Baking can be overwhelming and you might even worry about setting your kitchen on fire. I like to optimistically believe anything is possible, and while that might include flames on your stove, there is a greater chance you will survive or flourish if you give it a go. Taking a step, hop, or leap out …
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Polar Bear Breakfast – Ice Cream Month
A great way to cool off in the summer time is by surrounding your body in ice cream! Creameries make our mouths water and our hearts glad. Although there are states and family owned businesses who claim rights to the ‘best ice cream’ you’ll ever taste, ice cream is easily obtainable at home. It really …
Pizza #6: Flatbread Four
There were so many pizzas we wanted to get to this month, but there just is not enough days or holes in the belt to get through more than 6 kinds of pizzas. We will add more to the books next time. We made personalized flatbreads for the family. When devising the recipe, I decided …
Pizza #5 – Lasagna Pizza(s)
This pizza has required a lot of thinking. What gives a pizza the name? Does a pizza have to have cheese? Is it a pizza if you cannot pick it up and eat it with your hands? And what about lasagna – does lasagna pizza require lasagna noodles? First thing I did was call my …
Pizza #4: Better Toppings, Better- Grandma Style
Trying the Bon Appetit Grandma Style dough recipe again with more modifications. Minor modifications. My (personal) problem with Pizza #3 was the crispiness of the crust. To test my recommendation from Pizza #3, we fully preheated the oven to 450F and cooked the pizza for 15 minutes. I failed to mention that the pizza needs …
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Banh Mi Sandwich (peanut butter chicken)
The peanut butter chicken goes great on pizza. This simple recipe has some modifications from the typical Banh mi while still capturing this Vietnamese (French influenced) sandwich. Banh mi is a type of bread that is similar to a baguette in that the outer shell is hard while the inside is soft. I would not …
Pizza #3: Thick Half-and-Half (Grandma Style)
Recipe Updated July 2020 Let’s go pro! Time to step it up and do what the professional (Americans) do. For this pizza dough we adopted the Bon Appetit Grandma-Style Pie dough recipe to create a fluffy golden crust. Yesterday (the day before you want to devour) we took some dying yeast and tried to make …
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Pizza #2: Simply on a budget
The Dough For this pizza we found Kroger Homestyle Ready to Bake Pizza Crust (13.8oz) on sale for $1.25, that’s $1.34 saved in my pocket. Generally, the rule at our house is if it isn’t healthy it has to be on sale or have a coupon to justify the purchase. The sale resulted in us …
Pizza #1: Gluten-free?
To start the adventure off on the easy path, some friends came over and we decided to use portioned ingredients to make the pizza dough. We purchased Bob’s Red Mill gluten free pizza crust mix which contains whole grain brown rice flour and the yeast necessary for the recipe. To create the dough we did …
July: How many pizzas does it take to get to August?
Everyone has their version of the best pizza. Some prefer the thin, foldable yet crispy crust typical of a NY style pizza while others crave the upside-down cheese and sauce combo of the Chicago style “deep dish” pizza. Considering the concentration of people living in NYC and Chicago and the immigrants who introduced pizza to …
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