This is how I used some home-made ricotta, and it turned out exceptionally well. I think this is partially because I had very good home-made Cottage Bacon to use. This is a variation on my earlier post on Tarte Flambee, mostly using a different kind of cheese. ( Tarte Flambee v1 ) This will serve Read More …
This is one of my son Ben’s favorite dishes and is a good example of Southern – Italian fusion cuisine. I had some leftover Pulled Pork from an earlier post and decided to make two trays for a dinner last night. One tray had sliced mushrooms, and one tray had pickled jalapenos and sliced onions. Read More …
Since I had leftover garlic scape pesto in the freezer, I decided to use it for a chicken pesto pizza. The quantities below will serve 4 people. I full recipe of pizza dough (from Pizza for One or for Many ) 1 cup pesto 1 lb. boneless chicken thigh meat, thinly sliced 4 Read More …
Frank Pepe’s in New Haven is famous for their clam pizza, and there is a good version of it in Peter Reinhart’s excellent book American Pie. In Houston it was much easier to get good shrimp than good clams, so I started making a similar pizza using shrimp as the base. This is my latest Read More …
As evidenced by the posts on this blog, I have been working my way through regional US pizza styles. This style is definitely a winner. The technique is adopted from Serious Eats, while the main components are from other posts. This makes one cookie sheet of pizza which will serve 4. The crust was very Read More …
When I home-make pizza sauce, this is the recipe I usually use. It is an adaptation from Peter Reinhart’s great book American Pie on American pizza styles. Years ago, when I was scoutmaster of a troop in Houston, I once went to Lake Somerville before the troop to snatch the best possible campsites along the Read More …
Pizza is a classic example of a food which takes a lot of elapsed time to do well, but almost no actual work time. It is also very scalable, and can be made nearly as easily for one, for four, or for a bigger crowd. Here is my standard white dough recipe which I have Read More …