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That's right, Cathy and I are back with tried and tasted recipes from our favorite source: YOU BLOGGERS YOU! I can't believe (again, I think I've mentioned this before) the amount of new blogs that just springs up all over - it's amazing, and I love it!
One of the not-so-new-anymore blogs, that I bookmarked the first time I had seen it, Taste Everything Once, is coming to us from Spokane. It's written by Jennifer, who I just recently realized has a knack for Norwegian language and an opinion on croutons with which I wholeheartedly agree! As if that's not enough, she's got projects going on: one trying to tell us all about the restaurant scene in Spokane, the other one introducing us to coffee place after coffee place. She's got the cutest dog, and oh yes - she makes gorgeous food!
That's still not it. She's also got the best recipe for pizza dough I have yet to come across. It's easy to prepare, you can freeze any you don't use - and it rolls out as thin as you could wish for - now that's a great feature in a pizza dough. I've usually resolved to only making thick crust pizzas at home, because I simply couldn't roll it thin enough. Now, my troubles are over.
My sister had invited herself over for dinner, and I served Jennifer's pizzacrust with a topping of tomato sauce, spinach, grated cheese and a couple dots of mascarpone. 'Twas good. I made sure to have the oven heated on HIGHEST, popped the rolled out and topped up dough on pre-heated baking sheets, and got results that was better than my Italian pizzaman down the street. Seriously. I substituted about one cup of the flour with coarse durumwheat flour, just because I had it and needed to use it, and got 3 medium sized pizzas, and one portion for the freezer. I haven't used the one in the freezer, but I like the idea of lying there, all ready to be used!
Cathy's gone abroad this time, trying out Indian dishes - be sure to check it out!
- Pizza: Cookbook Review
The Bay Area is not really known for pizza but maybe it should be. After all we are the home of pizza throwing champion Tony Gemignani. No one is more passionate or knowledgeable about pizza than Tony. Perhaps you've seen him on TV doing tricks...
- How About Italian?
I've been getting a lot of use out of the recipes I see on FoodTV lately; particularly Giada De Laurentis's Everyday Italian offerings. Sometimes, I will make every dish she features on an episode. Other times, I'll mix and match. Recently,...
- Zachary's
You all know how much I love to cook, but sometimes Zachary's pizza is the best idea for dinner. Lots of people in the Bay Area know Zachary's. They win the local papers' "Best of " awards so often I'm waiting for the various publications...
- Random Casual Meals
I usually write about our fancier meals on this blog, but Melissa and I like good casual food as well. Here are some of the things we've been eating as moving and work have slammed us both. Moules marinières. This is one of my favorite shellfish...
- Dining With The Bloggers - February 9th.
It's dinner-time! Or rather, it's baking time this time around, as Cathy's done a couple of rolls and a toaster oat bread, and I tried my hand at TinyFork's Bialys. I had no idea what Bialys was - I'm not even sure I do now I've...
Cooking
Dining with the Bloggers - September 7th.
That's right, Cathy and I are back with tried and tasted recipes from our favorite source: YOU BLOGGERS YOU! I can't believe (again, I think I've mentioned this before) the amount of new blogs that just springs up all over - it's amazing, and I love it!
One of the not-so-new-anymore blogs, that I bookmarked the first time I had seen it, Taste Everything Once, is coming to us from Spokane. It's written by Jennifer, who I just recently realized has a knack for Norwegian language and an opinion on croutons with which I wholeheartedly agree! As if that's not enough, she's got projects going on: one trying to tell us all about the restaurant scene in Spokane, the other one introducing us to coffee place after coffee place. She's got the cutest dog, and oh yes - she makes gorgeous food!
That's still not it. She's also got the best recipe for pizza dough I have yet to come across. It's easy to prepare, you can freeze any you don't use - and it rolls out as thin as you could wish for - now that's a great feature in a pizza dough. I've usually resolved to only making thick crust pizzas at home, because I simply couldn't roll it thin enough. Now, my troubles are over.
My sister had invited herself over for dinner, and I served Jennifer's pizzacrust with a topping of tomato sauce, spinach, grated cheese and a couple dots of mascarpone. 'Twas good. I made sure to have the oven heated on HIGHEST, popped the rolled out and topped up dough on pre-heated baking sheets, and got results that was better than my Italian pizzaman down the street. Seriously. I substituted about one cup of the flour with coarse durumwheat flour, just because I had it and needed to use it, and got 3 medium sized pizzas, and one portion for the freezer. I haven't used the one in the freezer, but I like the idea of lying there, all ready to be used!
Cathy's gone abroad this time, trying out Indian dishes - be sure to check it out!
- Pizza: Cookbook Review
The Bay Area is not really known for pizza but maybe it should be. After all we are the home of pizza throwing champion Tony Gemignani. No one is more passionate or knowledgeable about pizza than Tony. Perhaps you've seen him on TV doing tricks...
- How About Italian?
I've been getting a lot of use out of the recipes I see on FoodTV lately; particularly Giada De Laurentis's Everyday Italian offerings. Sometimes, I will make every dish she features on an episode. Other times, I'll mix and match. Recently,...
- Zachary's
You all know how much I love to cook, but sometimes Zachary's pizza is the best idea for dinner. Lots of people in the Bay Area know Zachary's. They win the local papers' "Best of " awards so often I'm waiting for the various publications...
- Random Casual Meals
I usually write about our fancier meals on this blog, but Melissa and I like good casual food as well. Here are some of the things we've been eating as moving and work have slammed us both. Moules marinières. This is one of my favorite shellfish...
- Dining With The Bloggers - February 9th.
It's dinner-time! Or rather, it's baking time this time around, as Cathy's done a couple of rolls and a toaster oat bread, and I tried my hand at TinyFork's Bialys. I had no idea what Bialys was - I'm not even sure I do now I've...