I’ve been searching for quite some time and I think I have finally found it… A great homemade pizza dough recipe! Don’t you hate it when homemade pizza dough just seems like bread? How do you get it to be light and chewy and a bit crisp? There have been many incarnations of pizza dough [...]
Sundays have long been a creative day for the kitchen. I remember the giant roast beef and potato lunches of my childhood. I don’t know how my mom could spend such a busy morning at church (sometimes teaching Sunday School–always in the choir) and then come home and prepare such a feast! And we usually [...]
Providence intervened in my menu planning this week. Not even realizing that today would be Cinco de Mayo, I had planned to try a new recipe out of Alice Water’s cookbook “The Art of Simple Food”… Carnitas! I decided to do a little shopping at Costco this pay period to stock up on some items…especially [...]
Chicken again, I groaned…the steak-lover in me longing for a fix. Alas, big juicy steaks are a rare commodity in my freezer. Well, let’s do something special with that chicken. Forget the adobo, forget the braised thighs. Let’s grill the whole bird! During the day on Friday, I got the chicken ready. Washed it, removed [...]
One of our favorite things to order at a nearby pancake joint is the made-to-order Dutch Baby. It’s this eggy, souffle-ish thing that puffs way up in the oven and then deflates. The original is my favorite, served with powdered sugar sprinkled on top and lemon wedges squeezed over the surface. It seems really fancy, [...]
Very cool stuff!!!
Looks delish! Great video for us “visual learners.”