r\n\r\nI mention this mostly because I want you all to think that I\'m cool enough to know these things. I\'m fragile like that.\r\n\r\nAnd there\'s the pizza we ordered: the Pizza Rustica. Here\'s how it\'s described on the menu:\r\n<blockquote>Long before pizza became what it is today, it was a staple of rural Italian villages. Families would layer the freshest ingredients of the day on flatbread and bake it for dinner. The Pizza Rustica is made in that same style, filled with ricotta, mozzarella, prosciutto, sliced sausage and spinach. It is then given a large crust folded over the top of the filling. Truly a PIZZA PIE!</blockquote>\r\nThough after I read this description I turned to my husband and said something like, \"Honey, it says, \'Truly a PIZZA PIE\'. You know how I feel about pie. We have to get it,\' but I was sort of preaching to the choir at that point.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6598\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01580/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6598\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01580-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhy, hello.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6599\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6599\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015831-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee this? After a few garlic knots and this slice of Pizza Rustica, I was stuffed. Stuffed as in, I had to drive home with my pants unbuttoned. And unzipped. OK, I\'ll just say it: I completely removed my pants to drive home.\r\n\r\nNot really. But I wanted to. My full tummy wanted me to. My Spanx are no match for Andolini\'s Pizza Rustica.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6600\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01586/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6600\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01586-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s also offers calzones and strombolis (one of which is named Kona, another after Plato), sandwiches, pasta entrees (yes, including mac and cheese) and dessert, including an Italian butter cake. Which of course I didn\'t have because Pizza Rustica and my lungs were competing fiercely for space in my thoracic cavity by the time for dessert, but oh, man, it sounds pretty good. Especially the part where butter is mentioned.\r\n\r\nThe kids\' menu is nice and simple: Chicken bites and fries, a kid-sized portion of spaghetti with meatballs and a mini pizza, with nothing over $5.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6601\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01581/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6601\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01581-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe\'re pizza lovers, the Ball family. We\'re mutts with deep roots in the British Isles and the south-central American plains, but even so, we love the bread, the sauce and the cheese in the tradition of the Italians and the northeastern U.S.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6602\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6602\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015832-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMore on Andolinis:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>A Cherry Street location of Andolini\'s Pizzeria will open this month. I heard they were slated to be open by now, but the twin blizzards we had back in February delayed many a construction schedule, and the folks at Andolini\'s were not immune. Soon, though, find them at 1552 E. 15th Street.</li>\r\n	<li>Mike Bausch scored No. 5 in the nation and No. 2 in the midwest in the non-traditional category of the 2011 International Pizza Challenge in Las Vegas with his Semper Fi pizza. Big time stuff.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s posts contests just about every day on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their Facebook page</a>. Fans can win stuff ranging from an order of garlic knots to $50 Andolini\'s gift certificates.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s offers a mailing list. It\'s how I found out that on Tuesday, the second pizza you order is $2. As in, less than the price of a good cup of coffee. Find the sign-up form on <a href=\"http://www.andopizza.com/\">their website</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Looking for something to do with the kids? Andolini\'s offers pizza tours. Mike will teach your kids\' group about the history of pizza, and then he\'ll impart to you his award-winning dough-throwing skills. After, the kids get to help make their own pizzas. Cost is $5 per kiddo.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s serves <a href=\"http://www.marshallbrewing.com/\">Marshall IPA</a>. Why should you care? Because it\'s my favorite beer ever to drink with pizza, that\'s why. Also, because Marshall is brewed right here in Tulsa.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s delivers. Also, you can <a href=\"http://andopizza.hungerrush.com/\">order online</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Also? <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDUjhwyjPs\">Fresh</a>.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nAndolini\'s is open at their Owasso location daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m - Cherry Street hours to come.\r\n\r\n<strong>Andolini\'s Pizzeria</strong>\r\nOwasso: 12140 E. 96th St.\r\nCherry Street: 1552 E. 15th Street\r\nPhone (Owasso): (918) 272-9328\r\nHours: 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. daily\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630029/restaurant/Tulsa/Andolinis-Pizzeria-Owasso\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/630029/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria on Urbanspoon\" /></a>','Andolini\'s Pizzeria: Owasso Beginnings, a Cherry Street Debut and the Pizza Rustica that wouldn\'t quit','When someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner.','inherit','open','open','','6507-revision-17','','','2011-03-05 13:40:25','2011-03-05 19:40:25','',6507,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6507-revision-17/',0,'revision','',0),(6618,1,'2011-03-05 13:40:55','2011-03-05 19:40:55','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThere are Tulsans who seem to take pride in admitting they don\'t emerge from the bounds of their neighborhoods. They\'re the same people who grin when they say they avoid 51st Street, which acts as a sort of gateway from the north side of town to the south and vice versa, like the plague. They\'re the ones who say they\'d never leave downtown if it had a grocery store. The ones who claim that the 15-minute drive from Jenks to Brookside is too long, even to try a popular new restaurant.\r\n\r\nI admit that I, too, sometimes fall into this verve-stunting lifestyle. Humans, like water, will always be drawn the to path of least resistance.\r\n\r\nBut an empty belly, combined with the hooting and hollering of the citizen fooderati of the metro, has a way of shaking me out of my funk and putting me on the road in search of whatever is unfamiliar.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what had happened when my husband, our son and I pointed our car toward 96th Street North in Owasso. Our destination? Andolini\'s Pizzeria.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s wasn\'t exactly a new name for me. I\'d interviewed them for <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/main.asp?Search=1&amp;ArticleID=51060&amp;SectionID=21&amp;SubSectionID=77&amp;S=1\">a Tulsa Business Journal Story in May of last year about their expansion to Tulsa\'s Cherry Street</a> (more on that in a minute), and I\'d heard from far and wide the Bausch brothers, the masterminds behind the pies, are sticklers about using fresh and house-made ingredients.\r\n\r\nWhen someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner, 50-mile round trip be damned.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6590\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01590/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6590  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01590.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nIt\'s easy to notice that Andolini\'s is a family-friendly restaurant. Our server greeted us with a smile and a bowl of pizza dough for our son to play in. And, as we can all see in the photo above, play in it he did.\r\n\r\nIt seems like there are some restaurants serving high-quality food that are starting to understand that being family friendly doesn\'t necessarily have to mean compromising on atmosphere. I\'ve written about a few of them in my column on Tulsa\'s family-friendly restaurants in <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/\">TulsaKids Magazine</a>, and I always love adding new places to the list.\r\n\r\nBefore you order anything else at Andolini\'s, order these:\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6597\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01560/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6597  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01560.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nGarlic knots. The folks at Andolini\'s give them away all the time on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their highly active Facebook page</a>, but I\'d pay full price ($5.95) for them any day. Especially since one order is enough to fill up on before your pizza has a chance to make it to your table.\r\n\r\nWhat can I say? I like my garlic knots how I like my men: Light and fluffy on the inside, crisp, buttery and garlicky on the outside.\r\n\r\nHeh.\r\n\r\nOther Andolini\'s appetizers that caught my eye were Appian Way Meatballs ($6.95); the Panzanella Salad ($9.95), mixed field greens, prosciutto, balsamic dressing and shaved Pecorino Romano; and the Satriale\'s Salad ($6.95), a Romaine salad with prosciutto, Genoa salami, fresh mozz and a balsamic vinaigrette dressing.\r\n\r\nI have a little saying: These items are on my list. Which means everything I just mentioned will one day be commanded to get in my belly.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s serves a smattering of Italian dishes, but who are we trying to kid - you all want to hear about the pizza first, right? Right. So, here\'s the deal: Pizza at Andolini\'s comes as small as ten inches across or as large as 20 (the Oh-Wow-That\'s-Big size - their words, not mine), and toppings range from cheese and pepperoni to eggplant, Gorgonzola and portabello mushroom. Base prices for pizzas with a single topping range about $10 to $23.\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s has a list of their own pizza creations, too. One of them puts pepperoni, Canadian bacon, Genoa salami, pastrami, ground beef and Italian sausage all on one pizza. Another is sauced with pistachio pesto. And there\'s one called the Spring Street, the making of which inspired the Bausches to create a video.\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nThere you go, New York-style pizza lovers.\r\n\r\nAnother is called the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPQR\">SPQR</a>.\r\n\r\nRemember that? From The Gladiator? When Russell Crowe was scraping these letters from the tattoo on his upper arm? Hardcore.\r\n\r\nI mention this mostly because I want you all to think that I\'m cool enough to know these things. I\'m fragile like that.\r\n\r\nAnd there\'s the pizza we ordered: the Pizza Rustica. Here\'s how it\'s described on the menu:\r\n<blockquote>Long before pizza became what it is today, it was a staple of rural Italian villages. Families would layer the freshest ingredients of the day on flatbread and bake it for dinner. The Pizza Rustica is made in that same style, filled with ricotta, mozzarella, prosciutto, sliced sausage and spinach. It is then given a large crust folded over the top of the filling. Truly a PIZZA PIE!</blockquote>\r\nThough after I read this description I turned to my husband and said something like, \"Honey, it says, \'Truly a PIZZA PIE\'. You know how I feel about pie. We have to get it,\' but I was sort of preaching to the choir at that point.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6598\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01580/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6598\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01580-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhy, hello.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6599\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6599\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015831-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee this? After a few garlic knots and this slice of Pizza Rustica, I was stuffed. Stuffed as in, I had to drive home with my pants unbuttoned. And unzipped. OK, I\'ll just say it: I completely removed my pants to drive home.\r\n\r\nNot really. But I wanted to. My full tummy wanted me to. My Spanx are no match for Andolini\'s Pizza Rustica.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6600\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01586/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6600\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01586-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s also offers calzones and strombolis (one of which is named Kona, another after Plato), sandwiches, pasta entrees (yes, including mac and cheese) and dessert, including an Italian butter cake. Which of course I didn\'t have because Pizza Rustica and my lungs were competing fiercely for space in my thoracic cavity by the time for dessert, but oh, man, it sounds pretty good. Especially the part where butter is mentioned.\r\n\r\nThe kids\' menu is nice and simple: Chicken bites and fries, a kid-sized portion of spaghetti with meatballs and a mini pizza, with nothing over $5.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6601\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01581/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6601\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01581-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe\'re pizza lovers, the Ball family. We\'re mutts with deep roots in the British Isles and the south-central American plains, but even so, we love the bread, the sauce and the cheese in the tradition of the Italians and the northeastern U.S.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6602\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6602\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015832-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMore on Andolinis:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>A Cherry Street location of Andolini\'s Pizzeria will open this month. I heard they were slated to be open by now, but the twin blizzards we had back in February delayed many a construction schedule, and the folks at Andolini\'s were not immune. Soon, though, find them at 1552 E. 15th Street.</li>\r\n	<li>Mike Bausch scored No. 5 in the nation and No. 2 in the midwest in the non-traditional category of the 2011 International Pizza Challenge in Las Vegas with his Semper Fi pizza. Big time stuff.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s posts contests just about every day on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their Facebook page</a>. Fans can win stuff ranging from an order of garlic knots to $50 Andolini\'s gift certificates.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s offers a mailing list. It\'s how I found out that on Tuesday, the second pizza you order is $2. As in, less than the price of a good cup of coffee. Find the sign-up form on <a href=\"http://www.andopizza.com/\">their website</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Looking for something to do with the kids? Andolini\'s offers pizza tours. Mike will teach your kids\' group about the history of pizza, and then he\'ll impart to you his award-winning dough-throwing skills. After, the kids get to help make their own pizzas. Cost is $5 per kiddo.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s serves <a href=\"http://www.marshallbrewing.com/\">Marshall IPA</a>. Why should you care? Because it\'s my favorite beer ever to drink with pizza, that\'s why. Also, because Marshall is brewed right here in Tulsa.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s delivers. Also, you can <a href=\"http://andopizza.hungerrush.com/\">order online</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Also? <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDUjhwyjPs\">Fresh</a>.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nAndolini\'s is open at their Owasso location daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m - Cherry Street hours to come.\r\n\r\n<strong>Andolini\'s Pizzeria</strong>\r\nOwasso: 12140 E. 96th St.\r\nCherry Street: 1552 E. 15th Street\r\nPhone (Owasso): (918) 272-9328\r\nHours: 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. daily\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630029/restaurant/Tulsa/Andolinis-Pizzeria-Owasso\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/630029/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria on Urbanspoon\" /></a>','Andolini\'s Pizzeria: Owasso Beginnings, a Cherry Street Debut and the Pizza Rustica that wouldn\'t quit','When someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner.','inherit','open','open','','6507-revision-18','','','2011-03-05 13:40:55','2011-03-05 19:40:55','',6507,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6507-revision-18/',0,'revision','',0),(6619,1,'2011-03-05 13:40:55','2011-03-05 19:40:55','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThere are Tulsans who seem to take pride in admitting they don\'t emerge from the bounds of their neighborhoods. They\'re the same people who grin when they say they avoid 51st Street, which acts as a sort of gateway from the north side of town to the south and vice versa, like the plague. They\'re the ones who say they\'d never leave downtown if it had a grocery store. The ones who claim that the 15-minute drive from Jenks to Brookside is too long, even to try a popular new restaurant.\r\n\r\nI admit that I, too, sometimes fall into this verve-stunting lifestyle. Humans, like water, will always be drawn the to path of least resistance.\r\n\r\nBut an empty belly, combined with the hooting and hollering of the citizen fooderati of the metro, has a way of shaking me out of my funk and putting me on the road in search of whatever is unfamiliar.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what had happened when my husband, our son and I pointed our car toward 96th Street North in Owasso. Our destination? Andolini\'s Pizzeria.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s wasn\'t exactly a new name for me. I\'d interviewed them for <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/main.asp?Search=1&amp;ArticleID=51060&amp;SectionID=21&amp;SubSectionID=77&amp;S=1\">a Tulsa Business Journal Story in May of last year about their expansion to Tulsa\'s Cherry Street</a> (more on that in a minute), and I\'d heard from far and wide the Bausch brothers, the masterminds behind the pies, are sticklers about using fresh and house-made ingredients.\r\n\r\nWhen someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner, 50-mile round trip be damned.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6590\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01590/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6590  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01590.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nIt\'s easy to notice that Andolini\'s is a family-friendly restaurant. Our server greeted us with a smile and a bowl of pizza dough for our son to play in. And, as we can all see in the photo above, play in it he did.\r\n\r\nIt seems like there are some restaurants serving high-quality food that are starting to understand that being family friendly doesn\'t necessarily have to mean compromising on atmosphere. I\'ve written about a few of them in my column on Tulsa\'s family-friendly restaurants in <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/\">TulsaKids Magazine</a>, and I always love adding new places to the list.\r\n\r\nBefore you order anything else at Andolini\'s, order these:\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6597\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01560/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6597  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01560.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nGarlic knots. The folks at Andolini\'s give them away all the time on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their highly active Facebook page</a>, but I\'d pay full price ($5.95) for them any day. Especially since one order is enough to fill up on before your pizza has a chance to make it to your table.\r\n\r\nWhat can I say? I like my garlic knots how I like my men: Light and fluffy on the inside, crisp, buttery and garlicky on the outside.\r\n\r\nHeh.\r\n\r\nOther Andolini\'s appetizers that caught my eye were Appian Way Meatballs ($6.95); the Panzanella Salad ($9.95), mixed field greens, prosciutto, balsamic dressing and shaved Pecorino Romano; and the Satriale\'s Salad ($6.95), a Romaine salad with prosciutto, Genoa salami, fresh mozz and a balsamic vinaigrette dressing.\r\n\r\nI have a little saying: These items are on my list. Which means everything I just mentioned will one day be commanded to get in my belly.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s serves a smattering of Italian dishes, but who are we trying to kid - you all want to hear about the pizza first, right? Right. So, here\'s the deal: Pizza at Andolini\'s comes as small as ten inches across or as large as 20 (the Oh-Wow-That\'s-Big size - their words, not mine), and toppings range from cheese and pepperoni to eggplant, Gorgonzola and portabello mushroom. Base prices for pizzas with a single topping range about $10 to $23.\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s has a list of their own pizza creations, too. One of them puts pepperoni, Canadian bacon, Genoa salami, pastrami, ground beef and Italian sausage all on one pizza. Another is sauced with pistachio pesto. And there\'s one called the Spring Street, the making of which inspired the Bausches to create a video.\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nThere you go, New York-style pizza lovers.\r\n\r\nAnother is called the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPQR\">SPQR</a>.\r\n\r\nRemember that? From The Gladiator? When Russell Crowe was scraping these letters from the tattoo on his upper arm? Hardcore.\r\n\r\nI mention this mostly because I want you all to think that I\'m cool enough to know these things. I\'m fragile like that.\r\n\r\nAnd there\'s the pizza we ordered: the Pizza Rustica. Here\'s how it\'s described on the menu:\r\n<blockquote>Long before pizza became what it is today, it was a staple of rural Italian villages. Families would layer the freshest ingredients of the day on flatbread and bake it for dinner. The Pizza Rustica is made in that same style, filled with ricotta, mozzarella, prosciutto, sliced sausage and spinach. It is then given a large crust folded over the top of the filling. Truly a PIZZA PIE!</blockquote>\r\nThough after I read this description I turned to my husband and said something like, \"Honey, it says, \'Truly a PIZZA PIE\'. You know how I feel about pie. We have to get it,\' but I was sort of preaching to the choir at that point.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6598\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01580/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6598\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01580-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhy, hello.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6599\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6599\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015831-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee this? After a few garlic knots and this slice of Pizza Rustica, I was stuffed. Stuffed as in, I had to drive home with my pants unbuttoned. And unzipped. OK, I\'ll just say it: I completely removed my pants to drive home.\r\n\r\nNot really. But I wanted to. My full tummy wanted me to. My Spanx are no match for Andolini\'s Pizza Rustica.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6600\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01586/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6600\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01586-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s also offers calzones and strombolis (one of which is named Kona, another after Plato), sandwiches, pasta entrees (yes, including mac and cheese) and dessert, including an Italian butter cake. Which of course I didn\'t have because Pizza Rustica and my lungs were competing fiercely for space in my thoracic cavity by the time for dessert, but oh, man, it sounds pretty good. Especially the part where butter is mentioned.\r\n\r\nThe kids\' menu is nice and simple: Chicken bites and fries, a kid-sized portion of spaghetti with meatballs and a mini pizza, with nothing over $5.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6601\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01581/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6601\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01581-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe\'re pizza lovers, the Ball family. We\'re mutts with deep roots in the British Isles and the south-central American plains, but even so, we love the bread, the sauce and the cheese in the tradition of the Italians and the northeastern U.S.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6602\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6602\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015832-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMore on Andolinis:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>A Cherry Street location of Andolini\'s Pizzeria will open this month. I heard they were slated to be open by now, but the twin blizzards we had back in February delayed many a construction schedule, and the folks at Andolini\'s were not immune. Soon, though, find them at 1552 E. 15th Street.</li>\r\n	<li>Mike Bausch scored No. 5 in the nation and No. 2 in the midwest in the non-traditional category of the 2011 International Pizza Challenge in Las Vegas with his Semper Fi pizza. Big time stuff.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s posts contests just about every day on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their Facebook page</a>. Fans can win stuff ranging from an order of garlic knots to $50 Andolini\'s gift certificates.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s offers a mailing list. It\'s how I found out that on Tuesday, the second pizza you order is $2. As in, less than the price of a good cup of coffee. Find the sign-up form on <a href=\"http://www.andopizza.com/\">their website</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Looking for something to do with the kids? Andolini\'s offers pizza tours. Mike will teach your kids\' group about the history of pizza, and then he\'ll impart to you his award-winning dough-throwing skills. After, the kids get to help make their own pizzas. Cost is $5 per kiddo.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s serves <a href=\"http://www.marshallbrewing.com/\">Marshall IPA</a>. Why should you care? Because it\'s my favorite beer ever to drink with pizza, that\'s why. Also, because Marshall is brewed right here in Tulsa.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s delivers. Also, you can <a href=\"http://andopizza.hungerrush.com/\">order online</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Also? <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDUjhwyjPs\">Fresh</a>.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nAndolini\'s is open at their Owasso location daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m - Cherry Street hours to come.\r\n\r\n<strong>Andolini\'s Pizzeria</strong>\r\nOwasso: 12140 E. 96th St.\r\nCherry Street: 1552 E. 15th Street\r\nPhone (Owasso): (918) 272-9328\r\nHours: 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. daily\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630029/restaurant/Tulsa/Andolinis-Pizzeria-Owasso\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/630029/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria on Urbanspoon\" /></a>','Andolini\'s Pizzeria: Owasso Beginnings, a Cherry Street Debut and the Pizza Rustica that wouldn\'t quit','When someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner.','inherit','open','open','','6507-revision-19','','','2011-03-05 13:40:55','2011-03-05 19:40:55','',6507,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6507-revision-19/',0,'revision','',0),(6620,1,'2011-03-05 13:42:07','2011-03-05 19:42:07','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThere are Tulsans who seem to take pride in admitting they don\'t emerge from the bounds of their neighborhoods. They\'re the same people who grin when they say they avoid 51st Street, which acts as a sort of gateway from the north side of town to the south and vice versa, like the plague. They\'re the ones who say they\'d never leave downtown if it had a grocery store. The ones who claim that the 15-minute drive from Jenks to Brookside is too long, even to try a popular new restaurant.\r\n\r\nI admit that I, too, sometimes fall into this verve-stunting lifestyle. Humans, like water, will always be drawn the to path of least resistance.\r\n\r\nBut an empty belly, combined with the hooting and hollering of the citizen fooderati of the metro, has a way of shaking me out of my funk and putting me on the road in search of something unfamiliar. And yummy.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what had happened when my husband, our son and I pointed our car toward 96th Street North in Owasso. Our destination? Andolini\'s Pizzeria.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s wasn\'t exactly a new name for me. I\'d interviewed them for <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/main.asp?Search=1&amp;ArticleID=51060&amp;SectionID=21&amp;SubSectionID=77&amp;S=1\">a Tulsa Business Journal Story in May of last year about their expansion to Tulsa\'s Cherry Street</a> (more on that in a minute), and I\'d heard from far and wide the Bausch brothers, the masterminds behind the pies, are sticklers about using fresh and house-made ingredients.\r\n\r\nWhen someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner, 50-mile round trip be damned.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6590\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01590/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6590  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01590.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nIt\'s easy to notice that Andolini\'s is a family-friendly restaurant. Our server greeted us with a smile and a bowl of pizza dough for our son to play in. And, as we can all see in the photo above, play in it he did.\r\n\r\nIt seems like there are some restaurants serving high-quality food that are starting to understand that being family friendly doesn\'t necessarily have to mean compromising on atmosphere. I\'ve written about a few of them in my column on Tulsa\'s family-friendly restaurants in <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/\">TulsaKids Magazine</a>, and I always love adding new places to the list.\r\n\r\nBefore you order anything else at Andolini\'s, order these:\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6597\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01560/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6597  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01560.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nGarlic knots. The folks at Andolini\'s give them away all the time on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their highly active Facebook page</a>, but I\'d pay full price ($5.95) for them any day. Especially since one order is enough to fill up on before your pizza has a chance to make it to your table.\r\n\r\nWhat can I say? I like my garlic knots how I like my men: Light and fluffy on the inside, crisp, buttery and garlicky on the outside.\r\n\r\nHeh.\r\n\r\nOther Andolini\'s appetizers that caught my eye were Appian Way Meatballs ($6.95); the Panzanella Salad ($9.95), mixed field greens, prosciutto, balsamic dressing and shaved Pecorino Romano; and the Satriale\'s Salad ($6.95), a Romaine salad with prosciutto, Genoa salami, fresh mozz and a balsamic vinaigrette dressing.\r\n\r\nI have a little saying: These items are on my list. Which means everything I just mentioned will one day be commanded to get in my belly.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s serves a smattering of Italian dishes, but who are we trying to kid - you all want to hear about the pizza first, right? Right. So, here\'s the deal: Pizza at Andolini\'s comes as small as ten inches across or as large as 20 (the Oh-Wow-That\'s-Big size - their words, not mine), and toppings range from cheese and pepperoni to eggplant, Gorgonzola and portabello mushroom. Base prices for pizzas with a single topping range about $10 to $23.\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s has a list of their own pizza creations, too. One of them puts pepperoni, Canadian bacon, Genoa salami, pastrami, ground beef and Italian sausage all on one pizza. Another is sauced with pistachio pesto. And there\'s one called the Spring Street, the making of which inspired the Bausches to create a video.\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nThere you go, New York-style pizza lovers.\r\n\r\nAnother is called the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPQR\">SPQR</a>.\r\n\r\nRemember that? From The Gladiator? When Russell Crowe was scraping these letters from the tattoo on his upper arm? Hardcore.\r\n\r\nI mention this mostly because I want you all to think that I\'m cool enough to know these things. I\'m fragile like that.\r\n\r\nAnd there\'s the pizza we ordered: the Pizza Rustica. Here\'s how it\'s described on the menu:\r\n<blockquote>Long before pizza became what it is today, it was a staple of rural Italian villages. Families would layer the freshest ingredients of the day on flatbread and bake it for dinner. The Pizza Rustica is made in that same style, filled with ricotta, mozzarella, prosciutto, sliced sausage and spinach. It is then given a large crust folded over the top of the filling. Truly a PIZZA PIE!</blockquote>\r\nThough after I read this description I turned to my husband and said something like, \"Honey, it says, \'Truly a PIZZA PIE\'. You know how I feel about pie. We have to get it,\' but I was sort of preaching to the choir at that point.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6598\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01580/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6598\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01580-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhy, hello.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6599\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6599\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015831-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee this? After a few garlic knots and this slice of Pizza Rustica, I was stuffed. Stuffed as in, I had to drive home with my pants unbuttoned. And unzipped. OK, I\'ll just say it: I completely removed my pants to drive home.\r\n\r\nNot really. But I wanted to. My full tummy wanted me to. My Spanx are no match for Andolini\'s Pizza Rustica.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6600\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01586/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6600\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01586-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s also offers calzones and strombolis (one of which is named Kona, another after Plato), sandwiches, pasta entrees (yes, including mac and cheese) and dessert, including an Italian butter cake. Which of course I didn\'t have because Pizza Rustica and my lungs were competing fiercely for space in my thoracic cavity by the time for dessert, but oh, man, it sounds pretty good. Especially the part where butter is mentioned.\r\n\r\nThe kids\' menu is nice and simple: Chicken bites and fries, a kid-sized portion of spaghetti with meatballs and a mini pizza, with nothing over $5.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6601\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01581/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6601\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01581-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe\'re pizza lovers, the Ball family. We\'re mutts with deep roots in the British Isles and the south-central American plains, but even so, we love the bread, the sauce and the cheese in the tradition of the Italians and the northeastern U.S.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6602\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6602\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015832-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMore on Andolinis:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>A Cherry Street location of Andolini\'s Pizzeria will open this month. I heard they were slated to be open by now, but the twin blizzards we had back in February delayed many a construction schedule, and the folks at Andolini\'s were not immune. Soon, though, find them at 1552 E. 15th Street.</li>\r\n	<li>Mike Bausch scored No. 5 in the nation and No. 2 in the midwest in the non-traditional category of the 2011 International Pizza Challenge in Las Vegas with his Semper Fi pizza. Big time stuff.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s posts contests just about every day on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their Facebook page</a>. Fans can win stuff ranging from an order of garlic knots to $50 Andolini\'s gift certificates.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s offers a mailing list. It\'s how I found out that on Tuesday, the second pizza you order is $2. As in, less than the price of a good cup of coffee. Find the sign-up form on <a href=\"http://www.andopizza.com/\">their website</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Looking for something to do with the kids? Andolini\'s offers pizza tours. Mike will teach your kids\' group about the history of pizza, and then he\'ll impart to you his award-winning dough-throwing skills. After, the kids get to help make their own pizzas. Cost is $5 per kiddo.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s serves <a href=\"http://www.marshallbrewing.com/\">Marshall IPA</a>. Why should you care? Because it\'s my favorite beer ever to drink with pizza, that\'s why. Also, because Marshall is brewed right here in Tulsa.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s delivers. Also, you can <a href=\"http://andopizza.hungerrush.com/\">order online</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Also? <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDUjhwyjPs\">Fresh</a>.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nAndolini\'s is open at their Owasso location daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m - Cherry Street hours to come.\r\n\r\n<strong>Andolini\'s Pizzeria</strong>\r\nOwasso: 12140 E. 96th St.\r\nCherry Street: 1552 E. 15th Street\r\nPhone (Owasso): (918) 272-9328\r\nHours: 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. daily\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630029/restaurant/Tulsa/Andolinis-Pizzeria-Owasso\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/630029/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria on Urbanspoon\" /></a>','Andolini\'s Pizzeria: Owasso Beginnings, a Cherry Street Debut and the Pizza Rustica that wouldn\'t quit','When someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner.','inherit','open','open','','6507-revision-20','','','2011-03-05 13:42:07','2011-03-05 19:42:07','',6507,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6507-revision-20/',0,'revision','',0),(6621,1,'2011-03-05 13:42:08','2011-03-05 19:42:08','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThere are Tulsans who seem to take pride in admitting they don\'t emerge from the bounds of their neighborhoods. They\'re the same people who grin when they say they avoid 51st Street, which acts as a sort of gateway from the north side of town to the south and vice versa, like the plague. They\'re the ones who say they\'d never leave downtown if it had a grocery store. The ones who claim that the 15-minute drive from Jenks to Brookside is too long, even to try a popular new restaurant.\r\n\r\nI admit that I, too, sometimes fall into this verve-stunting lifestyle. Humans, like water, will always be drawn the to path of least resistance.\r\n\r\nBut an empty belly, combined with the hooting and hollering of the citizen fooderati of the metro, has a way of shaking me out of my funk and putting me on the road in search of something unfamiliar. And yummy.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what had happened when my husband, our son and I pointed our car toward 96th Street North in Owasso. Our destination? Andolini\'s Pizzeria.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s wasn\'t exactly a new name for me. I\'d interviewed them for <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/main.asp?Search=1&amp;ArticleID=51060&amp;SectionID=21&amp;SubSectionID=77&amp;S=1\">a Tulsa Business Journal Story in May of last year about their expansion to Tulsa\'s Cherry Street</a> (more on that in a minute), and I\'d heard from far and wide the Bausch brothers, the masterminds behind the pies, are sticklers about using fresh and house-made ingredients.\r\n\r\nWhen someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner, 50-mile round trip be damned.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6590\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01590/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6590  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01590.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nIt\'s easy to notice that Andolini\'s is a family-friendly restaurant. Our server greeted us with a smile and a bowl of pizza dough for our son to play in. And, as we can all see in the photo above, play in it he did.\r\n\r\nIt seems like there are some restaurants serving high-quality food that are starting to understand that being family friendly doesn\'t necessarily have to mean compromising on atmosphere. I\'ve written about a few of them in my column on Tulsa\'s family-friendly restaurants in <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/\">TulsaKids Magazine</a>, and I always love adding new places to the list.\r\n\r\nBefore you order anything else at Andolini\'s, order these:\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6597\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01560/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6597  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01560.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nGarlic knots. The folks at Andolini\'s give them away all the time on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their highly active Facebook page</a>, but I\'d pay full price ($5.95) for them any day. Especially since one order is enough to fill up on before your pizza has a chance to make it to your table.\r\n\r\nWhat can I say? I like my garlic knots how I like my men: Light and fluffy on the inside, crisp, buttery and garlicky on the outside.\r\n\r\nHeh.\r\n\r\nOther Andolini\'s appetizers that caught my eye were Appian Way Meatballs ($6.95); the Panzanella Salad ($9.95), mixed field greens, prosciutto, balsamic dressing and shaved Pecorino Romano; and the Satriale\'s Salad ($6.95), a Romaine salad with prosciutto, Genoa salami, fresh mozz and a balsamic vinaigrette dressing.\r\n\r\nI have a little saying: These items are on my list. Which means everything I just mentioned will one day be commanded to get in my belly.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s serves a smattering of Italian dishes, but who are we trying to kid - you all want to hear about the pizza first, right? Right. So, here\'s the deal: Pizza at Andolini\'s comes as small as ten inches across or as large as 20 (the Oh-Wow-That\'s-Big size - their words, not mine), and toppings range from cheese and pepperoni to eggplant, Gorgonzola and portabello mushroom. Base prices for pizzas with a single topping range about $10 to $23.\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s has a list of their own pizza creations, too. One of them puts pepperoni, Canadian bacon, Genoa salami, pastrami, ground beef and Italian sausage all on one pizza. Another is sauced with pistachio pesto. And there\'s one called the Spring Street, the making of which inspired the Bausches to create a video.\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nThere you go, New York-style pizza lovers.\r\n\r\nAnother is called the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPQR\">SPQR</a>.\r\n\r\nRemember that? From The Gladiator? When Russell Crowe was scraping these letters from the tattoo on his upper arm? Hardcore.\r\n\r\nI mention this mostly because I want you all to think that I\'m cool enough to know these things. I\'m fragile like that.\r\n\r\nAnd there\'s the pizza we ordered: the Pizza Rustica. Here\'s how it\'s described on the menu:\r\n<blockquote>Long before pizza became what it is today, it was a staple of rural Italian villages. Families would layer the freshest ingredients of the day on flatbread and bake it for dinner. The Pizza Rustica is made in that same style, filled with ricotta, mozzarella, prosciutto, sliced sausage and spinach. It is then given a large crust folded over the top of the filling. Truly a PIZZA PIE!</blockquote>\r\nThough after I read this description I turned to my husband and said something like, \"Honey, it says, \'Truly a PIZZA PIE\'. You know how I feel about pie. We have to get it,\' but I was sort of preaching to the choir at that point.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6598\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01580/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6598\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01580-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhy, hello.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6599\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6599\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015831-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee this? After a few garlic knots and this slice of Pizza Rustica, I was stuffed. Stuffed as in, I had to drive home with my pants unbuttoned. And unzipped. OK, I\'ll just say it: I completely removed my pants to drive home.\r\n\r\nNot really. But I wanted to. My full tummy wanted me to. My Spanx are no match for Andolini\'s Pizza Rustica.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6600\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01586/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6600\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01586-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s also offers calzones and strombolis (one of which is named Kona, another after Plato), sandwiches, pasta entrees (yes, including mac and cheese) and dessert, including an Italian butter cake. Which of course I didn\'t have because Pizza Rustica and my lungs were competing fiercely for space in my thoracic cavity by the time for dessert, but oh, man, it sounds pretty good. Especially the part where butter is mentioned.\r\n\r\nThe kids\' menu is nice and simple: Chicken bites and fries, a kid-sized portion of spaghetti with meatballs and a mini pizza, with nothing over $5.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6601\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01581/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6601\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01581-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe\'re pizza lovers, the Ball family. We\'re mutts with deep roots in the British Isles and the south-central American plains, but even so, we love the bread, the sauce and the cheese in the tradition of the Italians and the northeastern U.S.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6602\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6602\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015832-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMore on Andolinis:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>A Cherry Street location of Andolini\'s Pizzeria will open this month. I heard they were slated to be open by now, but the twin blizzards we had back in February delayed many a construction schedule, and the folks at Andolini\'s were not immune. Soon, though, find them at 1552 E. 15th Street.</li>\r\n	<li>Mike Bausch scored No. 5 in the nation and No. 2 in the midwest in the non-traditional category of the 2011 International Pizza Challenge in Las Vegas with his Semper Fi pizza. Big time stuff.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s posts contests just about every day on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their Facebook page</a>. Fans can win stuff ranging from an order of garlic knots to $50 Andolini\'s gift certificates.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s offers a mailing list. It\'s how I found out that on Tuesday, the second pizza you order is $2. As in, less than the price of a good cup of coffee. Find the sign-up form on <a href=\"http://www.andopizza.com/\">their website</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Looking for something to do with the kids? Andolini\'s offers pizza tours. Mike will teach your kids\' group about the history of pizza, and then he\'ll impart to you his award-winning dough-throwing skills. After, the kids get to help make their own pizzas. Cost is $5 per kiddo.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s serves <a href=\"http://www.marshallbrewing.com/\">Marshall IPA</a>. Why should you care? Because it\'s my favorite beer ever to drink with pizza, that\'s why. Also, because Marshall is brewed right here in Tulsa.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s delivers. Also, you can <a href=\"http://andopizza.hungerrush.com/\">order online</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Also? <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDUjhwyjPs\">Fresh</a>.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nAndolini\'s is open at their Owasso location daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m - Cherry Street hours to come.\r\n\r\n<strong>Andolini\'s Pizzeria</strong>\r\nOwasso: 12140 E. 96th St.\r\nCherry Street: 1552 E. 15th Street\r\nPhone (Owasso): (918) 272-9328\r\nHours: 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. daily\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630029/restaurant/Tulsa/Andolinis-Pizzeria-Owasso\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/630029/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria on Urbanspoon\" /></a>','Andolini\'s Pizzeria: Owasso Beginnings, a Cherry Street Debut and the Pizza Rustica that wouldn\'t quit','When someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner.','inherit','open','open','','6507-revision-21','','','2011-03-05 13:42:08','2011-03-05 19:42:08','',6507,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6507-revision-21/',0,'revision','',0),(6622,1,'2011-03-05 13:44:10','2011-03-05 19:44:10','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThere are Tulsans who seem to take pride in admitting they don\'t emerge from the bounds of their neighborhoods. They\'re the same people who grin when they say they avoid 51st Street, which acts as a sort of gateway from the north side of town to the south and vice versa, like the plague. They\'re the ones who say they\'d never leave downtown if it had a grocery store. The ones who claim that the 15-minute drive from Jenks to Brookside is too long, even to try a popular new restaurant.\r\n\r\nI admit that I, too, sometimes fall into this verve-stunting lifestyle. Humans, like water, will always be drawn the to path of least resistance.\r\n\r\nBut an empty belly, combined with the hooting and hollering of the citizen fooderati of the metro, has a way of shaking me out of my funk and putting me on the road in search of something unfamiliar. And yummy.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what had happened when my husband, our son and I pointed our car toward 96th Street North in Owasso. Our destination? Andolini\'s Pizzeria.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s wasn\'t exactly a new name for me. I\'d interviewed them for <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/main.asp?Search=1&amp;ArticleID=51060&amp;SectionID=21&amp;SubSectionID=77&amp;S=1\">a Tulsa Business Journal Story in May of last year about their expansion to Tulsa\'s Cherry Street</a> (more on that in a minute), and I\'d heard from far and wide the Bausch brothers, the masterminds behind the pies, are sticklers about using fresh and house-made ingredients.\r\n\r\nWhen someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, it\'s a sign. \r\n\r\nAnd you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner, 50-mile round trip be damned.\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6590\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01590/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6590  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01590.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nIt\'s easy to notice that Andolini\'s is a family-friendly restaurant. Our server greeted us with a smile and a bowl of pizza dough for our son to play in. And, as we can all see in the photo above, play in it he did.\r\n\r\nIt seems like there are some restaurants serving high-quality food that are starting to understand that being family friendly doesn\'t necessarily have to mean compromising on atmosphere. I\'ve written about a few of them in my column on Tulsa\'s family-friendly restaurants in <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/\">TulsaKids Magazine</a>, and I always love adding new places to the list.\r\n\r\nBefore you order anything else at Andolini\'s, order these:\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6597\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01560/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6597  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01560.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nGarlic knots. The folks at Andolini\'s give them away all the time on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their highly active Facebook page</a>, but I\'d pay full price ($5.95) for them any day. Especially since one order is enough to fill up on before your pizza has a chance to make it to your table.\r\n\r\nWhat can I say? I like my garlic knots how I like my men: Light and fluffy on the inside, crisp, buttery and garlicky on the outside.\r\n\r\nHeh.\r\n\r\nOther Andolini\'s appetizers that caught my eye were Appian Way Meatballs ($6.95); the Panzanella Salad ($9.95), mixed field greens, prosciutto, balsamic dressing and shaved Pecorino Romano; and the Satriale\'s Salad ($6.95), a Romaine salad with prosciutto, Genoa salami, fresh mozz and a balsamic vinaigrette dressing.\r\n\r\nI have a little saying: These items are on my list. Which means everything I just mentioned will one day be commanded to get in my belly.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s serves a smattering of Italian dishes, but who are we trying to kid - you all want to hear about the pizza first, right? Right. So, here\'s the deal: Pizza at Andolini\'s comes as small as ten inches across or as large as 20 (the Oh-Wow-That\'s-Big size - their words, not mine), and toppings range from cheese and pepperoni to eggplant, Gorgonzola and portabello mushroom. Base prices for pizzas with a single topping range about $10 to $23.\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s has a list of their own pizza creations, too. One of them puts pepperoni, Canadian bacon, Genoa salami, pastrami, ground beef and Italian sausage all on one pizza. Another is sauced with pistachio pesto. And there\'s one called the Spring Street, the making of which inspired the Bausches to create a video.\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nThere you go, New York-style pizza lovers.\r\n\r\nAnother is called the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPQR\">SPQR</a>.\r\n\r\nRemember that? From The Gladiator? When Russell Crowe was scraping these letters from the tattoo on his upper arm? Hardcore.\r\n\r\nI mention this mostly because I want you all to think that I\'m cool enough to know these things. I\'m fragile like that.\r\n\r\nAnd there\'s the pizza we ordered: the Pizza Rustica. Here\'s how it\'s described on the menu:\r\n<blockquote>Long before pizza became what it is today, it was a staple of rural Italian villages. Families would layer the freshest ingredients of the day on flatbread and bake it for dinner. The Pizza Rustica is made in that same style, filled with ricotta, mozzarella, prosciutto, sliced sausage and spinach. It is then given a large crust folded over the top of the filling. Truly a PIZZA PIE!</blockquote>\r\nThough after I read this description I turned to my husband and said something like, \"Honey, it says, \'Truly a PIZZA PIE\'. You know how I feel about pie. We have to get it,\' but I was sort of preaching to the choir at that point.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6598\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01580/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6598\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01580-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhy, hello.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6599\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6599\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015831-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee this? After a few garlic knots and this slice of Pizza Rustica, I was stuffed. Stuffed as in, I had to drive home with my pants unbuttoned. And unzipped. OK, I\'ll just say it: I completely removed my pants to drive home.\r\n\r\nNot really. But I wanted to. My full tummy wanted me to. My Spanx are no match for Andolini\'s Pizza Rustica.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6600\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01586/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6600\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01586-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s also offers calzones and strombolis (one of which is named Kona, another after Plato), sandwiches, pasta entrees (yes, including mac and cheese) and dessert, including an Italian butter cake. Which of course I didn\'t have because Pizza Rustica and my lungs were competing fiercely for space in my thoracic cavity by the time for dessert, but oh, man, it sounds pretty good. Especially the part where butter is mentioned.\r\n\r\nThe kids\' menu is nice and simple: Chicken bites and fries, a kid-sized portion of spaghetti with meatballs and a mini pizza, with nothing over $5.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6601\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01581/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6601\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01581-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe\'re pizza lovers, the Ball family. We\'re mutts with deep roots in the British Isles and the south-central American plains, but even so, we love the bread, the sauce and the cheese in the tradition of the Italians and the northeastern U.S.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6602\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6602\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015832-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMore on Andolinis:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>A Cherry Street location of Andolini\'s Pizzeria will open this month. I heard they were slated to be open by now, but the twin blizzards we had back in February delayed many a construction schedule, and the folks at Andolini\'s were not immune. Soon, though, find them at 1552 E. 15th Street.</li>\r\n	<li>Mike Bausch scored No. 5 in the nation and No. 2 in the midwest in the non-traditional category of the 2011 International Pizza Challenge in Las Vegas with his Semper Fi pizza. Big time stuff.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s posts contests just about every day on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their Facebook page</a>. Fans can win stuff ranging from an order of garlic knots to $50 Andolini\'s gift certificates.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s offers a mailing list. It\'s how I found out that on Tuesday, the second pizza you order is $2. As in, less than the price of a good cup of coffee. Find the sign-up form on <a href=\"http://www.andopizza.com/\">their website</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Looking for something to do with the kids? Andolini\'s offers pizza tours. Mike will teach your kids\' group about the history of pizza, and then he\'ll impart to you his award-winning dough-throwing skills. After, the kids get to help make their own pizzas. Cost is $5 per kiddo.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s serves <a href=\"http://www.marshallbrewing.com/\">Marshall IPA</a>. Why should you care? Because it\'s my favorite beer ever to drink with pizza, that\'s why. Also, because Marshall is brewed right here in Tulsa.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s delivers. Also, you can <a href=\"http://andopizza.hungerrush.com/\">order online</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Also? <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDUjhwyjPs\">Fresh</a>.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nAndolini\'s is open at their Owasso location daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m - Cherry Street hours to come.\r\n\r\n<strong>Andolini\'s Pizzeria</strong>\r\nOwasso: 12140 E. 96th St.\r\nCherry Street: 1552 E. 15th Street\r\nPhone (Owasso): (918) 272-9328\r\nHours: 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. daily\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630029/restaurant/Tulsa/Andolinis-Pizzeria-Owasso\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/630029/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria on Urbanspoon\" /></a>','Andolini\'s Pizzeria: Owasso Beginnings, a Cherry Street Debut and the Pizza Rustica that wouldn\'t quit','When someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner.','inherit','open','open','','6507-revision-22','','','2011-03-05 13:44:10','2011-03-05 19:44:10','',6507,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6507-revision-22/',0,'revision','',0),(6623,1,'2011-03-05 13:44:13','2011-03-05 19:44:13','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThere are Tulsans who seem to take pride in admitting they don\'t emerge from the bounds of their neighborhoods. They\'re the same people who grin when they say they avoid 51st Street, which acts as a sort of gateway from the north side of town to the south and vice versa, like the plague. They\'re the ones who say they\'d never leave downtown if it had a grocery store. The ones who claim that the 15-minute drive from Jenks to Brookside is too long, even to try a popular new restaurant.\r\n\r\nI admit that I, too, sometimes fall into this verve-stunting lifestyle. Humans, like water, will always be drawn the to path of least resistance.\r\n\r\nBut an empty belly, combined with the hooting and hollering of the citizen fooderati of the metro, has a way of shaking me out of my funk and putting me on the road in search of something unfamiliar. And yummy.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what had happened when my husband, our son and I pointed our car toward 96th Street North in Owasso. Our destination? Andolini\'s Pizzeria.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s wasn\'t exactly a new name for me. I\'d interviewed them for <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/main.asp?Search=1&amp;ArticleID=51060&amp;SectionID=21&amp;SubSectionID=77&amp;S=1\">a Tulsa Business Journal Story in May of last year about their expansion to Tulsa\'s Cherry Street</a> (more on that in a minute), and I\'d heard from far and wide the Bausch brothers, the masterminds behind the pies, are sticklers about using fresh and house-made ingredients.\r\n\r\nWhen someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, it\'s a sign. \r\n\r\nAnd you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner, 50-mile round trip be damned.\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6590\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01590/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6590  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01590.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nIt\'s easy to notice that Andolini\'s is a family-friendly restaurant. Our server greeted us with a smile and a bowl of pizza dough for our son to play in. And, as we can all see in the photo above, play in it he did.\r\n\r\nIt seems like there are some restaurants serving high-quality food that are starting to understand that being family friendly doesn\'t necessarily have to mean compromising on atmosphere. I\'ve written about a few of them in my column on Tulsa\'s family-friendly restaurants in <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/\">TulsaKids Magazine</a>, and I always love adding new places to the list.\r\n\r\nBefore you order anything else at Andolini\'s, order these:\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6597\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01560/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6597  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01560.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nGarlic knots. The folks at Andolini\'s give them away all the time on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their highly active Facebook page</a>, but I\'d pay full price ($5.95) for them any day. Especially since one order is enough to fill up on before your pizza has a chance to make it to your table.\r\n\r\nWhat can I say? I like my garlic knots how I like my men: Light and fluffy on the inside, crisp, buttery and garlicky on the outside.\r\n\r\nHeh.\r\n\r\nOther Andolini\'s appetizers that caught my eye were Appian Way Meatballs ($6.95); the Panzanella Salad ($9.95), mixed field greens, prosciutto, balsamic dressing and shaved Pecorino Romano; and the Satriale\'s Salad ($6.95), a Romaine salad with prosciutto, Genoa salami, fresh mozz and a balsamic vinaigrette dressing.\r\n\r\nI have a little saying: These items are on my list. Which means everything I just mentioned will one day be commanded to get in my belly.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s serves a smattering of Italian dishes, but who are we trying to kid - you all want to hear about the pizza first, right? Right. So, here\'s the deal: Pizza at Andolini\'s comes as small as ten inches across or as large as 20 (the Oh-Wow-That\'s-Big size - their words, not mine), and toppings range from cheese and pepperoni to eggplant, Gorgonzola and portabello mushroom. Base prices for pizzas with a single topping range about $10 to $23.\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s has a list of their own pizza creations, too. One of them puts pepperoni, Canadian bacon, Genoa salami, pastrami, ground beef and Italian sausage all on one pizza. Another is sauced with pistachio pesto. And there\'s one called the Spring Street, the making of which inspired the Bausches to create a video.\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nThere you go, New York-style pizza lovers.\r\n\r\nAnother is called the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPQR\">SPQR</a>.\r\n\r\nRemember that? From The Gladiator? When Russell Crowe was scraping these letters from the tattoo on his upper arm? Hardcore.\r\n\r\nI mention this mostly because I want you all to think that I\'m cool enough to know these things. I\'m fragile like that.\r\n\r\nAnd there\'s the pizza we ordered: the Pizza Rustica. Here\'s how it\'s described on the menu:\r\n<blockquote>Long before pizza became what it is today, it was a staple of rural Italian villages. Families would layer the freshest ingredients of the day on flatbread and bake it for dinner. The Pizza Rustica is made in that same style, filled with ricotta, mozzarella, prosciutto, sliced sausage and spinach. It is then given a large crust folded over the top of the filling. Truly a PIZZA PIE!</blockquote>\r\nThough after I read this description I turned to my husband and said something like, \"Honey, it says, \'Truly a PIZZA PIE\'. You know how I feel about pie. We have to get it,\' but I was sort of preaching to the choir at that point.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6598\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01580/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6598\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01580-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhy, hello.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6599\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6599\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015831-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee this? After a few garlic knots and this slice of Pizza Rustica, I was stuffed. Stuffed as in, I had to drive home with my pants unbuttoned. And unzipped. OK, I\'ll just say it: I completely removed my pants to drive home.\r\n\r\nNot really. But I wanted to. My full tummy wanted me to. My Spanx are no match for Andolini\'s Pizza Rustica.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6600\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01586/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6600\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01586-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s also offers calzones and strombolis (one of which is named Kona, another after Plato), sandwiches, pasta entrees (yes, including mac and cheese) and dessert, including an Italian butter cake. Which of course I didn\'t have because Pizza Rustica and my lungs were competing fiercely for space in my thoracic cavity by the time for dessert, but oh, man, it sounds pretty good. Especially the part where butter is mentioned.\r\n\r\nThe kids\' menu is nice and simple: Chicken bites and fries, a kid-sized portion of spaghetti with meatballs and a mini pizza, with nothing over $5.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6601\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01581/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6601\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01581-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe\'re pizza lovers, the Ball family. We\'re mutts with deep roots in the British Isles and the south-central American plains, but even so, we love the bread, the sauce and the cheese in the tradition of the Italians and the northeastern U.S.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6602\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6602\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015832-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMore on Andolinis:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>A Cherry Street location of Andolini\'s Pizzeria will open this month. I heard they were slated to be open by now, but the twin blizzards we had back in February delayed many a construction schedule, and the folks at Andolini\'s were not immune. Soon, though, find them at 1552 E. 15th Street.</li>\r\n	<li>Mike Bausch scored No. 5 in the nation and No. 2 in the midwest in the non-traditional category of the 2011 International Pizza Challenge in Las Vegas with his Semper Fi pizza. Big time stuff.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s posts contests just about every day on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their Facebook page</a>. Fans can win stuff ranging from an order of garlic knots to $50 Andolini\'s gift certificates.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s offers a mailing list. It\'s how I found out that on Tuesday, the second pizza you order is $2. As in, less than the price of a good cup of coffee. Find the sign-up form on <a href=\"http://www.andopizza.com/\">their website</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Looking for something to do with the kids? Andolini\'s offers pizza tours. Mike will teach your kids\' group about the history of pizza, and then he\'ll impart to you his award-winning dough-throwing skills. After, the kids get to help make their own pizzas. Cost is $5 per kiddo.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s serves <a href=\"http://www.marshallbrewing.com/\">Marshall IPA</a>. Why should you care? Because it\'s my favorite beer ever to drink with pizza, that\'s why. Also, because Marshall is brewed right here in Tulsa.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s delivers. Also, you can <a href=\"http://andopizza.hungerrush.com/\">order online</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Also? <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDUjhwyjPs\">Fresh</a>.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nAndolini\'s is open at their Owasso location daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m - Cherry Street hours to come.\r\n\r\n<strong>Andolini\'s Pizzeria</strong>\r\nOwasso: 12140 E. 96th St.\r\nCherry Street: 1552 E. 15th Street\r\nPhone (Owasso): (918) 272-9328\r\nHours: 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. daily\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630029/restaurant/Tulsa/Andolinis-Pizzeria-Owasso\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/630029/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria on Urbanspoon\" /></a>','Andolini\'s Pizzeria: Owasso Beginnings, a Cherry Street Debut and the Pizza Rustica that wouldn\'t quit','When someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner.','inherit','open','open','','6507-revision-23','','','2011-03-05 13:44:13','2011-03-05 19:44:13','',6507,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6507-revision-23/',0,'revision','',0),(6624,1,'2011-03-05 13:46:56','2011-03-05 19:46:56','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThere are Tulsans who seem to take pride in admitting they don\'t emerge from the bounds of their neighborhoods. They\'re the same people who grin when they say they avoid 51st Street, which acts as a sort of gateway from the north side of town to the south and vice versa, like the plague. They\'re the ones who say they\'d never leave downtown if it had a grocery store. The ones who claim that the 15-minute drive from Jenks to Brookside is too long, even to try a popular new restaurant.\r\n\r\nI admit that I, too, sometimes fall into this verve-stunting lifestyle. Humans, like water, will always be drawn the to path of least resistance.\r\n\r\nBut an empty belly, combined with the hooting and hollering of the citizen fooderati of the metro, has a way of shaking me out of my funk and putting me on the road in search of something unfamiliar. And yummy.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what had happened when my husband, our son and I pointed our car toward 96th Street North in Owasso. Our destination? Andolini\'s Pizzeria.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s wasn\'t exactly a new name for me. I\'d interviewed them for <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/main.asp?Search=1&amp;ArticleID=51060&amp;SectionID=21&amp;SubSectionID=77&amp;S=1\">a Tulsa Business Journal Story in May of last year about their expansion to Tulsa\'s Cherry Street</a> (more on that in a minute), and I\'d heard from far and wide the Bausch brothers, the masterminds behind the pies, are sticklers about using fresh and house-made ingredients.\r\n\r\nWhen someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, it\'s a sign. \r\n\r\nAnd you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner, 50-mile round trip be damned.\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6590\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01590/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6590  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01590.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nIt\'s easy to notice that Andolini\'s is a family-friendly restaurant. Our server greeted us with a smile and a bowl of pizza dough for our son to play in. And, as we can all see in the photo above, play in it he did.\r\n\r\nIt seems like there are some restaurants serving high-quality food that are starting to understand that being family friendly doesn\'t necessarily have to mean compromising on atmosphere. I\'ve written about a few of them in my column on Tulsa\'s family-friendly restaurants in <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/\">TulsaKids Magazine</a>, and I always love adding new places to the list.\r\n\r\nBefore you order anything else at Andolini\'s, order these:\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6597\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01560/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6597  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01560.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nGarlic knots. The folks at Andolini\'s give them away all the time on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their highly active Facebook page</a>, but I\'d pay full price ($5.95) for them any day. Especially since one order is enough to fill up on before your pizza has a chance to make it to your table.\r\n\r\nWhat can I say? I like my garlic knots how I like my men: Light and fluffy on the inside, crisp, buttery and garlicky on the outside.\r\n\r\nHeh.\r\n\r\nOther Andolini\'s appetizers that caught my eye were Appian Way Meatballs ($6.95); the Panzanella Salad ($9.95), mixed field greens, prosciutto, balsamic dressing and shaved Pecorino Romano; and the Satriale\'s Salad ($6.95), a Romaine salad with prosciutto, Genoa salami, fresh mozz and a balsamic vinaigrette dressing.\r\n\r\nI have a little saying: These items are on my list. Which means everything I just mentioned will one day be commanded to get in my belly.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s serves a smattering of Italian dishes, but who are we trying to kid - you all want to hear about the pizza first, right? Right. So, here\'s the deal: Pizza at Andolini\'s comes as small as ten inches across or as large as 20 (the Oh-Wow-That\'s-Big size - their words, sadly, not mine), and toppings range from cheese and pepperoni to eggplant, Gorgonzola and portabello mushroom. Base prices for pizzas with a single topping range about $10 to $23.\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s has a list of their own pizza creations, too. One of them puts pepperoni, Canadian bacon, Genoa salami, pastrami, ground beef and Italian sausage all on one pizza. Another is sauced with pistachio pesto. And there\'s one called the Spring Street, the making of which inspired the Bausches to create a video.\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nThere you go, New York-style pizza lovers.\r\n\r\nAnother is called the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPQR\">SPQR</a>.\r\n\r\nRemember that? From The Gladiator? When Russell Crowe was scraping these letters from the tattoo on his upper arm? Hardcore.\r\n\r\nI mention this mostly because I want you all to think that I\'m cool enough to know these things. I\'m fragile like that.\r\n\r\nAnd there\'s the pizza we ordered: the Pizza Rustica. Here\'s how it\'s described on the menu:\r\n<blockquote>Long before pizza became what it is today, it was a staple of rural Italian villages. Families would layer the freshest ingredients of the day on flatbread and bake it for dinner. The Pizza Rustica is made in that same style, filled with ricotta, mozzarella, prosciutto, sliced sausage and spinach. It is then given a large crust folded over the top of the filling. Truly a PIZZA PIE!</blockquote>\r\nThough after I read this description I turned to my husband and said something like, \"Honey, it says, \'Truly a PIZZA PIE\'. You know how I feel about pie. We have to get it,\' but I was sort of preaching to the choir at that point.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6598\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01580/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6598\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01580-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhy, hello.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6599\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6599\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015831-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee this? After a few garlic knots and this slice of Pizza Rustica, I was stuffed. Stuffed as in, I had to drive home with my pants unbuttoned. And unzipped. OK, I\'ll just say it: I completely removed my pants to drive home.\r\n\r\nNot really. But I wanted to. My full tummy wanted me to. My Spanx are no match for Andolini\'s Pizza Rustica.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6600\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01586/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6600\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01586-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s also offers calzones and strombolis (one of which is named Kona, another after Plato), sandwiches, pasta entrees (yes, including mac and cheese) and dessert, including an Italian butter cake. Which of course I didn\'t have because Pizza Rustica and my lungs were competing fiercely for space in my thoracic cavity by the time for dessert, but oh, man, it sounds pretty good. Especially the part where butter is mentioned.\r\n\r\nThe kids\' menu is nice and simple: Chicken bites and fries, a kid-sized portion of spaghetti with meatballs and a mini pizza, with nothing over $5.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6601\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01581/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6601\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01581-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe\'re pizza lovers, the Ball family. We\'re mutts with deep roots in the British Isles and the south-central American plains, but even so, we love the bread, the sauce and the cheese in the tradition of the Italians and the northeastern U.S.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6602\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6602\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015832-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMore on Andolinis:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>A Cherry Street location of Andolini\'s Pizzeria will open this month. I heard they were slated to be open by now, but the twin blizzards we had back in February delayed many a construction schedule, and the folks at Andolini\'s were not immune. Soon, though, find them at 1552 E. 15th Street.</li>\r\n	<li>Mike Bausch scored No. 5 in the nation and No. 2 in the midwest in the non-traditional category of the 2011 International Pizza Challenge in Las Vegas with his Semper Fi pizza. Big time stuff.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s posts contests just about every day on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their Facebook page</a>. Fans can win stuff ranging from an order of garlic knots to $50 Andolini\'s gift certificates.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s offers a mailing list. It\'s how I found out that on Tuesday, the second pizza you order is $2. As in, less than the price of a good cup of coffee. Find the sign-up form on <a href=\"http://www.andopizza.com/\">their website</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Looking for something to do with the kids? Andolini\'s offers pizza tours. Mike will teach your kids\' group about the history of pizza, and then he\'ll impart to you his award-winning dough-throwing skills. After, the kids get to help make their own pizzas. Cost is $5 per kiddo.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s serves <a href=\"http://www.marshallbrewing.com/\">Marshall IPA</a>. Why should you care? Because it\'s my favorite beer ever to drink with pizza, that\'s why. Also, because Marshall is brewed right here in Tulsa.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s delivers. Also, you can <a href=\"http://andopizza.hungerrush.com/\">order online</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Also? <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDUjhwyjPs\">Fresh</a>.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nAndolini\'s is open at their Owasso location daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m - Cherry Street hours to come.\r\n\r\n<strong>Andolini\'s Pizzeria</strong>\r\nOwasso: 12140 E. 96th St.\r\nCherry Street: 1552 E. 15th Street\r\nPhone (Owasso): (918) 272-9328\r\nHours: 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. daily\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630029/restaurant/Tulsa/Andolinis-Pizzeria-Owasso\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/630029/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria on Urbanspoon\" /></a>','Andolini\'s Pizzeria: Owasso Beginnings, a Cherry Street Debut and the Pizza Rustica that wouldn\'t quit','When someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner.','inherit','open','open','','6507-revision-24','','','2011-03-05 13:46:56','2011-03-05 19:46:56','',6507,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6507-revision-24/',0,'revision','',0),(6625,1,'2011-03-05 13:46:56','2011-03-05 19:46:56','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThere are Tulsans who seem to take pride in admitting they don\'t emerge from the bounds of their neighborhoods. They\'re the same people who grin when they say they avoid 51st Street, which acts as a sort of gateway from the north side of town to the south and vice versa, like the plague. They\'re the ones who say they\'d never leave downtown if it had a grocery store. The ones who claim that the 15-minute drive from Jenks to Brookside is too long, even to try a popular new restaurant.\r\n\r\nI admit that I, too, sometimes fall into this verve-stunting lifestyle. Humans, like water, will always be drawn the to path of least resistance.\r\n\r\nBut an empty belly, combined with the hooting and hollering of the citizen fooderati of the metro, has a way of shaking me out of my funk and putting me on the road in search of something unfamiliar. And yummy.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what had happened when my husband, our son and I pointed our car toward 96th Street North in Owasso. Our destination? Andolini\'s Pizzeria.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s wasn\'t exactly a new name for me. I\'d interviewed them for <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/main.asp?Search=1&amp;ArticleID=51060&amp;SectionID=21&amp;SubSectionID=77&amp;S=1\">a Tulsa Business Journal Story in May of last year about their expansion to Tulsa\'s Cherry Street</a> (more on that in a minute), and I\'d heard from far and wide the Bausch brothers, the masterminds behind the pies, are sticklers about using fresh and house-made ingredients.\r\n\r\nWhen someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, it\'s a sign. \r\n\r\nAnd you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner, 50-mile round trip be damned.\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6590\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01590/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6590  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01590.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nIt\'s easy to notice that Andolini\'s is a family-friendly restaurant. Our server greeted us with a smile and a bowl of pizza dough for our son to play in. And, as we can all see in the photo above, play in it he did.\r\n\r\nIt seems like there are some restaurants serving high-quality food that are starting to understand that being family friendly doesn\'t necessarily have to mean compromising on atmosphere. I\'ve written about a few of them in my column on Tulsa\'s family-friendly restaurants in <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/\">TulsaKids Magazine</a>, and I always love adding new places to the list.\r\n\r\nBefore you order anything else at Andolini\'s, order these:\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6597\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01560/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6597  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01560.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nGarlic knots. The folks at Andolini\'s give them away all the time on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their highly active Facebook page</a>, but I\'d pay full price ($5.95) for them any day. Especially since one order is enough to fill up on before your pizza has a chance to make it to your table.\r\n\r\nWhat can I say? I like my garlic knots how I like my men: Light and fluffy on the inside, crisp, buttery and garlicky on the outside.\r\n\r\nHeh.\r\n\r\nOther Andolini\'s appetizers that caught my eye were Appian Way Meatballs ($6.95); the Panzanella Salad ($9.95), mixed field greens, prosciutto, balsamic dressing and shaved Pecorino Romano; and the Satriale\'s Salad ($6.95), a Romaine salad with prosciutto, Genoa salami, fresh mozz and a balsamic vinaigrette dressing.\r\n\r\nI have a little saying: These items are on my list. Which means everything I just mentioned will one day be commanded to get in my belly.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s serves a smattering of Italian dishes, but who are we trying to kid - you all want to hear about the pizza first, right? Right. So, here\'s the deal: Pizza at Andolini\'s comes as small as ten inches across or as large as 20 (the Oh-Wow-That\'s-Big size - their words, sadly, not mine), and toppings range from cheese and pepperoni to eggplant, Gorgonzola and portabello mushroom. Base prices for pizzas with a single topping range about $10 to $23.\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s has a list of their own pizza creations, too. One of them puts pepperoni, Canadian bacon, Genoa salami, pastrami, ground beef and Italian sausage all on one pizza. Another is sauced with pistachio pesto. And there\'s one called the Spring Street, the making of which inspired the Bausches to create a video.\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nThere you go, New York-style pizza lovers.\r\n\r\nAnother is called the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPQR\">SPQR</a>.\r\n\r\nRemember that? From The Gladiator? When Russell Crowe was scraping these letters from the tattoo on his upper arm? Hardcore.\r\n\r\nI mention this mostly because I want you all to think that I\'m cool enough to know these things. I\'m fragile like that.\r\n\r\nAnd there\'s the pizza we ordered: the Pizza Rustica. Here\'s how it\'s described on the menu:\r\n<blockquote>Long before pizza became what it is today, it was a staple of rural Italian villages. Families would layer the freshest ingredients of the day on flatbread and bake it for dinner. The Pizza Rustica is made in that same style, filled with ricotta, mozzarella, prosciutto, sliced sausage and spinach. It is then given a large crust folded over the top of the filling. Truly a PIZZA PIE!</blockquote>\r\nThough after I read this description I turned to my husband and said something like, \"Honey, it says, \'Truly a PIZZA PIE\'. You know how I feel about pie. We have to get it,\' but I was sort of preaching to the choir at that point.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6598\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01580/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6598\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01580-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhy, hello.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6599\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6599\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015831-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee this? After a few garlic knots and this slice of Pizza Rustica, I was stuffed. Stuffed as in, I had to drive home with my pants unbuttoned. And unzipped. OK, I\'ll just say it: I completely removed my pants to drive home.\r\n\r\nNot really. But I wanted to. My full tummy wanted me to. My Spanx are no match for Andolini\'s Pizza Rustica.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6600\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01586/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6600\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01586-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s also offers calzones and strombolis (one of which is named Kona, another after Plato), sandwiches, pasta entrees (yes, including mac and cheese) and dessert, including an Italian butter cake. Which of course I didn\'t have because Pizza Rustica and my lungs were competing fiercely for space in my thoracic cavity by the time for dessert, but oh, man, it sounds pretty good. Especially the part where butter is mentioned.\r\n\r\nThe kids\' menu is nice and simple: Chicken bites and fries, a kid-sized portion of spaghetti with meatballs and a mini pizza, with nothing over $5.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6601\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01581/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6601\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01581-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe\'re pizza lovers, the Ball family. We\'re mutts with deep roots in the British Isles and the south-central American plains, but even so, we love the bread, the sauce and the cheese in the tradition of the Italians and the northeastern U.S.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6602\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6602\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015832-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMore on Andolinis:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>A Cherry Street location of Andolini\'s Pizzeria will open this month. I heard they were slated to be open by now, but the twin blizzards we had back in February delayed many a construction schedule, and the folks at Andolini\'s were not immune. Soon, though, find them at 1552 E. 15th Street.</li>\r\n	<li>Mike Bausch scored No. 5 in the nation and No. 2 in the midwest in the non-traditional category of the 2011 International Pizza Challenge in Las Vegas with his Semper Fi pizza. Big time stuff.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s posts contests just about every day on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their Facebook page</a>. Fans can win stuff ranging from an order of garlic knots to $50 Andolini\'s gift certificates.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s offers a mailing list. It\'s how I found out that on Tuesday, the second pizza you order is $2. As in, less than the price of a good cup of coffee. Find the sign-up form on <a href=\"http://www.andopizza.com/\">their website</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Looking for something to do with the kids? Andolini\'s offers pizza tours. Mike will teach your kids\' group about the history of pizza, and then he\'ll impart to you his award-winning dough-throwing skills. After, the kids get to help make their own pizzas. Cost is $5 per kiddo.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s serves <a href=\"http://www.marshallbrewing.com/\">Marshall IPA</a>. Why should you care? Because it\'s my favorite beer ever to drink with pizza, that\'s why. Also, because Marshall is brewed right here in Tulsa.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s delivers. Also, you can <a href=\"http://andopizza.hungerrush.com/\">order online</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Also? <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDUjhwyjPs\">Fresh</a>.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nAndolini\'s is open at their Owasso location daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m - Cherry Street hours to come.\r\n\r\n<strong>Andolini\'s Pizzeria</strong>\r\nOwasso: 12140 E. 96th St.\r\nCherry Street: 1552 E. 15th Street\r\nPhone (Owasso): (918) 272-9328\r\nHours: 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. daily\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630029/restaurant/Tulsa/Andolinis-Pizzeria-Owasso\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/630029/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria on Urbanspoon\" /></a>','Andolini\'s Pizzeria: Owasso Beginnings, a Cherry Street Debut and the Pizza Rustica that wouldn\'t quit','When someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner.','inherit','open','open','','6507-revision-25','','','2011-03-05 13:46:56','2011-03-05 19:46:56','',6507,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6507-revision-25/',0,'revision','',0),(6626,1,'2011-03-05 13:48:41','2011-03-05 19:48:41','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThere are Tulsans who seem to take pride in admitting they don\'t emerge from the bounds of their neighborhoods. They\'re the same people who grin when they say they avoid 51st Street, which acts as a sort of gateway from the north side of town to the south and vice versa, like the plague. They\'re the ones who say they\'d never leave downtown if it had a grocery store. The ones who claim that the 15-minute drive from Jenks to Brookside is too long, even to try a popular new restaurant.\r\n\r\nI admit that I, too, sometimes fall into this verve-stunting lifestyle. Humans, like water, will always be drawn the to path of least resistance.\r\n\r\nBut an empty belly, combined with the hooting and hollering of the citizen fooderati of the metro, has a way of shaking me out of my funk and putting me on the road in search of something unfamiliar. And yummy.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what had happened when my husband, our son and I pointed our car toward 96th Street North in Owasso. Our destination? Andolini\'s Pizzeria.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s wasn\'t exactly a new name for me. I\'d interviewed them for <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/main.asp?Search=1&amp;ArticleID=51060&amp;SectionID=21&amp;SubSectionID=77&amp;S=1\">a Tulsa Business Journal Story in May of last year about their expansion to Tulsa\'s Cherry Street</a> (more on that in a minute), and I\'d heard from far and wide the Bausch brothers, the masterminds behind the pies, are sticklers about using fresh and house-made ingredients.\r\n\r\nWhen someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, it\'s a sign. \r\n\r\nAnd you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner, 50-mile round trip be damned.\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6590\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01590/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6590  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01590.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nIt\'s easy to notice that Andolini\'s is a family-friendly restaurant. Our server greeted us with a smile and a bowl of pizza dough for our son to play in. And, as we can all see in the photo above, play in it he did.\r\n\r\nIt seems like there are some restaurants serving high-quality food that are starting to understand that being family friendly doesn\'t necessarily have to mean compromising on atmosphere. I\'ve written about a few of them in my column on Tulsa\'s family-friendly restaurants in <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/\">TulsaKids Magazine</a>, and I always love adding new places to the list.\r\n\r\nBefore you order anything else at Andolini\'s, order these:\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6597\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01560/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6597  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01560.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nGarlic knots. The folks at Andolini\'s give them away all the time on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their highly active Facebook page</a>, but I\'d pay full price ($5.95) for them any day. Especially since one order is enough to fill up on before your pizza has a chance to make it to your table.\r\n\r\nWhat can I say? I like my garlic knots how I like my men: Light and fluffy on the inside, crisp, buttery and garlicky on the outside.\r\n\r\nHeh.\r\n\r\nOther Andolini\'s appetizers that caught my eye were Appian Way Meatballs ($6.95); the Panzanella Salad ($9.95), mixed field greens, prosciutto, balsamic dressing and shaved Pecorino Romano; and the Satriale\'s Salad ($6.95), a Romaine salad with prosciutto, Genoa salami, fresh mozz and a balsamic vinaigrette dressing.\r\n\r\nI have a little saying: These items are on my list. Which means everything I just mentioned will one day be commanded to get in my belly.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s serves a smattering of Italian dishes, but who are we trying to kid - you all want to hear about the pizza first, right? Right. So, here\'s the deal: Pizza at Andolini\'s comes as small as ten inches across or as large as 20 (the Oh-Wow-That\'s-Big size - their words, sadly, not mine), and toppings range from cheese and pepperoni to eggplant, Gorgonzola and portabello mushroom. Base prices for pizzas with a single topping range about $10 to $23.\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s has a list of their own pizza creations, too. One of them puts pepperoni, Canadian bacon, Genoa salami, pastrami, ground beef and Italian sausage all on one pizza. Another is sauced with pistachio pesto. And there\'s one called the Spring Street, the making of which inspired the Bausches to create a video.\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nThere you go, New York-style pizza lovers.\r\n\r\nAnother is called the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPQR\">SPQR</a>.\r\n\r\nRemember that? From The Gladiator? When Russell Crowe was scraping these letters from the tattoo on his upper arm? Hardcore.\r\n\r\nI mention this mostly because I want you all to think that I\'m observant and sharp and whatnot. Because I\'m fragile like that.\r\n\r\nAnd there\'s the pizza we ordered: the Pizza Rustica. Here\'s how it\'s described on the menu:\r\n<blockquote>Long before pizza became what it is today, it was a staple of rural Italian villages. Families would layer the freshest ingredients of the day on flatbread and bake it for dinner. The Pizza Rustica is made in that same style, filled with ricotta, mozzarella, prosciutto, sliced sausage and spinach. It is then given a large crust folded over the top of the filling. Truly a PIZZA PIE!</blockquote>\r\nThough after I read this description I turned to my husband and said something like, \"Honey, it says, \'Truly a PIZZA PIE\'. You know how I feel about pie. We have to get it,\' but I was sort of preaching to the choir at that point.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6598\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01580/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6598\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01580-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhy, hello.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6599\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6599\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015831-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee this? After a few garlic knots and this slice of Pizza Rustica, I was stuffed. Stuffed as in, I had to drive home with my pants unbuttoned. And unzipped. OK, I\'ll just say it: I completely removed my pants to drive home.\r\n\r\nNot really. But I wanted to. My full tummy wanted me to. My Spanx are no match for Andolini\'s Pizza Rustica.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6600\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01586/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6600\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01586-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s also offers calzones and strombolis (one of which is named Kona, another after Plato), sandwiches, pasta entrees (yes, including mac and cheese) and dessert, including an Italian butter cake. Which of course I didn\'t have because Pizza Rustica and my lungs were competing fiercely for space in my thoracic cavity by the time for dessert, but oh, man, it sounds pretty good. Especially the part where butter is mentioned.\r\n\r\nThe kids\' menu is nice and simple: Chicken bites and fries, a kid-sized portion of spaghetti with meatballs and a mini pizza, with nothing over $5.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6601\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01581/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6601\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01581-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe\'re pizza lovers, the Ball family. We\'re mutts with deep roots in the British Isles and the south-central American plains, but even so, we love the bread, the sauce and the cheese in the tradition of the Italians and the northeastern U.S.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6602\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6602\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015832-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMore on Andolinis:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>A Cherry Street location of Andolini\'s Pizzeria will open this month. I heard they were slated to be open by now, but the twin blizzards we had back in February delayed many a construction schedule, and the folks at Andolini\'s were not immune. Soon, though, find them at 1552 E. 15th Street.</li>\r\n	<li>Mike Bausch scored No. 5 in the nation and No. 2 in the midwest in the non-traditional category of the 2011 International Pizza Challenge in Las Vegas with his Semper Fi pizza. Big time stuff.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s posts contests just about every day on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their Facebook page</a>. Fans can win stuff ranging from an order of garlic knots to $50 Andolini\'s gift certificates.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s offers a mailing list. It\'s how I found out that on Tuesday, the second pizza you order is $2. As in, less than the price of a good cup of coffee. Find the sign-up form on <a href=\"http://www.andopizza.com/\">their website</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Looking for something to do with the kids? Andolini\'s offers pizza tours. Mike will teach your kids\' group about the history of pizza, and then he\'ll impart to you his award-winning dough-throwing skills. After, the kids get to help make their own pizzas. Cost is $5 per kiddo.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s serves <a href=\"http://www.marshallbrewing.com/\">Marshall IPA</a>. Why should you care? Because it\'s my favorite beer ever to drink with pizza, that\'s why. Also, because Marshall is brewed right here in Tulsa.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s delivers. Also, you can <a href=\"http://andopizza.hungerrush.com/\">order online</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Also? <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDUjhwyjPs\">Fresh</a>.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nAndolini\'s is open at their Owasso location daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m - Cherry Street hours to come.\r\n\r\n<strong>Andolini\'s Pizzeria</strong>\r\nOwasso: 12140 E. 96th St.\r\nCherry Street: 1552 E. 15th Street\r\nPhone (Owasso): (918) 272-9328\r\nHours: 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. daily\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630029/restaurant/Tulsa/Andolinis-Pizzeria-Owasso\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/630029/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria on Urbanspoon\" /></a>','Andolini\'s Pizzeria: Owasso Beginnings, a Cherry Street Debut and the Pizza Rustica that wouldn\'t quit','When someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner.','inherit','open','open','','6507-revision-26','','','2011-03-05 13:48:41','2011-03-05 19:48:41','',6507,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6507-revision-26/',0,'revision','',0),(6627,1,'2011-03-05 13:48:41','2011-03-05 19:48:41','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThere are Tulsans who seem to take pride in admitting they don\'t emerge from the bounds of their neighborhoods. They\'re the same people who grin when they say they avoid 51st Street, which acts as a sort of gateway from the north side of town to the south and vice versa, like the plague. They\'re the ones who say they\'d never leave downtown if it had a grocery store. The ones who claim that the 15-minute drive from Jenks to Brookside is too long, even to try a popular new restaurant.\r\n\r\nI admit that I, too, sometimes fall into this verve-stunting lifestyle. Humans, like water, will always be drawn the to path of least resistance.\r\n\r\nBut an empty belly, combined with the hooting and hollering of the citizen fooderati of the metro, has a way of shaking me out of my funk and putting me on the road in search of something unfamiliar. And yummy.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what had happened when my husband, our son and I pointed our car toward 96th Street North in Owasso. Our destination? Andolini\'s Pizzeria.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s wasn\'t exactly a new name for me. I\'d interviewed them for <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/main.asp?Search=1&amp;ArticleID=51060&amp;SectionID=21&amp;SubSectionID=77&amp;S=1\">a Tulsa Business Journal Story in May of last year about their expansion to Tulsa\'s Cherry Street</a> (more on that in a minute), and I\'d heard from far and wide the Bausch brothers, the masterminds behind the pies, are sticklers about using fresh and house-made ingredients.\r\n\r\nWhen someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, it\'s a sign. \r\n\r\nAnd you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner, 50-mile round trip be damned.\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6590\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01590/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6590  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01590.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nIt\'s easy to notice that Andolini\'s is a family-friendly restaurant. Our server greeted us with a smile and a bowl of pizza dough for our son to play in. And, as we can all see in the photo above, play in it he did.\r\n\r\nIt seems like there are some restaurants serving high-quality food that are starting to understand that being family friendly doesn\'t necessarily have to mean compromising on atmosphere. I\'ve written about a few of them in my column on Tulsa\'s family-friendly restaurants in <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/\">TulsaKids Magazine</a>, and I always love adding new places to the list.\r\n\r\nBefore you order anything else at Andolini\'s, order these:\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6597\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01560/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6597  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01560.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nGarlic knots. The folks at Andolini\'s give them away all the time on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their highly active Facebook page</a>, but I\'d pay full price ($5.95) for them any day. Especially since one order is enough to fill up on before your pizza has a chance to make it to your table.\r\n\r\nWhat can I say? I like my garlic knots how I like my men: Light and fluffy on the inside, crisp, buttery and garlicky on the outside.\r\n\r\nHeh.\r\n\r\nOther Andolini\'s appetizers that caught my eye were Appian Way Meatballs ($6.95); the Panzanella Salad ($9.95), mixed field greens, prosciutto, balsamic dressing and shaved Pecorino Romano; and the Satriale\'s Salad ($6.95), a Romaine salad with prosciutto, Genoa salami, fresh mozz and a balsamic vinaigrette dressing.\r\n\r\nI have a little saying: These items are on my list. Which means everything I just mentioned will one day be commanded to get in my belly.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s serves a smattering of Italian dishes, but who are we trying to kid - you all want to hear about the pizza first, right? Right. So, here\'s the deal: Pizza at Andolini\'s comes as small as ten inches across or as large as 20 (the Oh-Wow-That\'s-Big size - their words, sadly, not mine), and toppings range from cheese and pepperoni to eggplant, Gorgonzola and portabello mushroom. Base prices for pizzas with a single topping range about $10 to $23.\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s has a list of their own pizza creations, too. One of them puts pepperoni, Canadian bacon, Genoa salami, pastrami, ground beef and Italian sausage all on one pizza. Another is sauced with pistachio pesto. And there\'s one called the Spring Street, the making of which inspired the Bausches to create a video.\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nThere you go, New York-style pizza lovers.\r\n\r\nAnother is called the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPQR\">SPQR</a>.\r\n\r\nRemember that? From The Gladiator? When Russell Crowe was scraping these letters from the tattoo on his upper arm? Hardcore.\r\n\r\nI mention this mostly because I want you all to think that I\'m observant and sharp and whatnot. Because I\'m fragile like that.\r\n\r\nAnd there\'s the pizza we ordered: the Pizza Rustica. Here\'s how it\'s described on the menu:\r\n<blockquote>Long before pizza became what it is today, it was a staple of rural Italian villages. Families would layer the freshest ingredients of the day on flatbread and bake it for dinner. The Pizza Rustica is made in that same style, filled with ricotta, mozzarella, prosciutto, sliced sausage and spinach. It is then given a large crust folded over the top of the filling. Truly a PIZZA PIE!</blockquote>\r\nThough after I read this description I turned to my husband and said something like, \"Honey, it says, \'Truly a PIZZA PIE\'. You know how I feel about pie. We have to get it,\' but I was sort of preaching to the choir at that point.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6598\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01580/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6598\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01580-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhy, hello.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6599\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6599\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015831-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee this? After a few garlic knots and this slice of Pizza Rustica, I was stuffed. Stuffed as in, I had to drive home with my pants unbuttoned. And unzipped. OK, I\'ll just say it: I completely removed my pants to drive home.\r\n\r\nNot really. But I wanted to. My full tummy wanted me to. My Spanx are no match for Andolini\'s Pizza Rustica.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6600\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01586/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6600\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01586-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s also offers calzones and strombolis (one of which is named Kona, another after Plato), sandwiches, pasta entrees (yes, including mac and cheese) and dessert, including an Italian butter cake. Which of course I didn\'t have because Pizza Rustica and my lungs were competing fiercely for space in my thoracic cavity by the time for dessert, but oh, man, it sounds pretty good. Especially the part where butter is mentioned.\r\n\r\nThe kids\' menu is nice and simple: Chicken bites and fries, a kid-sized portion of spaghetti with meatballs and a mini pizza, with nothing over $5.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6601\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01581/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6601\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01581-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe\'re pizza lovers, the Ball family. We\'re mutts with deep roots in the British Isles and the south-central American plains, but even so, we love the bread, the sauce and the cheese in the tradition of the Italians and the northeastern U.S.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6602\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6602\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015832-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMore on Andolinis:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>A Cherry Street location of Andolini\'s Pizzeria will open this month. I heard they were slated to be open by now, but the twin blizzards we had back in February delayed many a construction schedule, and the folks at Andolini\'s were not immune. Soon, though, find them at 1552 E. 15th Street.</li>\r\n	<li>Mike Bausch scored No. 5 in the nation and No. 2 in the midwest in the non-traditional category of the 2011 International Pizza Challenge in Las Vegas with his Semper Fi pizza. Big time stuff.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s posts contests just about every day on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their Facebook page</a>. Fans can win stuff ranging from an order of garlic knots to $50 Andolini\'s gift certificates.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s offers a mailing list. It\'s how I found out that on Tuesday, the second pizza you order is $2. As in, less than the price of a good cup of coffee. Find the sign-up form on <a href=\"http://www.andopizza.com/\">their website</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Looking for something to do with the kids? Andolini\'s offers pizza tours. Mike will teach your kids\' group about the history of pizza, and then he\'ll impart to you his award-winning dough-throwing skills. After, the kids get to help make their own pizzas. Cost is $5 per kiddo.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s serves <a href=\"http://www.marshallbrewing.com/\">Marshall IPA</a>. Why should you care? Because it\'s my favorite beer ever to drink with pizza, that\'s why. Also, because Marshall is brewed right here in Tulsa.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s delivers. Also, you can <a href=\"http://andopizza.hungerrush.com/\">order online</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Also? <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDUjhwyjPs\">Fresh</a>.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nAndolini\'s is open at their Owasso location daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m - Cherry Street hours to come.\r\n\r\n<strong>Andolini\'s Pizzeria</strong>\r\nOwasso: 12140 E. 96th St.\r\nCherry Street: 1552 E. 15th Street\r\nPhone (Owasso): (918) 272-9328\r\nHours: 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. daily\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630029/restaurant/Tulsa/Andolinis-Pizzeria-Owasso\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/630029/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria on Urbanspoon\" /></a>','Andolini\'s Pizzeria: Owasso Beginnings, a Cherry Street Debut and the Pizza Rustica that wouldn\'t quit','When someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner.','inherit','open','open','','6507-revision-27','','','2011-03-05 13:48:41','2011-03-05 19:48:41','',6507,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6507-revision-27/',0,'revision','',0),(6628,1,'2011-03-05 13:49:36','2011-03-05 19:49:36','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThere are Tulsans who seem to take pride in admitting they don\'t emerge from the bounds of their neighborhoods. They\'re the same people who grin when they say they avoid 51st Street, which acts as a sort of gateway from the north side of town to the south and vice versa, like the plague. They\'re the ones who say they\'d never leave downtown if it had a grocery store. The ones who claim that the 15-minute drive from Jenks to Brookside is too long, even to try a popular new restaurant.\r\n\r\nI admit that I, too, sometimes fall into this verve-stunting lifestyle. Humans, like water, will always be drawn the to path of least resistance.\r\n\r\nBut an empty belly, combined with the hooting and hollering of the citizen fooderati of the metro, has a way of shaking me out of my funk and putting me on the road in search of something unfamiliar. And yummy.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what had happened when my husband, our son and I pointed our car toward 96th Street North in Owasso. Our destination? Andolini\'s Pizzeria.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s wasn\'t exactly a new name for me. I\'d interviewed them for <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/main.asp?Search=1&amp;ArticleID=51060&amp;SectionID=21&amp;SubSectionID=77&amp;S=1\">a Tulsa Business Journal Story in May of last year about their expansion to Tulsa\'s Cherry Street</a> (more on that in a minute), and I\'d heard from far and wide the Bausch brothers, the masterminds behind the pies, are sticklers about using fresh and house-made ingredients.\r\n\r\nWhen someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, it\'s a sign. \r\n\r\nAnd you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner, 50-mile round trip be damned.\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6590\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01590/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6590  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01590.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nIt\'s easy to notice that Andolini\'s is a family-friendly restaurant. Our server greeted us with a smile and a bowl of pizza dough for our son to play in. And, as we can all see in the photo above, play in it he did.\r\n\r\nIt seems like there are some restaurants serving high-quality food that are starting to understand that being family friendly doesn\'t necessarily have to mean compromising on atmosphere. I\'ve written about a few of them in my column on Tulsa\'s family-friendly restaurants in <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/\">TulsaKids Magazine</a>, and I always love adding new places to the list.\r\n\r\nBefore you order anything else at Andolini\'s, order these:\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6597\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01560/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6597  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01560.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nGarlic knots. The folks at Andolini\'s give them away all the time on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their highly active Facebook page</a>, but I\'d pay full price ($5.95) for them any day. Especially since one order is enough to fill up on before your pizza has a chance to make it to your table.\r\n\r\nWhat can I say? I like my garlic knots how I like my men: Light and fluffy on the inside, crisp, buttery and garlicky on the outside.\r\n\r\nHeh.\r\n\r\nOther Andolini\'s appetizers that caught my eye were Appian Way Meatballs ($6.95); the Panzanella Salad ($9.95), mixed field greens, prosciutto, balsamic dressing and shaved Pecorino Romano; and the Satriale\'s Salad ($6.95), a Romaine salad with prosciutto, Genoa salami, fresh mozz and a balsamic vinaigrette dressing.\r\n\r\nI have a little saying: These items are on my list. Which means everything I just mentioned will one day be commanded to get in my belly.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s serves a smattering of Italian dishes, but who are we trying to kid - you all want to hear about the pizza first, right? Right. So, here\'s the deal: Pizza at Andolini\'s comes as small as ten inches across or as large as 20 (the Oh-Wow-That\'s-Big size - their words, sadly, not mine), and toppings range from cheese and pepperoni to eggplant, Gorgonzola and portabello mushroom. Base prices for pizzas with a single topping range about $10 to $23.\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s has a list of their own pizza creations, too. One of them puts pepperoni, Canadian bacon, Genoa salami, pastrami, ground beef and Italian sausage all on one pizza. Another is sauced with pistachio pesto. And there\'s one called the Spring Street, the making of which inspired the Bausches to create a video.\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nThere you go, New York-style pizza lovers.\r\n\r\nAnother is called the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPQR\">SPQR</a>.\r\n\r\nRemember that? From The Gladiator? When Russell Crowe was scraping these letters from the tattoo on his upper arm? Hardcore.\r\n\r\nI mention this mostly because I want you all to think that I\'m observant and sharp and whatnot. Because I\'m fragile like that.\r\n\r\nAnd there\'s the pizza we ordered: the Pizza Rustica. Here\'s how it\'s described on the menu:\r\n<blockquote>Long before pizza became what it is today, it was a staple of rural Italian villages. Families would layer the freshest ingredients of the day on flatbread and bake it for dinner. The Pizza Rustica is made in that same style, filled with ricotta, mozzarella, prosciutto, sliced sausage and spinach. It is then given a large crust folded over the top of the filling. Truly a PIZZA PIE!</blockquote>\r\nThough after I read this description I turned to my husband and said something like, \"Honey, it says, \'Truly a PIZZA PIE\'. You know how I feel about pie. We have to get it,\' I was sort of preaching to the choir at that point.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6598\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01580/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6598\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01580-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhy, hello.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6599\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6599\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015831-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee this? After a few garlic knots and this slice of Pizza Rustica, I was stuffed. Stuffed as in, I had to drive home with my pants unbuttoned. And unzipped. OK, I\'ll just say it: I completely removed my pants to drive home.\r\n\r\nNot really. But I wanted to. My full tummy wanted me to. My Spanx are no match for Andolini\'s Pizza Rustica.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6600\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01586/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6600\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01586-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s also offers calzones and strombolis (one of which is named Kona, another after Plato), sandwiches, pasta entrees (yes, including mac and cheese) and dessert, including an Italian butter cake. Which of course I didn\'t have because Pizza Rustica and my lungs were competing fiercely for space in my thoracic cavity by the time for dessert, but oh, man, it sounds pretty good. Especially the part where butter is mentioned.\r\n\r\nThe kids\' menu is nice and simple: Chicken bites and fries, a kid-sized portion of spaghetti with meatballs and a mini pizza, with nothing over $5.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6601\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01581/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6601\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01581-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe\'re pizza lovers, the Ball family. We\'re mutts with deep roots in the British Isles and the south-central American plains, but even so, we love the bread, the sauce and the cheese in the tradition of the Italians and the northeastern U.S.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6602\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6602\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015832-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMore on Andolinis:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>A Cherry Street location of Andolini\'s Pizzeria will open this month. I heard they were slated to be open by now, but the twin blizzards we had back in February delayed many a construction schedule, and the folks at Andolini\'s were not immune. Soon, though, find them at 1552 E. 15th Street.</li>\r\n	<li>Mike Bausch scored No. 5 in the nation and No. 2 in the midwest in the non-traditional category of the 2011 International Pizza Challenge in Las Vegas with his Semper Fi pizza. Big time stuff.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s posts contests just about every day on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their Facebook page</a>. Fans can win stuff ranging from an order of garlic knots to $50 Andolini\'s gift certificates.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s offers a mailing list. It\'s how I found out that on Tuesday, the second pizza you order is $2. As in, less than the price of a good cup of coffee. Find the sign-up form on <a href=\"http://www.andopizza.com/\">their website</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Looking for something to do with the kids? Andolini\'s offers pizza tours. Mike will teach your kids\' group about the history of pizza, and then he\'ll impart to you his award-winning dough-throwing skills. After, the kids get to help make their own pizzas. Cost is $5 per kiddo.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s serves <a href=\"http://www.marshallbrewing.com/\">Marshall IPA</a>. Why should you care? Because it\'s my favorite beer ever to drink with pizza, that\'s why. Also, because Marshall is brewed right here in Tulsa.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s delivers. Also, you can <a href=\"http://andopizza.hungerrush.com/\">order online</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Also? <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDUjhwyjPs\">Fresh</a>.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nAndolini\'s is open at their Owasso location daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m - Cherry Street hours to come.\r\n\r\n<strong>Andolini\'s Pizzeria</strong>\r\nOwasso: 12140 E. 96th St.\r\nCherry Street: 1552 E. 15th Street\r\nPhone (Owasso): (918) 272-9328\r\nHours: 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. daily\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630029/restaurant/Tulsa/Andolinis-Pizzeria-Owasso\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/630029/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria on Urbanspoon\" /></a>','Andolini\'s Pizzeria: Owasso Beginnings, a Cherry Street Debut and the Pizza Rustica that wouldn\'t quit','When someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner.','inherit','open','open','','6507-revision-28','','','2011-03-05 13:49:36','2011-03-05 19:49:36','',6507,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6507-revision-28/',0,'revision','',0),(6629,1,'2011-03-05 13:49:36','2011-03-05 19:49:36','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThere are Tulsans who seem to take pride in admitting they don\'t emerge from the bounds of their neighborhoods. They\'re the same people who grin when they say they avoid 51st Street, which acts as a sort of gateway from the north side of town to the south and vice versa, like the plague. They\'re the ones who say they\'d never leave downtown if it had a grocery store. The ones who claim that the 15-minute drive from Jenks to Brookside is too long, even to try a popular new restaurant.\r\n\r\nI admit that I, too, sometimes fall into this verve-stunting lifestyle. Humans, like water, will always be drawn the to path of least resistance.\r\n\r\nBut an empty belly, combined with the hooting and hollering of the citizen fooderati of the metro, has a way of shaking me out of my funk and putting me on the road in search of something unfamiliar. And yummy.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what had happened when my husband, our son and I pointed our car toward 96th Street North in Owasso. Our destination? Andolini\'s Pizzeria.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s wasn\'t exactly a new name for me. I\'d interviewed them for <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/main.asp?Search=1&amp;ArticleID=51060&amp;SectionID=21&amp;SubSectionID=77&amp;S=1\">a Tulsa Business Journal Story in May of last year about their expansion to Tulsa\'s Cherry Street</a> (more on that in a minute), and I\'d heard from far and wide the Bausch brothers, the masterminds behind the pies, are sticklers about using fresh and house-made ingredients.\r\n\r\nWhen someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, it\'s a sign. \r\n\r\nAnd you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner, 50-mile round trip be damned.\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6590\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01590/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6590  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01590.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nIt\'s easy to notice that Andolini\'s is a family-friendly restaurant. Our server greeted us with a smile and a bowl of pizza dough for our son to play in. And, as we can all see in the photo above, play in it he did.\r\n\r\nIt seems like there are some restaurants serving high-quality food that are starting to understand that being family friendly doesn\'t necessarily have to mean compromising on atmosphere. I\'ve written about a few of them in my column on Tulsa\'s family-friendly restaurants in <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/\">TulsaKids Magazine</a>, and I always love adding new places to the list.\r\n\r\nBefore you order anything else at Andolini\'s, order these:\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6597\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01560/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6597  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01560.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nGarlic knots. The folks at Andolini\'s give them away all the time on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their highly active Facebook page</a>, but I\'d pay full price ($5.95) for them any day. Especially since one order is enough to fill up on before your pizza has a chance to make it to your table.\r\n\r\nWhat can I say? I like my garlic knots how I like my men: Light and fluffy on the inside, crisp, buttery and garlicky on the outside.\r\n\r\nHeh.\r\n\r\nOther Andolini\'s appetizers that caught my eye were Appian Way Meatballs ($6.95); the Panzanella Salad ($9.95), mixed field greens, prosciutto, balsamic dressing and shaved Pecorino Romano; and the Satriale\'s Salad ($6.95), a Romaine salad with prosciutto, Genoa salami, fresh mozz and a balsamic vinaigrette dressing.\r\n\r\nI have a little saying: These items are on my list. Which means everything I just mentioned will one day be commanded to get in my belly.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s serves a smattering of Italian dishes, but who are we trying to kid - you all want to hear about the pizza first, right? Right. So, here\'s the deal: Pizza at Andolini\'s comes as small as ten inches across or as large as 20 (the Oh-Wow-That\'s-Big size - their words, sadly, not mine), and toppings range from cheese and pepperoni to eggplant, Gorgonzola and portabello mushroom. Base prices for pizzas with a single topping range about $10 to $23.\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s has a list of their own pizza creations, too. One of them puts pepperoni, Canadian bacon, Genoa salami, pastrami, ground beef and Italian sausage all on one pizza. Another is sauced with pistachio pesto. And there\'s one called the Spring Street, the making of which inspired the Bausches to create a video.\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nThere you go, New York-style pizza lovers.\r\n\r\nAnother is called the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPQR\">SPQR</a>.\r\n\r\nRemember that? From The Gladiator? When Russell Crowe was scraping these letters from the tattoo on his upper arm? Hardcore.\r\n\r\nI mention this mostly because I want you all to think that I\'m observant and sharp and whatnot. Because I\'m fragile like that.\r\n\r\nAnd there\'s the pizza we ordered: the Pizza Rustica. Here\'s how it\'s described on the menu:\r\n<blockquote>Long before pizza became what it is today, it was a staple of rural Italian villages. Families would layer the freshest ingredients of the day on flatbread and bake it for dinner. The Pizza Rustica is made in that same style, filled with ricotta, mozzarella, prosciutto, sliced sausage and spinach. It is then given a large crust folded over the top of the filling. Truly a PIZZA PIE!</blockquote>\r\nThough after I read this description I turned to my husband and said something like, \"Honey, it says, \'Truly a PIZZA PIE\'. You know how I feel about pie. We have to get it,\' I was sort of preaching to the choir at that point.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6598\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01580/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6598\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01580-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhy, hello.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6599\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6599\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015831-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee this? After a few garlic knots and this slice of Pizza Rustica, I was stuffed. Stuffed as in, I had to drive home with my pants unbuttoned. And unzipped. OK, I\'ll just say it: I completely removed my pants to drive home.\r\n\r\nNot really. But I wanted to. My full tummy wanted me to. My Spanx are no match for Andolini\'s Pizza Rustica.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6600\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01586/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6600\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01586-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s also offers calzones and strombolis (one of which is named Kona, another after Plato), sandwiches, pasta entrees (yes, including mac and cheese) and dessert, including an Italian butter cake. Which of course I didn\'t have because Pizza Rustica and my lungs were competing fiercely for space in my thoracic cavity by the time for dessert, but oh, man, it sounds pretty good. Especially the part where butter is mentioned.\r\n\r\nThe kids\' menu is nice and simple: Chicken bites and fries, a kid-sized portion of spaghetti with meatballs and a mini pizza, with nothing over $5.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6601\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01581/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6601\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01581-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe\'re pizza lovers, the Ball family. We\'re mutts with deep roots in the British Isles and the south-central American plains, but even so, we love the bread, the sauce and the cheese in the tradition of the Italians and the northeastern U.S.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6602\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6602\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015832-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMore on Andolinis:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>A Cherry Street location of Andolini\'s Pizzeria will open this month. I heard they were slated to be open by now, but the twin blizzards we had back in February delayed many a construction schedule, and the folks at Andolini\'s were not immune. Soon, though, find them at 1552 E. 15th Street.</li>\r\n	<li>Mike Bausch scored No. 5 in the nation and No. 2 in the midwest in the non-traditional category of the 2011 International Pizza Challenge in Las Vegas with his Semper Fi pizza. Big time stuff.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s posts contests just about every day on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their Facebook page</a>. Fans can win stuff ranging from an order of garlic knots to $50 Andolini\'s gift certificates.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s offers a mailing list. It\'s how I found out that on Tuesday, the second pizza you order is $2. As in, less than the price of a good cup of coffee. Find the sign-up form on <a href=\"http://www.andopizza.com/\">their website</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Looking for something to do with the kids? Andolini\'s offers pizza tours. Mike will teach your kids\' group about the history of pizza, and then he\'ll impart to you his award-winning dough-throwing skills. After, the kids get to help make their own pizzas. Cost is $5 per kiddo.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s serves <a href=\"http://www.marshallbrewing.com/\">Marshall IPA</a>. Why should you care? Because it\'s my favorite beer ever to drink with pizza, that\'s why. Also, because Marshall is brewed right here in Tulsa.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s delivers. Also, you can <a href=\"http://andopizza.hungerrush.com/\">order online</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Also? <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDUjhwyjPs\">Fresh</a>.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nAndolini\'s is open at their Owasso location daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m - Cherry Street hours to come.\r\n\r\n<strong>Andolini\'s Pizzeria</strong>\r\nOwasso: 12140 E. 96th St.\r\nCherry Street: 1552 E. 15th Street\r\nPhone (Owasso): (918) 272-9328\r\nHours: 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. daily\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630029/restaurant/Tulsa/Andolinis-Pizzeria-Owasso\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/630029/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria on Urbanspoon\" /></a>','Andolini\'s Pizzeria: Owasso Beginnings, a Cherry Street Debut and the Pizza Rustica that wouldn\'t quit','When someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner.','inherit','open','open','','6507-revision-29','','','2011-03-05 13:49:36','2011-03-05 19:49:36','',6507,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6507-revision-29/',0,'revision','',0),(6632,1,'2011-03-05 13:57:54','2011-03-05 19:57:54','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThere are Tulsans who seem to take pride in admitting they don\'t emerge from the bounds of their neighborhoods. They\'re the same people who grin when they say they avoid 51st Street, which acts as a sort of gateway from the north side of town to the south and vice versa, like the plague. They\'re the ones who say they\'d never leave downtown if it had a grocery store. The ones who claim that the 15-minute drive from Jenks to Brookside is too long, even to try a popular new restaurant.\r\n\r\nI admit that I, too, sometimes fall into this verve-stunting lifestyle. Humans, like water, will always be drawn the to path of least resistance.\r\n\r\nBut an empty belly, combined with the hooting and hollering of the citizen fooderati of the metro, has a way of shaking me out of my funk and putting me on the road in search of something unfamiliar. And yummy.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what had happened when my husband, our son and I pointed our car toward 96th Street North in Owasso. Our destination? Andolini\'s Pizzeria.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s wasn\'t exactly a new name for me. I\'d interviewed them for <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/main.asp?Search=1&amp;ArticleID=51060&amp;SectionID=21&amp;SubSectionID=77&amp;S=1\">a Tulsa Business Journal Story in May of last year about their expansion to Tulsa\'s Cherry Street</a> (more on that in a minute), and I\'d heard from far and wide the Bausch brothers, the masterminds behind the pies, are sticklers about using fresh and house-made ingredients.\r\n\r\nWhen someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, it\'s a sign. \r\n\r\nAnd you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner, 50-mile round trip be damned.\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6590\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01590/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6590  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01590.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nIt\'s easy to notice that Andolini\'s is a family-friendly restaurant. Our server greeted us with a smile and a bowl of pizza dough for our son to play in. And, as we can all see in the photo above, play in it he did.\r\n\r\nIt seems like there are some restaurants serving high-quality food that are starting to understand that being family friendly doesn\'t necessarily have to mean compromising on atmosphere. I\'ve written about a few of them in my column on Tulsa\'s family-friendly restaurants in <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/\">TulsaKids Magazine</a>, and I always love adding new places to the list.\r\n\r\nBefore you order anything else at Andolini\'s, order these:\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6597\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01560/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6597  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01560.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nGarlic knots. The folks at Andolini\'s give them away all the time on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their highly active Facebook page</a>, but I\'d pay full price ($5.95) for them any day. Especially since one order is enough to fill up on before your pizza has a chance to make it to your table.\r\n\r\nWhat can I say? I like my garlic knots how I like my men: Light and fluffy on the inside, crisp, buttery and garlicky on the outside.\r\n\r\nHeh.\r\n\r\nOther Andolini\'s appetizers that caught my eye were Appian Way Meatballs ($6.95); the Panzanella Salad ($9.95), mixed field greens, prosciutto, balsamic dressing and shaved Pecorino Romano; and the Satriale\'s Salad ($6.95), a Romaine salad with prosciutto, Genoa salami, fresh mozz and a balsamic vinaigrette dressing.\r\n\r\nI have a little saying: These items are on my list. Which means everything I just mentioned will one day be commanded to get in my belly.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s serves a smattering of Italian dishes, but who are we trying to kid - you all want to hear about the pizza first, right? Right. So, here\'s the deal: Pizza at Andolini\'s comes as small as ten inches across or as large as 20 (the Oh-Wow-That\'s-Big size - their words, sadly, not mine), and toppings range from cheese and pepperoni to eggplant, Gorgonzola and portabello mushroom. Base prices for pizzas with a single topping range about $10 to $23.\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s has a list of their own pizza creations, too. One of them puts pepperoni, Canadian bacon, Genoa salami, pastrami, ground beef and Italian sausage all on one pizza. Another is sauced with pistachio pesto. And there\'s one called the Spring Street, the making of which inspired the Bausches to create a video.\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nThere you go, New York-style pizza lovers.\r\n\r\nAnother is called the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPQR\">SPQR</a>.\r\n\r\nRemember that? From The Gladiator? When Russell Crowe was scraping these letters from the tattoo on his upper arm? Hardcore.\r\n\r\nI mention this mostly because I want you all to think that I\'m observant and sharp and whatnot. Because I\'m fragile like that.\r\n\r\nAnd there\'s the pizza we ordered: the Pizza Rustica. Here\'s how it\'s described on the menu:\r\n<blockquote>Long before pizza became what it is today, it was a staple of rural Italian villages. Families would layer the freshest ingredients of the day on flatbread and bake it for dinner. The Pizza Rustica is made in that same style, filled with ricotta, mozzarella, prosciutto, sliced sausage and spinach. It is then given a large crust folded over the top of the filling. Truly a PIZZA PIE!</blockquote>\r\nThough after I read this description I turned to my husband and said something like, \"Honey, it says, \'Truly a PIZZA PIE\'. You know how I feel about pie. We have to get it,\' I was sort of preaching to the choir at that point.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6598\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01580/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6598\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01580-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhy, hello.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6599\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6599\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015831-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee this? After a few garlic knots and this slice of Pizza Rustica, I was stuffed. Stuffed as in, I had to drive home with my pants unbuttoned. And unzipped. OK, I\'ll just say it: I completely removed my pants to drive home.\r\n\r\nNot really. But I wanted to. My full tummy wanted me to. My Spanx are no match for Andolini\'s Pizza Rustica.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6600\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01586/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6600\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01586-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s also offers calzones and strombolis (one of which is named Kona, another after Plato), sandwiches, pasta entrees (yes, including mac and cheese) and dessert, including an Italian butter cake. Which of course I didn\'t have because Pizza Rustica and my lungs were competing fiercely for space in my thoracic cavity by the time for dessert, but oh, man, it sounds pretty good. Especially the part where butter is mentioned.\r\n\r\nThe kids\' menu is nice and simple: Chicken bites and fries, a kid-sized portion of spaghetti with meatballs and a mini pizza, with nothing over $5.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6601\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01581/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6601\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01581-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe\'re pizza lovers, the Ball family. We\'re mutts with deep roots in the British Isles and the south-central American plains, but even so, we love the bread, the sauce and the cheese in the tradition of the Italians and the northeastern U.S.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6602\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6602\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015832-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMore on Andolinis:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>A Cherry Street location of Andolini\'s Pizzeria will open this month. I heard they were slated to be open by now, but the twin blizzards we had back in February delayed many a construction schedule, and the folks at Andolini\'s were not immune. Soon, though, find them at 1552 E. 15th Street.</li>\r\n	<li>Earlier this week Mike Bausch scored No. 5 in the nation and No. 2 in the midwest in the non-traditional category of the 2011 International Pizza Challenge in Las Vegas with his Semper Fi pizza. Big time stuff.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s posts contests just about every day on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their Facebook page</a>. Fans can win stuff ranging from an order of garlic knots to $50 Andolini\'s gift certificates.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s offers a mailing list. It\'s how I found out that on Tuesday, the second pizza you order is $2. As in, less than the price of a good cup of coffee. Find the sign-up form on <a href=\"http://www.andopizza.com/\">their website</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Looking for something to do with the kids? Andolini\'s offers pizza tours. Mike will teach your kids\' group about the history of pizza, and then he\'ll impart to you his award-winning dough-throwing skills. After, the kids get to help make their own pizzas. Cost is $5 per kiddo.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s serves <a href=\"http://www.marshallbrewing.com/\">Marshall IPA</a>. Why should you care? Because it\'s my favorite beer ever to drink with pizza, that\'s why. Also, because Marshall is brewed right here in Tulsa.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s delivers. And you can <a href=\"http://andopizza.hungerrush.com/\">order online</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Also? <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDUjhwyjPs\">FRESH</a>.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nAndolini\'s is open at their Owasso location daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m - Cherry Street hours to come.\r\n\r\n<strong>Andolini\'s Pizzeria</strong>\r\nOwasso: 12140 E. 96th St.\r\nCherry Street: 1552 E. 15th Street\r\nPhone (Owasso): (918) 272-9328\r\nHours: 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. daily\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630029/restaurant/Tulsa/Andolinis-Pizzeria-Owasso\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/630029/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria on Urbanspoon\" /></a>','Andolini\'s Pizzeria: Garlic Knots, Pizza Rustica and the removing of pants','When someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner.','inherit','open','open','','6507-revision-32','','','2011-03-05 13:57:54','2011-03-05 19:57:54','',6507,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6507-revision-32/',0,'revision','',0),(6630,1,'2011-03-05 13:55:48','2011-03-05 19:55:48','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThere are Tulsans who seem to take pride in admitting they don\'t emerge from the bounds of their neighborhoods. They\'re the same people who grin when they say they avoid 51st Street, which acts as a sort of gateway from the north side of town to the south and vice versa, like the plague. They\'re the ones who say they\'d never leave downtown if it had a grocery store. The ones who claim that the 15-minute drive from Jenks to Brookside is too long, even to try a popular new restaurant.\r\n\r\nI admit that I, too, sometimes fall into this verve-stunting lifestyle. Humans, like water, will always be drawn the to path of least resistance.\r\n\r\nBut an empty belly, combined with the hooting and hollering of the citizen fooderati of the metro, has a way of shaking me out of my funk and putting me on the road in search of something unfamiliar. And yummy.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what had happened when my husband, our son and I pointed our car toward 96th Street North in Owasso. Our destination? Andolini\'s Pizzeria.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s wasn\'t exactly a new name for me. I\'d interviewed them for <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/main.asp?Search=1&amp;ArticleID=51060&amp;SectionID=21&amp;SubSectionID=77&amp;S=1\">a Tulsa Business Journal Story in May of last year about their expansion to Tulsa\'s Cherry Street</a> (more on that in a minute), and I\'d heard from far and wide the Bausch brothers, the masterminds behind the pies, are sticklers about using fresh and house-made ingredients.\r\n\r\nWhen someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, it\'s a sign. \r\n\r\nAnd you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner, 50-mile round trip be damned.\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6590\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01590/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6590  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01590.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nIt\'s easy to notice that Andolini\'s is a family-friendly restaurant. Our server greeted us with a smile and a bowl of pizza dough for our son to play in. And, as we can all see in the photo above, play in it he did.\r\n\r\nIt seems like there are some restaurants serving high-quality food that are starting to understand that being family friendly doesn\'t necessarily have to mean compromising on atmosphere. I\'ve written about a few of them in my column on Tulsa\'s family-friendly restaurants in <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/\">TulsaKids Magazine</a>, and I always love adding new places to the list.\r\n\r\nBefore you order anything else at Andolini\'s, order these:\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6597\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01560/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6597  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01560.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nGarlic knots. The folks at Andolini\'s give them away all the time on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their highly active Facebook page</a>, but I\'d pay full price ($5.95) for them any day. Especially since one order is enough to fill up on before your pizza has a chance to make it to your table.\r\n\r\nWhat can I say? I like my garlic knots how I like my men: Light and fluffy on the inside, crisp, buttery and garlicky on the outside.\r\n\r\nHeh.\r\n\r\nOther Andolini\'s appetizers that caught my eye were Appian Way Meatballs ($6.95); the Panzanella Salad ($9.95), mixed field greens, prosciutto, balsamic dressing and shaved Pecorino Romano; and the Satriale\'s Salad ($6.95), a Romaine salad with prosciutto, Genoa salami, fresh mozz and a balsamic vinaigrette dressing.\r\n\r\nI have a little saying: These items are on my list. Which means everything I just mentioned will one day be commanded to get in my belly.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s serves a smattering of Italian dishes, but who are we trying to kid - you all want to hear about the pizza first, right? Right. So, here\'s the deal: Pizza at Andolini\'s comes as small as ten inches across or as large as 20 (the Oh-Wow-That\'s-Big size - their words, sadly, not mine), and toppings range from cheese and pepperoni to eggplant, Gorgonzola and portabello mushroom. Base prices for pizzas with a single topping range about $10 to $23.\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s has a list of their own pizza creations, too. One of them puts pepperoni, Canadian bacon, Genoa salami, pastrami, ground beef and Italian sausage all on one pizza. Another is sauced with pistachio pesto. And there\'s one called the Spring Street, the making of which inspired the Bausches to create a video.\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nThere you go, New York-style pizza lovers.\r\n\r\nAnother is called the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPQR\">SPQR</a>.\r\n\r\nRemember that? From The Gladiator? When Russell Crowe was scraping these letters from the tattoo on his upper arm? Hardcore.\r\n\r\nI mention this mostly because I want you all to think that I\'m observant and sharp and whatnot. Because I\'m fragile like that.\r\n\r\nAnd there\'s the pizza we ordered: the Pizza Rustica. Here\'s how it\'s described on the menu:\r\n<blockquote>Long before pizza became what it is today, it was a staple of rural Italian villages. Families would layer the freshest ingredients of the day on flatbread and bake it for dinner. The Pizza Rustica is made in that same style, filled with ricotta, mozzarella, prosciutto, sliced sausage and spinach. It is then given a large crust folded over the top of the filling. Truly a PIZZA PIE!</blockquote>\r\nThough after I read this description I turned to my husband and said something like, \"Honey, it says, \'Truly a PIZZA PIE\'. You know how I feel about pie. We have to get it,\' I was sort of preaching to the choir at that point.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6598\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01580/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6598\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01580-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhy, hello.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6599\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6599\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015831-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee this? After a few garlic knots and this slice of Pizza Rustica, I was stuffed. Stuffed as in, I had to drive home with my pants unbuttoned. And unzipped. OK, I\'ll just say it: I completely removed my pants to drive home.\r\n\r\nNot really. But I wanted to. My full tummy wanted me to. My Spanx are no match for Andolini\'s Pizza Rustica.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6600\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01586/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6600\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01586-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s also offers calzones and strombolis (one of which is named Kona, another after Plato), sandwiches, pasta entrees (yes, including mac and cheese) and dessert, including an Italian butter cake. Which of course I didn\'t have because Pizza Rustica and my lungs were competing fiercely for space in my thoracic cavity by the time for dessert, but oh, man, it sounds pretty good. Especially the part where butter is mentioned.\r\n\r\nThe kids\' menu is nice and simple: Chicken bites and fries, a kid-sized portion of spaghetti with meatballs and a mini pizza, with nothing over $5.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6601\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01581/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6601\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01581-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe\'re pizza lovers, the Ball family. We\'re mutts with deep roots in the British Isles and the south-central American plains, but even so, we love the bread, the sauce and the cheese in the tradition of the Italians and the northeastern U.S.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6602\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6602\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015832-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMore on Andolinis:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>A Cherry Street location of Andolini\'s Pizzeria will open this month. I heard they were slated to be open by now, but the twin blizzards we had back in February delayed many a construction schedule, and the folks at Andolini\'s were not immune. Soon, though, find them at 1552 E. 15th Street.</li>\r\n	<li>Earlier this week Mike Bausch scored No. 5 in the nation and No. 2 in the midwest in the non-traditional category of the 2011 International Pizza Challenge in Las Vegas with his Semper Fi pizza. Big time stuff.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s posts contests just about every day on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their Facebook page</a>. Fans can win stuff ranging from an order of garlic knots to $50 Andolini\'s gift certificates.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s offers a mailing list. It\'s how I found out that on Tuesday, the second pizza you order is $2. As in, less than the price of a good cup of coffee. Find the sign-up form on <a href=\"http://www.andopizza.com/\">their website</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Looking for something to do with the kids? Andolini\'s offers pizza tours. Mike will teach your kids\' group about the history of pizza, and then he\'ll impart to you his award-winning dough-throwing skills. After, the kids get to help make their own pizzas. Cost is $5 per kiddo.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s serves <a href=\"http://www.marshallbrewing.com/\">Marshall IPA</a>. Why should you care? Because it\'s my favorite beer ever to drink with pizza, that\'s why. Also, because Marshall is brewed right here in Tulsa.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s delivers. Also, you can <a href=\"http://andopizza.hungerrush.com/\">order online</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Also? <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDUjhwyjPs\">Fresh</a>.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nAndolini\'s is open at their Owasso location daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m - Cherry Street hours to come.\r\n\r\n<strong>Andolini\'s Pizzeria</strong>\r\nOwasso: 12140 E. 96th St.\r\nCherry Street: 1552 E. 15th Street\r\nPhone (Owasso): (918) 272-9328\r\nHours: 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. daily\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630029/restaurant/Tulsa/Andolinis-Pizzeria-Owasso\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/630029/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria on Urbanspoon\" /></a>','Andolini\'s Pizzeria: Owasso Beginnings, a Cherry Street Debut and the Pizza Rustica that wouldn\'t quit','When someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner.','inherit','open','open','','6507-revision-30','','','2011-03-05 13:55:48','2011-03-05 19:55:48','',6507,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6507-revision-30/',0,'revision','',0),(6631,1,'2011-03-05 13:55:48','2011-03-05 19:55:48','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThere are Tulsans who seem to take pride in admitting they don\'t emerge from the bounds of their neighborhoods. They\'re the same people who grin when they say they avoid 51st Street, which acts as a sort of gateway from the north side of town to the south and vice versa, like the plague. They\'re the ones who say they\'d never leave downtown if it had a grocery store. The ones who claim that the 15-minute drive from Jenks to Brookside is too long, even to try a popular new restaurant.\r\n\r\nI admit that I, too, sometimes fall into this verve-stunting lifestyle. Humans, like water, will always be drawn the to path of least resistance.\r\n\r\nBut an empty belly, combined with the hooting and hollering of the citizen fooderati of the metro, has a way of shaking me out of my funk and putting me on the road in search of something unfamiliar. And yummy.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what had happened when my husband, our son and I pointed our car toward 96th Street North in Owasso. Our destination? Andolini\'s Pizzeria.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s wasn\'t exactly a new name for me. I\'d interviewed them for <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/main.asp?Search=1&amp;ArticleID=51060&amp;SectionID=21&amp;SubSectionID=77&amp;S=1\">a Tulsa Business Journal Story in May of last year about their expansion to Tulsa\'s Cherry Street</a> (more on that in a minute), and I\'d heard from far and wide the Bausch brothers, the masterminds behind the pies, are sticklers about using fresh and house-made ingredients.\r\n\r\nWhen someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, it\'s a sign. \r\n\r\nAnd you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner, 50-mile round trip be damned.\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6590\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01590/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6590  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01590.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nIt\'s easy to notice that Andolini\'s is a family-friendly restaurant. Our server greeted us with a smile and a bowl of pizza dough for our son to play in. And, as we can all see in the photo above, play in it he did.\r\n\r\nIt seems like there are some restaurants serving high-quality food that are starting to understand that being family friendly doesn\'t necessarily have to mean compromising on atmosphere. I\'ve written about a few of them in my column on Tulsa\'s family-friendly restaurants in <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/\">TulsaKids Magazine</a>, and I always love adding new places to the list.\r\n\r\nBefore you order anything else at Andolini\'s, order these:\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6597\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01560/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6597  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01560.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nGarlic knots. The folks at Andolini\'s give them away all the time on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their highly active Facebook page</a>, but I\'d pay full price ($5.95) for them any day. Especially since one order is enough to fill up on before your pizza has a chance to make it to your table.\r\n\r\nWhat can I say? I like my garlic knots how I like my men: Light and fluffy on the inside, crisp, buttery and garlicky on the outside.\r\n\r\nHeh.\r\n\r\nOther Andolini\'s appetizers that caught my eye were Appian Way Meatballs ($6.95); the Panzanella Salad ($9.95), mixed field greens, prosciutto, balsamic dressing and shaved Pecorino Romano; and the Satriale\'s Salad ($6.95), a Romaine salad with prosciutto, Genoa salami, fresh mozz and a balsamic vinaigrette dressing.\r\n\r\nI have a little saying: These items are on my list. Which means everything I just mentioned will one day be commanded to get in my belly.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s serves a smattering of Italian dishes, but who are we trying to kid - you all want to hear about the pizza first, right? Right. So, here\'s the deal: Pizza at Andolini\'s comes as small as ten inches across or as large as 20 (the Oh-Wow-That\'s-Big size - their words, sadly, not mine), and toppings range from cheese and pepperoni to eggplant, Gorgonzola and portabello mushroom. Base prices for pizzas with a single topping range about $10 to $23.\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s has a list of their own pizza creations, too. One of them puts pepperoni, Canadian bacon, Genoa salami, pastrami, ground beef and Italian sausage all on one pizza. Another is sauced with pistachio pesto. And there\'s one called the Spring Street, the making of which inspired the Bausches to create a video.\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nThere you go, New York-style pizza lovers.\r\n\r\nAnother is called the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPQR\">SPQR</a>.\r\n\r\nRemember that? From The Gladiator? When Russell Crowe was scraping these letters from the tattoo on his upper arm? Hardcore.\r\n\r\nI mention this mostly because I want you all to think that I\'m observant and sharp and whatnot. Because I\'m fragile like that.\r\n\r\nAnd there\'s the pizza we ordered: the Pizza Rustica. Here\'s how it\'s described on the menu:\r\n<blockquote>Long before pizza became what it is today, it was a staple of rural Italian villages. Families would layer the freshest ingredients of the day on flatbread and bake it for dinner. The Pizza Rustica is made in that same style, filled with ricotta, mozzarella, prosciutto, sliced sausage and spinach. It is then given a large crust folded over the top of the filling. Truly a PIZZA PIE!</blockquote>\r\nThough after I read this description I turned to my husband and said something like, \"Honey, it says, \'Truly a PIZZA PIE\'. You know how I feel about pie. We have to get it,\' I was sort of preaching to the choir at that point.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6598\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01580/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6598\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01580-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhy, hello.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6599\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6599\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015831-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee this? After a few garlic knots and this slice of Pizza Rustica, I was stuffed. Stuffed as in, I had to drive home with my pants unbuttoned. And unzipped. OK, I\'ll just say it: I completely removed my pants to drive home.\r\n\r\nNot really. But I wanted to. My full tummy wanted me to. My Spanx are no match for Andolini\'s Pizza Rustica.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6600\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01586/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6600\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01586-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s also offers calzones and strombolis (one of which is named Kona, another after Plato), sandwiches, pasta entrees (yes, including mac and cheese) and dessert, including an Italian butter cake. Which of course I didn\'t have because Pizza Rustica and my lungs were competing fiercely for space in my thoracic cavity by the time for dessert, but oh, man, it sounds pretty good. Especially the part where butter is mentioned.\r\n\r\nThe kids\' menu is nice and simple: Chicken bites and fries, a kid-sized portion of spaghetti with meatballs and a mini pizza, with nothing over $5.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6601\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01581/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6601\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01581-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe\'re pizza lovers, the Ball family. We\'re mutts with deep roots in the British Isles and the south-central American plains, but even so, we love the bread, the sauce and the cheese in the tradition of the Italians and the northeastern U.S.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6602\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6602\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015832-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMore on Andolinis:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>A Cherry Street location of Andolini\'s Pizzeria will open this month. I heard they were slated to be open by now, but the twin blizzards we had back in February delayed many a construction schedule, and the folks at Andolini\'s were not immune. Soon, though, find them at 1552 E. 15th Street.</li>\r\n	<li>Earlier this week Mike Bausch scored No. 5 in the nation and No. 2 in the midwest in the non-traditional category of the 2011 International Pizza Challenge in Las Vegas with his Semper Fi pizza. Big time stuff.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s posts contests just about every day on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their Facebook page</a>. Fans can win stuff ranging from an order of garlic knots to $50 Andolini\'s gift certificates.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s offers a mailing list. It\'s how I found out that on Tuesday, the second pizza you order is $2. As in, less than the price of a good cup of coffee. Find the sign-up form on <a href=\"http://www.andopizza.com/\">their website</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Looking for something to do with the kids? Andolini\'s offers pizza tours. Mike will teach your kids\' group about the history of pizza, and then he\'ll impart to you his award-winning dough-throwing skills. After, the kids get to help make their own pizzas. Cost is $5 per kiddo.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s serves <a href=\"http://www.marshallbrewing.com/\">Marshall IPA</a>. Why should you care? Because it\'s my favorite beer ever to drink with pizza, that\'s why. Also, because Marshall is brewed right here in Tulsa.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s delivers. Also, you can <a href=\"http://andopizza.hungerrush.com/\">order online</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Also? <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDUjhwyjPs\">Fresh</a>.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nAndolini\'s is open at their Owasso location daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m - Cherry Street hours to come.\r\n\r\n<strong>Andolini\'s Pizzeria</strong>\r\nOwasso: 12140 E. 96th St.\r\nCherry Street: 1552 E. 15th Street\r\nPhone (Owasso): (918) 272-9328\r\nHours: 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. daily\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630029/restaurant/Tulsa/Andolinis-Pizzeria-Owasso\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/630029/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria on Urbanspoon\" /></a>','Andolini\'s Pizzeria: Owasso Beginnings, a Cherry Street Debut and the Pizza Rustica that wouldn\'t quit','When someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner.','inherit','open','open','','6507-revision-31','','','2011-03-05 13:55:48','2011-03-05 19:55:48','',6507,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6507-revision-31/',0,'revision','',0),(6633,1,'2011-03-05 13:57:54','2011-03-05 19:57:54','<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nThere are Tulsans who seem to take pride in admitting they don\'t emerge from the bounds of their neighborhoods. They\'re the same people who grin when they say they avoid 51st Street, which acts as a sort of gateway from the north side of town to the south and vice versa, like the plague. They\'re the ones who say they\'d never leave downtown if it had a grocery store. The ones who claim that the 15-minute drive from Jenks to Brookside is too long, even to try a popular new restaurant.\r\n\r\nI admit that I, too, sometimes fall into this verve-stunting lifestyle. Humans, like water, will always be drawn the to path of least resistance.\r\n\r\nBut an empty belly, combined with the hooting and hollering of the citizen fooderati of the metro, has a way of shaking me out of my funk and putting me on the road in search of something unfamiliar. And yummy.\r\n\r\nThat\'s what had happened when my husband, our son and I pointed our car toward 96th Street North in Owasso. Our destination? Andolini\'s Pizzeria.\r\n\r\n<!--more-->\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s wasn\'t exactly a new name for me. I\'d interviewed them for <a href=\"http://tulsabusiness.com/main.asp?Search=1&amp;ArticleID=51060&amp;SectionID=21&amp;SubSectionID=77&amp;S=1\">a Tulsa Business Journal Story in May of last year about their expansion to Tulsa\'s Cherry Street</a> (more on that in a minute), and I\'d heard from far and wide the Bausch brothers, the masterminds behind the pies, are sticklers about using fresh and house-made ingredients.\r\n\r\nWhen someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, it\'s a sign. \r\n\r\nAnd you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner, 50-mile round trip be damned.\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6590\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01590/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6590  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01590.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nIt\'s easy to notice that Andolini\'s is a family-friendly restaurant. Our server greeted us with a smile and a bowl of pizza dough for our son to play in. And, as we can all see in the photo above, play in it he did.\r\n\r\nIt seems like there are some restaurants serving high-quality food that are starting to understand that being family friendly doesn\'t necessarily have to mean compromising on atmosphere. I\'ve written about a few of them in my column on Tulsa\'s family-friendly restaurants in <a href=\"http://www.tulsakids.com/\">TulsaKids Magazine</a>, and I always love adding new places to the list.\r\n\r\nBefore you order anything else at Andolini\'s, order these:\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6597\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01560/\"><img class=\"size-full wp-image-6597  aligncenter\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01560.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"350\" /></a></p>\r\nGarlic knots. The folks at Andolini\'s give them away all the time on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their highly active Facebook page</a>, but I\'d pay full price ($5.95) for them any day. Especially since one order is enough to fill up on before your pizza has a chance to make it to your table.\r\n\r\nWhat can I say? I like my garlic knots how I like my men: Light and fluffy on the inside, crisp, buttery and garlicky on the outside.\r\n\r\nHeh.\r\n\r\nOther Andolini\'s appetizers that caught my eye were Appian Way Meatballs ($6.95); the Panzanella Salad ($9.95), mixed field greens, prosciutto, balsamic dressing and shaved Pecorino Romano; and the Satriale\'s Salad ($6.95), a Romaine salad with prosciutto, Genoa salami, fresh mozz and a balsamic vinaigrette dressing.\r\n\r\nI have a little saying: These items are on my list. Which means everything I just mentioned will one day be commanded to get in my belly.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6588\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01579/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6588\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01579-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizza Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s serves a smattering of Italian dishes, but who are we trying to kid - you all want to hear about the pizza first, right? Right. So, here\'s the deal: Pizza at Andolini\'s comes as small as ten inches across or as large as 20 (the Oh-Wow-That\'s-Big size - their words, sadly, not mine), and toppings range from cheese and pepperoni to eggplant, Gorgonzola and portabello mushroom. Base prices for pizzas with a single topping range about $10 to $23.\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s has a list of their own pizza creations, too. One of them puts pepperoni, Canadian bacon, Genoa salami, pastrami, ground beef and Italian sausage all on one pizza. Another is sauced with pistachio pesto. And there\'s one called the Spring Street, the making of which inspired the Bausches to create a video.\r\n\r\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" /><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" /><param name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" /><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" /><embed type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/hwRWFMNsCYY?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"></embed></object>\r\n\r\nThere you go, New York-style pizza lovers.\r\n\r\nAnother is called the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPQR\">SPQR</a>.\r\n\r\nRemember that? From The Gladiator? When Russell Crowe was scraping these letters from the tattoo on his upper arm? Hardcore.\r\n\r\nI mention this mostly because I want you all to think that I\'m observant and sharp and whatnot. Because I\'m fragile like that.\r\n\r\nAnd there\'s the pizza we ordered: the Pizza Rustica. Here\'s how it\'s described on the menu:\r\n<blockquote>Long before pizza became what it is today, it was a staple of rural Italian villages. Families would layer the freshest ingredients of the day on flatbread and bake it for dinner. The Pizza Rustica is made in that same style, filled with ricotta, mozzarella, prosciutto, sliced sausage and spinach. It is then given a large crust folded over the top of the filling. Truly a PIZZA PIE!</blockquote>\r\nThough after I read this description I turned to my husband and said something like, \"Honey, it says, \'Truly a PIZZA PIE\'. You know how I feel about pie. We have to get it,\' I was sort of preaching to the choir at that point.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6598\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01580/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6598\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01580-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWhy, hello.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6599\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-2/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6599\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015831-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nSee this? After a few garlic knots and this slice of Pizza Rustica, I was stuffed. Stuffed as in, I had to drive home with my pants unbuttoned. And unzipped. OK, I\'ll just say it: I completely removed my pants to drive home.\r\n\r\nNot really. But I wanted to. My full tummy wanted me to. My Spanx are no match for Andolini\'s Pizza Rustica.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6600\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01586/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6600\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01586-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nAndolini\'s also offers calzones and strombolis (one of which is named Kona, another after Plato), sandwiches, pasta entrees (yes, including mac and cheese) and dessert, including an Italian butter cake. Which of course I didn\'t have because Pizza Rustica and my lungs were competing fiercely for space in my thoracic cavity by the time for dessert, but oh, man, it sounds pretty good. Especially the part where butter is mentioned.\r\n\r\nThe kids\' menu is nice and simple: Chicken bites and fries, a kid-sized portion of spaghetti with meatballs and a mini pizza, with nothing over $5.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6601\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01581/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6601\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC01581-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nWe\'re pizza lovers, the Ball family. We\'re mutts with deep roots in the British Isles and the south-central American plains, but even so, we love the bread, the sauce and the cheese in the tradition of the Italians and the northeastern U.S.\r\n\r\n<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6602\" href=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/andolinis-pizzeria-owasso-to-cherry-street/dsc01583-3/\"><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6602\" title=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" src=\"http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/DSC015832-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria Owasso Cherry Street\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" /></a>\r\n\r\nMore on Andolinis:\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>A Cherry Street location of Andolini\'s Pizzeria will open this month. I heard they were slated to be open by now, but the twin blizzards we had back in February delayed many a construction schedule, and the folks at Andolini\'s were not immune. Soon, though, find them at 1552 E. 15th Street.</li>\r\n	<li>Earlier this week Mike Bausch scored No. 5 in the nation and No. 2 in the midwest in the non-traditional category of the 2011 International Pizza Challenge in Las Vegas with his Semper Fi pizza. Big time stuff.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s posts contests just about every day on <a href=\"http://www.facebook.com/andopizza\">their Facebook page</a>. Fans can win stuff ranging from an order of garlic knots to $50 Andolini\'s gift certificates.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s offers a mailing list. It\'s how I found out that on Tuesday, the second pizza you order is $2. As in, less than the price of a good cup of coffee. Find the sign-up form on <a href=\"http://www.andopizza.com/\">their website</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Looking for something to do with the kids? Andolini\'s offers pizza tours. Mike will teach your kids\' group about the history of pizza, and then he\'ll impart to you his award-winning dough-throwing skills. After, the kids get to help make their own pizzas. Cost is $5 per kiddo.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s serves <a href=\"http://www.marshallbrewing.com/\">Marshall IPA</a>. Why should you care? Because it\'s my favorite beer ever to drink with pizza, that\'s why. Also, because Marshall is brewed right here in Tulsa.</li>\r\n	<li>Andolini\'s delivers. And you can <a href=\"http://andopizza.hungerrush.com/\">order online</a>.</li>\r\n	<li>Also? <a href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfDUjhwyjPs\">FRESH</a>.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nAndolini\'s is open at their Owasso location daily from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m - Cherry Street hours to come.\r\n\r\n<strong>Andolini\'s Pizzeria</strong>\r\nOwasso: 12140 E. 96th St.\r\nCherry Street: 1552 E. 15th Street\r\nPhone (Owasso): (918) 272-9328\r\nHours: 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. daily\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/r/58/630029/restaurant/Tulsa/Andolinis-Pizzeria-Owasso\"><img style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http://www.urbanspoon.com/b/link/630029/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Andolini\'s Pizzeria on Urbanspoon\" /></a>','Andolini\'s Pizzeria: Garlic Knots, Pizza Rustica and the removing of pants','When someone\'s willing to make and smoke mozzarella in house, and for pizza at a joint that\'s one of the only independently owned places to get a bite to eat in an area overrun by fast-food chain restaurants and big-box super stores, you can bet that I\'m going to show up for dinner.','inherit','open','open','','6507-revision-33','','','2011-03-05 13:57:54','2011-03-05 19:57:54','',6507,'http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/2011/03/6507-revision-33/',0,'revision','',0),