This was an impromptu creation, and what a pleasure it turned out to be! The buttery taste of sauteed fennel bulb, combined with the tangy snap of fennel salami and asiago cheese were a series of contrasting flavors bursting in the mouth. Enjoy this pizza with a glass of Jacob’s Creek Shiraz, and you may [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Fennel Salami Thin Crust Pizza
Posted in Food, Pizza, Technique, tagged Pizza on January 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Jacob’s Creek Shiraz 2005
Posted in Wine, tagged Wine on January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wine: Jacob’s Creek Shiraz 2005
Price: $4.99
Region: South Eastern Australia
Grape Variety: Shiraz
Purchased: Surdyk’s, Minneapolis, MN
What a wonderful wine to enjoy with a homemade pizza! Honestly, this may have been the steal of the annual Surdyk’s wine sale. We originally found this reviewed in Food & Wine Magazine, and the deal seemed too good to be true. In [...]
Thin Pizza Crust
Posted in Food, Pizza, Technique, tagged Pizza on January 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Where once I was a deep-dish pizza fanatic, I now find that my tastes run very much to the thin-crust pizza. I’ve grown to appreciate the crisp flakiness, and the way that my toppings are now allowed to shine. This is a simple crust recipe, but it really does the job:
Ingredients
1-3/8 cup flour all purpose [...]
Fire-Roasted Red Peppers
Posted in Food, Technique, Vegetables, tagged Vegetables on January 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Over the years we’ve enjoyed a number of meals which have called for bottled red peppers. They taste terrific, but it has always seemed a bit crazy to pay the sort of prices they ask at the grocery store for those tiny little bottles. We decided we should learn how to roast them ourselves, just [...]
The War of the Grills
Posted in Cooking Tools, tagged Cooking Tools on January 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The choice between charcoal and gas grilling is the subject of an almost endless succession of arguments, most of which begin reasonably, at low volume. Like most religious discussions, most of them grow in fervor and intensity, until voices are strained and others in the area slink carefully away to safety.
There isn’t much middle ground [...]
