Posts Tagged ‘pizza’

Thanksgiving Leftovers

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I love thanksgiving so much that I often cook way more than I could ever eat.  So I usually end up make a  variety of leftovers that utilize the ingredients.  Here are my favorite ideas. Thanksgiving Potato Skins I love potatoes and I believe that they are the perfect vessel to deliver any food.  Thanksgiving [...]

Bacon Crust Pizza

Bacon Crust Pizza

Ever since my BreakFast Fatty post, I have been getting bombarded with emails requesting more bacon recipes.  So I took the bacon weave from the breakfast fatty, cooked it like my bacon crusted quiche and mixed it with America’s Favorite Dish, PIZZA!  Yep, I took this pizza to the carbohydrate free extreme (ok a few [...]

Basic Pizza Crust #2 on the KettlePizza

KettlePizza

The other day, I received the greatest grilling innovation in the mail, The KettlePizza!  The KettlePizza is an attachment for Weber charcoal kettles.  This awesome attachment turns the standard Weber kettle into a fire breathing brick oven.  At temperatures reaching over 700 degrees this amazing innovation makes awesome pizzas.  To test out the KettlePizza, I [...]

New Pizza Crust

Pizza Dough

I just picked up a new pizza stone and have been making pizza a lot.  I have been using my basic pizza dough recipe, but the other day I decided to mess around with the preparation and ingredients to see if I could improve upon it.  I did.  My new dough recipe is crazy good. [...]

Pepperoni Stromboli

Stromboli

When I was a kid we used to get Strombolis’ from a little pizza place near our house.  They were not rolled like typical a Stromboli but  were folded in a half-moon shape like a Calzone.  However, the biggest difference was that the stromboli had sauce inside of it and the Calzone had sauce on the side. [...]

Garlic Knots

Garlic Knots

Since moving to Richmond Dana and I have been trying out all of the pizza places.  We have been trying to see which one was the best.  We are still testing them out but the one thing that they all have in common is garlic knots.  Basically a knot of pizza dough baked, and then [...]

Easter Leftovers – Hawaiian Pizza

Hawaiian Pizza

Even though it was just Dana and I for Easter, I made a giant honey glazed ham. I could not help myself. Plus I love leftovers. But then you have to figure out what leftovers to make. There are a million tasty little creations that you can make with leftover ham. I decided to make [...]

Honey Whole Wheat Pizza Dough

Whole Wheat Pizza Crust

The other week Dana asked if I could make the food a tad bit healthier.  Hard to make healthy things when your go to ingredient is Bacon, but I said I would try.  Our favorite food is pizza, so I figured I would take that for a healthy little spin. The first thing is to [...]

S’more Pizza

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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 [...]

Smoked Chicken 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 [...]

Samosa Pizza

Samosa Pizza

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 [...]

Fire and Smoke Pizza

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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 [...]

Spinach Mushroom and Goat Cheese Pizza

Spinach Mushroom and Goat Cheese Pizza

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 [...]