National Pizza with Everything (Except Anchovies) Day
National Pizza with Everything (Except Anchovies) Day is November 12th, and we’re baking up a fully loaded pizza with everything! Pizza with everything is like a fantasy come true. As if it isn’t enough that it is totally delicious with 1 or 2 toppings, but with everything, it’s fabulously decadent. How to Bake Pizza with Everything – Except Anchovies: There’s no reason you can’t make your own, and...
How to Cook It: National Chicken Cacciatore Day
National Chicken Cacciatore Day is here with celebrations of this classic, savory meal. In Italian, “cacciatore” means “hunter’s style” and there are countless versions of these recipes. Cacciatore is usually served with or on top of polenta. How to Cook Chicken Cacciatore: This tasty recipe for chicken cacciatore will dazzle your taste buds in a rustico fashion. Type: Main Dish Recipe Serve with: polenta...
Quick Pickling Facts & Guidelines: Pickled Peppers Week
Pickled Peppers Week starts today, marking the 3rd week in October, and we’re talkin’ about perfect pickling. This requires a few pickling guidelines you should follow, but first, some quick pickling facts. Quick Pickling Facts: Most dill pickles, sauerkraut, olives & pickled peppers get their special flavors from undergoing fermentation. Liquor or spirits (alcoholic beverages), as with vinegar, keep food edible by...
National Sausage Pizza Day: An All-Time Favorite
National Sausage Pizza Day sounds like a great idea for a celebration… Isn’t it true that almost everyone enjoys a good pizza? Although the various toppings and combinations of toppings are tasty, from simple cheese pizza to mushrooms and pepperoni, to more elaborate pizzas with olives & peppers on top of tomato sauce. One of my personal favorites is pizza with sausage, strewn with torn basil, capers, thinly sliced...
What’s to Celebrate on Moldy Cheese Day?
“National Moldy Cheese Day?,” you may be thinking… I enjoy a piece of aged or moldy cheese, that’s for sure. If you find a piece of cheese covered in mold, don’t throw it out. It is still edible. A sharp knife will remove that thin layer of mold. With a paper towel, remove any sticking to the outside. Underneath the cheese is perfectly tasty. Popular mold cheeses are blue cheese, Gorgonzola, Cambozola,...
Meal & Dessert Pairings for National Dessert Month
It’s National Dessert Month, and who doesn’t enjoy a little something sweet after a great meal? The dessert course allows for great variety, as it includes such items from fresh fruit with cheese to pastries, cookies, pies, puddings, cakes and everything in between. Desserts can be simple or complicated, light or more substantial. Meal & Dessert Pairings: Imagination is the key when it comes to a dessert that...
6 Tasty Pizza Ideas for National Pizza Festival Month
October is National Pizza Festival Month, and there are a lot of ways to prepare pizzas. Aside from the usual mushrooms, pepperoni & green pepper choices, here are a few of our favorites using any sized pizza crusts you prefer – either store-bought or homemade pizza crust. I usually use about 8 inch diameter crusts. I make my own tomato pizza sauce, and for the most part, my pizzas are baked at 400 degrees F for 12 –...
Web Chef Review: Castelanotti Picual Extra Virgin Olive Oil
I’m coming at you today with some really GREAT olive oil. Castelanotti Picual Extra Virgin Olive Oil is a single estate virgin olive oil. That means, they grow, harvest & manufacture their olives right on site. Single Estates are very rare, anywhere. In Spain, there are two single estates that I know of, one being Castelanotti, and another similarly named. Based upon quality & price, we find that Spanish olive oils are...
How to Cook Impromptu Linguine with Meatballs: Cupboard Cooking
This is one of the meals we created during our One Month Grocery Shopping Strike! We had everything in the house already, except onions, which is fresh produce we are allowed to use in this challenge. It was delicious, nutritious and helped us clean out our pantry cupboards! Try it – it’s easy to cook too. Type: Pasta Recipe Serve with: Garlic Bread, if desired and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese Prep time: 5-10 min Cook...
How to Make a Really Tasty, Healthy Nicoise Salad
Don’t let the name of the Niçoise salad scare you! Yes, it’s French. No, it’s not difficult to make. No, it’s not really fattening. Nicoise is just a combination of greens, tuna, green beans, new potatoes, tomatoes, black olives and eggs – traditionally. That’s all it means… Okay – now that’s out of the way – let’s get cooking and create this unbelievably tasty salad...
New Favorite for Pizza and Chicken Wings in Niagara Falls, Ontario
I must admit…when I order Pizza in Niagara Falls, Ontario, I usually resort to Pizza Hut – I love their crust. If I’m looking for cheap, Little Caesar’s has the $5 Hot N’ Ready – then you “doctor it up” at home yourself! I was craving pizza the other night and wanted to order Pizza Hut…However, they told me their delivery guy went home sick. Glad they did that as you wouldn’t...
How to Bake Mediterranean Bread for the Bread Machine
Mediterranean Bread for the Bread Machine is a wonderful surprise any day of the week… The flavors from around the Mediterranean Sea are wide & varied. Countries in the Mediterranean region of the world are: Albania, Algeria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Libya, Malta, Morocco, Monaco, Montenegro, Northern Cyprus, Palestine, Slovenia, Spain, Syria, Turkey & Tunisia....
Web Chef Review: Central Market – Dallas Preston Royal
While visiting Dallas this time, I finally got the privilege to visit Central Market at Preston & Royal. Central Market is a whole-foods, organic-type grocery store/market. That’s a mouthful, right? Well, it is. Not only does it have the prettiest, cleanest, freshest & healthiest-looking produce I’ve seen in quite some time, it is sooo much more. The store is filled with fantastic & “obscure”, mom...
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