If you enjoy excellent quality, artisan sourdough crust pizza and like to play with your food then there may be no better experience to feed both tummy and spirit than ordering a pizza kit from Wild Rise that provides the convenience of all ingredients assembled for you to craft outstanding pizza in your own kitchen. For our first order, we chose two kits; Margherita, the tomato sauced, fresh mozzarella and fresh basil classic, and Green Goddess, a seasonal offering that included roasted asparagus as topping on a lemon-ricotta base and Green Goddess sauce to drizzle on after baking. Both were perfetto!
CONTEXT FOR THE PRAISE: My husband and I are pizza fiends who have, for example, waited an hour for a table at Pizzeria Bianca and Ken's Artisan Pizza. He is Italian (on both sides) and grew up in a Brooklyn neighborhood where good pizza was part of the culture. Plus we are old...umm...well seasoned hands at making pizza, including dough, from scratch in our home kitchens across several decades. We know good pizza and Wild Rise kits help you create great pizza at home.
THE BACKSTORY: Natalie Perry is a local food blogger with a passion for introducing people to good food. She created Wild Rise Pizza to offer sourdough pizza kits to provide people with the convenience of making great pizza from quality ingredients at home. The outstanding dough starts with her seven-year-old starter that she has named Matilda, after a character in a children's book. This is a one woman and two teen daughters operation so truly local.
ORDERING & FULFILLMENT: DRILL: The ordering and fulfillment process is easy and ran like clockwork at each step.
ORDERING: Sign up at the Wild Rise site and order on Saturday mornings (you'll get a message when the ordering window is open) to choose from a couple of kits of seasonal varieties and a Margherita or you can choose the ingredients yourself for a customized kit. She uses an interface that was new to me, hotplate, and it was easy to navigate. You'll receive an email and text to confirm your order and with info on how to contact her if you have questions.
FULFILLMENT - Pickup: Kit pick ups are offered during certain hours on Thursday or Friday (check details at her site) from the Meridian strip mall located (on Fairview near the Tango's there) commercial kitchen where they are created. The good news about this location is the parking lot is ample.
FULLMENT - Home Delivery: On one or the other of those days each week she offers delivery for a limited number of kits for a small fee (it was $8 to our home) in a limited area. The day before delivery a message is sent with a 30 minute window ETA. Then another message is sent when your order is on your porch.
THE KITS & "HOW TO": The kits container a leak proof paper box with all ingredients, each one labeled, and a BPA free plastic quart sized container with the dough, plus instructions and with QR code links if you need to see a video. So even if you are new to putting together a pizza, "be not afraid", it is made easy for you to do. (Since the plastic quart sized containers that the dough comes in are BPA free and dishwasher safe, Natalie offers a 50 cent credit for each one if you turn them in later.)
EXTRAS: Natalie also offers sourdough cheesy bread and sourdough chocolate chip cookies.
PS: Natalie has really good info on her insta, FB and website. Including photos of finished pizzas read more