I have been making a lot of pizzas lately, so I had some extra pizza dough. I have been known to make dessert pizza in the past but I wanted to make something new and exciting. So I came up with S’more pizza. It starts out with a pre-baked crust and ends up with perfectly [...]
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Tags: dessert pizza, marshmallow, pizza, smore pizza 
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The other day I smoked chicken drumsticks. I ended up make more than I could eat. So I decided to turn the rest into a tasty pizza. This smoked chicken pizza has a nice smoky flavor and a little kick from the spicy barbecue sauce that I used as the base. Topped with roasted red peppers, red [...]
Posted in All, Chicken, Pizza Tags: BBQ, cheese, Chicken, pizza, sauce, smoked chicken pizza 4 Comments »
Today I am competing in my third FoodieFights.com cooking competition. I am currently 0/2, but hopefully the 3rd time is the charm. The gist of the competition is that there are six food bloggers, two featured ingredients and whole lot of glory. The featured ingredients for this Foodie Fight are peas and ginger. As soon [...]
Posted in Baking, Pizza, Pizza Dough, Recipes Tags: foodie fights, foodiefights, ginger, peas, pizza, Recipes, samosa pizza 5 Comments »
There is a little pizza restaurant in DC called Matchbox that makes pretty darn good pizzas. Although they are known more for their sliders than their pizza, they make a pretty mean pie. My favorite is the Fire and Smoke pizza. It is a mixture of spicy and smokey ingredients that play together to make [...]
Posted in Pizza, Recipes Tags: chipotle sauce, fire and smoke pizza, pizza, recipe, roasted peppers, smoked mozzarella 3 Comments »
I am a huge fan of pizza. Every once in a while I will go out and have a slice to see what toppings are popular. I stopped by a local pizzeria and had a spinach mushroom and goat cheese pizza. It was awesome and instantly knew I would have to recreate this for the [...]
Posted in Mushrooms, Pizza, Pizza Dough, Recipes, Spinach Tags: Goat Cheese, marinara sauce, mushroom, pizza, Pizza Dough, pizza peel, pizza sauce, pizza stone, spinach 1 Comment »I have been experimenting with pizza crusts. So I have a ton of pizza dough lying around. You can only have so many pepperoni pizzas before you need to find something different. So I decided to try my hand at breakfast pizza. If you have been near a TV at all over the past couple [...]
Over the last couple of weeks I have started to make No Knead Bread every other day. Why? It is really tasty and takes no effort. Mix, let sit a day and bake. Nothing more, nothing less. Every time that I bite into the amazing crust of this bread, I think, this would be an [...]
Posted in Baking, Bread, No Knead, Pizza, Pizza Dough, Recipes Tags: No Knead Pizza, pizza, Pizza Dough, recipe 1 Comment »The other day I wanted to make a little lighter pizza that did not have the heavy red sauce on it. So I decided to make a nice light chicken pizza. With a base of seasoned whipped ricotta topped with chicken and sauteed spinach and mushrooms. It was one of tastiest pizzas I have ever [...]
Posted in Chicken, Garlic, Mushrooms, Pizza, Spinach Tags: Chicken, chicken spinach musroom pizza, mozzarella, mushroom, pizza, ricotta, spinach 1 Comment »Sorry to everyone for being gone the last couple of days. I appreciate all of your thinking of me. On a side note – Guess who doesn’t have to stand in line for a swine flu shot, Yep me!!! I got the antibodies the hard way. 48 hours with a 102+ temperature. However, I am [...]
Posted in Pizza, Pizza Dough, Recipes, Vegetarian Tags: butternut squash, Butternut Squash Pizza, mozzarella, parmesan cheese, pizza, Pizza Dough, roasted onion No Comments »Yesterday I had friends over to watch College Football. We were hungry and I didn’t have much in the house. However, I had some frozen wings, some wingsauce and 1 hour to make a pizza dough. So I made Buffalo Chicken Pizza. Super simple and so darn tasty. Drizzle the top of the pizza with [...]
Posted in Pizza, Recipes Tags: buffalo chicken pizza, buffalo wing pizza, Hot Sauce, hot wing pizza, Hot Wings, pizza 2 Comments »
I have been making pizzas quite a bit on the blog. My old roommate Mark asks me each time I post a pizza, when are you going to write about the Chicago style pizza you used to make back in college. Well Mark, this one is for you. Quite frankly I was scared to recreate [...]
Posted in Pizza, Recipes Tags: chicago pizza, chicago style deep dish, deep dish pizza, dough, recipe, Sausage 6 Comments »I have been on a real pizza kick lately. Today I wanted to use some chicken breasts that I had in the refrigerator, but I didn’t want to just grill them. I also didn’t want to use the oven as it is still hovering around 95 degrees in DC. So I decided to make a [...]
A couple of weeks ago a reader emailed me and asked me if I could recreate the square school cafeteria pizza that we all ate when we were younger. I didn’t think it would be that hard. I love pizza and recreating the pizza that I grew up with shouldn’t be that hard, right? Well [...]
September 2, 2010 (12:24) Homemade Hashbrowns I love crispy edged hash browns but have had trouble making them consistently. Great tip on getting the starch out!
August 30, 2010 (11:40) Homemade Hashbrowns Waffle House hash browns have nothing on these suckers. Delish.
August 30, 2010 (9:12) Homemade Hashbrowns YES. Excellent man. Nothing like a good hash brown.
August 29, 2010 (8:13) Grilled Chicken over Cellantani Pesto Chris - It is totally time to start using up that fresh basil. If you can move it into the house. That basil is good all year.
August 27, 2010 (10:49) Grilled Chicken over Cellantani Pesto Fresh basil is the best. It's getting that time of year that I need to start using up our basil plants, they have been productive this year.